By Jon Bernstein, 5 October 2000 09:15
NEWS It normally happens on Friday but Dell has decided to break from the tradition imposed by Intel and Apple in recent weeks. Instead, users will wake up on Thursday morning to discover their favourite stock is about to take a tumble. The Times reports that Dell issued its profits warning after the US stock market closed last night. The company said revenue would be running 3 per cent lower than anticipated. Reassuringly, like Intel and Apple before it, Dell also shifted the blame on Europe for lower than expected sales. For more extensive coverage of Dell's plight, stay logged on to silicon.com throughout the day. And don't forget to place your bets now on next week's tale of financial woe... Another company with an uncomfortable day ahead of it is Freeserve. According to the Financial Times the UK's leading internet service provider (ISP) will threaten to evict 700 of its heaviest users from its unmetered offering. It's a move reminiscent of World Online's about-turn last month, when the Dutch-owned ISP rebranded its unmetered package saying they could stay logged on as long as they like, er... so long as they didn't want to stay logged on for more than 100 hours a month. Now it looks like Freeserve is about to follow suit. Unmetered? Hardly... Better news in the Guardian for one UK start-up. Born out of the remains of Acorn Computers, Element 14 - which designs chips for the digital subscriber system - accepted an all-share offer from Silicon Valley-based Broadcom Corp. The deal worth £409m is likely to make paper millionaires of most of its 68 employees... And while the UK's high-tech industry continues to sell off its crown jewels, Irish security specialist Baltimore Technologies is doing things in reverse. Baltimore, The Times reports, has agreed to pay £28.4m for Nevex Software Technology, a Toronto-based data access firm...
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