Archive - 05 Dec 2000
Amazon facing Christmas shut-down after customer data row
Privacy campaigners are calling for online retailer Amazon to be shut down for allegedly breaking UK...
Dutch ISPs groan at the cost of wiretapping
Dutch ISPs have warned they cannot afford equipment for monitoring their networks as required by a l...
French encryption laws to toe the EU line
French Finance Minister Laurent Fabius has announced the government will introduce regulations this ...
Sun finds HighGround as money floods in
Sun is boosting its storage efforts with a $400m deal to buy storage management software firm HighGr...
France Telecom to run internet service over Inmarsat
France Telecom is to launch its first internet access via Inmarsat's satellite network next year.
'Kakworm' on course for Christmas number one
Email virus Navidad, whose name means Christmas in Spanish, accounted for 14.6 per cent of all infec...
Bouygues admits partner talks
Leading French telco Bouygues Telecom has admitted it is looking for a new strategic partner only tw...
AT&T signs landmark telecoms deal in China
US telecoms giant AT&T has become the first foreign company to buy into the Chinese telecommunicatio...
Tory peer picks up surprise privacy award
Conservative peer Lord Cope of Berkeley was the surprise winner last night of a pro-privacy award at...
Vendors rush to back new e-transaction spec
Vendors, service providers and customers have rushed in to support an initiative to create a standar...
BT to set double record with bond issue
BT is due to set two records today as it offers what could be the world's biggest ever dollar bond a...
International co-operation for trade site
Businesses will now be able to find detailed trade statistics about services and commodities from co...
Vodafone close to finalising Eircell takeover
Vodafone is near to completing the purchase of Eircell, the mobile phone business of Irish telecoms ...
Confidence in tech stocks wanes with 3Com profit warning
Networking giant 3Com has issued a profits warning for the quarter that ended last Friday, further s...
Remote French citizens get mobile solution
The French Post Office is to sell mobile phones over the counter in a bid to bring greater connectiv...
Microsoft challenge to AOL-Time Warner merger
Microsoft is trying to get US regulators to put tighter bonds on the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger...
Energis and Thus force BT's hand with Oftel intervention
Telcos Energis and Thus have won a draft determination from Oftel that BT has to negotiate better te...
Model Management: The success and succession of GE's Jack Welch
Ebusiness is asking new questions of today's company leaders and many are turning to the best thinke...
Excite@Home pulls out of Chello merger
Excite@Home has scrapped its merger with European cable operator Chello.
The spirit of Big Brother past
Do you think the furore over the Electronic Communications Act and the 'Snooping Bill' has taught th...
KnightRidder.com axes jobs in drive to profitability
KnightRidder.com, internet subsidiary of US newspaper publishing house Knight Ridder, has announced ...
Motorola to license chips from rival ARM
Hardware giant Motorola has announced it is to license embedded chip technology from long-time compe...
Industry outraged by 'impossible' snooping proposals
ISPs and technical experts have condemned proposals by law enforcement agencies which would force al...
BT's bond, AOL's blunder and Blair's web baby...
BT is back on the front page, with the Financial Times reporting that the incumbent telco is ...
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