23rd February 2000 Archive
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Viral marketing adds a taste of spam to your mail
Benign Active-X trojan secretly alters your signature
A Web portal called Gohip wishes to offer you a "free video browser enhancement" which does nothing to enhance your video viewing pleasure, but does secretly enable Gohip to advertise using your e-mail signature. Not exactly a threat, but certainly an annoyance. Call it 'viral marketing'. The file is certified by a California " …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 06:58
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Electronic conveyancing takes house buying online
Moving home to become easy PC
Buying a house could soon take days rather than months, thanks to plans afoot for electronic conveyancing. The Government has put forward proposals to eliminate the need for every stage of conveyancing - the legal process of transferring land from one owner to another - to be signed manually. It aims to publish new rules later …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 09:45
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Compaq likely to use Via's Joshua chip
Average selling price of $80, speeds of 466MHz
Via took the wraps off its Cyrix III (Joshua) processor in California yesterday and sources close to the firm suggested a deal with both Compaq and E-machines are likely to be the earliest wins for the chip. The company is also beginning to yield 466MHz Cyrix IIIs, although it is likely that Via will continue to use the pesky PR …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 09:51
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Judge rejects MS copyright case, mentions Rockefeller
MS on Trial Standard Oil looms as awful fate for MS
Microsoft's last-ditch copyright defence was blown out of the water by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson as the antritrust trial reached closing arguments on finding of facts yesterday. Faced with the judge's conclusions that Microsoft was a monopoly and that it had harmed consumers, Microsoft's lawyers had gone for the copyright …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 10:03
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American heartland votes for uncensored Net content
The little library that could
Presidential ambition wasn't the only contest on voters' minds during the Michigan Republican primary last night. A small, conservative Michigan town put the issue of Internet censorship in public libraries on the ballot as a referendum. Voters in Holland, Michigan defeated a proposal to install filtering software on Web-enabled …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 10:28
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CeBIT Preview: a peek through the keyhole
That's another fine Messe you've got us into...
Providing CeBIT lets us in, we'll be reporting on the news spewing out of the Hannover Messe as the week unfolds. Here's a taster of what you can expect: Hello boys 3dfx has blown the budget and is promising to have the "real life" Lara Croft parading around its stand. Dutch model Lara Weller, of FHM magazine fame, will be …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 10:43
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Dow Jones, Excite JV bids for Web IPO gravy
The old guard has been getting jealous - but Dow Jones Newswire still can't print '@'
Dow Jones & Co, publisher of Dow Jones Newswire and The Wall Street Journal is bidding for Internet gravy via joint venture business-to-business portal with Excite@Home. The two will merge Excite's Work.com portal with Dow Jones' free business news site dowjones.com in a 50-50 venture, and intend to IPO it. Trebles all round? …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 10:58
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Hardware Roundup AMD to can K6-2+?
We stroll round the wibbly wobbly web
At this site, there is a report that AMD has decided to scrap the K6-2+, and some more information on Chimpzilla's chippy plans for this year. There's a review at Anandtech of Creatve Labs Annihilator Pro. Our pals at BX Boards have posted a review of the Epox EP-7KXA motherboard, which uses the Via KX133 chipset. Ars Technica, …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 11:10
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Hacking hysteria invigorates insurance industry
And security firms are supportive -- shocker
The dividends of this month's DDoS attacks against high-profile sites Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and others just keep multiplying. Now it seems the insurance industry is going to hand the security industry a tidy windfall. Hewlett-Packard last week began offering reduced-rate hacker insurance. Meanwhile, online security outfit Network …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 11:12
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Intel readies move into Bangladesh
A curious tale, this one
Wednesday evening, and Intel is hosting a party called Route 66 down at the Hilton, a block or two away from the convention centre and the scene, earlier on of AMD's Cheapzilla presentation. Unusually for Palm Springs, it's pelting down, so we sheltered under an awning which seemed to be, by some coincidence, remarkably close to …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 11:38
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SuSE deal puts SCO in driving seat
Now has three key Linux buddies
SCO is ready to burst out of its chrysalis as a fully formed Linux company, thanks to a deal with SuSE to help with installation projects. The deal means SCO consultants will now push SuSE Linux services and offer planning advice to corporate users looking at possible Linux roll outs. There's nothing quite like hoping on a …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 11:42
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Brown takes heat off BT
New York speech lacks a little of last week's umph
Chancellor Gordon Brown failed to deliver the knock out punch to BT yesterday despite reports he was set to take another swipe at the monster telco for the continued high cost of Net access in Britain. Speaking in New York, he only made one highly camouflaged reference to this sensitive subject. He certainly didn't refer to " …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 12:01
