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Thursday 25 January 2001

French 3G auction in turmoil over withdrawn applications

Telefonica and Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux have withdrawn their application from the French 3G mobile licence contest just days before the closing date, complaining that the existing licence fee is too high.

Entrust advances WTLS interoperability with WAP

Entrust has announced it has conducted interoperability testing of wireless transport layer security (WTLS) with WAP servers.

Potential e-marketing money-spinner panned as unworkable

Promotional email delivery could be a big money-spinner for ISPs according to a new report from ecommerce research consultant Jupiter Research.

'Scandalous' Health Bill will trash privacy

The healthcare industry is up in arms about government plans to give the secretary of state the power to 'disclose and process' confidential patient information.

Your data in their hands - DoH!

At what point did the present government realise the importance (and value) of data?

Users shun 'costly' B2B marketplaces

Any claims that the B2B marketplace is a thriving sector are wide of the mark, according to a report from B2B vendor MRO Software.

Easynet first to access BT exchanges

Pan-European ISP Easynet is claiming the accolade of becoming the first operator in Britain to connect a DSL customer to its own equipment within a BT exchange.

Inland Revenue taxed by poor online returns

Only 32,000 people have filed tax returns online to beat next Wednesday's deadline out of the 121,000 who registered for the software.

Cisco cements Softbank deal

Cisco and Japan-based internet investor Softbank have announced a three-way, US$1.5bn dollar investment deal.

IBM gets fruity with BlackBerry

IBM has added Canadian wireless firm Research In Motion (RIM) to its growing portfolio of corporate technology services.

Zebrasign puts one more nail in stripecard coffin

Zebrasign, the Telenor owned mobile security company, has announced it will have secure SIM cards available this quarter.

Techies go to work on an Egg

The section of egg.com relating to checking and servicing accounts has been out of action since Monday.

Insurer reprieves three in cartoon porn crackdown

Insurance firm Royal & Sun Alliance has re-instated three members of staff dismissed over the distribution of rude emails depicting the cartoon character Bart Simpson in compromising situations. The sackings of 10 other employees have been upheld at the disciplinary appeal.

Microsoft back online - sort of

Microsoft.com is back online now after yesterday's prolonged outage, and has blamed the problems on human error.

BCS president pledges to battle bureaucracy

British Computer Society (BCS) president Alistair Macdonald has branded his own organisation "bureaucratic" and "slow to respond to members' needs", but promised to improve its operations.

Papers join the downtime craze as Business Continuity falls flat

Hot on the heels of the outage at msn.com, the Financial Times and London's Evening Standard have both experienced downtime on their sites - further proof, in the wake of Egg's ongoing problems, that Business Continuity Awareness Week is proving to be a resounding failure.

Red Herring founder lays off own brother

Michael Perkins, co-author of The Internet Bubble, has fallen foul of his own prophecies, losing his job at brother Tony Perkins' business and technology magazine Red Herring.

E*Trade results overshadowed by Nasdaq desertion

Online brokering firm E*Trade has announced first quarter turnover of $333.8m for the quarter ended 31 December, 2000 - a 25 per cent increase on the same period the previous year.

Eleventh hour lifeline for Letsbuyit.com

Troubled e-tailer Letsbuyit.com's share price doubled this morning, after securing a last minute E4m (£2.5m) deal to keep the wolf from the door.

Stockwatch Daily: Weak start for the European techs

Tech stocks are trading weaker this morning in Europe. Nokia has fallen almost three per cent while warnings for 2001 have left French chipmaker STMicroelectronics down over three per cent during early trading.

US jobs cuts, Freeserve goes unmetered and Letsbuyit's lifeline

This morning's Guardian brings ominous word of massive job cuts in the technology sector.

High-tech big-wigs set agenda at World Economic Forum

Many leading figures from the high-tech community are gathering in Davos, Switzerland today for this year's World Economic Forum, reflecting the growing importance of IT in the global economy.


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