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Monday 26 March 2001

Dell aims to make big bucks from small businesses

Dell has upgraded some of its lower-end servers in a bid to corner the SME market.

Microsoft inks e-book deal with WHSmith

Microsoft and whsmith.co.uk have joined forces to create the UK's first online store to offer downloadable e-books.

IBM kills Lotus but keeps brand and products

Lotus is to be consumed for good within the corporate structure of IBM, leaving only the brand name and products, silicon.com can exclusively reveal.

ISP points finger at BT in net access debacle

Sniff Out, a UK ISP, has cut one of its key net access packages - blaming BT for its decision.

Mac OSX: Winning over Wintel?

In March 1994, Apple outlined plans for its next-generation operating system. Codenamed Copland, it would replace the flagging System 7.0 and take on Windows 95 in the market. Seven years and three CEOs later, on Saturday Apple released OSX.

Cisco votes for Labour's local council IT drive

Networking giant Cisco Systems has inked a deal with the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames to provide voice and data services.

Skills crisis: 7,500 IT apprentices to plug skills gap

IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are among several top IT companies set to create up to 7,500 apprentice jobs as part of a pre-election pact with the UK government.

Eutelsat to offer broadband from outer space

European satellite company Eutelsat will put six earth satellites into orbit to provide fast bi-directional data services in the next two years in an attempt to position itself as a service provider for fast IP-connections.

Cisco: Grim outlook

Technology heavyweight John Chambers' promise that the economic climate will continue to cool has credence with City analysts.

Police are 'blind and hamstrung' without industry help

One of the UK's top police chiefs is urging the IT industry to cooperate more closely over computer crime investigations.

KPN tackles debt mountain

Dutch telecoms operator KPN is to sell off a range of non-core operations and cut jobs in a bid to cut debt and improve its credit rating.

Vodafone says: 'Pay more as you talk'

Vodafone has followed One2One's lead by hiking the prices of its entry-level phones as mobile companies tire of the fierce battle to sign up new customers.

Intershop warns of troubled times

Ebusiness software maker Intershop has admitted that its revenues for this quarter will be lower than expected.

Mac OSX: Apple delivers its new baby - at last

Apple unveiled its latest operating system, OSX, to UK journalists this morning, seven years after the company first outlined plans for it.

Menage à trois - the truth about users, vendors and consultants

IT directors are essentially sheep, afraid to think strategically yet willing to follow the advice of the large IT vendors and their industry peers. At least that's according to Martin Butler, chairman of the Butler Group. Joey Gardiner tries to get to the truth...

John Lamb's Week: Dell disarmed, Blunkett on the attack, CODA celebrating

Dell kicks off the week by launching two new servers in its PowerEdge range and by announcing plans to corner the market in low-end systems. The Texas company, whose HQ building used to sport notices reminding employees to check their guns at reception, hopes to ambush rivals HP, IBM and Sun.

Butler puts IT vendors in 'fashion parade of shoddy systems'

Large IT systems vendors have consistently delivered the industry a "fashion parade of shoddy solutions" according to the latest pronouncement from leading analyst Martin Butler.

User insult? In the name of the vendor, the analyst and the CIO

You're all in it together - all you IT directors out there are in cahoots with the consultants and the vendors. You're part of an "unholy trinity" whose major strategic decisions are made on the basis of self-interest - not the good of the company you work for.

Linux Lion worm hears call of the wild

A Linux worm named Lion has been reported in the wild, according to security research organisation SANS institute.

IBM adds data mining to DB2

IBM is to integrate the scoring service capability of its Intelligent Miner tools into its DB2 to give users quicker access to data that identifies such things as a customer's credit potential.

CeBIT update: Internet can drive you mad

The constant barrage of mobile internet technology may affect your sanity, according to a German researcher.

Vodafone loses out down under

Vodafone has withdrawn from the battle to take over Australia's second-largest mobile network, Optus, leaving the way open for Singapore Telecom.

Telecoms lead markets to positive territory

After the carnage of last week, the European markets have opened this morning on a higher note.

BT scoops £300m outsourcing deal with Liverpool council

Liverpool City Council is to outsource all of its IT services and call centre operations to BT in a £300m, ten-year deal.

The Bloor Perspective: Oracle has it all to do (again), ads that WILL get to you, and the CRM wars

This week Robin Bloor and his team of experts consider life for Oracle away from the database, ads over mobile phones, and PeopleSoft and Epiphany's CRM drive...


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