22nd June 2001 Archive
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Maxtor sheds 1,500 staff
Hard times for Hard drive makers
Maxtor is to make up to 1,500 people redundant. The job cuts will hit plants in Singapore and the US, and comes on top of 570 pink slips issued in the wake of the firm's takeover of Quantum's HDD business this year. "The second quarter has been characterised by weaker than expected demand for hard drives, affecting inventory …
Business 22 Jun 2001, 09:15
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Consumers' Association hit by major security flaw
Credit card details at risk
The Consumers' Association has shut its TaxCalc Web amid concerns that thousands of credit card details could have been stolen. Some 2,700 people have been advised to cancel their credit cards after the security loophole was reported yesterday lunchtime. The problem affects those who bought the Consumers' Association's tax …
Security 22 Jun 2001, 09:17
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Micron posts $301m loss
Will no one buy our DRAM?
DRAM maker Micron released punishing Q3 results yesterday as write-offs of unsold memory chips took resulted in a loss of $301 million, 50 cents a share. The company also said its market share had fallen to 25.7 per cent, down from 27.1 per cent in Q1 2001. Micron's sales totalled $818 million, down 24 per cent on the previous …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 09:33
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Visual Studio.Net steams ahead
IT-Analysis welcomes MS approach
At this week's TechEd 2001 developer's conference, second beta versions of Visual Studio.Net are being distributed. By all accounts this is the last beta, and the company will now focus on bug fixes rather than new features prior to the product's release, which will be towards the end of the year. If you are a developer …
Software 22 Jun 2001, 09:45
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Get Real: MS reprises browser tactics with AOL bundle
Groundhog Day
You might not be alone in thinking that today is Groundhog Day - and that we're doomed to see a reprise of the Browserwars, circa 1997, everyday. Details of the negotiations between Microsoft and AOL over packaging AOL software in Windows XP reveal that Real Networks remains a prime bugbear for the Beast. The talks broke up …
Software 22 Jun 2001, 09:51
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Bum tweak kills Gameboy screens
Don't touch that dial!
An unfortunate high profile news post on pocket.ign.com may have led to a number of Americans permanently damaging their GameBoy Advance consoles. Complaints arose recently that the display was a bit dark, and inquisitive fiddlers on the IGN message boards put their thinking hats on trying to work out how to overcome this. The …
Games Industry 22 Jun 2001, 10:09
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Transmeta selects TSMC for next-gen CPUs
Second source becoming primary supplier?
Transmeta will turn to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to produce its upcoming Crusoe TM5500 and TM5800 processors. No wonder some observers have suggested a parting of the ways with IBM may be in the offing, especially since Big Blue sold 600,000 Transmeta shares this week just ahead of the pummelling …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 10:16
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Dell signs Quanta to make 5m notebooks
But what's the CPU?
Dell has signed up Quanta to produce 4.5-5 million high-end portable PCs, according to sources close the Taiwanese notebook maker. Production will commence Q1 2002 and stretch to July 2003, the sources claim, according to DigiTimes. Quanta will ship 250,000-300,000 units per month through 2002 and around three million during …
Business 22 Jun 2001, 10:53
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PC market slowdown hits Symantec
Another Love Bug-style virus scare should see it right
Symantec has issued a profit warning that suggests the slowdown in consumer PC sales is having a knock-on effect on the security market. Weak sales to consumer and small business of its antivirus and security products, and the effects of currency fluctuations, have forced Symantec to warn that its first quarter sales will be …
Security 22 Jun 2001, 11:26
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Hutchison starts hyping its 3G vision
Quake but not with i-Mode technology
Hutchison 3G UK, the least known of all the five operators to have won 3G licences, has started hyping up its 3G offering including a mobile version of shoot-em-up Quake. The company is at an immediate disadvantage in the UK as all the other operators already have a significant presence. Despite this, it is bravely insisting it …
Data Networking 22 Jun 2001, 11:53
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Misys shuts cash-burning Web sites
Cheerio then
Misys plc has signalled its retreat from the B2C sector by closing it consumer financial services businesses, screentrade.com and theformula.com. The FTSE-listed financial software outfit said that its B2B portals, m-link and i2i-link, are unaffected by today's announcement. The decision to close the sites was taken after …
e-Business 22 Jun 2001, 12:13
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Time seeks £2.2m damages from C2000
Duff chipset dust-up
Time Computers is having a legal punch-up with distributor Computer 2000. The PC manufacturer/retailer has been in court this week claiming £2.2 million in lost earnings and damages from C2000 according to CW360.com. The argument dates back to 1994 when Time bought 4,000 IBM Blue Lightning PCs from C2000, which was called …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 12:20
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MP3.com drops Analog Pussy – Vivendi KGB to blame?
