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RSS valleyHong Kong builds own Silicon Valley
News Hong Kong has announced plans to develop its own Silicon Valley. The proposal to invest HK$13bn (£1.04bn) to create a hub of high-tech companies were announced in financial secretary Donald Tsang's budget this week. [05 Mar 1999]
Microsoft in damage limitation mode
News The offer came from Netscape vice president Marc Andreesson, who allegedly recommended Rosen for the job of CEO at a new Silicon Valley company. Microsoft will today try to rebuild the credibility of one of its top executives after he was forced to... [24 Feb 1999]
V&A gets high-tech boost
News Silicon Valley Services, which has had a maintenance contract with the V&A for several years, is among those thought to have applied. London's Victoria & Albert museum (V&A) is planning to invest an estimated £10m to improve its... [18 Feb 1999]
UUNet suffers San Francisco outage
News Worldwide ISP, (Internet service provider) UUNet was unable to supply some of its Silicon Valley customers with Net access, after heavy rain in the San Francisco area caused an outage at its regional and Palo Alto hubs. [11 Feb 1999]
IT clusters face rough reception
News Mandelson, who recently spent time in Silicon Valley in California, has gone on record about his desire to create a "knowledge-driven economy" in the UK. which argues that the UK needs to follow the Silicon Valley model. [14 Dec 1998]
Orbital hits the jackpot
News Dorren claimed Orbital has few of the problems associated with recruitment and keeping hold of staff suffered by Silicon Valley companies, as Silicon Glen has spawned a lot of IT graduates, many of whom want to stay in Scotland. [14 Dec 1998]
High-tech entrepreneurs get cash boost from UK government
News We are still far from the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley," he told Silicon.com. The UK government is due to unveil incentives for high-tech companies this week, in a white paper on competitiveness. [13 Dec 1998]
Cadence claims copyright win
News He added: "This case is about defending the Silicon Valley way of doing business and the rights of high-tech companies and their customers. Almost exactly two years after starting legal proceedings against Avant! [08 Dec 1998]
Oracle plans West Midlands HQ
News Oracle plans to build a £20m regional headquarters at Blythe Valley Business Park in the UK's West Midlands, creating 950 jobs. The US-based software group's plans to build the facilities were welcomed by UK trade secretary, Peter Mandelson, who... [17 Nov 1998]
INTERVIEW: Psion's Asia-Pacific chief on economic turmoil and the future of handhelds
News In the 1980s, distributors in Asia often got burned by unscrupulous suppliers in the Silicon Valley," Cousins adds. Navigating his way through a jumble of half-packed boxes, Charles Cousins, Regional Manager of Psion's Asia Pacific operations... [12 Nov 1998]
Brown takes cue from Silicon Valley
News He said the government's goal is to double the amount of employees in share ownership schemes, in an effort to "emulate Silicon Valley". The UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown, presented his pre-Budget report to a boisterous House of Commons this... [03 Nov 1998]
Novell accuses Microsoft over one-way integration
News Novell has accused Microsoft of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt in the networking market by developing a product that integrates with Novell Directory Services (NDS) by drawing information from it without giving anything back in return. [02 Nov 1998]
$96m technology museum moves to San Jose
News Silicon Valley's Tech Museum is moving to a new site in San Jose, California at the end of this month. The $96m hands-on museum and learning centre will specialise in interactivity such as a design-it-yourself virtual roller coaster and a jet... [16 Oct 1998]
Toshiba plans mobile chip for email and Net access
News The company told the Microprocessor Forum in Silicon Valley this week that the chips will be used in mobile phones. Toshiba has announced plans to integrate communications technology into forthcoming processors. [16 Oct 1998]
Intel adds two 64bit chips to its roadmap
News The company made the announcements at the Microprocessor Forum in Silicon Valley on Wednesday. Intel has added two more 64bit chips to its road map. The first to be released after the McKinley chip - due to be launched in late 2001 - is Madison... [15 Oct 1998]
