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Friday 26 January 2001

Online cheaters beware

Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman with internet access. The woman in question, a Mrs Tracey Evans, believed that her husband, Paul 'Taff' Evans, was having an affair.

Microsoft percolates Java into C#

Microsoft is trying to lure Java developers to its platforms just a few days after settling a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems.

Mistral: Shared low-cost solution for SME market

Internet service provider Mistral Internet has launched a load balance solution aimed squarely at the SME market.

Hackers wreak havoc on Microsoft's 'flawed' network

A major weakness in Microsoft's network design is being pinpointed as the flaw that let hackers bring down the company's websites for the second time in under a week.

Egg says sorry - and blames downtime on hardware

Egg is apologising to customers who have been unable to access their account details all week, and has blamed the problems on an unspecified hardware fault. The online bank's site runs on Sun kit.

John Lamb's Week: Robocop rides again

E-minister Patricia Hewitt will be smashing the champagne bottle at the launch of the UK online for business/InterForum Awards on Monday. The awards are part of Hewitt's mission to push the UK back up the ebusiness league tables of Europe.

eToys will only make it to March

Troubled e-tailer eToys only has enough money to survive until the end of March.

Crisis looms for internet data centres

Internet data centres could be left in the dark as electricity suppliers struggle to meet the rapidly growing demand for power.

Results threaten WorldCom job cull

WorldCom is expected to announce as many as 11,000 job cuts to coincide with the release of its annual results next week.

International bidders barred from Amazon.com auctions

Amazon.com has decided that all users of its auction services must use the company's proprietary payment service, a move which could block out non-US customers.

BT launches flat-fee ISP

BT today launched its long-awaited flat-fee ISP, priced at £14.99 a month, but lumbered with a string of conditions.

Job loss speculation impacts AT&T share price

AT&T Broadband may cut over 1,000 jobs to reduce costs as it prepares to issue a separate stock from its namesake and newly-divided parent AT&T.

Bookham buys MM A-Z undaunted by losses

Shares in Bookham Technology plunged almost 20 per cent in early trading today as the optical chipmaker said fourth quarter losses will be wider than first presumed.

Intel rubber-stamps Symantec deal for protection

Semiconductor giant Intel today announced a deal with internet security specialist Symantec to protect the firms' Pentium 4 processor range.

Three-fold success lifts tech stock clouds

European stock markets have received a much need lift by a series of upbeat results and predictions by software companies Baan, Cap Gemini and Misys.

Behind the Headlines: More crashes than a London bus

In the middle of Business Continuity Awareness Week, some companies' approach to keeping their systems up and running was given a damning indictment on this week's Behind the Headlines programme.

Ginger causes Amazon to lose the plot

You can now pre-order your very own Ginger online at Amazon.com - even though no one really knows quite what the mystery invention actually is.

Linux gets wheels

Major car manufacturers are revving up to test-drive Linux according to announcements this week from a number of companies.

Ericsson drops handsets

Ericsson, the world's third biggest supplier of mobile phones, is to announce today that it is pulling out of handset manufacturing.

Liffe is dead

UK financial exchange Liffe lost all its computer systems this morning after engineers discovered a fault overnight.

Deposed CEO packs his bags at L&H

Troubled speech and language specialist, Lernout and Hauspie, (L&H) today announced that former president and CEO John Duerden has resigned from the board of directors and left the company altogether.

Excite@Home writes off $4.6bn

US internet access and content company Excite@Home has written off $ 4.6bn on assets, contributing to a $5.4bn loss for fourth quarter of 2000.

The best of 'Reader Comments': unbundling the local loop and dot-com advertising

Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers. From the past seven days, here we look at the argument surrounding the unbundling of the local loop. There's also a reaction to our analysis about stunted dot-com ad spend.

Avaya wins BSkyB call centre contract

Satellite TV company BSkyB is to augment its call centre with a contract tendered to US communication and CRM specialist Avaya.

Stockwatch Daily: Nasdaq takes a beating

Losses by the tech leaders drove the Nasdaq Composite down 104.87 points. Cisco led the losers, who include Intel and Sun, with a drop of 7.6 per cent.

BT makes a meal of restructuring and Ericsson pulls its handsets arm

This morning's Financial Times leads with news that BT is inviting a select group of investors to a dinner function where they will be encouraged to discuss the company's debt management and restructuring plans.

Microsoft.com goes down again

Microsoft has been hit by a denial of service attack that forced microsoft.com, and related sites, off the web yesterday.


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