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Thursday 11 January 2001

The best of 'Reader Comments': Letsbuyit.gone?

Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers. Here we bring you some recent responses, only this week we concentrate on one big story - the collapse of group-buying dot-com, Letsbuyit.

The birth of a communications super-regulator - getting it right

Putting the bureaucracy together to regulate the digital age may seem like it will cause more headaches than it will solve, but having a single regulator for communications, internet and the media is a good idea.

Nine out of 10 IT directors regularly ripped off

Nine out of 10 IT directors are tied into long-term networking contracts and paying far more than they should for bandwidth, according to a survey from international network services company Vanco.

ICL turns its workforce out on the street

Loss-making computer services giant ICL plans to cut its property portfolio by 20 per cent and put up to 35 per cent of its employees permanently on the road.

Motorola adds to handset misery

Motorola has added to handset woes with a pessimistic forecast for this year's global sales.

DHL and ebookers in e-tail fulfilment spat

Travel site ebookers.com is reviewing its partnership with courier firm DHL over what it claims was a series of delivery problems during the Christmas season.

Just2Clicks seeks partner to J2C

UK-based B2B player Just2Clicks is looking for a buyer or merger partner after expected volumes were not reached on its trading exchanges.

87 per cent of online crime generated via auction sites

Internet fraud rose 46 per cent towards the end of last year, according to a report out by eMarketer, with the rise being largely attributed to online auction houses.

Local government row leaves Northgate feeling Hackneyed

Northgate Information Systems has signed a deal to provide £10m worth of basic services to Hackney Council, but errors by previous IT contract holders have prevented finalisation of a more comprehensive agreement.

Red Ken wheels in ebusiness advisor

London Mayor, Ken Livingstone has appointed an ebusiness advisor to help promote London as a prime location for high-tech and ecommerce firms.

Report: Third of 'net' firms to go bust this year

More than a third of internet firms will not see this year out, according to a report conducted on behalf of US financial research company Barron's.

Miami newspaper sends in SAS to find 'the real US president'

A Florida newspaper has unearthed some major errors in presidential election vote counting using the latest SAS Institute data analysis software.

£400m technology boost for schools

MP Michael Wills has announced a funding boost of £400m for the purchase of new technology for schools.

NTT DoCoMo announces £5bn share issue

Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, is set to make a second share offering on Friday which it hopes will raise around £5.2bn.

Altavista scotches IPO plans... again

Altavista has yet again cancelled its planned stock market flotation, citing unstable market conditions, despite announcing in December that it expected to be profitable by the beginning of this year and ready to IPO.

London Bridge shares falling down

Shares in London Bridge Software dropped 12 per cent to 312p this morning as the company announced it will not meet revenue forecasts.

Cisco decides networking is not coming home

Cisco and 3Com have indefinitely postponed plans to release products for home networking onto the market.

Microsoft announcement gives Apple a leg up

Apple yesterday received a boost from Microsoft, as the software giant announced it will release its Office suite for Apple's new OS X operating system.

Sportingbet raises the stakes with AIM listing

Internet bookmaker Sportingbet.com has raised £30m from a listing on AIM which will value the company at £200m.

Dot-com doom claims more casualties

Kozmo.com, Advertising.com and MVP.com have all joined the ranks of struggling dot-coms as the boom-to-bust phenomenon continues to bite.

Stockwatch Daily: Telcos keep on moving

European markets remained relatively stable in early morning trading, with telecom stocks increasing and retail companies dropping.

Yahoo! results bear up but herald bleak future

Yahoo! met its own expectations and Wall Street's in its fourth quarter earnings report issued after the close of market late last night.

FCC overruled on DSL unbundling

A US appeals court has thrown open the door to unlimited competition in the digital on copper market in the US by forcing the big carriers to unbundle their DSL networks and open them to smaller competitors.

The price is right for Priceline in its scuffle with Microsoft

Microsoft and Priceline's decision to settle their 'reverse auction' patent dispute tells us more about the state of both parties than it does about the relative merit of the case in hand.

Throwing the book at Gates and Sportingbet takes a gamble

Bill Gates is under fire once more - this time in a book entitled World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies in which the software giants legion of detractors queue up to have their say on why they hate Bill Gates' controversial company.


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