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News
| Issue: | January 2000 |
| Page: | 6 |
| Section: | News |
| Notes: | Lead story: Unmetered Internet calls from BT and plans for ADSL. Aplle suspected of violating anti-trust laws in Japan. Some bloke who won a million dollars at www.iwon.com. Survey reveals one in five brits prefer eating chips to using their computer. What exactly was the point of that survey, then? Oh, it doesn't have one - it was carried out by Microsoft. Gates was obviously desparate to spend his money on some cutting-edge market research. IBM announce a $100million research initiative to build the world's fastest supercomputer, estimated to be 500 times more powerful than those currently available. 3dfx open-sources Glide API. Epic reckon they'll get people to market their own games so they can just publish them on the web or something. Innovative announce availability of 10Mbit ethernet card (PCMCIA) for A1200s. AmigaSoc announce return of their Usergroup discount scheme. In his Editorial column, Andrew Korn points out that people really ought to be marketing their products a little better. Like, sending them in for review would be nice... |