Wednesday 21 February 2001

Re:Viewing 2001: Microsoft's most important year? (2)

Campus rumpus over Hot-Hot-Hotmail

Warwick University is considering taking legal action over pornographic junk emails sent to Hotmail users, purporting to be from Warwick email addresses.

Top execs quit struggling B2B markets player

Ventro, a leading player in the supposedly booming B2B marketplace sector, is teetering on the edge of disaster.

Lack of funds leave web watchdog 'lame and toothless'

Europe's top web content monitoring body is so starved of funds that it has been rendered totally ineffective, according to influential factions within the UK internet industry.

Oftel further muddies local loop waters

Oftel has disappointed the UK's beleaguered high-speed DSL internet access providers with the announcement of a new series of local loop regulations.

Motorola acquires Blue Wave

Cellular phone maker Motorola today announced a $165m stock merger with Texas-based Blue Wave Systems.

Dead end for Web Street

ASP Web Street has announced its closure just a week after Hostlogic shut shop leaving customers in the lurch.

Cleaning up the web: Thus, Demon gets unrealistic?

Can, worms, Pandora, box. Just a few of the words that spring to mind when discussing the decision of Thus, the telco that owns Demon, to remove all child porn from its newsgroups.

R&D suffers for the sake of taxes and the City

The UK electronics industry has called on Chancellor Gordon Brown to offer tax credits to encourage R&D spend.

Easynet UK high-speeds into profitability

Easynet, the UK ADSL pioneer ISP, boosted revenue but the cost of rolling out its European network dragged it into loss.

BT apprehends police training contract

BT has won a £1m communications contract to support the National Police Training (NPT) organisation.

Intel embarks on saving spree to fund R&D

Intel has started a massive cost-cutting exercise to keep its R&D spend up while revenue falls.

Letsbuyit back from the dead

The Dutch courts have released Letsbuyit.com from legal restrictions and the group-buying site has sprung back into action.

Watch out - the invisible virus is on its way

Security experts are issuing a stark warning today, claiming that viruses will become so clever in the next three years that they will be almost impossible to detect.

SMS lead prompts stock plunge for Logica

Logica's shares were hammered this morning as it announced booming sales, profits and profit margins in its half-yearly figures.

Lycos Europe claims to top the portal lot

Lycos Europe claimed victory in Europe as losses deepened due to a marketing splurge and it predicted profitability by 2004.

iPlanet pushes forward to strengthen Sun's ONE strategy

iPlanet, the Sun-Netscape alliance, has expanded its product line to include an updated version of its web server and three new editions of the iPlanet application server.

Intuit upbeat about results and prospects

Financial services and software giant Intuit has reported revenue of $457.6m for the second quarter of fiscal 2001, an increase of eight per cent on the comparable period the previous year.

Technical Support.com for BT staff

BT's own staff could spend less time hanging on the phone waiting for technical support thanks to helpdesk technology from Support.com.

Ellison and friends dig deep for start-up venture

A group of the IT industry's richest men are to put up to $369m of their personal cash in to a venture capital fund to back US and European start-ups.

VA Linux: Job cuts and stock slump add to company woes

VA Linux has warned it will be forced to lay off over 130 staff after poor second quarter results showed the already struggling company's troubles worsening - even worse than Wall Street's pessimistic predictions.

Nasdaq sends FTSE below 6000

World stock markets fell to their lowest levels in years yesterday as fears of recession sent share prices into a tumble.

Baltimore revenues soar but losses widen

Irish e-security software firm Baltimore Technologies tripled both revenue and losses in 2000.

Napster buys time with billion-dollar bung

Online file sharing site Napster has offered $1bn to the record industry in a bid to keep its controversial service open.

Europe tech stocks follow Nasdaq down

Europe followed Nasdaq's overnight slump of 4.4 per cent as it opened lower this morning.