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Friday 23 February 2001

'Hyenas of criminal world' tracked down by police database

A sophisticated computer system has been developed by police to help hunt down some of the nastiest predators in UK society.

Murdoch signs up Netscape founder

Loudcloud, the ASP set up by Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape, has confirmed a global outsourcing deal with Rubert Murdoch's News Corp group only a month after the media giant closed its internet division.

Loudcloud still silent about eagerly-awaited float

Flotation seems like the natural thing for a company called Loudcloud. But is this internet infrastructure company mad to consider an IPO right now?

Swiss police swoop on Davos hacker

Swiss police have arrested a man in connection with the hacker attack on the website of the World Economic Forum in Davos three weeks ago.

No end in sight for cybersquatting disputes

Pressure is mounting on the administrators of national internet domain names to provide cheap and cost effective ways of settling cybersquatter disputes.

Motorola warning deepens sector sorrows

Motorola, the world's second-largest handset maker, today added to mobile phone gloom by predicting that industry sales this year will be lower than previously warned.

Autodesk turns tables on tech slowdown

Design and architectural software specialist Autodesk beat analyst expectations today, posting a fourth quarter profit of $32m, a year-on-year increase of 12 per cent.

Verticalnet results dash profitability hopes

B2B operator Verticalnet has cancelled its profitability forecast for this year after posting fourth quarter losses that were wider than analysts had predicted.

Pessimism grips IT managers

Pessimism now reigns supreme among data processing managers, according to a poll by online IT magazine CIO.com.

EMC announces shock downgrade

In a surprise announcement, the world's number one data storage firm EMC has been forced to knock off as much as $1bn from its earnings estimates for this year.

Venture capitalists leave Autonomy to go it alone

Autonomy shares slumped as venture capitalist Apax Partners sold the last of its holding to bring its total gains on the company to $1bn.

ISPs told to grasp the nettle on illegal porn

Industry experts have welcomed Thus' decision to stamp out child pornography on its servers, but claim a truly global effort is required in order to find a long-term solution.

AMD Athlon taken on board by Compaq

Chip giant AMD has announced that its seventh-generation Athlon processor will be included in Compaq's Presario 7000Z PC.

Bug threatens Outlook users

A flaw in Microsoft's Outlook Express has left users vulnerable to malicious attacks. The flaw is in a component of the email software which processes virtual business cards, or vcards.

Rejection reaction sees IBM pull piracy protection plans

IBM has pulled out of an industry consortium, which was developing music piracy protection software, after MP3 manufacturers rejected the technology.

Start-up plans to mine technological 'gold'

US start-up X-Laboratories has taken the unprecedented step of setting out its stall as a technology and business model 'refinery' - mining the R&D labs within big companies searching for technological 'gold'.

Microsoft server flaw lesson goes unlearned

A quarter of all Fortune 1000 companies are still exposed to the web server flaw which forced Microsoft offline for three days last month.

Lucent stops the sands of time with $4.5bn

Lucent Technologies secured the $4.5bn financing it needs to undergo drastic restructuring only hours before the deadline expired.

John Lamb's Week: Innovation, in its various forms

Like British film technicians, British technology researchers are much sought after by overseas firms. That is why Lord Sainsbury, minister for science and innovation, is legging it up to Nortel Networks' research laboratory in Harlow on Tuesday.

The best of 'Reader Comments': Tackling online child porn

Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers. From the past seven days, here we concentrate on one of the most important subjects affecting the internet - the dissemination of child pornography.

McNealy conspicuous by his absence as Sun falters

Profit and revenue warnings from Sun Microsystems have dealt a further blow to fragile confidence in the New Economy.

Stockwatch Daily: Nasdaq hits two-year low

Nasdaq yesterday hit a two-year low as tech stocks continue to take a beating.

Thus opens a can of worms

Far be it for the Round-Up to perpetuate the myth that the internet and porn are inseparable bedfellows. But sadly the topic has been unavoidable this week.

Things looking bad for Napster

The words 'bad news' and 'Napster' seem inseparable of late and are certainly fitting in light of reports in this morning's newspapers that suggest further measures are being put in place by the major record labels to squeeze out the file sharing service.


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