28th May 2001 Archive

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Schmoozing the Reds: AOL's secret China plans revealed

Biggest security hole on planet not MS app after all...

A pile of internal AOL documents currently doing the rounds reveals the company's plans for a $200 million joint venture in mainland China with local giant Legend. Humorously the documents also reveal news-massaging plans, including giving the story "under tight embargo, to one or two key news outlets - maybe New York Times and …

Music and Media 28 May 2001, 12:33
Poor foreigners can play Everquest too

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Massively multiplayer games such as the latest EverQuest expanasion pack, and the eagerly anticipated PlanetSide and Star Wars Galaxies, will benefit from increased global support, according to announcements last week from publisher Sony Online Entertainment. Currently, Sony's monthly subscription games require a credit card …

Games Industry 28 May 2001, 15:30
French win first Reg ‘Re-inventing The Wheel’ trophy

Award for preposterous use of technology

Public swimming facility Centre Sportif Richard Bozon in Chamonix, southern France, has won the first Vulture Central 'Reinventing the Wheel' trophy. This acknowleges an exceptional contribution to the totally unnecessary application of technology in solving a problem which never existed in the first place. Pushing back the …

Bootnotes 28 May 2001, 15:34
MS-built UK ‘Government Gateway’ locks out non-MS browsers

Updated Users need to be totally certified, it says here (nearly)

Predictably, Microsoft's 'help' in turning "Britain's e-government vision into a reality" has mysteriously turned into a lockout for users of anything other than IE on Windows. Linux, Netscape and Mac (even with IE, friends...) can look but not touch, because the digital certificate system selected by the developers mysteriously …

Software 28 May 2001, 15:49