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  • Allchin quizzed on ‘secret’ MS protocols and APIs

    Says company can keep secret the information about what it's keeping secret

    In court yesterday Microsoft VP Jim Allchin defended the security exception to disclosure in the proposed Microsoft-DoJ settlement, which is derided by opponents as "security by obscurity," but under cross-examination by States' attorney Kevin Hodges he went some way toward defining the protocols and APIs that Microsoft would …

    Software 8 May 2002, 10:38

  • Dotcom death rate falls

    Ripper

    The number of Internet companies going titsup.com continues to fall, according to the latest stats from the US. Webmergers.com - a California-based research outfit which monitors the health of dotcoms that have received significant funding - found that the number of closures and bankruptcies in the first three months of the …

    Music and Media 8 May 2002, 10:40

  • Alphacide yesterday, Yamhill tomorrow: HP merger architect talks

    Assassination politics

    If the name Shane Robison doesn't mean much to you, then take heart, because it had barely figured on our radar until yesterday. Robison has been described as "the man behind the curtain" in the SirCam merger by people we trust, and the HP CTO was instrumental in bringing HP and Compaq together - at one stage, he was one of …

    Business 8 May 2002, 10:45

  • Selling OEM Windows copies – you can do it in Europe

    According to this reading of the law, anyway

    Our recent piece on Microsoft's interesting claim (now withdrawn*) that it's a legal requirement that a preinstalled operating system system remain with a machine for the life of the machine prompted a contribution on a related matter from Andrew Katz of Moorcrofts Corporate Law, who argues in some detail that under European law …

    Software 8 May 2002, 13:22

  • VIA shows off tablet PC design

    Reference this

    One day we'll all be taking the tablets. That's what we've been told by industry experts for 10- years or more -even before they were called tablet PCs (anyone remember the Dynabook?) One day every e-potato will have one. But in the meantime we'll have to make do with reference designs. Latest off the drawing board is from VIA …

    Personal 8 May 2002, 13:31

  • Deutsche Telekom fingered for unfair pricing

    Local loop tongue lashing

    The European Commission has written to Deutsche Telekom accusing it of abusing its dominant market position through unfair pricing for access to its local loop. Eurocrats are concerned that DT is charging new entrants higher fees for wholesale access to the local loop than what DT's subscribers pay for retail access. This, …

    Data Networking 8 May 2002, 13:33

  • Terra Lycos seeks path to profit

    Don't we all

    Terra Lycos has managed to offset in part falls in advertising revenue with an increase in Net access revenues. Publishing its Q1 results today the global Internet network, which includes operations such as the Lycos portal, RagingBull.com, Tripod.com and Wired.com, said that it had continued to cut operating costs in a bid to …

    e-Business 8 May 2002, 13:54

  • Guillemot severs last link with Ubi Soft

    Pure Player

    Guillemot this week announced that it had, after a protracted divorce, severed its fulfilment contract (or was it the other way around) with Ubi Soft, the French games outfit. This makes Guillemot, also French-owned, a "pure player in the interactive leisure hardware and accessories market", the company says. Guillemot's three …

    Personal 8 May 2002, 14:47

  • HDS trebles bandwidth on storage kit

    Lightening strikes towards EMC

    Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has set itself the goal of becoming the number one provider in the storage market with a major revamp of its enterprise storage line. Key to this ambition is the unveiling today of its Lightening 9900 V, the second generation of storage systems based on its Hi-Star switched architecture (which is …

    Hardware 8 May 2002, 14:52

  • Judge sets scene for battle over modular Windows

    Embedded XP demo allowed

    Microsoft trial judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly yesterday allowed the unsettling states to introduce evidence indicating that a modular version of Windows, based on XP Embedded, was possible. The evidence, in the shape of testing consultant James Bach, is a late entrant, but the judge nevertheless allowed it, saying "I'm going to …

    Software 8 May 2002, 15:25