Archive - 04 Apr 2001
PSINet: A heavyweight rocked back on its heals
Make no mistake, PSINet is psyching itself up for bankruptcy.
Prince Charles gets mobile
Film and club goers in the UK can now use their mobile phones as an entry ticket.
No Apology for same old virus
A number of new viruses attacked Europe last month, but it was the same old faces which plagued the ...
$300,000: The cost of an 'independent' analyst
A silicon.com investigation has uncovered positive proof that some analysts are in the pockets of th...
Your boss is watching you...
Eighty-four per cent of employers regularly spy on their employees' communications.
SAP joins Yahoo! in portal partnership
SAP and Yahoo! have established an enterprise portal partnership in a deal that sees SAP distance it...
Clients: Thin, but not dead
The thin client is alive, well, and still popular, according to a survey by business portal vendor C...
ICL ducks out of £40m Post Office contract
Computacenter has become the sole supplier of the Post Office's IT hardware and shrink-wrapped softw...
Oracle's profits prophecy sets lawsuits flying
Oracle has been hit by 12 lawsuits in the US since it issued an earnings warning last month for thir...
CNN signs up Sportal
Online sports site Sportal.com has teamed up with US news service CNN to launch a joint co-branded c...
Bad days for B2B: Commerce One continues downward trend
B2B company Commerce One has issued a first quarter earnings warning just a day after industry rival...
Microsoft goes after Napster
Microsoft is to launch a music service today that could rival the record industry's new offering, Mu...
Microsoft falls foul with failure to deliver
Europe's largest cable operator, UPC, is planning to ditch Microsoft's digital TV software in favour...
ASP pop chart leaves Europe out in the cold
The failure of the ASP model to catch on in Europe has been underlined by a survey out today.
PSINet set to file for bankruptcy
Struggling ISP PSINet has requested a 15-day extension on filing its annual report with the US Secur...
Morissette moans: Musicians are being ignored in Napster battle
Pop superstar Alanis Morissette told a Washington DC senate committee yesterday that the interests o...
$65m for Sex.com
In the largest ever ruling of its kind, a US court has awarded a Californian entrepreneur $65m in da...
Gadzoox to switch customers away from Brocade
Storage area network developer Gadzoox Networks has announced the forthcoming launch of a 2Gbit/s op...
'Shunned' industry scuppers European cybercrime treaty
Leading figures in the IT industry are on the verge of derailing Europe's proposed cybercrime treaty...
US techs get uglier
Overnight, the Nasdaq closed down more than six per cent after US software companies took a severe b...
Seizing power: Richard Baguley has been on the ground in California since the lights starting going out
On any given day in California, there is still a chance that the power will be cut and the lights wi...