24th May 2001 Archive

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Channel

• Reg gets flighty with MS bag Competition UK Reseller? Need to overnight your laptop? Then read on...
• Intel Itanium to launch next Tuesday – Hewlett-Packard Confirms 29 May as 'I opener'
• Microsoft wraps around Office XP channel plans Paperchase

Comms: Networks

• Bulldog calls for BT execution Extreme
• Gates loses the broadband plot Reading too many fairytales

Hardware: Data Networking

• Deutsche Telekom takes 40Gbps kit for a spin Lucent in driving seat
• Plastic tubes to deliver Gigabit to the desktop The Reg meets Nobel prize winning Über-boffin
• Text messaging could damage your kidneys British doctors issue warning
• WAP is still crap No one's using it, and can you blame them?

Management

• BT goes on rebranding crusade ET ads to go (hurrah), Cellnet name to change?
• Corporate America prefers Compaq to Dell servers Dell top for desktops though
• Imagination Tech profits fall on death of Sega Dreamcast Revenue up over last 12 months, but what about this year?
• IT contractors to take out IR35 insurance Get the feeling this has all gone a bit far?
• Palm cuts developer PDA prices by up to 40% Unsold stock mountain

Management: Games Industry

• Microsoft Xbox has lost the console war already – Sony exec It's 'finished', claims Ken Kutaragi

Management: e-Business

• Ex-Boo staff offer services to Hollywood Midas Touch bar hosts dotcom reunion
• Redbus losses narrow See what happens when the sun shines?

Music and Media

• Euro Parliament calls ECHELON a paper tiger And therefore worth duplicating
• FBI cracks down on pyramid scam cybervillains Charges 88 in nationwide swoop
• Lastminute.com resorts to porn Penthouse subs to rebuild shareholder value, apparently
• Low-income users biggest UK Net group Bloody students
• The great AOL word cybersquatting saga Plenty more for the chop
• Win Media Player hole surrenders your machine Joo own3d, porn lover

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Codebreaker II One day and counting Last chance to earn the respect of your peers

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple to release Mac OS X 10.0.5 any day now Other goodies too
• Finders to Keepers – Reg readers on speeding up Mac OS X If you just can't wait...
• Large-format LCD prices to rise claims market watcher So much for Apple's LCD-only policy...

Security

• 18th Century warfare to fight Internet crackers Electronic Citadel
• CERT under DDoS attack Flood of bogus data requests

Software

• There's a virus in my WinXP system, part two WinXP diaries Outlook 2002 - great program, massive health hazard
• WinXP 64-bit beta meets bashful Itanium bride Large family desired