Archive - 16 Mar 2001
Bungling Bull loses offspring's respect
Bull's services division Integris is distancing itself from its French parent company Bull after a h...
Breakdown prejudice and crack the skills crisis
The key to beating the IT skills crisis is to target groups of potential workers who are being left ...
Adobe bucks the downward trend
Adobe Systems has brought a much-needed boost to the US market by beating analysts' profit predictio...
Stock market meltdown continues
Nasdaq followed the downward trend in London today and fell over three per cent on its opening. The ...
Motorola's doing it. C&W's doing it. Even educated EMC's doing it...
...Let's do it. Let's slash some staff. After all, it has been a week of soaking in a bloodbath. But...
UK looks on dejected at Europe's broadband party
Broadband is booming across Europe, but the UK is fast becoming a black hole in a continent-wide gal...
IBM rubbishes rivals in $200m ad campaign
IBM has declared war on its rivals Oracle, BEA, CA and Microsoft with an aggressive $200m marketing ...
You have mail, ma'am
Over a quarter of UK residents believe the Queen uses email, while three-quarters believe Tony Blair...
Secret Service paranoia whips up snooping storm
Privacy activists have come under fire from European legislators for cynically manipulating fears of...
John Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth
My favourite piece of card fraud involved a man who made a dummy automatic teller machine that read ...
Japan has nothing to fear but Mir itself
Next week's proposed disposal of the Mir space station into the Pacific Ocean is causing unrest on p...
IBM sets up store with Linux
IBM announced yesterday that it will enable all of its storage products to work with Linux.
The mighty Finn: Nokia's 'good news at last' in mobile sector
Nokia has amazed the beleaguered mobile communications sector by announcing that it still expects to...
The best of 'Reader Comments': That old enemy ageism and BT's charge to the police
Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers.
Hands off: Palm and Handspring hit with patent suit
Cash register manufacturer NCR has pulled a fifteen-year-old patent out of the bag and is preparing ...
Intel finds safety in consolidation
Chip maker Intel is to combine two of its biggest business divisions as it struggles to tighten its ...
BA in chaos as BABS goes down on angry passengers
British Airways' worldwide flights have been thrown into chaos after a computer glitch brought down ...
Oracle predicts gloomy future for Larry
Oracle's downward turn looks set to continue as the company turned in its third quarter results and ...
Compaq sacks 5,000 as PC sales falter
Compaq has given around 5,000 of its staff their marching orders, blaming the faltering US economy a...
Ransoming fish for charity
A man-sized fish has gone missing in action. The slippery little fella was happily circulating at fi...
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