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  • Dell notebook production explodes…

    ...for contract manufacturer Compal, at any rate

    Dell is set to become Taiwanese notebook maker Compal's largest client during the rest of 2001, taking over from Hewlett-Packard. The Texan PC maker is clearly making something of a big push into the notebook market. Between Compal and its fellow Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta, Dell expects to take delivery of around …

    Personal 7 Aug 2001, 13:36

  • Chip wafer sales way down in Q2

    Cheap as chips

    Indications of just how bad the second quarter of the year really was for the world's chip makers continue to surface. This time it's the latest pronouncement from Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. During Q2, SEMI says, shipments of silicon wafers fell 21 per cent, from Q1's 1.25 billion square inches of …

    Channel 7 Aug 2001, 13:40

  • Declining DRAM prices does for Nanya profits

    Large profit turns to loss

    Memory maker Nanya has slashed its 2001 profit forecast, transforming with a stroke of its red pen a NT$2.3 billion ($66.53 million) profit into a NT$5.86 billion loss. The reason? The crash in memory prices. Nanya reckons DRAM prices will begin to recover this month and start to increase through the rest of the year. But not …

    Channel 7 Aug 2001, 13:43

  • Register downed by Router Failure

    Cisco Fiasco

    You may have noticed that The Register has been down for - oh - 20 hours or so. The site was also down on Monday afternoon for a couple of hours - and most of Sunday too. The reason: we've been having problems with our Cisco LocalDirector, used for load-balancing. We suspect incipient hardware failure, but diagnostics have been …

    Site News 7 Aug 2001, 13:46

  • Is UD playing fair in the P2P quest for cancer drugs?

    Oxford University boffins speak to The Reg

    Next month the one millionth person will download the screensaver that Oxford University boffins say will knock four years off the process of finding potential cancer-fighting drugs. With the offer to have a poke around Oxford University, accompanied by a pub lunch with some of the top brains involved in the scheme, The …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 13:48

  • Asia/Pacific to top Net usage by 2003

    US and Europe fight for second place

    Asia/Pacific will leap-frog the US to become the world's largest Internet market within three years, according to the latest number crunching from analysts at Gartner Dataquest. They predict that by 2003, Asia/Pacific will have 183.3 million Net subscribers, compared to 162.8 million in the US and 162.2 million in Europe. …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 13:49

  • F-Secure cans one in five workers

    Losses narrow

    F-Secure, the Finnish security specialist, has narrowed its losses after offloading one in five of its workers. During its second quarter, F-Secure made a loss of 3.5 million euro ($3.1 million) on sales of 10.7 million euro ($9.4 million), which compares to a loss of 3.8 million euro ($3.4 million) on revenues of 9.8 million …

    Business 7 Aug 2001, 13:50

  • Internet frees nicotine addicts from life of penury

    Smokers to become rich and happy

    God bless the Internet and God bless Chris Gurney. Chris is a smoker, an unrepentant smoker, but one that finds it a little annoying that 20 cigarettes cost nearly £5 - the vast majority of which goes to the government in tax. Being a 40-a-day man, Chris tried to find a way out of this madness. He went back to basics. And …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 13:53

  • Nude Net use all the rage in Yorkshire

    Pants-only preferred in West Country...

    One in ten Web users in Yorkshire have confessed to accessing the Net in the buff, according to a survey conducted by NOP on behalf of AOL UK. It also found that three in ten West Country women claim they've accessed the Net in nothing but a pair knickers. According to the poll (hey, it's a really slow news day, OK), home Net …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 13:57

  • Brits not trusted to work at home

    Oprah deemed too tempting

    Brits spend more hours chained to their office desks than their European cousins - because British bosses simply don't trust their staff to work at home instead of in the office. Home teleworking, once expected to revolutionise the workplace, is increasing in Europe, but it has failed to take off as predicted in the UK. …

