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Stories by James Niccolai

  • Spike Networks, Pacific Century plot joint venture

    Spike Networks of Australia and Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks have agreed to form a joint venture that will offer a range of Internet services, including those to help businesses develop and manage Web sites, Spike said this week.

  • Ellison's latest pitch: Throw it all out and start again

    To avoid being outflanked by an upstart Internet company, businesses need to throw out their legacy IT infrastructure and start all over again, Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and CEO, said in a provocative, if fanciful, speech here last week. "Your problem is all the junk you've bought over the last 20 years," Ellison said, addressing a hall packed with IT professionals at the Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy.

  • Gates sees the future in moving pictures

    Just as its Windows operating system brought the PC to millions of users, Microsoft is developing new software that will make multimedia content delivered over the Internet a part of our everyday lives, Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and CEO, said here yesterday.

  • Sun releases updated Java Media Framework

    Sun Microsystems yesterday released version 2.0 of the Java Media Framework application programming interface (API), which is designed to help software developers incorporate streaming audio, video and other media types into Java applications, Sun officials said.

  • Las Vegas Comdex: Beyond the PC Internet PCs, appliances take centre stage

    At the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Devices, (AMD), IBM and a host of other hardware makers took the wraps off an array of novel, low-cost PCs and appliances designed to give users fast and easy access to the Internet. The new products, which include a colourful, oval-shaped PC design from AMD and a dedicated e-mail appliance from Hong Kong's VTech Holdings, are part of a growing trend by hardware makers to offer low-cost PCs and appliances in a variety of form factors, all of which have the Internet as their central focus.

  • COMDEX: Intel confirms Pentium III shortage

    Intel is scrambling to catch up with demand for its fastest Pentium III processors but currently is unable to meet orders from its PC manufacturing customers, a senior Intel executive confirmed yesterday.

  • Cisco sees Q1 revenue leap 49 per cent

    Cisco last week announced its first-quarter revenue had soared 49 per cent to $US3.9 billion, while the networking company's actual net income slipped from that reported a year ago, thanks to acquisition-related costs. The vendor also announced that it plans to buy Aironet Wireless Communications, which makes technology for building high-speed wireless local area networks (LANs), for about $800 million in stock.

  • Intel not out of the woods yet

    Intergraph hasn't demonstrated a likelihood that Intel violated antitrust laws in its dealings with the workstation maker, a US Appeals Court said recently. As a result, Intel is entitled to limit the terms of its business relationship with Intergraph if it pleases, the court said. The 41-page order overturns a preliminary injunction awarded to Intergraph by a lower court earlier this year

  • COMDEX: Compaq May Shun Wintel with Net PCs

    Compaq restructured its commercial desktop division into two parts yesterday, part of a giant effort to focus on low-cost Internet PCs and devices aimed at corporate customers, a senior Compaq executive said.

  • Comdex: Net PCs, appliances take centre stage

    At the Comdex trade show here, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), IBM and a raft of other hardware makers will take the wraps off an array of novel, low-cost PCs and appliances designed to give users fast and easy access to the Internet.

  • eMachines confirms disk drive lawsuit

    eMachines confirmed this week that it has become the latest PC maker to be slapped with a class-action lawsuit accusing the vendor of knowingly selling PCs containing defective floppy disk drive components. Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Packard Bell NEC confirmed receiving similar complaints last week.

  • PALMSOURCE 99: Focus on wireless, business apps

    New software and services that extend the Palm computer's wireless capabilities, as well as a host of new offerings aimed at corporate users, were on the menu for Palm Computing's annual PalmSource conference last week. Many of the new products and services were aimed at large corporations, in line with Palm Computing's goal of making the Palm an integral part of daily business life.

  • Dataquest: Chip industry back on a roll

    Worldwide semiconductor sales are expected to grow 14.1 per cent this year to $US155 billion, the first year of double-digit growth for the industry since 1995, according to a quarterly report on the subject from research firm Dataquest.