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Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Monday
An excited Pilot user (it's the smallest computer I have, and I am always on about the thing) rings up to say that US Robotics has devised an amazing new FM receiver for the beast. [19 Oct 1996]
VideoLogic PowerVR card whips up support
News VideoLogic today launched an NEC PowerVR chip-based graphics card aimed squarely at arcade games enthusiasts. [18 Oct 1996]
Quotes of the Week, October 14-18
News [18 Oct 1996]
Barclays Bank puts money on Internet banking
News Barclays Bank said today it will produce the first UK Internet banking service to link into a financial software package. The service will use Microsoft's Money 97 as its front-end. [18 Oct 1996]
Apple posts surprise profit
News Apple has surprised observers who had made gloomy loss forecasts, declaring a $25 million profit for its fourth fiscal quarter on sales of $2.3 billion. [17 Oct 1996]
Navigator 4.0 bells and whistles will be hardwired
News Netscape's plans to compete with the groupware features of Lotus, Novell and Microsoft could leave existing users of its Navigator client out in the cold. [16 Oct 1996]
Intel wants more for its money from advertisers
News The 'Intel Inside' badge may become a little less ubiquitous from November after the chip king said it will slash the help it gives to some PC vendors who put the symbol on their advertisements. [16 Oct 1996]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News OCTOBER
15-17: Electronic Commerce 96, Wembley Conference Centre, London; Touchstone Exhibition & Conference Ltd, 0181-332 0044 [15 Oct 1996]
MS posts NetMeeting 2.0 beta
News Microsoft has posted the first beta of its NetMeeting 2.0 WWW multi-point conferencing software for free downloading. [15 Oct 1996]
Novell IntranetWare shipping
News Novell has begun shipping IntranetWare, its software for running corporate intra-nets on NetWare. [15 Oct 1996]
Dell grows Limerick plant
News Dell has said it is expanding its systems plant in Limerick, Ireland and will build its fourth worldwide plant in Austin, Texas. [15 Oct 1996]
Number Nine debuts S3 chip
News Number Nine Visual Technology will raise the graphics ante once again at the beginning of November when it releases a new card based on S3's brand-new ViRGE/VX chip. [14 Oct 1996]
Motorola to show first UK cable modem
News Motorola will tomorrow demonstrate the first cable modems working in the UK. [14 Oct 1996]
Conference will defend against millennium bomb
News IT managers at leading corporates will meet at a 'millennium bomb' conference next Wednesday to discuss how they are preparing for the effect the 1999 date change will have on the nation's computers. [14 Oct 1996]
Sun cooks Java chips
News Sun Microsystems has taken the wraps off its first processor dedicated to running Java. [14 Oct 1996]
Sophos sweeps UK business award
News Abingdon, Oxfordshire-based anti-virus software vendor Sophos this week won business investor 3i's Quest for Growth award and £50,000 star prize. [11 Oct 1996]
Orchid makes arcade gaming breakthrough
News Orchid has begun shipping Righteous 3D, a graphics card that boosts performance by using games arcade technology and skipping 2D image rendering. [11 Oct 1996]
MS betas Office for developers
News Microsoft today announced its Office 97 Developer Edition in a move to dominate in-house desktop application development. [11 Oct 1996]
MS will counter Netscape news delivery service
News Microsoft said today it will counter Netscape's moves to deliver free news direct to European mailboxes in 16 countries in its next Web browser release. [11 Oct 1996]
Symantec updates Norton, Java tools
News Symantec is pushing ahead on a broad front, with the release of utilities, tools, Internet and consumer packages. [10 Oct 1996]
Sun pours Java into telephone handsets
News Sun Microsystems, IBM and Intel this week announced their support for a Java standard which will change the face of telephony by installing reusable objects into phone systems. [10 Oct 1996]
Intel, Cisco speed Fast Ethernet take-up
News Intel and Cisco today announced a 20-city European seminar tour to raise the profile of Fast Ethernet technology. [09 Oct 1996]
AMD strikes into Pentium heartland
News AMD is striking into the Pentium mainstream with two processors that match Intel's best-selling CPUs running at 120MHz and 133MHz. [09 Oct 1996]
Corel Java apps on tap next week
News [09 Oct 1996]
Voice Europe 96: Microsoft marks out its turf
News [08 Oct 1996]
