Archive - 09 Mar 2001

European communications 'wide open' to interception

A leading British code expert has fuelled widespread concerns that Europe's most sensitive electroni...

US outraged at 'onerous' European privacy laws

The growing argument over data protection in the US escalated yesterday as a US congress committee s...

Amazon boss under investigation by SEC

Jeff Bezos, the chairman of Amazon.com, is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commiss...

Small ISPs excluded from Friaco

BT is casting smaller ISPs out in the cold as the telecom giant finally launches its flat-rate inter...

Microsoft: Still sprawling, still arrogant

Microsoft is doing its level best to insulate itself from the harsh high-tech climate. And it's not ...

Nasdaq weighed down by tech woes

The technology-laden Nasdaq hit its lowest rate this year after seeing all its tech groups slide.

Labour launches online centres

The Labour government is backing its attempts to drag the UK into the digital age by opening a raft ...

New economy to benefit from ageing savings

UK new economy companies will soon benefit from a fresh flow of capital after a Government review su...

John Lamb's week: How will the UK government solve the IT skills crisis?

The downturn may have dimmed the prospects of such dot-com darlings as Yahoo! and Amazon but it is n...

IT directors shy away from VoIP savings

Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony is being shunned by 71 per cent of European businesses, despite the f...

Ericsson: Don't confuse Apax with Flextronics deal

Ericsson is keen to point out that there is no connection between the sale of its Enterprise sales b...

Allan is still e-envoy on UK government website

The government's new e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, may be calling on British industry to embrace ecommerce...

Carrier business carries Alcatel through handset slump

France-based network maker Alcatel has warned that while handset sales were significantly down on la...

Gent fudges GPRS launch

Vodafone chief executive Chris Gent has restated the company's commitment to the 2 April launch date...

Behind the Headlines: Penniless doctor 'should have stuck to medicine'

The New York doctor suing a leading analyst for the losses incurred on share deals stands little cha...

Police seize two in software raid

Two men are helping police with their enquiries following a raid on alleged counterfeiters in Birmin...

Dot-coms slash earnings predictions

The crisis depressing high-tech shares has prompted a radical strategy rethink by internet start-ups...

Improved net protocol gets one stage closer

Yokogawa Electric Group has finished development of its long-awaited network converter. This will ma...

CyberSafe partners Network Ice for advanced IDS

Intrusion detection software vendors CyberSafe and Network Ice have teamed up to offer network and h...

Intel job cull sends share price tumbling

Shares in Intel fell eight per cent on early trading in Frankfurt after the company announced a prof...

France Telecom faces EC opposition to Equant deal

France Telecom could be facing a four-month investigation into the takeover of Equant after the Euro...

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Intel's woe sends shock waves through European exchanges

European exchanges performed poorly in early trading this morning, after US chipmaker Intel issued a...

Web will eat itself

Pop will eat itself, they used to say. Now it looks like the internet's trying to gnaw its own leg o...

Money-grabbing BT 'profiting' from cybercrime investigations

BT stands accused of making money from cybercrime today following the revelation that it's the only ...


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