6th August 2001 Archive

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Son of Code Red is born

And Junior's a little scary

A new IIS worm similar to the dreaded Code Red worm (which was supposed to break the Internet last week and didn't -- damn) has emerged over the weekend. This one's a little scary. Not a lot, just a little. It's not going to break the Internet. It's not going to cause a run on the banks and crash the stock market. It won't be …

Software 6 Aug 2001, 06:20
BT offered £18bn for phone network

Get away with you...really?

BT has been offered £18 billion for its fixed line telecoms infrastructure, the Sunday Times reported yesterday. A consortium headed by German investment bank West LB made the offer two months ago. Details of the bid are still sketchy but it's understood that negotiations are still at a very early stage. If successful, BT …

Data Networking 6 Aug 2001, 10:16
PCI-SIG says ‘yes’ to Intel's 3GIO

Arapahoe-ho-ho

Intel's next-generation PC I/O bus, designed to be the successor to PCI and AGP, has won the backing of the PCI Special Interest Group. Intel announced in February it was working on what it calls a third-generation I/O spec. It submitted a preliminary version of the new bus, dubbed '3GIO', to the PCI-SIG, which on Friday voted …

Hardware 6 Aug 2001, 10:50
Time to declare first ever loss

Mohsan talks to The Mail

Time Computers is to report its first ever loss, after 13 years in business, according to the Mail on Sunday. The PC maker was caught out by a sales crash in the middle of a huge store expansion programme, Tahir Mohsan, Time's publicity-shy boss, said in a rare interview. At first, Time was slow to react - "In September, we …

Channel 6 Aug 2001, 11:37
SirCam tops July virus charts

One in 10 PCs have the pox

The privacy-threatening, bandwidth-stealing SirCam worm topped the Virus charts in June. Sircam accounted for a whopping 65.2 per cent of calls to the support centre of antivirus vendor Sophos. It was followed by Magistr (10.4 per cent), last month's chart topper, and Hybris (4.1 per cent). Sophos found 1276 new viruses during …

Anti-Virus 6 Aug 2001, 11:44
Redbus-TeleCity merger hanging by a thread

Touch and go

Merger talks that would create Europe's largest Web hosting group are still on going - just. Redbus was on the verge of announcing a deal until talks were interrupted by the discovery of a reported £20 million cash shortfall in TeleCity's figures. This led to speculation that the deal might be called off. Indeed, today's Times …

Music and Media 6 Aug 2001, 11:58
Theglobe.com spins out of orbit

Anyone want to buy some games sites?

Chat and gaming site theglobe.com is to shut most of its Web business and axe half its staff after falling victim to the online ad slump. The New York-based outfit said on Friday it would close its community site theglobe.com on August 15. It also plans to shut its web-hosting business webjump.com on the same date. Meanwhile …

e-Business 6 Aug 2001, 12:30
Japanese boffins build robot receptionist

Not really

Japanese boffins have come up with what they say could become the world's first robot receptionist. The scientists working on the Erato Kitano Symbiotic System Project say they have developed a robot that can pick up human voices, even with background noise. "Sig" (named, presumably, after the Symbiotic Intelligence Group that …

Personal 6 Aug 2001, 12:59
Sony Vaio PCV-LX1

Review Concept PC

Rather than enter the market quietly and go along with the crowd, Sony likes to make the existing competition look dull and lacklustre. Games consoles and notebooks are two areas where Sony has succeeded in stirring up its rivals, and it has now decided to turn its hand to desktop PCs. Desktop PCs are renowned for being big, …

Personal 6 Aug 2001, 13:08
Aussie MP in hacking probe

Police called in

An Australian MP has become the centre of a hacking scandal following accusations that computers in his office were used to hack into the PCs of rival politicians in the New South Wales Parliament. Labor MLC Tony Kelly, who denies any personal involvement in the affair, has confirmed that one of his office PCs has been handed …

Security 6 Aug 2001, 13:09
Etailers tool up for eXmas

When Santa got stuck in the e-chimney

One hundred and thirty nine days to go until Christmas and the festive hype has already begun. Etailers are warned to get a move on if they want to capitalise on this year's online shopping blitz. They need to ensure that their Web operation can withstand an onslaught of shoppers looking for gifts, and also they should ensure …

e-Business 6 Aug 2001, 14:23
Palm retains world marketshare lead – just

Compaq knocks Handspring out of number two slot

Gartner Dataquest's latest figures for the PDA market during the second quarter of the year continue to show what a tough time Palm had of three-month period. Not only did its own marketshare fall, from 50.4 per cent in Q1 to 32.1 per cent in Q2, but arch-rival Compaq bucked the downward trend by more than doubling its …

Business 6 Aug 2001, 14:46
Internet sector is Hunky and Dory

Don't worry, be happy

Some comforting news for the tens of thousands of people who've lost their jobs and/or their life savings in the bombed-out Internet sector: everything will be hunky-dory. The Internet marketplace is not a dead duck (it's just got a touch of the flu) and should be back to health before we all know it, according to a a …

e-Business 6 Aug 2001, 15:03
Judge lambasts Armani in domain name ruling

Artist retains control of Armani.com

A Canadian artist has won the right to the www.armani.com domain, following a remarkable hearing at arbitrator WIPO. The case is unusual in that, despite the clothes chain's lawyers insisting the artist had no legitimate right to the domain, a WIPO judge disagreed since the artist's name is Anand Ramnath Mani - shortened simply …

Music and Media 6 Aug 2001, 15:03
MS Passport security considered harmful

"Significant risk"

The lynchpin of Microsoft's web services - the Passport authentication service - has been found wanting in a study by two senior AT&T scientists. The authors credit Passport with being an ambitious model, but warn that "the system carries significant risks to users that are not made adequately clear in the technical …

Software 6 Aug 2001, 15:06
Free Sklyarov Now!

Adobe Martyr protests grow

Protests against the continued incarceration of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov are planned outside the courtroom where he faces a bail hearing today. As previously reported, Sklyarov published details of how Adobe's eBook encryption package could be circumvented, and so ran foul of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( …

Music and Media 6 Aug 2001, 16:33
So how much is Armani.com worth?

We ask the boys in the know

Following on from the recent WIPO case in which a judge ruled that Mr Anand Ramnath Mani (A.R.Mani) was entitled to the Armani.com domain, we pondered just how much Armani.com was worth. So we contacted a number of brokers to ask for their assessment. They all pointed out that it would be very difficult to sell it to anyone but …

Music and Media 6 Aug 2001, 17:27