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Wednesday 31 January 2001

Government sparks healthcare data row

Companies processing healthcare data are facing a bleak future due to UK government proposals which threaten to change the way patient records are analysed.

Kingston joins Redstone and Thus in DSL hell

Kingston Communications is to shelve its local loop rollouts, becoming the third company to rethink its high-speed net access plans in the last two weeks.

Can ARM be broken? No? Read on...

Profits up a whopping 97 per cent. Analyst expectations beaten for a tenth quarter running. Chips in three-quarters of the world's mobile phones. It would be churlish to suggest ARM, darling of UK high-tech, is heading for a fall. So here goes...

Dot-com wannabes slammed for plundering new economy

Get-rich-quick entrepreneurs have been roundly blamed for the new economy booming and busting in just one year.

AOL Time Warner posts first post-merger results

AOL Time Warner surprisingly beat expectations with its first financial results since the two companies merged, but was still left counting large losses.

BBC's web ad plans damned

The BBC's decision to take adverts on a new international news site has been condemned by rival publishers.

French government 'unlikely' to reduce cost of UMTS

Bouygues' decision to retire from the French UMTS auction is unlikely to force the government to back down from high licence prices according to analysts.

ARM's raised in celebration of successful year

Chip manufacturer ARM has beaten analyst expectations with its year end results, reporting a rise in profits of nearly 60 per cent.

Alcatel cuts expectations despite profitable 2000

French telecom equipment maker Alcatel has announced a 77 per cent year-on-year rise in profit but has still been moved to downgrade its forecasts for 2001.

Dot-com chiefs close in on the fat cats

UK dot-com and internet executives are closing the pay gap with counterparts in the US and with traditional companies - and they're paid double their European equivalents.

PeopleSoft reports strong Q4 results

Internet software developer PeopleSoft has posted stronger-than-expected fourth quarter 2000 results as demand for its ebusiness software suite helped push revenue up 34 per cent.

Intershop reports poor results despite increased revenue

Ecommerce software provider Intershop more than doubled its losses in financial year 2000, despite a three-fold increase in revenue.

Telekom to penetrate with fourth pillar

Deutsche Telekom has unveiled T-Systems, a global division formed by pooling its existing services operations.

SME apathy over currency conversion

The German minister of trade and commerce, Werner Muller, and Hilmar Kopper, head of Deutsche Bank's supervisory board, have raised concerns over attitudes towards the country's crossover to the euro.

Letsbuyit.com lays off 200 staff

Troubled e-tailer Letsbuyit.com is cutting more than half of its workforce in a desperate attempt to stay afloat.

Cisco takes on Juniper in router wars

Networking giant Cisco claims to have stolen a march on rival Juniper with what it says is the fastest router on the market.

Intel ships Infiniband products

Intel has begun shipping samples of InfiniBand silicon and software products designed to eliminate bottlenecks in connections between storage devices and computers.

New York gains fail to calm London nerves

London markets opened nervously this morning, with the FTSE 100 index and the TechMARK both down marginally on early trading, despite gains on New York exchanges on Tuesday.

Bouygues drops out of 3G auctions

Bouygues has announced that it will not be participating in the bidding process for French UMTS licences, France's third-largest telco announced yesterday.

Amazon.com cuts 1,300 jobs in push for profitability

Amazon.com is set to axe 1,300 jobs - a 15 per cent staff reduction. The redundancies are an attempt to cut the operating costs of the online retailer.

Pinder named e-envoy

Andrew Pinder has been appointed the government's new e-envoy. Formerly IT director at the Inland Revenue, Pinder has been persuaded to take the role after filling in as acting e-envoy since the former appointee Alex Allen resigned his post in October.

Earnings for internet execs up, expectations for Nokia down

The Guardian this morning reports a survey which has found that internet executives are demanding massive increases in pay to make up for the falling value of share options in this time of lean investor confidence in the market.

GPRS: At last the wait is over

It's been a long time coming, but GPRS - the high-speed data, always-on mobile phone technology - has finally hit the shops. It was meant to be offered publicly last year, but it's only beginning to trickle onto the market now. Ben King asks why it's taken so long...


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