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Intel axes 650 staff at ex-Digital plant
News Last April the chip giant announced global staff cuts of 3,000, but it claims the losses at the Alpha plant are not part of this. Intel is to make 650 staff redundant at the Massachusetts-based Alpha plant it bought from... [23 Sep 1998]
Jacques Santer tells European leaders to invest in IT
News His advice comes as a warning to governments who need to preen their emerging IT sectors for the global market currently dominated by US and Far Eastern giants. Jacques Santer, President of the EC, is... [23 Sep 1998]
Lockheed Martin buys Comsat for $2.7bn
News Comsat will eventually be made part of Global Telecommunications, a subsidiary of the giant defence and aircraft corporation, but the deal depends on approval from the US Federal Communications... [22 Sep 1998]
Sweden benefits from Gigabit Ethernet network
News He believes that these three factors will create an effective global Lan. Packet Engines and Swedish multimedia company Utfors are setting up a Metropolitan Area Network between Stockholm... [22 Sep 1998]
In brief: Nortel closes UK divisions
News The cuts represent reduction of 4 per cent of Nortel's global workforce and is part of a "resizing", according to the company. Nortel announced the loss of 586 jobs today with the closure of its two of... [21 Sep 1998]
Patents to cost less
News A representative of the WIPO - a division of the United Nations that controls the global patent service and other property rights issues - explained that patent costs have been cut because the existing... [16 Sep 1998]
Yahoo and MCI untie the knot
News The new company, called MCI WorldCom, claims to offer the world's first "local-to-global-to-local" network, offering data, Internet and telephony exclusively over its own worldwide network. Yahoo... [15 Sep 1998]
C&W invests £50M in Ireland
News In Shannon, C&W will set up a Global Businesses division which will provide administration, back office and customer services for its own operations and its global... [15 Sep 1998]
In brief: CA appoints European services chief
News The company claims Reboul will help it reach its target of a becoming a $1bn global services operation. Chris Wagner, executive vice president of Global Professional services, stressed that acquisitions... [11 Sep 1998]
Iridium admits technical faults caused delay
News Iridium - a $5bn global satellite telecoms provider - is to delay the launch of its service until 1 November, due to technical failures in handsets and its satellite network. The launch date was... [10 Sep 1998]
In brief: Matsushita becomes latest chip firm to close plant
News The electronics company joins the likes of Fujitsu, LG Group, Motorola and Siemens which have all announced closures or scaled down operations as a direct result of the global saturation of the DRAM market. [10 Sep 1998]
Clinton and Ahern sign electronic agreement - electronically
News The agreement itself reflects a common policy in Ireland and the US on the drive to bring down the barriers to global ecommerce and promote the use of digital signatures to this end.... [07 Sep 1998]
In brief: AT&T celebrates telesurgery success
News The telesurgery was conducted over a global ISDN (GISDN) network donated by US telecoms company AT&T. One of the world's first telesurgery operations has been successfully completed in Baltimore - by doctors over 200... [07 Sep 1998]
UK suffers as Fujitsu closes chip plant
News Motorola and Fujitsu said the weak global economy and the saturation of the DRAM market caused the closure. A spokesman for Motorola said the Scottish job losses were part of a drive to... [04 Sep 1998]
Small UK firms urged to go back to nature
News It is less stressful, but it is not necessarily lower rent and if they [small companies] want to expand and gain an international presence, their location is important - in the global... [04 Sep 1998]
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