Archive - 10 Apr 2001
Motorola piles on misery for Scottish workers
Motorola's West Lothian plant is fighting for its survival amid speculation that it will close.
One-in-three UK ISPs will go bankrupt
One third of UK ISPs will go bust over the next 18 months - and that's according to the ISPs themsel...
Intel eyes early release for cut price P4
Intel is to release its 1.7GHz Pentium 4 chip up to 45 per cent cheaper than expected.
Letsbuyit: Business is booming
Customers of struggling group buying portal Letsbuyit.com have ordered goods with a combined value i...
Ericsson handsets hit by GPRS bug
Ericsson is to withdraw all the R520m handsets it has already shipped in a further blow to GPRS high...
Women ramp up banner ad revenue
Banner advertisers are being told to target women more actively if they want to increase their respo...
SMEs are doing it online
A growing number of SMEs are counting ebusiness as core to their profit-making activities, confident...
BT finds profit potential in property
BT is to wipe millions off its £30bn debt through a major property deal agreed this morning with Lan...
Reuters confirms interest in rival Bridge
Reuters has confirmed its interest in purchasing assets of its bankrupt competitor Bridge Informatio...
Top secret: PGP secures Linux
Encryption company PGP has signed a deal with the top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) to de...
Dutch bring satellite plans crashing down to earth
A Dutch minister has delivered a blow to Galileo, the European satellite positioning project, just d...
Freeserve takes on Lennox Lewis
Freeserve today announced a deal with heavyweight boxer Lennox Lewis to broadcast the preparations f...
Copyright crackdown turns on PC manufacturers
PC manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens has been summoned to Germany's court of arbitration with third party...
Tesco.com trumps online grocers
Tesco.com is selling £6m of groceries per week, according to its latest set of year-end results, con...
Fission control: CERN opts for Java backbone
The European Nuclear Research Centre (CERN) in Geneva is to integrate its new particle accelerator p...
Cedar stock goes against the grain
UK software and IT services company Cedar Group has seen its shares jump by nearly 14 per cent in ea...
Companies take action over telecoms fraud
Thousands of UK companies plan to make telecoms suppliers more accountable for the billions of pound...
Vignette edges away from dot-com gloom
Ecommerce software company Vignette surprised a gloomy dot-com sector by announcing its losses will ...
Ozzie gets into the P2P Groove
Groove Networks, headed by developer of Lotus Notes and silicon.com agenda setter 2001 Ray Ozzie, ye...
Embattled CRM vendors find safety in numbers
Customer relationship management software vendors Kana Communications and Broadbase Software have an...
Stockwatch Daily: Marconi inspires European gains
European bourses were marginally up in trading this morning, lifted by Marconi's announcement that i...
silicon.com launches French sister site
silicon.com has added a localised French version, silicon.fr, to its rapidly expanding family of Eur...
Agenda Setters 2001: Buying their way to the top?
Plus ca change. Agenda Setters 2001 may be a very different list to the one silicon.com put together...
The Gadget Showdown: 'Cocaine, Mrs Phillips?'
Speech recognition hasn't yet matured as an everyday technology, but its use is growing. Ben King we...
Model Management: Can we make a suggestion?
More soul-searching in crisis-torn Britain. The leading employers' organisation, the Confederation o...