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Friday 9 February 2001

Net gets the election brush-off - for now

The UK's Labour party has dropped plans to advertise on the internet following the American experience shows it doesn't work for elections. But work is exactly what people who've taken up mobile computing do - a survey showed that they work an extra day a week.

Motley Fool takes own medicine

UK staff of The Motley Fool have gotten off lightly as the firm cut almost a third of its jobs and axed its marketplace site, Soapbox.

Lobby groups shun IR35 consultants

Lobby groups representing IT contractors have attacked private consultancy firms for cashing in on the confusion created by IR35 - and again attacked the UK government for the uncertainty and unfairness surrounding the law.

John Lamb's Week: How the rumour machine keeps billionaires on their toes

Top gun Larry Ellison will be in Paris and on the pages of silicon.com this Tuesday. The avid collector of aircraft, luxury cars and bespoke suits recently boosted his bank balance by some $150m by selling shares in his beloved Oracle acquired through stock options.

WorldCom tipped to cut 11,500 jobs

The US' second largest telephone and IP carrier, WorldCom, has posted flat year-end earnings in line with profit warnings it issued last November.

Taxing talk from the Senators

A bipartisan group of Representatives and Senators have re-introduced legislation to extend the moratorium on internet taxes and web access charges for five years as the current one is due to expire in October 2001.

Microsoft shares continue to slide

Microsoft shares continued to slide today, with $11bn wiped off its value following a downgrade by Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget on Thursday.

Hard cells: GPRS users will fall foul of coverage holes

The UK's GPRS phone users may end up with a costly phone bill because of network problems.

Beckham in net security scare

Lawyers for football star David Beckham are set to get tough with internet portal 192.com after the site published the home address of the Manchester United player.

Representatives turn the heat up on Cerf

Internet guru Vinton Cerf has emerged only lightly singed from yesterday's grilling on Capitol Hill. The Icann boss was appearing in front of a US House of Representatives investigation into claims of bias and corruption in the internet domain name group.

Italian 'love bug' fails to bite

An Italian variant of the 'love bug' has been contained after spreading through 10 companies in Germany, France and Italy, according to anti-virus experts.

Logica gets £6.4m to improve Britain's net profile

The Foreign Office is giving Logica £6.4m to revamp the face of the UK on the Web and extend its Internet presence.

KPMG and Instinet brave the markets

Two top companies are braving the doom and gloom merchants to float on today's volatile markets.

Rumours boost Sema and Scoot as the rest decline gently

Cutting interest rates has not led to a wave of enthusiasm on the London Exchange. Partly reflecting the shallow dive on Wall Street last night, technical stocks are drifting lower in early trading. Both the TechMark and the FTSE 100 are down about ten points, with TechMark at 2,631.22 and the FTSE at 6,195.8.

Rate cut fails to inspire, BT gets persuasive and dot-com gloom has silver lining

The big news today, in the Financial Times and elsewhere, is the Bank of England's 0.25 per cent cut in interest rates, reflecting fears that the long-predicted slump in the US will actually happen, and trying to head off some of its effects on this side of the Atlantic.

The Usual Suspects

Ten DSL trialists, hanging on the wall, ten DSL trialists, hanging on the wall, and if one DSL trialist should accidentally fall, there'll be nine DSL trialists, hanging on the wall...


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