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Intel warns of Itanium 2 electrical glitch
News Until we're sure the issues are 100 percent resolved, we're going to keep holding back shipments with the 450," IBM spokeswoman Lisa Lanspery said. Customers can sidestep the problem by setting the processor to run at a slower speed, said company...
[May 13, 2003, 7:48]
Egg investigates service outage
News The bank, launched by Prudential, recently upgraded its Internet site, but a spokeswoman says the current problems have nothing to do with the upgrade process. Although customers of the Internet bank cannot currently view account transactions and...
[January 25, 2001, 8:40]
Prisoners may get email access
News A Home Office spokeswoman said the project will not go ahead until ministers have fully reviewed the proposal and are happy the emails will be monitored properly to prevent potential abuses. The spokeswoman said emails will also be archived with...
[January 3, 2007, 14:58]
Lindows faces a reality check
News A spokeswoman for Lindows.com confirmed that while some Windows applications will run on LindowsOS, this compatibility is no longer the company's top priority. However, where there is no Linux-based alternative to a Microsoft application, LindowsOS...
[August 21, 2002, 16:32]
ntl's completely free Internet access starts today
News The spokeswoman says, "The TV Internet service is aimed at the 65% of the UK pop without a PC. A spokeswoman says, "We will be rolling out CDs for the service today. We're operating a very sensible system," adds the spokeswoman, "including a two...
[April 11, 2000, 13:59]
US Report: iMac to star at Macworld
News It's the first time consumers will be able to see it, use it," an Apple spokeswoman said of the Apple show, which began yesterday in New York. According to the spokeswoman, Apple plans to tout the iMac's support for Universal Serial Bus-based...
[July 7, 1998, 6:40]
Royal Bank of Scotland rolls out chip and PIN
News An Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) spokeswoman said that customers who make frequent "advanced transactions" — people setting up payments to new third-party accounts, setting up new standing order payees or changing online banking PINs or passwords...
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
BT's superfast broadband set for November launch
News The telco began trialling a wholesale 8Mbps ADSL service in parts of London and Strathclyde in April, and on Monday a BT spokeswoman confirmed that this trial is being expanded to cover more local exchanges in these areas.
[June 6, 2005, 17:50]
Yahoo freezes out Trillian
News A Yahoo spokeswoman on Friday morning confirmed that Trillian users' inability to access Yahoo Messenger was the result of recent policies put in place by the Web giant. If this has affected the way in which third parties interact with our service...
[September 29, 2003, 9:20]
Microsoft denies rumours of Corel stock sale
News A Microsoft UK spokeswoman said that the registration is just a sign that Microsoft is keeping its options open. This spokeswoman said the registration was agreed by both parties and does not affect the work Corel is doing with Microsoft.
[February 23, 2001, 15:20]
Freeserve to bar heavy users
News It doesn't mean always-on," says a company spokeswoman. The agreement bars them from using the service in a manner which in our opinion makes abnormal demands on the network from a single connection," the spokeswoman says.
[October 5, 2000, 12:39]
London Stock Exchange recovers after outage
News According to a spokeswoman from the exchange, the outage occurred after 45 minutes of normal operation at 09:15 (BST) yesterday. The spokeswoman told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, that the exchange, which switched to its digital trading...
[September 9, 2008, 16:58]
European Parliament accepts telecoms competition laws
News The implications will be huge," said a spokeswoman at the European Parliament (EP). Ten years ago, the telecoms sector was classed as a general service, and so not dealt with by any competition law," said the EP spokeswoman.
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
Book publisher kills off CDs
News It is part of a shift in strategy," says a DK spokeswoman. The spokeswoman admits that online content is currently not making money but is keen to move with the times. Book publishers Dorling Kindersley is to cease production of CD ROMs with the...
[July 28, 2000, 9:45]
Safeway investigates security after bogus emails
News According to a Safeway spokeswoman, the email hoax was sent out on Friday to "less than three thousand" of the company's Internet customers. A Safeway spokeswoman confirmed that an investigation into the hoax is ongoing and the possibility that a...
[August 14, 2000, 13:54]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A spokeswoman for Shell confirmed to ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com that "a small number of customers have been affected" and added that the company is now co-operating with a police investigation that has already resulted in nine arrests in...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
'Meow are you?'
News Dolittle-like powers of discerning their pets' emotions, will be launched in Japan this November, a company spokeswoman told newswire AFP. We do not have an immediate plan to sell the product (the Meowlingual) overseas but this could be a...
[July 17, 2003, 8:44]
Hooligans on the Net? Experts lash out at media
News These people were violent before the Internet came along," said a spokeswoman for the NCIS. The spokeswoman blamed reporters for getting carried away with "hype" stories relying on tenuous cyber-links.
[August 9, 1999, 16:09]
EU delays patent decision
News A spokeswoman for the EU Council said the directive will be passed at an Agriculture and Fisheries meeting on Tuesday. It is not included as an item on the published agenda for this meeting, but the EU spokeswoman said this is because it is an "A...
[December 20, 2004, 11:25]
Egg accidentally mails out credit card details
News This was human error," says a spokeswoman. This spokeswoman also says that customers needn't fear that this occurrence will be repeated adding, "We have apologised to the person in question and have taken active steps to ensure that it won't happen...
[November 18, 1999, 16:30]
