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  • Reborn or stillborn: all new for Microsoft's languages?

    More compliant

    Is Microsoft Corp born again? That's the question, as the Redmond, Washington-based company renews work over standards compliance of programming languages for Windows writes Gavin Clarke. Microsoft is revisiting the controversial subject of standards compliance in its implementation of C++, the language created by Bjarne …

    Software 21 Oct 2002, 07:07

  • Gateway cuts sales target

    The art of selling PCs at a loss

    Gateway Inc, which has perfected the art of selling PCs at a loss, has scaled down its ambitions for the year and now expects revenue to be in the range of $4.3bn to $4.5bn, compared with earlier hopes that it could achieve $4.5bn to $5bn. The Poway, California-based company, squeezed in the battle between industry …

    Business 21 Oct 2002, 07:07

  • EDS chief warns of job cuts

    Trying to get it right

    EDS boss Richard Brown told his workers last week that they will have to endure further job cuts as the services giant scrambles to get its business back on track. The company recently warned that third quarter and fourth quarter results will not meet expectations, and that the slump in the IT industry would last into next …

    Business 21 Oct 2002, 07:07

  • McData makes profit, lowers revenue guidance

    Needs EMC to do better

    The Register's Enterprise Storage Channel SAN switch maker McData Corp has posted quarterly results showing a better than expected income, but has lowered its revenue guidance for the fourth quarter. For its third quarter ended September 30 2002, the company reported net income of $2.3m or 2 cents per share, beating analyst …

    Storage 21 Oct 2002, 07:07

  • Kapor's open source ‘spreadsheet for the mind’

    In, er ... Python?

    Mitch Kapor thinks the world needs another PIM – and he might be right. He's funding development of an open source PIM that promises to "be in the spirit of Lotus Agenda" - more of which later - with the help of one of the key programmers behind the Macintosh, Andy Hertzfeld, and a small team of very experienced developers. It' …

    Software 21 Oct 2002, 09:59

  • Wanadoo boasts 1m broadband punters

    Bon

    Wanadoo has almost one million broadband punters in Europe, the Internet division of France Telecom announced today. Over the last year the number of broadband subscribers has doubled, and over the last three months a third of all Wanadoo's new punters have opted for broadband. In all, Wanadoo had 7.1 million Internet access …

    Music and Media 21 Oct 2002, 10:45

  • MS Palladium boss to debate TCPA with Anderson, Cox

    London workshop happens next month

    UK open source consultancy netproject is clearly on something of a roll. Earlier this month the company announced the first deployments in a pilot scheme intended to equip police forces in England and Wales with secure Linux desktops, and next month it plays host to what sounds like being the trusted computing face-off of the …

    Software 21 Oct 2002, 11:33

  • MSN 8.0 to hit UK

    Access-less service

    MSN 8.0 - the new Net offering from Microsoft - could be about to land in the UK. Last week MSN in the US announced its plans to chuck $300m at marketing the latest version of its Net access software. According to sources MSN is getting ready to reveal its plans for releasing MSN 8.0 in the UK. The big difference compared to …

    Music and Media 21 Oct 2002, 16:51

  • Todmorden first to pass BT trigger level, gets ADSL

    People power

    Todmorden - the first area in the UK to reach its trigger level to be converted to ADSL - is to get broadband. According to sources Todmorden in West Yorkshire has managed to confirm enough orders for BT to go ahead and invest the necessary cash to convert the exchange. BT is expected to confirm Todmorden's success tomorrow. …

    Music and Media 21 Oct 2002, 17:03

  • Demon launches less contentious DSL

    Paws on BT network

    Demon has taken advantage of a ruling by telecoms regulator, Oftel, giving ISPs greater freedom with their DSL infrastructure. Oftel ruled that Thus is allowed to connect directly to the BT network and redirect traffic onto its own network. Up to now, ISPs have offered BT's service and repackaged it. Today Demon launched its …

    Music and Media 21 Oct 2002, 17:07

  • Broadband Britain picking up speed – E-envoy

    Only serious players left, apparently...

    E-envoy Andrew Pinder gave an upbeat assessment of the roll out of broadband in the UK this morning, saying the number of consumers getting high speed connections was growing "exponentially". Pinder compared the rate of take up to the explosion in mobile phone use in the late 1990s. In a keynote speech opening the TMA2002 …

    Music and Media 21 Oct 2002, 17:07

  • UK vid games sales soar to £684m

    That's just for first nine months of 2002

    Sales of computers games in the UK are up almost 13 per cent so far this year, giving rise to hope that 2002 could be a bumper year for the industry. Figures released by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) reveal that sales of video games in the UK for the first nine months of this year have …

    Personal 21 Oct 2002, 17:10

  • Samsung tilts towards Symbian

    Global blitz

    Samsung is leaning a little closer to the smartphone consortium Symbian, we learn from a press release issued by the two companies today. Samsung is Microsoft's most prestigious phone OS licensee – although that's a very small club – while Symbian is the big handset manufacturers' "anyone but Microsoft" gang, heavily backed by …

    Personal 21 Oct 2002, 17:48

  • Nokia triumphs in Europe's mobile device market with 7650

    Recategorisation alert - but perhaps not an invalid one...

    Nokia has scored a massive triumph in the European mobile device market in Q3, according to research outfit Canalys. Largely on the back of the 7650, the company doubled its market share to 56 per cent, while the segment overall grew 23 per cent. As you're already suspecting, you would do well not to believe these numbers - but …

    Mobile 21 Oct 2002, 18:35

  • 16,000 Hammers in Sandia supercomputer

    Boost for AMD, Cray

    Cray and Sandia National Labs in New Mexico have jointly announced a supercomputer that will feature 16,000 AMD Opteron CPUs. "Red Storm" will be used for nuclear simulations and will come on tap in 2004. It's good news for Cray, which demonstrates that it can sell into its traditional government markets using commodity PC …

    Channel 21 Oct 2002, 20:56