Yahoo! posts financial results and warns of future growth

Yahoo! has posted its quarterly results, and they met the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but it has sounded warnings about future growth. For Yahoo!'s last quarterly results, although the figures were healthy and met expectations, general gloom about the future of online advertising meant the value of its stock fell. Mixed reactions are again likely, with Yahoo! itself now expressing concern about the "realignment" of its client base, ie dot-coms going under and traditional companies cutting back their online spending. ...more

Oftel gets tough with phone scammers

Oftel has issued draft plans to deal with those who persistently annoy the public by misuse of fax machines, automatic calling equipment and number scanning. The report is in response to the forthcoming Telecommunications Bill currently going through parliament. The idea is to cover areas of electronic communications that are not currently covered by existing legislation such as hacking, spam or misuse of personal data and to remove the authorisation to use such equipment from persistent offenders. ...more

Intel calls home flagship chipsets

Intel is recalling some of its new 915 and 925 chipsets, codenamed 'Grantsdale' and 'Alderwood', which were only released last week. To be precise, there was 'excess leakage in the real-time clock circuitry', which affected the I/O functionality of the South Bridge, said an Intel spokesperson. The manufacturing process has been amended accordingly, they said, with chips produced before the 21 June launch being involved. ...more

AMD ups the ante for the multiway server market

AMD has confirmed its intends to up the ante for the multi-way server market. 'We're making a big push for the four-way server market' Richard Baker, AMD's European Marketing Manager told us today. Explaining yesterday's large, fifty per cent price cuts for its four- and eight-way Opteron server processors, Baker said the company was simply responding to customer demand. ...more

Apple board backs Jobs over backdated options

Apple's board of directors has given its full backing to Steve Jobs, following accusations by former chief financial officer Fred Anderson that the CEO was aware that the company had backdated stock options. In a joint statement the directors - Bill Campbell, Millard Drexler, Albert Gore Jr., Arthur D. ...more