Archive - 12 Apr 2001
Apax kicks off spending spree with Red-M investment
European venture capitalist Apax partners has made the first investment from it $4bn fund in Madge N...
Privacy campaigners outraged by electoral register scandal
Sensational plans to "privatise" the electoral roll have triggered a possible human rights challenge...
US giant eyes oily hub buyout
US oil giant Chevron has confirmed it is looking to buy PetroCosm, the online public marketplace it ...
System crash derails HSBC and First Direct
HSBC and First Direct banks have admitted they suffered a serious IT failure that saw their main ban...
Moore no more at Intel
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has stepped down from the board at Intel.
The Microsoft paperclip: It's silicon wot killed it
silicon.com prides itself as a campaigning publication.
Genie struggles to convince over system security
A security glitch which exposed Genie users' personal information has reappeared only hours after th...
Pioneer accidentally sends virus to 10,000 customers
Japanese electronics company Pioneer has apologised for forwarding a virus to over 10,000 of its cus...
Judge takes 'rip off' swipe at industry in piracy case
The computer games industry has slammed a judge who presided over the case of gaming and mobile phon...
Blair accused of creating a 'digital underclass'
Tony Blair's drive to provide PCs and cheap internet access to bridge the UK's widening digital divi...
DoCoMo says cheerio to Verio dough
NTT is set to say goodbye to a large chunk of its $5.5bn investment in US-based hosting company Veri...
Falcon swoops in international war on fraud
The fight against credit card fraud in Europe steps up a notch today, with fraud specialist HNC Soft...
Blackberry chief blows a raspberry at tech recession
Jim Balsillie, CEO of Research in Motion, the company behind the Blackberry mobile emailer, has call...
Kozmo staff become latest jobless as e-tailer folds
US e-tailer Kozmo.com today announced it is winding up its operations at the cost of 1,100 jobs.
Amazon secures deal with high street rival
E-tailer Amazon and high street bookseller Borders have inked an agreement to work together online, ...
It looks like you're writing a P45: Gates sacks the paperclip
Clippy, Clippit, the pestilential paperclip - call him what you will, the stress-inducing stationery...
US sites dominate UK web viewing figures
Yahoo! and MSN are running a two horse race to gain the accolade of most visited site, according to ...
Silkworn puts Fibre Channels in a spin
Brocade has launched the SAN switch 'Silkworm 12000' and in doing so has flagged up its belief that ...
Apache beta enters the public domain
The first public beta of the Apache Web Server 2.0 was released this week. When finalised 2.0 is exp...
Yahoo! bends to job cut craze
Yahoo! today posted first quarter earnings, beating Wall Street expectations, but also announced its...
Stockwatch Daily: Rally goes on around Baltimore
This week's rally in technology shares continued this morning as European markets opened, despite ba...
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