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Friday 27 April 2001

So long and thanks for all the stalling

One down, one to go. So farewell, Sir Iain Vallance, thanks for the memories and all the ammunition. The man who almost single-handedly held back the rollout of broadband services in the UK has decided to call it a day.

Lernout and Hauspie spend night behind bars

The founders of speech recognition specialist Lernout & Hauspie have been arrested.

BT's recalcitrance forces Clara.net to drop ADSL rollout

BT's stalling tactics over unbundling the local loop has forced internet service provider Clara.net to turn its back on providing ADSL services, and is instead planning to rollout SDSL service later this year.

Sun cold in the channel

As the air started to leak from the bubble, silicon.com brought you stories of related industries following internet start-ups into bankruptcy.

Dot-com doom - it's not over yet

This month saw dot-com layoffs accelerate above the declining rates set by previous months.

World's highest earning ASP axes staff

US-based ASP USinternetworking has laid off a quarter of its workforce despite beating analysts' expectations in first quarter results this week.

Business 2.0 bites the dust

The European editions of Business 2.0 are to close in a further consolidation of the European technology media sector.

IBM'll fix it for poorly servers

IBM has revealed that it will be spending billions of dollars to develop self-healing technologies for servers.

Census via email could have saved UK £30m

The government could have saved taxpayers over £30m if it had delivered census forms via email rather than delivering them to households.

Madge.web goes along with third of staff

Content streaming company Madge.web has become the latest victim of the high-tech malaise, declaring itself bankrupt and cutting a third of its staff today.

Amazon moving on up

A good quarter under its belt, e-tail behemoth Amazon.com is nearing profitability. But will it be plain sailing from here on in? Sonya Rabbitte takes a close look...

Intel makes miniatures

Chip manufacturer Intel has launched a program for the development and financing of miniaturised electromechanical systems.

Lucent purchase speculation gathers pace

Alcatel chief Serge Tchuruk has added weight to speculation that the French telecoms equipment maker has made a bid to buy Lucent's optical fibre division.

Traditional approach means jobs not F-Secure

Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure said today it will axe around 90 jobs as it battens down the hatches to weather the economic slowdown.

Private data gets brief respite

The House of Lords yesterday failed to reach agreement on the government's right to dictate the use of patient data for research purposes.

German armed forces play catch up in e-procurement

The German Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement is undertaking a four-month pilot e-procurement project, belatedly following the lead set by the US in the late 1990s.

Instinet lowers IPO price

Reuters-backed trading platform Instinet has lowered its IPO price range in the run up to the mid-May flotation.

Network operators strangling m-commerce

Mobile phone operators are hindering m-commerce by refusing to determine how revenue will be shared between content and application providers.

In the mix: Catching the integration bug

Integration is the lifeblood of ebusiness. It may not be a topic to set the world on fire but if you ignore it you'll suffer, writes Kate Hanaghan...

Stockwatch Daily: Europe still shaky

European markets opened nervously this morning after a lack of conviction in the US yesterday led the Nasdaq to end the day down 24 points.


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