Archive - 10 Jan 2001

Dixons: Strong sales, poor results

Dixons has announced lower-than-expected profits despite strong sales over Christmas and the sale of...

US causes storm as it skirts Safe Harbour

Safe Harbour, the data protection agreement set up to iron out the discrepancies between US and EU l...

Straw's comments on mobile phone thefts shot down by BT

The UK government has come under fire for misrepresenting the facts over mobile phone security.

Scoot shares shoot on back of Vivendi whispers

Online directory service Scoot has enjoyed a frenetic day of trading following rumours it is in disc...

France Telecom cashes in on Sprint and STM

France Telecom chairman Michel Bon has confirmed his company will sell its assets in Franco-Italian ...

'No' means 'yes' in Ebay registration foul-up

Online auction house Ebay has left six million of its users open to unsolicited telemarketing calls ...

French 3G auction may break EU law

Martin Bouygues, chairman of leading French telco Bouygues Telecom, has called on the European Commi...

Mangoosta challenges erratic France Telecom services

ADSL operator Mangoosta has taken out a court injunction forcing France Telecom to fix disconnection...

Interpol drowning under wave of cybercrime

The former secretary general of international crime-fighting agency Interpol has admitted the organi...

Mobile giants join forces against illegal Russian imports

Mobile phone manufactures have joined forces to demand curbs on the soaring illegal imports of hands...

Handset shortfall sparks Nokia share tumble

Nokia's share price took a tumble today as the company reported lower than expected handset sales in...

i2 bucks trend with good Q4 results

B2B technology player i2 will exceed analysts' turnover predictions by almost $30m in its forthcomin...

FI flies high with results release

UK-based consultancy FI Group today announced booming profits for its first-half year, boosted by re...

Mac family grows as Jobs defends the desktop machine

Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, restated his faith in the 'evolving PC' as he took the wraps o...

Ford in virus defence drive

Car manufacturer Ford is beefing up its virus protection for 150,000 users worldwide with McAfee's V...

Avaya nets first acquisition

Avaya intends to buy VPNet Technologies, a privately held developer of virtual private network (VPN)...

E-banking: Boys do but girls don't

Egg last year emerged as the clear leader in online banking in the UK, the second most developed e-b...

Xerox going bust? Not according to Xerox...

Troubled US copier and printer manufacturer Xerox has today denied speculation that it's planning to...

How to make money from B2B e-marketplaces

The rise of independently run e-marketplaces for all types of industry sectors was one of the succes...

Swedish minister see 3G future in Nordic alliance

The Swedish minister of trade, Bjorn Rosengren, has suggested merging Telia, Telenor and Sonera into...

Stockwatch Daily: Telecom stocks in demand as resurgence continues

European exchanges were up in early trading, fuelled by a surge in demand for telecom stocks. The FT...

Nokia battered, US telcos recover and Easy when you know how

Today's Financial Times reports on the fall of Nokia, whose market value fell by almost 20 pe...


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