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Archive - 19 Jan 2001

Free ISPs -- no fairytale ending

Comment My free-call Internet fairytale has finally come to an end. And no, since you ask, in this story they didn't all live happily ever after...

City finance, and stockbroker madness

Comment I hope you can find a replacement for your current ISP. It's not hard to predict: most of them are going to be out of business within six months.

Letsbuyit.com gets bankruptcy reprieve

News Retail portal until next week to come up with the cash to pay its debts

PC market growth at historic low

News Economic slowdown and market saturation made for a dismal 2000, says a new report

Chip equipment stocks enjoy Intel-inspired rally

News Don't expect fireworks, but chip equipment shares are experiencing a quiet turnaround

UK gamemakers take a hit, despite record sales

News British game software market grows just six percent, even as game spending exceeds movies and videos

Melissa-X remains contained

News New strain of an old virus is controlled this time around, say antivirus experts

The Day Ahead: Wintel losing investment income crutch

News Find out how Intel and Microsoft are faring in the frosty economic climate

Chip industry looks to 2GHz in 2001

News More speed and 3G will boost chip demand, say analysts

Government ignores royalty rights for online artists

News Britain's actors to be given the big brother treatment

AltaVista: Lays off 200 people

News A week after suspending its IPO, the Web search pioneer issues pink slips to a quarter of its staff

Apple revs Mac OS Server update

News The industrial-strength version of the Mac OS is getting a technical and cosmetic facelift and will be due out this spring

Internet child pornographer gets 35 years

News Virginia man caught posting home digital pictures of schoolgirl on Web

Hotmail trashes users' email

News Microsoft defends its aggressive efforts to curb spam, even when it means filtering messages sent by ordinary Hotmail users

Judge dismisses suit against eBay

News Purchaser vulnerability in online auction sales

EToys to creditors: We can't pay

News With only enough cash to last until March, the financially strapped e-tailer tells toymakers it can't pay some of its bills

Email unplugged -- The promise of BlackBerry

Comment My chief technology officer's fingers aren't as small as you'd think. Don't get me wrong, Chris is tall at 6 feet 4 inches.

IBM delivers, comfortable with 2001 estimates

News Strong fourth quarter shows momentum, increased market share, says Big Blue

Microsoft meets lowered expectations

News Slowing consumer sales and lack of Windows 2000 takeup mean trouble in Redmond

EBay beats estimates and revenue soars

News A more stable picture for US online auction bellwether

Sun steers clear of computing slump

News Server company cuts costs to meet expectations

Microsoft's new Visual Basic - a .Not?

News The software giant is touting its new Visual Studio.Net suite as key to its .Net vision. But developers say the Visual Basic.Net beta falls short

Melissa-X disguised as Mac doc

News Also known as Melissa 2001, a new strain of an old virus appears to be a Mac-formatted version of an Office document that spreads as an e-mail attachment

Wireless to spark handheld boom

News Handhelds are defying the slowdown that has hit PC sales. Look for the trend to continue, say experts

A Year Ago: Tesco Online to create 7,000 jobs

News First published: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:01:59 GMT