Archive - 26 Jan 2001
Hackers wreak havoc on Microsoft's 'flawed' network
A major weakness in Microsoft's network design is being pinpointed as the flaw that let hackers brin...
Egg says sorry - and blames downtime on hardware
Egg is apologising to customers who have been unable to access their account details all week, and h...
Crisis looms for internet data centres
Internet data centres could be left in the dark as electricity suppliers struggle to meet the rapidl...
Microsoft percolates Java into C#
Microsoft is trying to lure Java developers to its platforms just a few days after settling a lawsui...
International bidders barred from Amazon.com auctions
Amazon.com has decided that all users of its auction services must use the company's proprietary pay...
BT launches flat-fee ISP
BT today launched its long-awaited flat-fee ISP, priced at £14.99 a month, but lumbered with a strin...
Job loss speculation impacts AT&T share price
AT&T Broadband may cut over 1,000 jobs to reduce costs as it prepares to issue a separate stock from...
Bookham buys MM A-Z undaunted by losses
Shares in Bookham Technology plunged almost 20 per cent in early trading today as the optical chipma...
Intel rubber-stamps Symantec deal for protection
Semiconductor giant Intel today announced a deal with internet security specialist Symantec to prote...
Three-fold success lifts tech stock clouds
European stock markets have received a much need lift by a series of upbeat results and predictions ...
Behind the Headlines: More crashes than a London bus
In the middle of Business Continuity Awareness Week, some companies' approach to keeping their syste...
Ginger causes Amazon to lose the plot
You can now pre-order your very own Ginger online at Amazon.com - even though no one really knows qu...
Linux gets wheels
Major car manufacturers are revving up to test-drive Linux according to announcements this week from...
Mistral: Shared low-cost solution for SME market
Internet service provider Mistral Internet has launched a load balance solution aimed squarely at th...
The best of 'Reader Comments': unbundling the local loop and dot-com advertising
Each week silicon.com is inundated with comments from you, our readers. From the past seven days, he...
Excite@Home writes off $4.6bn
US internet access and content company Excite@Home has written off $ 4.6bn on assets, contributing t...
Avaya wins BSkyB call centre contract
Satellite TV company BSkyB is to augment its call centre with a contract tendered to US communicatio...
eToys will only make it to March
Troubled e-tailer eToys only has enough money to survive until the end of March.
Results threaten WorldCom job cull
WorldCom is expected to announce as many as 11,000 job cuts to coincide with the release of its annu...
Ericsson drops handsets
Ericsson, the world's third biggest supplier of mobile phones, is to announce today that it is pulli...
Stockwatch Daily: Nasdaq takes a beating
Losses by the tech leaders drove the Nasdaq Composite down 104.87 points. Cisco led the losers, who ...
BT makes a meal of restructuring and Ericsson pulls its handsets arm
This morning's Financial Times leads with news that BT is inviting a select group of investor...
Microsoft.com goes down again
Microsoft has been hit by a denial of service attack that forced microsoft.com, and related sites, o...
Online cheaters beware
Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman with internet access. The woman in question, a Mrs Tracey Eva...
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