Music industry control freakery
MP3.com has mysteriously dropped one of its best known online groups Analog Pussy - sparking concerns that the music industry may be trying to kill autonomous music on the Internet. In a lengthy piece in LA Weekly, a reporter friend of the group tells how Jiga and Jinno, the Goan trance duo known as Analog Pussy, received an …
Music and Media 22 Jun 2001, 12:58
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Is Dutch web shagfest child porn?
Well, it is in the States apparently
If you fancy a shag - turn your webcam off If you're under 18 and fancy a webcam shagfest in the manner of the two Dutch teenagers seen going at it hammer and tongs earlier this week, better avoid posting it in the States. Phillip Jones explains: Should be interesting to note that distributing nude images of minors (People …
Letters 22 Jun 2001, 13:07
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Ban Winmine? Yeah, well ban this…
Reader blows up against political correctness
Windows Minesweeper is an 'offence to mine victims' Outraged by the latest piece of political correctness regarding Windows Minesweeper, Warren has a couple of things to get off his chest: Firstly, why pick Winmine? why not ban and blacklist every single game in the world, ban Unreal Tournament, Half Life, Quake 1-2-3 because …
Letters 22 Jun 2001, 13:10
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Intel speeds Pentium 4 ramp with 1.9, 2.2GHz chips
Desktop Pentium III dead by Q2 next year
Intel will roll out a 1.9GHz Pentium 4 processor in addition to the expected 2GHz P4 it is expected to unveil during Q3, according to the latest roadmap to leak out of the company. Much of what appears on the roadmap, part of which is on view over at Web site WildAndyC.co.uk, reiterates and clarifies material on previous …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 13:11
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Canadian PM takes a clubbing
The dark truth behind Terry Matthews' knighthood outrage
Mitel founder honour enrages Canada Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien has been sticking his two bits' worth into the Queen's birthday honours list. He is opposing a knighthood granted to Mitel founder Terry Matthews. Matthews holds dual UK/Canadian nationality, but Chretien is trying to block the honour. Why? Well, Ross …
Letters 22 Jun 2001, 13:13
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Nortel redundancies provoke mirth
From ex-employees, that is
Nortel 're-aligns' 10,000 employees Nortel's announcment that it will lay off 10,000 workers provoked wicked laughter from Robert Lesieur: I took so much shit last year when I left that armpit to come to a "risky" startup instead of staying there and doubly from my brother in law who worked for Cisco, whom I declined a job …
Letters 22 Jun 2001, 14:04
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Easy Web café man becomes billionaire
Well behind Bill G and Larry E though
The man behind the EasyEverything Web cafés, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has entered the exclusive 'billionaires club'. He's been valued at $1.5 billion by Forbes Global magazine. His fortune has been made on his budget airline EasyJet, as well as Web surfing, and shipping. He got off to a good start though, with a $117 million sub …
Business 22 Jun 2001, 14:07
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CIA admits it can't keep up with ‘commie’ hackers
Congress hears coded plea for more cash
A top CIA official has accused Russia and China of developing hacker tools in preparation for a possible future attack on America's computing infrastructure. In an appearance before Congress's Joint Economic Committee, Lawrence Gershwin, the CIA's leading advisor on science and technology, said China and Russia, and several …
Security 22 Jun 2001, 14:11
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Vulture terrorises UK
Nothing to do with us, honest
A rogue vulture has provoked fear and panic in a sleepy Norfolk village. The Ruppell's vulture descended yesterday without warning on idyllic Happisburgh, taking up residence on the church tower. The fearsome beast - wingspan eight feet - had escaped from Banham zoo fifty miles away. Experts are now faced with the task of …
Bootnotes 22 Jun 2001, 14:41
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Pink Tuba – the crotchless panties of new media
Play games and win a dotcom
Fast-fingered Net users are being given the chance to win a dotcom new media agency simply by playing an online computer game. The person who registers the highest score by 12pm on Friday 20th July gets to win the agency Pink Tuba. Actually, that's not strictly true. Although that's what it said in a press release, the truth …
Music and Media 22 Jun 2001, 14:47
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Intel demands stock options back from sacked staff
Union not happy
Intel is demanding the return of stock options from 300 soon-to-be-sacked staff in its Danish office. Intel has decided to close its Danish division but wants all stock options - legitimately earnt by the employees - to be returned, the Danish Broadcast Corporation has reported. The trade union, Prosa, is not impressed. Its …
Business 22 Jun 2001, 14:49
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Readers' Letters Blasphemy be damned!
