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Archive - 04 Sep 2001

New email worm attacks Outlook

News The Apost worm, which arrives with a message asking people to review a file, is unlikely to reach the same scale of SirCam and Magistr

Price war hits ADSL installation costs

News Telewest has undercut BT's reduction in the price of ADSL installation, while BT's cuts are being passed on to customers by ISPs

Ellison reaps $706m from options

News Larry Ellison may not be drawing a salary from Oracle, but the stock options he excercised during the company's 2001 financial year at least paid for his travel card

HP-Compaq would be European titan

News The combined company would have more than double the PC market share of its nearest European competitor, but for how long?

Britons convicted of software piracy

News Two UK resellers face up to ten years in jail for selling counterfeit Microsoft software

The future's bright, the future's strange

Comment As the hangover from the IBM PC's 20th birthday party fades, Rupert Goodwins takes a look into the future - what will the increasingly technological world hold?

HP-Compaq: What happens now?

News SPECIAL REPORT: Hewlett-Packard's £17.5bn takeover of rival PC maker Compaq is one of the technology sector's biggest deals ever. What will this mean for their customers?

"New" HP set to rule in Asia

News The biggest PC manufacturer in Asia is not Compaq, IBM or Dell, but China's Legend Computer. Not for much longer, say analysts

Ericsson unveils GPRS phone for the youth market

News More handsets could give GPRS services the impetus they need if they are to start attracting large numbers of subscribers

Code Red worm traced to Chinese university

News US officials claim that China is responsible for creating the self-propagating Microsoft worm

Fiorina: The quest continues

News A few weeks ago, observers wondered if Carly Fiorina would be pushed out as chief of HP - now she's running the second-largest PC company in the world

HP-Compaq: Merging is the easy part

News News analysis: Price pressures, slowing PC sales, sour economy and inherent merger difficulties set to make deal a headache

Motorola mixes up chip chemistry for faster circuits

News Researchers combine silicon with gallium arsenide to create durable, cost-effective optical chips for the first time

HP to buy Compaq for $25bn

News Two of the 'big four' PC makers merge in one of the biggest deals in technology history, creating a company second in revenue only to IBM - but layoffs are inevitable

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