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  • HW Roundup AMD Duron 750 here

    Other musings over the muesli

    <wibble on> The word from AMD Zone is that part of AMD's bid to kick the Intel Celeron hard has arrived with a 750MHz AMD Duron costing around $180. AMD Zone also has a look at 3D Now! programming. Anandtech reviews said AMD chip to coincide with the launch. Bill Henning is back at CPU Review with a thoughtful piece …

    Hardware Roundup 5 Sep 2000, 06:15

  • Eight-year old floats his gambling dotcom

    He's off down the sweetshop

    An eight-year-old lad from Wiltshire is claiming his position as one if the youngest dotcom e-ntrepreneurs around after deciding to float his horseracing betting business on OFEX. Joseph Allen came up with the idea of Betachance.com when he was in the bath. His uncle Godfrey, who works in the racing industry, helped young …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 09:38

  • Palm Trojan Horse writer sued

    But it was all a ghastly mistake, says programmer

    Repentant mistake-making programmers beware: admit to your error, and you could find yourself in court. That's what appears to be happening to Aaron Ardiri, creator of the Trojan Horse 'virus' that had the Palm world quaking in its HotSync cradles t'other week. The 'virus', dubbed Crack 1.1, was released in an application that …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 09:56

  • BT considers legal action over hyperlink patent

    'C off up or else

    British Telecommunications (BT) is prepared to take legal action against ISPs in the US unless they cough up cash for using hyperlinks. The monster telco is currently in negotiation with a number of ISPs in the US after it was revealed in June that BT had patented hyperlinks way back in 1976. The patent was granted in 1989 and …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 10:30

  • Marillion fans fund album after email appeal

    Fishin' for financing

    Web-connected fans of prog. rock band Marillion have enabled the group to cock a snoot at record companies and produce their next album themselves. Having failed to win sufficient backing from the big labels, Marillion emailed everyone who had registered with the band's Web site asking them to pay in advance for its next CD. …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 10:32

  • Lycos Q4 losses grow eleven fold

    Marketing budget blamed

    Lycos has blamed rising marketing costs for growing its Q4 losses to E52 million (£31.9 million). This is an 11 fold jump from last years Q4 loss of E4.7 million. For the full year Lycos' losses grew to E99.7 million from 8.7 million in fiscal 1999. Scoot.com rode a share price rollercoaster yesterday when it failed to …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 11:11

  • Register denies ‘Private Eye’ slur

    It's a disgrace, says respectable Internet news service

    Ashen-faced staff at leading Internet newswire The Register were today trying to come to terms with scurrilous accusations in The Guardian that they were little better than an online version of tawdry scandal mag, Private Eye. In an in-depth profile in Monday's edition, a Guardian writer described The Register as "the web's …

    Bootnotes 5 Sep 2000, 11:21

  • Intel re-brands to spread net wider

    Channel conflict will occur

    The company formerly known as chip giant Intel is undertaking a massive re-branding scheme during this quarter to promote its networking and infrastructure wares, as evidence mounts that its revenues are beginning to be more widely spread across its four main divisions. Henrik Hansen, director of marketing at Intel's comms …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 11:38

  • We were wrong: sign up to the Nigerian ‘fraud’ email now

    We could all be multi-millionaires this time next week

    Yesterday, we ran a story about Prince Jafaru A. Manga and his inventive email which offered people the chance to make a fortune by allowing him to put Nigerian funds into your account. Like fools, we dismissed it. As did many of you. We name and shame the following readers: Peter Fallon, Alan J. Wylie, David Shepherd, Alistair …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 11:49

  • UK sceptics tank dotcom flyers

    It's a sad, sad day

    When it comes to role models, Britain has a healthy mistrust of e-ntrepreneurs. According to a MORI poll published today, only one in ten Brits sees dotcom demigods as having those qualities that inspire others to look up to them. Not so in Germany, though, where a third of those questioned wanted to model their roles on Net …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 11:52

  • AMD DDR boards to arrive October

    Intel DDR boards to arrive later on

    Hardware site Ace's Hardware is reporting that AMD, Via and Ali are readying a series of double data rate (DDR) memory announcements for October. The site, quoting a Taiwanese publication, says that DDR chipsets for AMD will start to ship in September, and volume production will hit the beginning of October. While AMD's own …

    Channel 5 Sep 2000, 11:53

  • MS recruits Vodafone for wireless mail partnership

    With that as well as Sun and IBM, it gives Vodafone pretty much a complete set...

    Six months on from not quite pulling off a major deal with Vodafone-Airtouch after all, Microsoft has clawed back at least some of the ground with the announcement of a joint trial of "corporate mobile intranet services" that will bring "Outlook functionality to wireless mobile devices." This is a somewhat more modest project …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 12:22

  • PC Rambus RIMM future hangs on mobos

    But prices falling, supply good

    While the price of Rambus RIMMs remains dependent on where you buy and in what quantity you buy it, a major manufacturer of modules for both the SDRAM and Rambus market told The Register today that availability of parts is good and the price continues to drop. John Trolle, CEO of MCT in Denmark, a firm which makes and sells …

    Channel 5 Sep 2000, 13:07

  • Amazon's new privacy regs may backfire

    It's official: You have no rights and they have no obligations

    The noble mission to 'empower' on-line consumers reached new heights recently as retail powerhouse Amazon.com released an updated corporate manifesto affecting its American customers and guests, and so blessed us all with firm knowledge that we have no reason to expect any such thing as privacy while doing business on their Web …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 13:08

  • MS could still be found guilty in Bristol antitrust case

    Analysis The jury said no case last year, but the judge is getting very uppity...