    Business 7 Aug 2001, 13:59

  • Google is in the black

    Search engine joins Hall of Fame

    Search engine Google is making a profit and has done so for the past two quarters, according to Eric Schmidt, its new CEO and former boss of Novell. As Google is privately held, it doesn't have to announce its financial results under US law, and so it hasn't bothered to do so. Not that Schmidt has actually supplied any figures …

    e-Business 7 Aug 2001, 14:03

  • Business shuns bid to name kiddie after company

    'Microsoft' is such a nice name for a boy

    A US couple who tried to find a corporate sponsor for their baby son have failed to find a bidder. Jason Black and Frances Schroeder used ebay and Yahoo! to auction the naming rights to their third child. They were holding out for at least $500,000 so they could name their little kiddie Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, or whatever. …

    Business 7 Aug 2001, 14:03

  • Ryanair profits keep leaping

    Airline sees huge jumps in online revenue and profits

    Ryanair, the low-cost airline that has seen enormous success on the back of its Internet-oriented strategy, has seen Q1 profits jump 28 per cent year-on-year. The company flew 2.4 million passengers during its most recent quarter, 42 per cent higher than Q1 last year. Revenue increased by 31 per cent to £93.3 million and profit …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 14:08

  • Sklyarov freed on Bail

    But court case trundles on

    A federal judge has released Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer arrested under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act at the request of Adobe. The Department of Justice keeps hold of Sklyarov's passport, and his employer has met the $50,000 bail. A hearing is scheduled for August 23. There was no indication that the DoJ …

    Media 7 Aug 2001, 14:15

  • McAfee files patents for security as a service

    Good news for greedy lawyers

    McAfee has filed a patent for delivering security software as a service over the Web - a move that is almost certain to stir up controversy in the anti-virus biz. The patent, described as a "method and system for securing, managing or optimising a personal computer", covers the firm's "software-as-a-service" technology and …

    Security 7 Aug 2001, 15:14

  • BT cuts broadband wholesale prices – again

    Targets business users this time

    BT Wholesale is to cut the cost of its business-class IPStream broadband products from 1 September, it confirmed today. Today's announcement follows hot on the heels of a similar cut in the wholesale price for its single-user broadband product last month. BT hopes that ISPs will be able to pass on the reductions in a bid to …

    Data Networking 7 Aug 2001, 15:17

  • Mesh Elite P4 1.8GT

    Review Power PC

    Processor speeds seem to be without ceiling. A year ago the Pentium III had yet to touch 1GHz - now, 12 months on, the Pentium 4 is nudging 2GHz. Intel's 2GHz chip is expected later this month - for now, the highest Pentium clock speed you can buy is 1.8GHz. As P4 processors have proved rather disappointing when it comes to …

    Personal 7 Aug 2001, 15:27

  • Trium Mondo GPRS

    Reg Smartphone Roundup Part Two...

    Earlier this year Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard were chastised by US advertising regulators for effectively claiming the PocketPC platform offered out-of-the-box wireless Net access. It didn't, and M$ shouldn't have said as much. Had the software company waited three or four months, it would have been able to offer Trium's …

    Personal 7 Aug 2001, 15:34

  • Wireless security is even flakier than we thought

    How to hack into a wireless LAN in less time than it takes to have a bath

    Security researchers have published details of the weaknesses in encryption techniques widely used to secure wireless networks. The root cause of the gaping security holes derive from flaws in the key-scheduling algorithm used by the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, which is part of the 802.11 wireless networking …

    Security 7 Aug 2001, 16:12

  • MS poised to switch Windows file systems with Blackcomb

    At long last, Cairo...?

    The pieces are coming together for a clear shift in the way Microsoft does data storage. It is coming full circle, right back to the unified storage model of Cairo, promised but not delivered back in the early 1990s as the super-OS built upon Windows NT. As I have been postulating for a while in my columns in PC Pro, Microsoft …

    Software 7 Aug 2001, 20:16