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Five Years Ago: IBM To Push Networked PC Ticket
News The comments we get from customers is they were advised to take the client-server boat five years ago and it's turned out to be the Titanic. First published 2 July, 1997. Big Blue has had a formal relationship with Intel since October 1996 to...
[July 2, 2002, 7:27]
Five Years Ago: McAfee Finds First Known Linux Virus
Talkback I think Mr. Veitch is a little behind the times. In the June 2004 of Linux Format magazine (LXF54)(www.linuxformat.co.uk) on page 51 is an insert discussing this same subject and they say that MacFee was about a year late in talking about the Bliss...
[August 3, 2004, 4:05]
Five Years Ago: Dell Number One In Declining Government Market
News Dell UK corporate managing director Mike Newton said that "nearly one in five PCs installed [in government] has a Dell badge on it". The accolade came from Kable, an IT researcher specialising in the public sector, which added that the government...
[April 10, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: IBM Plans First USB PC For October
News The format is all-new, offering five slots and five drive bays. The amazing thing is that we have been stuck with such an unwieldy, slow peripheral interface all these years while Mac users have had the USB-like Apple Desktop Bus.
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Hacker Mitnick To Serve 22 Months
News To date, no hacker has served more than five years. At the time, the prosecutor stated Mitnick could be sentenced to a maximum of 200 years in prison. First published 20 June, 1997. Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, is set to be...
[June 20, 2002, 7:02]
Five Years Ago: ISPs Unfazed By Prestel's 'fastest' Claims
News The other five comprised AOL, BT, CompuServe, Demon and Pipex. We launched a new PoP [point of presence] providing 28,800bps dedicated Internet access across the UK just four days ago. If you launch a service with five modems tomorrow and hardly...
[July 30, 2001, 7:30]
Five Years Ago: Hitachi: DVD, CD Will Sell Side By Side Till 2001
News The European DVD-ROM market will be five per cent - or 900,000 units - of the CD-ROM market by the end of the year, according to a report by Hitachi and market analyst IDC. For two to three years there will be a viable market for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM...
[January 25, 2002, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: Videoconferencing Could Be 1997's Killer App
News US-based Sage Research says almost one in five US businesses already have desktop videoconferencing capabilities while another 47 per cent plan to deploy it within two years, taking the total to two-thirds of all businesses surveyed.
[December 3, 2001, 6:00]
Five Years Ago: US Case Calls Future Of Web Linking Into Question
News Godzich is at the center of a momentous copyright lawsuit pitting six media powerhouses against his five-man startup over the unauthorised use of Web hyperlinks. First published 27 May, 1997. Court action was postponed Friday for the third time...
[May 24, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: TI To Parade Ultra-thin Notebook
News The Extensa 900 Series will come in weights starting below five pounds. The 133MHz Pentium-based machines will ship with 256Kb L2 cache, 16Mb EDO RAM, 1.35Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch dual-scan or 11.3-inch active-matrix screens, CardBus slots with ZV...
[November 12, 2001, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: 200MHz Pentium Appeal No Match For Pentium Pro
News The lead time for chips is only about five days and, quite frankly, that's not a problem at the moment. "The sales of the 200MHz Pentium are not tremendous," said David Matthews, desktop product marketing manager at Dell.
[July 25, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Compaq Direct UK Plans Wobble
News The company has yet to appoint a fulfilment partner but denies rumours it has abandoned its original policy in favour of appointing five fulfilment houses. First published 30 May, 1997. The company has realised it cannot fix pricing if it uses a...
[May 28, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Novell Identifies Explosion In Workplace Bullying
News Men are the biggest bullies, being five times more likely than women to flame others. First published 3 June, 1997. An independent survey commissioned on behalf of Novell has identified an 'explosion' of bullying and abusive emails in the workplace...
[June 2, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: 150MHz Pentium Arrives To Muted Welcome
News The 150MHz Pentium is hamstrung by its relatively ancient 60MHz bus, causing it to run only about five per cent faster than the 133MHz Pentium, according to most application performance benchmarks. Usually, new chips from the giant can be...
[August 9, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Over 1,000 Macro Viruses - Dr. Solomon's
News Graham Cluley, senior technical consultant at the UK anti-virus house, said that macro viruses are still growing at a rate of about five per day: "The anti-virus business just goes on and on. There are about five new macro viruses a day, although...
[June 3, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: K6 Could Fit Notebook Picture
News However, if we got one of the top five [PC vendors] sufficiently interested we'd do it. First published 4 April, 1997. AMD's K6 processor could be sitting proud in notebooks this year if a big player wishes to incorporate the part.
[March 31, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: UK Firm Offers Cash For Reading Email
News The firm claims that users willing to receive five emails each weekday can earn up to £45 every three months. First published 3 June, 1997. HTMail is a membership list under the terms of which users enter personal information so that advertisers...
[June 4, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Many UK Males Spend 21 Hours Per Week On Home PCs
News The Gallup poll conducted for PC vendor AST claimed nine per cent of male PC users spend over 21 hours per week at the screen - an equivalent of a seventh of their lives - and 30 per cent spend two to five hours a week using their PCs.
[December 20, 2001, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: Net Won't Have Meltdown - Report
News Other interesting findings included the discovery that the number of intranets doubled in five months, and 41 per cent of UK companies now consider Web access as important a feature of the Net as universal e-mail.
[April 20, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Psion Plans 32-bit Products, Reports Profits Up
News In 1997, our major five-year investment in 32-bit technologies will begin to be realised commercially," said David Potter, chairman, in a prepared statement. First published 11 March, 1997 Palmtops based on the 32-bit EPOC32 operating system will...
[March 9, 2002, 6:01]
