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Friday 16 March 2001

Bungling Bull loses offspring's respect

Bull's services division Integris is distancing itself from its French parent company Bull after a history of poor results and an ever-changing business model.

IBM rubbishes rivals in $200m ad campaign

IBM has declared war on its rivals Oracle, BEA, CA and Microsoft with an aggressive $200m marketing campaign.

Secret Service paranoia whips up snooping storm

Privacy activists have come under fire from European legislators for cynically manipulating fears of state snooping.

Breakdown prejudice and crack the skills crisis

The key to beating the IT skills crisis is to target groups of potential workers who are being left out of the loop.

UK looks on dejected at Europe's broadband party

Broadband is booming across Europe, but the UK is fast becoming a black hole in a continent-wide galaxy of DSL offerings.

Adobe bucks the downward trend

Adobe Systems has brought a much-needed boost to the US market by beating analysts' profit predictions.

Stock market meltdown continues

Nasdaq followed the downward trend in London today and fell over three per cent on its opening. The Dow Jones Index also dropped as IBM and SAP both lost over four per cent.

Motorola's doing it. C&W's doing it. Even educated EMC's doing it...

...Let's do it. Let's slash some staff. After all, it has been a week of soaking in a bloodbath. But for one thing, we all need a break from the share price carnage.

The mighty Finn: Nokia's 'good news at last' in mobile sector

Nokia has amazed the beleaguered mobile communications sector by announcing that it still expects to meet earlier profit predictions for the first quarter of 2001.

You have mail, ma'am

Over a quarter of UK residents believe the Queen uses email, while three-quarters believe Tony Blair regularly taps out messages, according to a recent poll.

Japan has nothing to fear but Mir itself

Next week's proposed disposal of the Mir space station into the Pacific Ocean is causing unrest on planet Earth, with the people of Japan being warned to stay indoors during splashdown.

IBM sets up store with Linux

IBM announced yesterday that it will enable all of its storage products to work with Linux.

Hands off: Palm and Handspring hit with patent suit

Cash register manufacturer NCR has pulled a fifteen-year-old patent out of the bag and is preparing to sue Palm and Handspring.

John Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth

My favourite piece of card fraud involved a man who made a dummy automatic teller machine that read card details. He fitted it over a real machine in Brighton and used the codes and pin numbers the machine gathered to make counterfeit cards.

The best of 'Reader Comments': That old enemy ageism and BT's charge to the police

Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers.

Intel finds safety in consolidation

Chip maker Intel is to combine two of its biggest business divisions as it struggles to tighten its financial belt.

BA in chaos as BABS goes down on angry passengers

British Airways' worldwide flights have been thrown into chaos after a computer glitch brought down two key computer systems.

Oracle predicts gloomy future for Larry

Oracle's downward turn looks set to continue as the company turned in its third quarter results and announced its sales predictions for Q4 2001.

Nasdaq slide hits London tech stocks

Tech stocks opened down this morning in London after another bad day for the Nasdaq yesterday and more profit warnings hit European markets.

Compaq sacks 5,000 as PC sales falter

Compaq has given around 5,000 of its staff their marching orders, blaming the faltering US economy and poor PC sales as the reason.

silicon.com skills survey: e-learning the cure for the crisis

Internet training rather than reliance on IT graduates is the best way to solve the skills crisis, according to respondents to silicon.com's skills survey.

Ransoming fish for charity

A man-sized fish has gone missing in action. The slippery little fella was happily circulating at fish4.co.uk's party in Soho last week when he absconded.


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