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February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02
Lords Chinook challenge

The Government expects to have a debate in the House of Lords on last week's select committee report on the fatal crash of...
February 07, 2002 07 Feb'02
Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of...
January 31, 2002 31 Jan'02
Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the...
November 15, 2001 15 Nov'01
Boeing simulation ignored Chinook's Fadec system

A House of Lords committee investigating the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre has found that a Boeing simulation of...
November 08, 2001 08 Nov'01
RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for...
October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01
Chinook pilots feared onboard software

RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to...
October 18, 2001 18 Oct'01
Chinook pilots may have been unable to slow down, squadron leader tells Lords

The pilots of Chinook ZD576, which crashed in Scotland in 1994, may have been unable to slow down as they approached the Mull of...
October 04, 2001 04 Oct'01
Dell offers new Latitude to mobile users

PC maker Dell is offering a new Latitude C610 notebook PC with extended battery life of up to eight hours.

October 01, 2001 01 Oct'01
Intel launches new mobile processors

Intel has launched 12 new mobile processors, ranging from its fastest mobile chip yet to the first .13 micron version of its...
September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01
Infineon claims cost-cutting success

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but...
September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01
Chinook hearing begins

A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House...
September 24, 2001 24 Sep'01
Semiconductor equipment orders down 75%

US semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $742 (£507m) in orders booked in August, down 75% from a year earlier, according...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Tablet PC enters mass production

First International Computer (FIC) is on the verge of beginning mass production of a tablet PC based on Transmeta's Crusoe...

September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
Rambus speeds to take on P4

The company showed its next-generation signalling technology, code-named Yellowstone, at the Rambus Developer Forum in California...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
Intel cancels 2GHz Xeon

Intel has decided not to launch the expected 2GHz version of its Xeon processor for dual-processor servers this year, opting to...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
AMD to put Palomino on desktop

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to launch its first desktop processor based on the Palomino core.
September 11, 2001 11 Sep'01
Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its...
September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01
Via ups the Intel ante

Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair...
September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01
Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets

In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US....
September 06, 2001 06 Sep'01
IBM unveils its "fastest ever" Unix server

IBM has used its Web site to provide details of a new Unix server, touting the processors in the pSeries 660 6M1 as the company's...
September 05, 2001 05 Sep'01
Let computers make the decisions

Intel is working on ways to enable computers to anticipate user needs and act on their behalf - a move that could help companies...
August 31, 2001 31 Aug'01
Arapahoe gains support from heavyweights

A new PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) interface called Arapahoe gained momentum on 29 August as 22 industry-leading...
August 30, 2001 30 Aug'01
Slow market spells trouble for Sun

Sun Microsystems warned that slow order rates for the company's hardware, particularly in Europe and Japan, will make it tough...
August 24, 2001 24 Aug'01
HP gambles on Itanium

A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms...
August 23, 2001 23 Aug'01
Rambus faces second fraud case

A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined...
August 22, 2001 22 Aug'01
IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five...
August 22, 2001 22 Aug'01
Intel's open source warning for Sun

Intel, the chip manufacturing giant, has warned Sun Microsystems that the economic slowdown could drive many enterprises to use...
August 14, 2001 14 Aug'01
Intel to reveal 2GHz Xeon chip

Intel plans to show off its fastest processor to date for workstations and servers at the Siggraph 2001 computer graphics trade...
August 13, 2001 13 Aug'01
Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge

A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set...
May 03, 2001 03 May'01
Lords vote to undertake limited Chinook enquiry

The House of Lords, in an historic step, has voted to hold an independent inquiry into the RAF's verdict of gross negligence...
May 01, 2001 01 May'01
Lords call for Chinook crash inquiry

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher was one of 132 peers who voted for a new inquiry over the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on...
March 25, 2001 25 Mar'01
Full blown Location Based Services rolled out to mass market
March 25, 2001 25 Mar'01
Government to train unemployed in IT
March 22, 2001 22 Mar'01
Fraud Squad investigates Hackney benefit systems
March 13, 2001 13 Mar'01
Government trials digital signatures on mobile phones
March 11, 2001 11 Mar'01
Government's Gateway guidelines delay NHS IT contract
March 07, 2001 07 Mar'01
Digital scent idea granted patent
March 07, 2001 07 Mar'01
Cisco aids move to optical networking
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
ASP offers wireless access to Microsoft Exchange

Application service provider Netstore is offering users wireless connections to Microsoft Exchange 2000 as an alternative to...
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
Glotel takes US hit
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
MoD knew about safety hazard on Chinook MkII

Two leaked internal documents contradict claims by the Ministry of Defence that problems with the engine control system of the...
January 24, 2001 24 Jan'01
Government Gateway due to launch today

Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow...
January 10, 2001 10 Jan'01
SMS to boost open system productivity

Tivoli is promising to bring the benefits of system managed storage (SMS) to the open systems world with its Storage Tank...
January 08, 2001 08 Jan'01
Going going gone - one top end server

A top-end Unix server is not the kind of thing you would normally expect to buy at an auction. But technology marts, pioneered by Sun Microsystems, are now...
December 07, 2000 07 Dec'00
Christmas is cancelled

The US division of Japanese consumer giant, Sony Corporation, has axed the Christmas ad campaign for its e-commerce site, SonyStyle.com, amidst fears its...
December 06, 2000 06 Dec'00
Euro raises UKB2B fears

Is the euro a help or a hindrance for UKB2B plans, asks Ross Bentley
December 06, 2000 06 Dec'00
Citizen Portal gets beta launch

The online Citizen Portal, the UK site where the public can access government information and services on the Web, has finally been...
December 04, 2000 04 Dec'00
Sema troubles deepen

IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a...
November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00
Chinook: a breach of natural justice

MPs slam MoD over 1994 crash whitewash. Software, not pilot error, could have killed 29