Archive - 06 Sep 2001

Microsoft Xbox already a hit with consumers

More than a month before it's even hit the shelves...

IBM gets online with eBay

Big Blue pins ecommerce hopes on a consistent profit-maker

Tech stocks plunge LSE to three-year low

Market uncertainty makes investor anxious...

Microsoft escapes break-up

Unlike Clinton, Bush won't push...

Microsoft's Merlin conjures controversy

AOL, Adobe and Apple will not be pleased...

Chip market branded 'awful'

Makers of machines for chip makers wring their hands in frustration...

Call centres move down south

Leaving the cooler terrain of the cheap and cheerful North...

HP and Compaq: Why it could end in tears

Diving share price could mean the worst...

Extra protection for ISPs

Service provider claims to offer tougher protection against network abuse...

NASA hacker jailed for cyber-crime spree

Home confinement for a man who committed all manner of crimes from the comfort of his own home... I'...

EMC to launch high-end storage products

High performance products at mid-range prices...

Telcos stall 3G agreement

Telco companies struggle on to reach 3G network sharing deals...

Ross Perot gets a job with Burger King

Sounds like a comedown for a former Presidential candidate...

24/7 shares are all weak

But will reverse split be enough to stop a Nasdaq drop...

Dot-eu sails into stormy waters

Politicians demand right of veto on European domain name...

The best of 'Reader Comments': The big merger, code blame and paying for content

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China outraged by mobile phone firm

'Taiwan' blunder will cost Matsushita millions...

Sony spawns a new litter of cyber-pups

Loyalty, affection and a friend for a life... not to mention a cynical and merciless flair for marke...

CIOs fail IT projects

If they don't want to end up on the scrap heap 'CIOs should start thinking like CEOs'

France Telecom reports £40bn debts

All of a sudden BT sounds like a model business...

Marconi goes from bad to worse

It's looking grim as Standard & Poor sticks the boot in...

Linx hits back at critics

Out come the claws, in goes £2m in cash...

Bondi issues bond issue assurances at Olivetti

New CEO offers calming words to shareholders...

Rupert Murdoch signs Mickey Mouse deal

Video-on-demand service to pipe blockbusters straight into your home...

Microsoft to meet growth targets

CFO promises Seattle giant is still on track...

Red faces over ATM outage

Citibank loses network and website...

The search is on for the world's funniest joke

And you thought you'd missed the silly season...

Falling mobile and PC sales hit Dixons

...'but they used to sell like hot-cakes'...

US puts airwave auction on ice

Spectrum sale delayed two years...

Marconi says debt won't sink it

...because it has the mother of all overdrafts...

Can Microsoft turn the PDA into a business must-have?

Pocket PC will be a better 'corporate citizen', apparently...

Online investment takes a chunk of Guardian profits

Newspaper group counts the cost of online loss-leaders...


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