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  • Microsoft sidelines Longhorn database caper

    NTFS reprieved

    Microsoft has scaled back its 'Big Bang', and its Future Storage initiative will build on, rather than supersede the NTFS file system, when the next version of Windows 'Longhorn' appears in 2005. The news emerged from WinHEC last week as Paul Thurrot confirms in a round-up here. "The oft-misunderstood Windows Future Storage ( …

    Software 13 May 2003, 02:45

  • Gateway works the technology brand

    Branding, after all, is what you do to a cow

    Gateway is planning to release no less than 50 new and "branded" PC, server, network and consumer electronics products in a strategy to reverse its fortunes and return to profitability. However, Gateway still has structural issues to contend with, and its new marketing aims are likely to prove a challenge. Company chairman and …

    Personal 13 May 2003, 06:58

  • E3:No Xbox price cut, no redesign, but lotsa games on show

    Grabbed by the Ghoulies

    Rumours of a price cut and a hardware redesign failed to materialise at Microsoft's Xbox conference in Los Angeles on Monday night, with the company focusing attention instead on its forthcoming software line-up. In fact, the conference focused entirely on product announcements and showcases, aside from some minor Xbox Live …

    Personal 13 May 2003, 07:03

  • Managers buy Cedilla

    Navision thang

    Cedilla, the Manchester-based Navision dealership, has been sold to management. Terms are undisclosed. But the new owners say they are pumping their own money in the business to support expansion plans. Cedilla specialises in supplying smaller companies with what it calls "packaged ERP systems". Its key verticals are metals …

    Channel 13 May 2003, 07:28

  • AMD ships Athlon XP 3200+

    400MHz FSB here at long last

    AMD has launched the long-awaited Athlon XP 3200+ desktop processor. Based on the Barton core, the new chip is AMD's first to officially support a 400MHz frontside bus. The 3200+ comes it a remarkably low $464, in batches of 1000, rather less than we and many others AMD watchers had anticipated. It's also well under the $637 …

    Channel 13 May 2003, 08:20

  • AMD PC market share contracted in Q1

    But still up on Q4 2002

    AMD's share of the PC processor market during the first quarter of this year was lower than it was a year ago, but the chip maker can take some consolation from the fact that its share is higher than it was during the Christmas quarter. So shows the latest figures from Mercury Research. AMD took 16.6 per cent of the market …

    Channel 13 May 2003, 08:45

  • VIA pledges support for AMD's 400MHz FSB

    Reg Kit Watch And GeForce FX card launches start in earnest

    Chipset VIA has said today that its upcoming Apollo KT600 and UniChrome KM400A chipsets will support the AMD Athlon XP 3200+'s 400MHz frontside bus. The KT600 supports 400MHz DDR SDRAM, matching the FSB's 3.2GBps throughput. It also supports AGP 8x. When supplied with VIA's VT8237 South Bridge, the chipset provides up to eight …

    Personal 13 May 2003, 09:21

  • Gates: ‘Wake up and steal the coffee’

    The rich have more (of your) money than us, Scott...

    Last Friday Bill Gates of Microsoft plus entourage and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw plus entourage breezed into the little prairie town of Watertown, South Dakota for coffee with the locals. The Gates Foundation has sprung for some computers for the local library, and NBC "calming force" Brokaw was doing the promo. The coffee …

    Bootnotes 13 May 2003, 10:21

  • T-Online scrapes pre-tax profit

    Broadband growth key

    T-Online has scraped into the black, just, as the giant ISP revealed that one in four customers now pays for broadband access. Europe's biggest ISP made a pre-tax profit of €2m in Q1. Last year the company recorded a Q1 pre-tax loss of €92m. Revenues at the ISP increased by 22.1 per cent from €364m in Q1 2002 to €445m this …

    Business 13 May 2003, 10:33

  • BT wants to embrace BB partners

    Empty words

    BT wants to build partnerships across the country to help extend the reach of broadband to people in rural areas. In particular, it wants to reach out to its competitors and share with them the knowledge it has gained from a number of broadband initiatives. Initiatives such as the project in Caerphilly where BT is working with …

    Telecoms 13 May 2003, 10:35

  • Govt offers free trial for Net have nots

    Gawd bless ya

    The Government has launched a campaign to get more people online by offering them the chance to test-drive the Internet for free. The "Get Started" campaign - backed by outfits including BT, Microsoft and the BBC - runs until the end of June and gives people the chance to try out the Net at more than 8,000 centres. In …

    Music and Media 13 May 2003, 11:57

  • On ultra-fast carbon memory

    Nanotubes

    New types of computer memory using carbon - rather than silicon - offer the potential to create ultra-fast non-volatile memory. High performance non-volatile memory (NRAM) is important for the computer industry because it opens up the possibility of computers booting up without a tedious wait. The technology also has …

    Channel 13 May 2003, 12:02

  • Microsoft's wireless toilet prank

    Gotcha!

    Microsoft's has fessed up that its Internet toilet, the iLoo, was a hoax. The witty prank had news organizations scrambling for reaction: "This is another demonstration of Microsoft moving into new product areas to expand its revenue base," IDC analyst Roger Kay told CNET on May 2. You don't say. "This is not a joke," the …

    Bootnotes 13 May 2003, 19:47