Archive - 07 Dec 2000
Spitfire sends online auctions sky-high at eBay
eBay is today featuring the must-have Christmas present, a restored and flying Spitfire for offers a...
Linux mainframe ousts Sun servers at Telia
Swedish telco Telia has dealt a severe blow to Sun Microsystems by scrapping 70 Sun servers and repl...
Guardian iT opts for own power plant
Guardian iT is being forced to build its own power station to provide power for its latest server fa...
Autonomy enters, Baltimore exits FTSE 100 index
Artificial intelligence company Autonomy has made it into the FTSE 100 index of leading companies, a...
Quadstone closes £21m financing deal
Quadstone, a UK provider of CRM solutions, has gained £21m in funding to recruit more staff and driv...
UK start-up to lease storage to SMEs
UK-based start-up, Data Company, is set to target the growing number of SMEs which depend on ecommer...
The Agenda Setters: Java's creator hits back at critics
James Gosling, the man credited with inventing Java, has hit back at critics who claim that Sun is s...
Women.com cuts 85 jobs
Women.com, a US-based provider of content and services for women, has cut 25 per cent of its workfor...
3Com appoints Polaroid CEO to board
3com has appointed Gary T DiCamillo, CEO and chairman of the Polaroid, to its board of directors.
The best of 'Reader Comments': mobile phone masts on churches, IT directors on the up and air-tight storage
Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers. From the last seven days, he...
Ericsson raises expansion funds with Juniper sell-off
Ericsson has sold $1.5bn worth of its shares in US Juniper Networks.
Linux pot of gold still eluding Caldera
Linux specialist Caldera Systems has posted increased revenues in its latest financial results, but ...
NTT DoCoMo delays Java phone release date
NTT DoCoMo will miss the fourth quarter 2000 target for the launch of its first Java-enabled iMode h...
Domestic operators claim Polish 3G licences
Three domestic operators in Poland have been granted licences in the countries third generation mobi...
Increased funds for CSR low-cost Bluetooth chips
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) has confirmed that it will receive further venture capital funding fro...
Apple's OS X to miss MacWorld
Troubled Apple will not release Mac OS X until February 24, too late for the MacWorld Exhibition in ...
World Online and Tiscali follow ISP consolidation trend
World Online has confirmed its merger with Italian ISP Tiscali has been completed, after 96 per cent...
AltaVista axes free internet access in the US
AltaVista has joined the long list of companies pulling out of free internet access in the US.
Freeserve wannabe Wanadoo: What the deal means
The purchase of Freeserve by France Telecom's ISP Wanadoo means another change for the European inte...
Freeserve takeover, tech stock upheaval and an e-flood warning to homebuyers
Most of today's papers report on the takeover of Freeserve by French ISP Wanadoo. The £1.6bn deal en...