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Thursday 15 February 2001

ST Friaco, patron saint of fiasco

Who'd be a regulator? Being an incumbent telco is bad enough, but at least you get paid handsomely for it. But now the DSL fiasco is one step away from the courts, it looks like Oftel is winding up for another sorry chapter in the sad tale of the local loop droop.

Microsoft enters secure server market

Microsoft has embarked on its first foray into the internet security market with yesterday's release of a firewall server.

Flat rate net access: ISPs in fear of 'Son of Friaco'

ISPs doubt that Oftel's latest attempt to force BT to accelerate local loop unbundling will have any meaningful effect.

Amazon one-click patent claim thrown out of court

Amazon has lost out in its attempt to stop Barnes and Noble using its one-click buying process.

Database titans clash in war of words

IBM has vowed to surpass arch-rival Oracle in the database market and has slammed its 'confusing' pricing policy.

Nokia leaves competitors for dead as analysts warn of slowdown

Nokia has increased its lead in worldwide sales of mobile phones last year, while most of its major rivals lost ground.

Uncertainty prompts massive growth in IT professional services

Market uncertainty will drive IT professional services growth by nearly 20 per cent annually until 2005 according to the latest report from the Gartner Group.

Anna Kournikova suspect charged

Dutch police have charged and released the man suspected of releasing the Anna Kournikova virus on an unsuspecting internet population this week.

Kournikova filters could be illegal

Filtering out the dangerous Anna Kournikova virus could have left ISPs in breach of the law.

Yahoo! Europe sees its MD say a fond farewell

Yahoo! Europe MD Fabiola Arredondo has announced her resignation after four years in the top job at the portal company.

Napster loses second ruling

The European Parliament yesterday approved rules stopping file-sharing services such as Napster from distributing music without the artists' prior consent.

Dome will not be home to high-tech centre

Hopes that the UK's Millennium Dome will be turned into a high-tech business park have been dashed as Legacy has lost its preferred bidder status.

Application rejected: Siemens blamed for Immigration Office fiasco

The Home Office has finally pulled the plug on its £77m computer project with Siemens Business Services which was supposed to dramatically cut the waiting list for asylum seekers.

It's the end of theglobe.com as we know it

Community hosting site theglobe.com faces delisting from Nasdaq after failing to meet the required minimum bid price of one dollar per share.

Global Crossing losses double after turbulent quarter

Global Crossing has posted a fourth quarter net loss for 2000 nearly double that of the same quarter a year previously.

Tiscali losses boom

Sardinian ISP Tiscali boosted its revenue by a factor of five for year 2000 but losses increased eight-fold.

Autonomy picks up after stumble

Autonomy shares are recovering this morning after an initial ten per cent slump when it admitted a trebled turnover but profits had not increased at the same rate in the last twelve months.

Telecoms leads the tech lift

Tech stocks opened broadly up this morning, led by a strong performance from the Telecoms sector. In early trading the TechMARK index was up 12 points, whilst the FTSE-100 index of leading shares from all sectors was trading down slightly.

Tories promise to repeal IR35

The Conservative Party will repeal the controversial IR35 legislation if they win the next general election.


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