Archive - 14 Nov 2000
It's been a bad day for Oftel, but has it reached its nadir?
Oftel has this week found itself sitting very uncomfortably indeed. Director general, Dave Edmonds g...
'Lazy and complacent' Oftel panned by MPs
Oftel received a roasting today from MPs for being 'lazy' and 'complacent'. During a heated meeting,...
UK employment service doles out £321m extension to EDS
The UK Employment Service (ES) is to pay services giant EDS £321m in an extension to the 10-year Mod...
AMD promises to toast Intel in chip wars
AMD has revealed plans to launch a 2GHz ClawHammer processor, promising chips with higher clock spee...
Azlan boasts lion's share of results success
Network product and service distributor Azlan has reported interim results, with half year profits u...
HP increases its OpenView offering
Hewlett Packard has added a new solution to its OpenView software suite with the launch today of man...
UK business ignoring online B2B
Only two per cent of UK B2B transactions are currently going over the web, despite the fact that a q...
Netscape 6 is ready to take the power back
AOL subsidiary Netscape is hoping to claw back share of the browser market with Netscape 6, due for ...
AOL France cuts off unmetered users as network struggles
AOL France has capped users of its unmetered access service to just 30 minutes online because its ne...
Telework sees shares rise on results upturn
Shares in UK telephony and workforce management software specialist Telework leaped as the company a...
UN appoints head for developing world technology push
The United Nations has appointed former Costa Rican president Jose Maria Figueres as head of its ini...
Nikkei feels the effect of global tech-stock slump
The Tokyo stock exchange is continuing to feel the impact of the global downturn in technology share...
Gent promises further purchases as Vodafone advances
Chris Gent, CEO of Vodafone has said he is still looking to make more acquisitions on the back of st...
IPO: Disruptive but effective
IPOs are disruptive to UK technology and telecoms businesses, but are seen as worth the effort, acco...
Investment soars as Toys R Us counts the cost of move online
Third quarter results have revealed the world's largest toy shop, Toys R Us, has been dragged $65m i...
Sainsbury's outlines Andersen outsourcing deal
Sainsbury's has announced details of how it will outsource its IT department, complete with 800 staf...
Energis results show strong growth
Telecommunications and internet group Energis has reported strong interim results, fuelled by demand...
Alliance & Leicester banks on call centre strategy
UK bank the Alliance & Leicester has confirmed it will create a new call centre as part of its £15m ...
E-tailers failing to fulfil customer expectations
E-tailers' inadequate fulfilment processes have played a major part in the current slump in the busi...
Wanadoo buys Andtrade
France Telecom's ISP division Wanadoo has acquired online trading market Andtrade as the French telc...
SAP goes ASP after airline demand takes off
User demand has led to the launch of an ASP for small and medium-sized airlines. The as-yet unnamed ...
Altitude scared off by market conditions
Altitude Software has postponed its IPO, which was due to take place today, blaming adverse market c...
Vodafone spending spree pays dividends as profits boom
The world's largest mobile phone company, Vodafone, reported booming half year pre-tax profits, up 2...
Gates prescribes Tablets for web surfers
Last night Bill Gates unveiled the future of web surfing with a 90-minute keynote speech at this yea...
T-Online board exodus continues with fourth resignation
T-Online has suffered another blow following the resignation of a fourth board member in as many mon...
£20m funding for Yava will get pubs online
Yava, the 'put-the-internet-in-pubs' group, has raised £20m in a second round of funding.
Telecom Italia seeks raised stake in French UMTS contender
Telecom Italia is in talks with French telco Bouygues over increasing its stake in Bouygues' mobile ...
LIFFE hit by the latest in a string of technical failures
A system failure that cut off data feeds to London's futures exchange for the first hour of trading ...
The Bloor Perspective: Coffee gets wired, the ebusiness porn model, and ASP SLAs
In this week's look at three key issues, Robin Bloor and his team of colleagues look at the networke...
Oracle signs Compaq deal, Nasdaq tumbles and BMG eyes EMI
The Financial Times reports that Oracle has signed an agreement with Compaq to install its so...
The rise of global ebusinesses
Glance at the top stories covered on silicon.com so far this week and you'll see articles about doma...
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