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Monday 14 May 2001

Nortel in need of top talent

Canadian telco Nortel Networks has begun an urgent search for a new top executive team after announcing on Friday it is to lose both its CEO and COO.

Fighting fraud: Imperial leaves net under cloud

The man behind a controversial UK finance house has explained to silicon.com why his company has fled the internet, claiming to be the victim of fraud but at the same time trying to escape allegations of unethical business practices.

Experian aims to educate MPs

Information services company Experian has launched an online series of constituency guides aimed at industry commentators and MPs.

Common language of communication approved

ebXML, the proposed lingua franca for communication over the web, has been approved by the standards body charged with developing it.

ASP climbs ladder away from application provision

UK ASP SystemCare has relaunched itself around its new brand Virtual Supplychain, saying it wants to become an ASP-enabler.

BT stalls in 3G three-legged race

BT's much-hyped Manx Telecom 3G project has been delayed by a glitch in the NEC 3G handsets. NEC believes the problem will take "a couple of months" to resolve.

C&W splashes out on Digital Island

UK telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) today announced the acquisition of US web services company Digital Island for £240m.

Vodafone finally gets Eircell

Vodafone has completed the acquisition of a 79.6 share in Eircell, the wireless arm of Irish telco Eircom, in an all-stock deal - giving Eircell a virtual market capitalisation of E3.64bn (£2.25bn).

The Iceman dot-cometh

A cybersquatter profiting from a number of actors' and singers' names in the US has been ordered to hand over kevinspacy.com.

Douglas Adams: 1952 - 2001

The sudden death of Douglas Adams this weekend has shocked and saddened the worlds of literature and technology alike.

War of words wages over Welsh election 'dirty tricks'

A row has broken out in the political hot-bed of website electioneering after The Welsh Liberal Democrat Party launched a bitter online attack at nationalist rivals Plaid Cymru.

High-tech drive-through under construction

Academics at the Fraunhof Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) in Germany have developed a concept they believe will overcome delivery problems associated with online shopping.

'Balls' to the downturn: It's a Tiger economy after all

The unlikely saviour of the world's economy will be plaid-clad US golfer Tiger Woods whose appearances in major tournaments have been shown to correlate with stock surges on the world's markets.

Real arguments over virtual storage

Leading storage companies clashed at a European trade show last week over the development of virtualisation, a much-touted method of boosting a system's storage infrastructure.

NTL spreads its virtual wings

NTL is poised to enter the mobile phone market as a virtual operator piggy-backing on Orange's network.

Is the end in sight for Europe's skills crisis?

The problem of a worldwide skills shortage in European IT sectors is easing, according to the latest figures.

Just for Fun: Extract 1 - Tell me about your childhood

In this first extract from Just for Fun, the new book by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond about the progress of the Linux OS and the man behind it, we are given a rare insight into Linus' formative years. What was he like as a child, what did he think of himself, computers and clothes? Read on...

One for the price of three: Users angry at Microsoft licence rate hike

IT directors are furious with Microsoft's decision to lease volume licenses to large corporates for only three years - leaving them facing software bills that could more than triple.

Markets hang on news from Fed

In anticipation of possible Federal Reserve interest rate cuts on Tuesday and a selection of high-tech financial results later this week, European markets slipped into the red this morning.

Free ISP finds investors

An unnamed group of investors has cast a £3m vote in favour of free ISPs with the purchase of Madasafish from Scottish internet business Iomart.

E-minister angers contractors over IR35

IR35 is not driving contractors away from the UK, according to e-minister Patricia Hewitt.

John Lamb's Week: The surreal world of market research

Bob Young, founder and chairman of one of the best known Linux distributors, Red Hat, will be in the UK on Tuesday to talk up the prospects for open source in today's more stringent marketplace.

EasyJet online, Transmeta and OpenSource

This week, the team at Bloor Research take a look at EasyJet's online achievements, the future of Transmeta and why OpenSource just keeps going and going...


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