    US federal judge Janet Hall of the Connecticut District Court, who is presiding over the Bristol Technologies case against Microsoft, said in her Ruling last week (in which Bristol was awarded $1 million punitive damages against Microsoft) that "Microsoft could be exposed to civil and criminal penalties under other unfair and …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 13:25

  • Punter nearly dies of thirst in CWAP demo

    Jalda is not quite the real thing

    A vulture-eyed Register reader has had a disappointing brush with jalda - the new pre-paid Internet transaction system announced yesterday by ISP World Online. The system - that allows you to buy things online - was on display at the techie show, ECTS, in London over the weekend. A stand at the show was supposed to let you buy …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 14:05

  • ABN Amro e-banking service hacked

    Update But not much to worry about unless you're Net-stupid

    An investigative programme for Dutch TV has exposed security flaws in national bank ABN Amro's e-banking service Home Net. Hackers managed to breach defences and divert payments into their own accounts. The money ran into thousands of guilders (hundreds of pounds sterling) but went unnoticed by the bank. The hackers also …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 14:06

  • Cray supercomputer for sale on eBay

    Sixteen GigaFLOPS if you need them

    If you fancy buying a decent bit of computing power you could do worse than bid for a Cray Y-MP C90 which is listed for sale on eBay. Bidding opened at $35,000 and has now jumped to $43,210. The machine is called Mario and is described as having been the world's most powerful supercomputer seven years ago. It's in good working …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 14:07

  • Microsoft: ‘UK schools sitting on a time bomb’

    Birmingham tops illegal software league

    A new UK survey of 70 per cent of primary and 30 per cent of secondary schools shows that Birmingham tops the league of pirated software. Some 40 per cent of state schools in the city are breaking the law by allowing teachers and pupils to copy software illegally. The survey, carried out for Microsoft by the British Educational …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 14:33

  • British E-Envoy quits

    Family reasons cited

    Alex Allan - the British Government's E-Envoy - has resigned for family reasons. He will leave his position in the Cabinet office in early October. He intends to return to Australia and spend time with his wife, who has been ill for some time. In a statement Allan said: "I am sorry to be standing down from the post of e-envoy …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 14:34

  • eGroups responds to child porn worries

    "We will take all necessary steps"

    We ran a story earlier about child porn pictures that were available on eGroups Web site. It has pulled the "kids porn" group since then, but we also discovered a members-only site which appears to offer worse. While we recognise eGroups' stance that it cannot monitor everything on its site before it is posted, we remain …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 14:36

  • Web phone gamers to hit 200 million by 2005

    Card games and bingo will be favourites

    Two hundred million people in Western Europe and the US will be playing Web games such as cyberbingo on mobile phones by 2005. This represents four out of five mobile owners, according to a report by Datamonitor, putting the wireless gaming market in these two countries at $6 billion in five years' time. Revenues from this …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 15:15

  • Novell to cut quarter of its workforce?

    It's a rumour we heard a few days ago, and it's got legs

    Troubled networking expert Novell is expected to lay off as much as a quarter of its US workforce - amounting to about 1,400 staff. We'd heard the rumour a few days ago, but The Wall Street Journal ran with it on Monday and it has subsequently been picked up by Reuters. Novell has yet to comment. Novell has been in a bit of …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 15:55

  • ISPA to rule on LineOne this week

    Oh, the an tis ee pay shun is just tooo much

    LineOne will find out on Friday whether it broke the Internet Service Providers Association's (ISPA) code of practice when it ditched unmetered Net access in July. According to ISPA's guidelines, if LineOne is found to be in breach of the rules it could be ejected from the industry group. LineOne maintains it did nothing wrong …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 15:58

  • Duron 750 hits the streets

    Systems in the shops RSN

    Duron, the processor that Chimpzilla's marketing division forgot, is now out in 750MHz guise, priced at $181 each in 1,000 unit quantities. Despite spending all its marketing dosh on Athlon, little Duron continues to make steady progress and is already a favourite with hardware sites. More than 20 computer manufacturers …

    Channel 5 Sep 2000, 16:13

  • Compaq ditches ProSignia range

    Revamps DeskPro and Armada lines

    Compaq has binned its ProSignia range of PCs after selling them for less than two years. The Big Q's SME range will reappear under the Armada and DeskPro brands. The PC giant has introduced the Deskpro EX line, and has also added "S" edition models to its Armada notebooks and Deskpro range of business PCs - the Deskpro EXS, …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 16:25

  • New e-mail Trojan reckoned a minor threat

    No tens of billions in damage estimates -- yet

    The US National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) has issued a brief warning in regard to a new e-mail virus from the Philippines similar to that most famous Philippine export, the Love Bug. The new virus, named DonaldD.trojan, was first detected on Friday and infected a few computers over the weekend. The Trojan …

    Music and Media 5 Sep 2000, 16:53

  • Confirmed: IBM to roll with Crusoe TM5400 ThinkPads this year

    Happy Taipei fabbers spill the beans...

    IBM has demoed a Transmeta-based notebook, but officially the company isn't committed to shipping it as a product. Naturally nobody actually believes this, and a blab today from Taiwanese notebook manufacturer Quanta Computer confirms that Big Blue will be rolling out quantities of the beasts, under the ThinkPad 240 X-series …

    Business 5 Sep 2000, 17:05

  • Malicious code exploits unique Win2K function

    Another MS 'feature virus'

    Anti-virus outfit Kaspersky Labs has announced the discovery of W2K.Stream, a working example of a new type of virus designed for Microsoft Windows 2000. The virus uses a "Stream Companion" method to infect the NTFS file system, which allows multiple data streams. In this case one stream will be malicious, and the other will be …

    Software 5 Sep 2000, 18:53