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22nd July 2005 Archive

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  • Microsoft cautious despite record quarter

    Ker-ching!

    Despite posting a $10bn quarter, Microsoft offered a more cautious outlook for the next three months. The company took a profit of $2.99bn from its Q4 2005 period, down slightly from the corresponding period last year, after accounting for $756m in antitrust related legal charges. Total revenue was $10.16bn All segments grew, …

    Software & Security 22 Jul 2005, 03:22

  • Elpida falls into red on weak DRAM prices

    Despite growing sales

    Elpida lost ¥3.30bn ($29.9m) on sales of ¥48.04bn ($434.8m) during Q1 FY2005, the memory maker said yesterday. It blamed its fall into the red on rapidly declining memory prices, which more than countered rising sales. The quarter's revenues were up 5.5 per cent on the year-ago period's ¥45.54bn ($412.2m). During June, Elpida …

    IT Channel 22 Jul 2005, 10:15

  • ATI 'enables' CrossFire on Intel 955X chipset

    Mobo boost?

    ATI's CrossFire multi-GPU technology may work with motherboards based on Intel's 955X chipset when compatible graphics cards ship next month. According to sources from within Taiwan's mobo-maker community cited by DigiTimes, ATI has already provided motherboard makers with drivers that enable CrossFire on 955X-based boards. …

    PC Builder 22 Jul 2005, 10:23

  • Mozilla postpones next Firefox release

    Nothing to see 'till September, folks

    The next major release of Firefox has been delayed with the Mozilla Foundation opting to can the 1.1 release altogether, and switch to a release of version 1.5 in September instead. The Foundation said that the delay was down to the development of new features taking longer than expected. Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla …

    Software & Security 22 Jul 2005, 11:08

  • AMD's battle with Intel to go west?

    AMD vs Intel Californian plaintiffs want trial moved from Delaware

    AMD's legal action against Intel in the US District Court of Delaware could up stumps and move to the US District of Northern California, if plaintiffs already engaged in proceedings against Intel have their way, court documents seen by The Register reveal. The Delaware Court was this week notified that two Northern California …

    IT Channel 22 Jul 2005, 11:43

  • Dixons confirms Logica deal off

    Denies redundancies claim

    Dixons has confirmed that it has cancelled plans to outsource its IT support to LogicaCMG, after the two companies were unable to agree on the terms of the deal. It now says it is "reviewing its options" about how to proceed. In a statement, the company said: "We can confirm that we have ceased negotiations with LogicaCMG …

    IT Channel 22 Jul 2005, 12:59

  • Microsoft passes da Vista baby

    Longhorns sawn off

    Microsoft finally dropped the Longhorn moniker today and “revealed” that its next generation client operating system will be known as Vista when it ships next year. Like all marketing strategies, this means… anything you want it to mean. Perhaps calling the product Windows Vista means it will give users a commanding overview …

    Software & Security 22 Jul 2005, 14:49

  • Linksys consumates union with Kiss

    Pucker up for home networking product blitz

    Cisco's Linksys consumer networking division has agreed to buy Danish networking entertainment devices firm Kiss Technology in a cash and stock deal valued at $61m. Kiss's portfolio includes home video products such as networked DVD players and networked DVD recorders. Cisco said the acquisition will help Linksys to develop a …

    PC Builder 22 Jul 2005, 16:06

  • Global music download stats spill beans on subscriptions

    Analysis Better business in a la carte sales - if you're Apple

    More than 180m songs were downloaded legally during the first half of 2005 throughout the world, IFPI, the international federation of recording companies revealed this week. Over the last few weeks, separate figures for the US and the UK have been published, and the IFPI numbers allow us to put them in a global context. For …

    PC Builder 22 Jul 2005, 16:23

  • MS Anti-Spyware built on MS Abandonware

    The Ghost of VB6

    Heck, if a movie that's in Aramaic can top the box-office charts, there must be hope for dead languages everywhere. And for one in particular, which still has millions of adherents. Released in 1996, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 cemented the product as the first choice of buggy front-ends to databases everywhere. In fact, if you …

    Software & Security 22 Jul 2005, 23:12

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