2nd May 2002 Archive
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Micron walks away from Hynix
Hand washing exercise
Hynix's creditors still want the Korean chipmaker to be sold. Korea Exchange Bank President Lee Kang told Bloomberg "Creditors have not changed their original position that Hynix should be sold. "I hope that a channel of further talks with Micron has not been severed." Well it looks well and truly mangled - today Micron said …
Channel 2 May 2002, 09:24
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Telewest axes 1,500 jobs
Boss wants 'leaner Telewest'
The UK's second biggest cableco, Telewest, is to slash 1,500 jobs as part of plans to save up to £50 million a year. Publishing its first quarter results today Telewest chef exec, Adam Singer, said: "I am announcing measures designed to create an even leaner Telewest, and bring forward a break-even cash position. Regrettably, …
Business 2 May 2002, 09:27
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Anti-EULA script removes offending text
See-no-evil
An imaginative person has created a VB script which will search for an End User License Agreement (EULA) in temporary files created during the installation of a program or application, and remove or replace the text so the user can truthfully claim never to have seen it. It's an interesting approach to one of the more …
Software 2 May 2002, 10:45
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Oftel should consider splitting BT in two say MPs
UK hits 500,000 broadband milestone
An influential group of MPs has called on telecoms regulator Oftel to study proposals for the break-up of BT. A report by the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport yesterday highlighted a proposal from Cable & Wireless that BT's network business should be split from its other services. If this were to happen it's argued …
Data Networking 2 May 2002, 11:14
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Infineon confirms Nanya gig
Foundry JV
Infineon and Nanya today firmed the details of their proposed foundry JV. The two DRAM makers will work together on R&D for teeny-weeny die 0.09micron and 0.07micron manufacture for 300mm wafers. At the same time the company is setting up a 50:50 JV for producing DRAM chips and for building a 0.09micron 300mm fab in Taiwan, …
Channel 2 May 2002, 11:54
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More on the IBM UK redundos
My plank runneth over
IBM staffers have given us more details on the firm's UK redundancy programme. Yesterday we reported that the company was offering a less than generous voluntary redundancy package worth two weeks salary per year of service across its UK business. Initially we were told Big Blue was looking for 500 people to take up the offer …
Business 2 May 2002, 12:00
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Pipex slams rip-off broadband charges
'Blatant liberty-taking' apparently
The MD of PIPEX has launched a scathing attack on ISPs that charge too much for broadband. In particular, David Rickards singled out BT and its planned introduction of a stripped down "no frill" service which, when launched later this year, will still be more expensive than Pipex's own fully-provided service. The BT Broadband …
Telecoms 2 May 2002, 12:24
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NASCR awards gong to C2000
Hardware distie of the year
NASCR, the National Association of Computer Retailers, has names Computer 2000 as its hardware distie of the year. NASCR represents 200 high street retailers, mostly small indies, and it dished out the award, following a survey of 50 readers of the Indie, its inhouse rag. Maybe, The Indie is getting more than inhouse: we're …
Channel 2 May 2002, 12:32
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Solaris 9 to beef up OS, application security
In your shell-like
With Sun getting ready to launch Solaris 9, the next generation of its Unix operating system, sometime between now and the end of June, everyone is scrambling to try to figure out what will make Solaris 9 different from the existing Solaris 8, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. One of the big differences, it turns out, will …
Hardware 2 May 2002, 12:40
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AMD Licenses 64-bit MIPS architecture
It's a PDA, Internet appliance thang
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has licensed MIPS Technologies Inc's MIPS64 Instruction Set Architecture. Sunnyvale, California-based AMD will use the MIPS64 architecture to create a new line of 64-bit processors through its Personal Connectivity Solution Group, which was formed following the acquisition of Alchemy …
Channel 2 May 2002, 13:23
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MS seeks senior spook to score Federal security $$$s
Redmond's bid for post-9/11 troughware
Microsoft is seeking to hire a high level executive whose role will be "to position Microsoft as a strategic partner to the [US] government in using our products and technologies to build Homeland Security solutions." Or, as the lead-in to the help-wanted ad less modestly puts it: "The Director of Federal Homeland Security will …
Software 2 May 2002, 14:22
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Microsoft goes back-to-basics on cable TV
Revised set-top box OS
Microsoft Corp is going back to basics to revive its failing interactive TV (iTV) strategy, with an entry-level set-top-box operating system built using its latest programming language, C Sharp, Gavin Clarke writes. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft next week plans to launch a version of its Windows CE-based operating …
Software 2 May 2002, 14:23
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Google's AOL win upsets Inktomi, Overture
Momentum
Google Inc has upset Inktomi Corp and Overture Services Inc by replacing both companies as the provider of web search and paid search listings at America Online Inc, the world's largest ISP, Kevin Murphy writes. The development took a huge chunk out of the share prices of both losing companies, even though Overture …
Music and Media 2 May 2002, 14:25
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Storage benchmarkers push the envelope
Squeeeeeze
The preliminary results of the storage industry's first-ever benchmark tests show that suppliers are treating them just like any other benchmark - a contest in which vendors play the rules to the limit in order to squeeze out maximum performance, resulting in a standard benchmark test being completed on a very non-standard …
Hardware 2 May 2002, 14:25
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Argos in cheap telco deal
Ring ring, ring ring
Argos, the UK's high street catalogue retailer, has become a discount telco offering punters up to 50 per cent off the cost of national phone calls. Those signing up to the CallSave service from Argos Telecom are being offered up to 1,000 free minutes of local calls for two months as part of a promo to get people signed up. …
Data Networking 2 May 2002, 14:41
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ASSAiSSINAiTE all bugs
ISS and NAI team up
Networks Associates (NAI) and Internet Security Systems (ISS) today announced an alliance to integrate their technologies aimed at providing better protection for users against increasingly complex security threats. NAI will combine RealSecure intrusion detection technology from ISS with network fault isolation and performance …
Security 2 May 2002, 15:21
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MS' MIT prof witness gets toasted over KDE, GNOME
Drenched in GUI stuff...
Some reports today suggest that Microsoft witness Stuart E Madnick, a computer science professor at MIT, might have made desperate claims in court that KDE and GNOME were operating systems. This, fortunately for the good prof's career, is not true, but he most certainly had a desperate and unsuccessful struggle with States' …
Software 2 May 2002, 18:01