Gawd blimey, they done us up like a kipper
Reg faces blasphemy charge Reg victim of blasphemy hoax Well, we got stitched up good and proper yesterday by 'Net Authority Investigations'. The authority's threat of action if we continued to blaspheme had the Vulture Central lawyers running round like headless chickens. Then it was revealed that we were the victims of a …
Letters 22 Jun 2001, 14:52
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Intel to unveil 0.13 micron Mobile Pentium III next week
Tualatin-M demo comes a month ahead of 'official' launch
Intel will demo its 0.13 micron Mobile Pentium III, codenamed Tualatin, next week, the company announced today. It's not an official launch, you understand - that comes "in the third quarter" - simply the technology's first public outing. We're not entirely sure what the difference between showing off your technology and …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 15:29
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How many ways canst thou measure Linux shipments?
Let me weigh the counts. IDC tells it
IDC VP of server research Dan Kusnetzky has given us a detailed explanation of how IDC arrives at its OS figures, and a glimpse into how the new figures - which should be published Real Soon Now - will look. One thing's for sure: Dan's not getting drawn into a mud throwing competition with any other market research on the …
Software 22 Jun 2001, 15:57
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LogoWatch UNIX will save the planet
Ecowarriors against NT
Normally, LogoWatch is the Reg's eye on ominous corporate rebranding. We do, however, always welcome the preposterous guff which organisations use to justify their artistic creations. And so our spotlight falls on The Unix versus NT organisation. According to their website, the organisation is dedicated to setting the …
Bootnotes 22 Jun 2001, 16:17
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Sun primes Jalapeno as McKinley killer
Is UltraSPARC IIIi the Iceberg under Itanic?
Perhaps not everybody in Sun's strategic planning team is a regular Reg reader. How else to explain the fact that Sun has taken the threat of Itanic seriously enough to give its entire low-end multiprocessor strategy a radical revamp. Yes, stop giggling there at the back. Not only has Sun primed a policy of sharing components …
Channel 22 Jun 2001, 16:26
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MS hacked once, twice, three, FOUR times
Prime Suspectz takes the IIS out of Microsoft
Notorious hacker Prime Suspectz has gone on a cracking spree against Microsoft servers that has resulted in the defacement of FOUR of the software giant's sites. Three of the sites hit by the attack (all of which appear to be recently introduced, and under development) are currently inaccessible. A fourth, webcfeedback.msn.com …
Security 22 Jun 2001, 16:34
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Barney barney makes dino outfit purple with rage
Say 'Cybercheese' - you're on a candid Web site
An irreverent Web site has stuck two fingers up to annoying purple kids dinosaur "Barney" after being threatened with legal action over the "use and threat of violence towards the children's character". Cybercheese - which boasts "It's a joke doing business with you" - runs an item on its site entitled "150 Ways to Kill the …
Music and Media 22 Jun 2001, 16:56
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.biz domain registration a complete shambles
'Fairness and professionalism'. Hogwash
The registration process for the new .biz TLD is so convoluted that even professional registration companies have no idea what is going on. Not only that but it would appear the company behind the domain, NeuLevel, has completely failed to keep up with demand, making the entire process a shambles. A number of people in the …
Music and Media 22 Jun 2001, 17:00
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Is VeriSign trying to shaft the .biz domain?
Peculiar email
It looks as though VeriSign - owner of the .com and .net top-level domain names - is attempting to ruin the new challenger to its cute monopoly, .biz through subsidiary Network Solutions. The .biz domain, run by NeuLevel, is selling itself as an alternative to .com for serious businesses. While .com has become the ubiquitous …
Music and Media 22 Jun 2001, 17:06
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MS Word, IIS/FrontPage, NetMeeting security warnings issued
Did we miss anything?
Three MS security bulletins came down today, one dealing with a new exploit of an old hole; one original; and one involving yet another unchecked buffer. First up the worst of the three: a hole in MS Word enabling an attacker to run a malicious macro against a user. In this case, a Word document can be modified so as to bypass …
Software 22 Jun 2001, 17:44
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California indicts Russian hacker
Feds allege cyber protection racket
A Russian computer programmer imprisoned in the US on charges that he perpetrated a cyber crime spree of extortion and credit card fraud was indicted in California Wednesday-- adding the Golden State to a growing list of destinations on the accused hacker's whirlwind tour of American detention centers. Alexey V. Ivanov, 20, …
Security 22 Jun 2001, 20:20
