Archive - 13 Feb 2001
BT to squeeze more cash out of online SMEs
Up to 10,000 SMEs and sole traders using BT's dial-up internet access products will soon be forced t...
Bolt strikes Fonepark deal
New York teen oriented ecommerce network Bolt today announced it has acquired UK SMS text messaging ...
Subscription-based reports boost Reuters profit
News and technology group Reuters reported pre-tax profits four per cent up for the year 2000, credi...
Online paedophilia sees seven Britons jailed
Seven British men were today given jail sentences of up to two and a half years after pleading guilt...
Ellison: "If our bodies looked like our computers we'd all be dead"
Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman, CEO and most outspoken prophet, has once again stated industry her...
£30m cash injection to cure broadband woes
The UK government is throwing £30m into a project to put the nation's foundering broadband rollout b...
Napster: A gamble too far for Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann could be the biggest loser in yesterday's court ruling against file-sharing site Napster...
Mastercard makes a smartcard move for Europay
Mastercard International and electronic payment company Europay are set to merge this summer if shar...
EMC axe falls on 'unproductive' staff
EMC, the storage giant, has cut approximately three per cent of its workforce.
Scottish plant survives Motorola cuts
US electronics firm Motorola said yesterday it will go ahead with making its mothballed factory in F...
Virus update: Anna Kournikova has a Dutch touch
The Kournikova virus is still spreading, although sightings have tailed off a little from this morni...
Crusoe gets onboard the Linux bandwagon
Transmeta, the chip manufacturer behind the Crusoe processor, is to release a version of Linux desig...
ASP scandal: Hostlogic leaves customers in suspense
ASP Hostlogic has closed its offices and taken down its websites, leaving its customers in the dark ...
Lucent credit rating butchered
Lucent Technologies has seen its credit rating cut to a notch above junk-bond status after posting f...
Shares tumble as Emulex fails to emulate past success
Data Storage manufacturer Emulex has seen its share price slashed in half less than a month after re...
France Telecom flies as Orange floats
France Telecom has reported a 24 per cent increase in annual revenue on the same day its mobile unit...
Bye-bye, sell sell: The rise and fall of online share trading
Online stock trading services could seemingly do no wrong when markets were booming around the world...
Orange flotation goes pear-shaped
Shares in mobile phone company Orange opened below their E10 (£6.40) offer price as the company made...
Whispers of a Loudcloud deal with Murdoch
Loudcloud, the latest brainchild of Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, has inked a global web infrastr...
Binge buying boosts losses at QXL
European online auctioneer QXL has increased its losses as US rival eBay piles on the pressure this ...
Kournikova serves up virus warning
Anti-virus specialist MessageLabs is warning of a virus threat posed by a .vbs attachment on an emai...
Orange peels off at low end
Mobile phone company Orange will hit the markets today at the low price of E10 (£6.4) a share, valui...
France Telecom revenue up; Orange share price set
Trading will begin later today for Orange, the mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom.
Napster's dead - long live Napster...
The judgement is in, and it looks like Napster has lost. But as silicon.com's US correspondent Richa...
Model Management: Man Utd, the Yankees and successfully scoring strategic partnerships
Industry giants can't always pool their resources to make great teams. This week, the team at busine...
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