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Win2000 brings justice to a stop
Only, 24 hours from Tulsa
Local US newspaper Tulsa World reported at the weekend that a version of Windows 2000 supplied to the Oklahoma Court Information System has so many bugs in it that the entire justice system has ground to a halt. According to the newspaper, the system was installed just before the end of last year in order to minimise disruption …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 12:04
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UK gov't targets cyber terror
Calls on nations of the world to unite against new threat
The British Government has called for international co-operation to help beat cyber terrorism. Margaret Beckett, Leader of the House of Commons and Cabinet Minister, said that infrastructure protection -- keeping the country's phones, power, financial and transport systems safe from hackers -- was the new challenge for the …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 12:30
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Alcatel/Newbridge merger confirmed
Deal worth $7.1 billion gets green light
Less than a year since the first rumblings that Newbridge Networks was a prime take-over target, the Canadian networking giant is to become part of French mobile phones to metallurgy company Alcatel. Talk of the merger started to break over the weekend and now the boards of both companies have agreed the deal should go ahead. …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 13:37
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Oracle does the wireless portal me-too two-step
It's unique, says Larry. You should get out more, says The Reg
Have portal project, will IPO? It's not exactly original, and Larry Ellison had a stash of me-toos to announce when he rolled out Oracle's OracleMobile.com project yesterday. Bizarrely, even the name was a me-too, as the domain in question is currently occupied by, er, somebody else. Pending resolution OracleMobile.com the …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 14:23
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Symbian rolls out Quartz design for communicator
Motorola and Psion to debut devices in Q2 2001. Not urgent, apparently...
In Hanover today Symbian unveiled Quartz, the first of its EPOC-based reference designs for what it calls Wireless Information Devices (WIDs). Quartz is a Communicator-footprint design, effectively a Psion-like device based on EPOC 6, ready and waiting to be be produced and shipped by Symbian licensees. Symbian had Ericsson and …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 15:00
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AMD, Via, Intel chipsets – FIC's future view
FIC's Overclocking BIOS an overclocker's boon
A presentation of First International Corporation (FIC) of its motherboard offerings during the year 2000 has cast light on future technology arriving from Intel, Via and AMD. According to the document we have seen, AMD has just started sampling an Irongate 4 chipset, which will start to be produced in volume in June of this …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 15:26
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AMD tells resellers Athlon story
There's an awful lot of systems out there
A presentation AMD made to its resellers last month has revealed the extent of its penetration into world markets. Although there is not much hard info about future technology in the Powerpoint slides we saw (they know how leaky the channel can be), at the same time the presentation is a glimpse into how the chip company is …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 15:49
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Intel re-tells 1.5GHz story at CeBIT
It's essentially that IDF tale once more
Senior executives from the Intel Corporation have outlined their view of the future at massive German trade show CeBIT, but much of the information is a reprise of last week's Developer Forum. John Davies and Mike Fister demonstrated the up-and-coming Willamette chip running at 1.5GHz, and also demoed the Itanium -- which …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 15:59
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Rambus share price goes ape banana-ballistic
Updated $200! What a nightmare....
OK, so Intel will put quarter of a billion greenbacks into Infineon when it floats away from parent Siemens in mid-March. Then something happens in the depths of Wall Street, and Rambus shares, already artificially inflated because of the myth that Intel's Willamette processor will only work with Rambus RIMMs, flies sky high …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 16:03
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Get off your horse and use the Net
Time to get serious about e-biz, warns lawyer
British businesses must stop viewing the Internet like a game of cowboys and Indians. This was the message from today's "Protecting Reward Against Risk" forum, organised by mi2g Software. Speaking to journalists at the event held at Lloyds of London, Catrin Turner, a partner with e-commerce lawyers Henry Hepworth, said: "The …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 16:29
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Evesham drops the Micros for dot com
Not going 100% online just yet
Evesham Micros is renaming and revamping itself to get in tune with the dot com age. From 17 March the system builder will trade as "evesham.com", selling only to home users via the Web and telephone, as well as through its six existing shops. There are also plans afoot to spin off a separate division called "evesham" to deal …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 16:39
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MS software censors anti- censorship theatre
Profanities blocked - you couldn't make it up, and if you did, you couldn't mail it
Nannying software has struck in the heart of London's radical theatreland, today's Guardian tells us. Well, maybe it's stretching a point to call the Royal Court radical these days, but it has a long, heroic history at the forefront of anti-censorship, and as a pioneer of on-stage bad language and sundry profanities. It fought …
Business 23 Feb 2000, 17:47
