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Friday 5 January 2001

XML: Cultural problems holding back a killer technology?

It is now almost two years since the world wide web consortium adopted XML as the lingua franca to get to the parts HTML can't reach. While the standard is now adopted by all the major players, it is yet to make a major impact upon the web. Joey Gardiner finds this is due more to people than technology...

silicon.com e-tail survey: Seasonal cheer for pure play dot-coms

The results of silicon.com's Christmas etail survey are in, and they may just provide a boost for dozens of consumer dot-coms.

silicon.com e-tail survey: Dot-coms trounce clicks and mortars

Amazon.co.uk and BOL have topped the UK retail charts this Christmas with better web performance and faster transaction times than many of their clicks and mortar counterparts.

Motley Fool closes German office

Personal investment website Motley Fool has shut down its German service citing difficult market conditions and its failure to secure a long-term media partner.

Americans buy boards but don't surf

Research from Nielsen/Netratings suggests that while millions of Americans have web access, only two-thirds actually use it regularly.

EMC leads calls for storage standards

Storage giant EMC is urging the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to set standards to improve interoperability between storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS).

Via sees chipset sales treble in 2000

Taiwanese chipset designer VIA Technologies' unaudited sales shot up 171 per cent in 2000, compared to the previous year, to $945m.

QXL adds Telewest executive to board

Online auctioneer QXL Ricardo said today that it has appointed Adam Singer, former CEO of Telewest Communications, to its board as a non-executive director.

ASP-One to build French tax portal

ASP-One Europe, a European subsidiary of Chicago-based software company ASP-One, has won a contract to build an online tax portal for electronic transmission of tax and payroll submissions.

BT moves in on Napster's beat with music download trial

BT Openworld, the international internet divison of BT, is trialling a free music download technology similar to Napster.

Murdoch docks Fox websites

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is to transfer the handling of three websites to its television divisions to cut costs.

Toysrus.com boosted by $124m Christmas sales

US e-tailer Toysrus.com reported Christmas sales of $124m putting behind it a dismal year that saw it fined by the Federal Trade Commission for failing to meet delivery promises.

Coshopper.com circles the skies above Letsbuyit

Norwegian group buying site Coshopper.com is considering a bid for some of the assets of doomed rival Letsbuyit.com, although it has no interest in acquiring its technology.

Mobile phone operators: How they fared over Christmas

Top mobile companies, Vodafone and Orange logged record sales over the last quarter with unprecedented growth attributed to Christmas sales.

Online brokers withstand trading frenzy

Record levels of online share dealing failed to bring web brokerages to their knees in New York yesterday.

Mercata to cease operations

Group buying site Mercata, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulkan ventures, has fallen foul of the market climate.

BBC uses WAM!NET for digital archiving

WAM!NET, provider of B2B data storage and hosting services, will supply customers of the BBC's wholly owned US cable network, BBC Worldwide Americas, with access to more than 350,000 hours of archived film footage.

L&H protection rubber-stamped by Belgium court

At the second time of trying, speech recognition specialist, Lernout and Hauspie, (L&H) has successfully secured bankruptcy protection under Belgian law.

L&H axes staff in restructuring plan

Scandal-ridden speech recognition vendor Lernout and Hauspie (L&H) will cut between 80 and 100 jobs at its Belgian headquarters, according to a report on Reuters.

3G will trigger mobile massacre, says Forrester

New users and services will fail to make up for falling per-user revenues, leaving small phone companies with a bleak choice between finding a buyer or dying in the marketplace.

Stockwatch Daily: Europe holds steady

After a satisfactory day of trading yesterday, following the Federal Reserve's unexpected interest rate cut in the US, European telecoms and technology stocks have opened well today.

Trans-Atlantic troubles worsen for eToys

Troubled internet retailer, eToys, has said it will has axe 70 per cent of its staff after warning profits for the holiday quarter will be significantly lower than earlier projections.

UK ecommerce tour bus heads for far East

UK ecommerce minister Patricia Hewitt is packing her bags again, this time for a fact finding trip to China and Japan.

Subscriber boom fails to halt spiralling losses at Scoot

Scoot.com, the online business directory, said its UK subscriber base increased 85 per cent in the last quarter of 2000.

Cellnet buys subscribers and good news for Autonomy

BT Cellnet has bought 70 per cent of the mobile user subscribers of US telco RSL Com for £10m, according to this morning's Financial Times. The decision is aimed to strengthen the business in the run-up to the flotation of BT Wireless.

Bush meets IT leaders

President elect, George W Bush, met with prominent high-tech leaders at his Texas mansion, to discuss ways in which to help the "new economy" sector shine again.

Jingle balls: tales of Xmas e-tail woe

New year, same old tales of dot-com woe. eToys Europe has been discarded like an unwanted Barbie by the internet generation (and its mean-spirited US parent), and will wind up operations in a couple of weeks time. Seventy-four people are likely to lose their jobs (see http://www.silicon.com/a41781 ).


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