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Tuesday 26 September 2000

Red or Dead boss plans WAP adventure

Wayne Hemingway, clothing designer and founder of fashion label Red or Dead, is branching out with the launch of a high-tech start-up offering WAP and internet services.

Security fears hold back online billing

The lack of online security in the utility sector is preventing business customers from paying bills online and halting the spread of electronic payment methods.

Help desk staff face meltdown as users struggle with IT

Advances in technology have had one major negative effect: help desk staff are having to cope with more calls than they handle.

TMA celebrates new name with old woes

UK network professionals have blamed both BT and Oftel for the slow rollout of broadband technologies and the lack of competition in the telecoms market.

Lotus launches multilingual messaging

Lotus has today launched the latest version of its instant messaging platform, Sametime, to a sceptical response from industry analysts.

Internet business burning brightly

Europe's internet firms have become more profit-focused and more adept at handling cash over the last ten months.

Microsoft wins right to fight appeal in lower court

Microsoft has won the right to have its antitrust appeal heard in a lower court.

Lastminute.com gets investor green light for £59m deal

Lastminute.com shareholders have approved the company's £58.9m takeover of France's largest online travel agency, Dégriftour.

Lotusphere 2000: Raven finally takes flight for Lotus

Lotus has launched its long-awaited knowledge management portal on the start of Lotusphere - its annual European user conference in Berlin.

Over and out for Andover

US open source developer, VA Linux, is announcing a swathe of redundancies as the company starts breaking up Andover.net, the IT news and software site it acquired in February.

Germany dominates European dot-com arena

Despite Tony Blair's promise to make the UK the best place on earth for ecommerce, the European title goes to Germany.

Airports unite to offer the world on a website

The British Airport Authority (BAA) is in talks with leading airports across the world, to create an ebusiness alliance.

Globalstar gets more funding

France Telecom, Alcatel, and three other founding partners of Globalstar have invested $56.2m in the beleaguered satellite communications company.

German government to dump Deutsche Telekom stock

The German government has pledged to unload its stock in Deutsche Telekom (DT) to ensure the telco's acquisition of US company Voicestream can go ahead.

Forum sets standards for location-based services

Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia have today established a location interoperability forum (LIF) which aims to create standards for mobile, location-based services.

Novell calls on Vocalis for verbal email

UK speech processing specialist Vocalis has signed a deal with Novell to develop a telephone-to-email service.

Morning Edition 26.09.00

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