SiS, ALi to feature non-Springdale products at IDF

With technology licensing issues over the new Springdale platform still not settled, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) are expected to put the spotlight on their current Pentium 4 chipsets and peripheral-use chips at this year's Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which will kick off on February 18 in San Jose. Intel's change in Springdale specifications last November made all three Taiwanese chipset designers fall behind in the launch schedule of their new P4-supporting chipsets. Though SiS and ALi are said to have no problem producing their Springdale-based chipsets at the moment, the two companies are not planning to display the chip samples at IDF due to the concern about the licensing issue. ...more

Now DoubleClick serves an operating profit

What's happening to the world? Time was when you knew a dot-com company by the size of its losses... ...more

A tough quarter for Compaq

Compaq's quarterly balance sheet does not make happy reading for the company's executives: a stark drop of over 82 per cent in income. For its second quarter, Compaq has reported net income from operations as $67m, from sales of $8.5bn. ...more

Yahoo! gets into the shopping frame of mind

The Internet is a great tool for shopping. Not only can a searcher find out everything about a product before buying they can also search the world for the keenest prices. Now Yahoo! has released a beta product known as Yahoo! Mindset to assist in the shopping process. ...more

Legal P2P radio gets cash boost

The P2P internet radio company Mercora has landed $5 million worth of venture capital funding. The company says it plans to use the money to expand its team and range of services. Using the Mercora software, anyone can be a radio station. ...more