12th September 2001 Archive

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Aussie watchdog slams Telstra ADSL roll-out

Anti-competititive behaviour

Australian telecoms watchdog the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a competition notice against the incumbent telco Telstra, accusing it of anti-competitive activities with the roll-out of ADSL Internet connections. Quoting the Trade Practices Act, the ACCC says that Telstra's system of …

Telecoms 12 Sep 2001, 09:13
Pentium 4 mobo output share on the up

20% in August; 30-35% this month

Mobo makers are shipping more and more Pentium 4-based parts, a result of Intel's 26 August processsor price cuts and this week's formal launch of the already-shipping i845 chipset. P4-based boards accounted for around 20 per cent of the output from Asustek, Gigabyte and MSI - this month all three expect that figure to rise to …

Channel 12 Sep 2001, 10:50
Hynix creditors fail to agree on loan provider

Memory maker should be bailed out - but someone else should do it

Hynix's creditors may have agreed to loan the much-troubled memory maker fresh funds to keep it from collapsing, but they can't come to a consensus on which of them will cough up the cash. "There is still some disagreement among creditors on the terms of the proposal,'' said Thomas Fallows, vice president of the Korean branch …

Business 12 Sep 2001, 10:55
Internet ROI: The next big stumbling block?

Return on Investment

Decision-makers, strategists and business leaders are continuing to question the worthiness of the Internet according to the Yankee Group. The recent economic turmoil, combined with the recent dotcom collapse has compounded fears and led business managers across the globe to seriously question the level of investment required …

e-Business 12 Sep 2001, 11:23
Hynix samples 512Mb DDR266 chips

DDR333 parts coming soon

Hynix has begun sampling 266MHz 0.13 micron 512Mb DDR SDRAM chips and has promised to begin sampling a 333MHz version soon, the company said yesterday. An impressive technical achievement to be sure, but Hynix's announcement was more about marketing than engineering. Memory makers have only recently shifted up to 256Mb devices …

Channel 12 Sep 2001, 11:23
Vodafone rewrites history with 3G claims

Hung by its own press release

Vodafone's claims that it never promised video on its 3G phones from the start have been contradicted - by one of the company's own press releases. Last week, a story in the FT pointed out that since Vodafone was only guaranteeing 64Kbps for its 3G network - due to go live in the middle of next year - it could not support video …

Data Networking 12 Sep 2001, 11:36
US terrorist attacks knock news sites off Internet

Thousands feared dead

17.40 GMT: It would appear the immediate threat from more terrorist threats is over, although the States has gone into a state of panic. Hundreds of buildings across the US, viewed as possible targets, have been evacuated. All airports have been shut down. Borders shut. The flood of calls into New York has jammed switchboards. …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
We take this minute for something really important

By Newsforge's Jack Bryar

You'll pardon me if I don't want to send you another of my usual articles about Linux or Open Source. I'd rather not write about the alleged evils of Microsoft. I don't want to complain about the misappropriation of public intellectual property by private interests and their lawyers. That stuff seems entirely out of place today …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
FBI Web site created for people to report terrorist activity

'Takes courage to come forward' says Attorney General

The US Government is urging anyone with information about yesterday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC to come forward and report any information they might have. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has set up a Web site for people to report information about yesterday's attack, although at the time of …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
Taleban site hacked and defaced

Osama Bin Laden not held in high esteem

The site www.taleban.com, registered to the Afghan Taleban Mission to the UN in New York, has been hacked and defaced. Reading "Taleban was again fucked by RyDen", the site now features just a picture of terrorist Osama Bin Laden - widely blamed for masterminding the attacks yesterday - alongside a few words, including "Bastard …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
America reels at terror outrage

Symbolic obliteration

A visiting tech CEO broke the news to us at 7am Pacific Time. He was at San Francisco Airport, and had just learned that all outbound flights had been cancelled. He wanted our advice on how to best get to Los Angeles quickly for two days of business meetings he had planned. "Planes have flown into the World Trade Center and the …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
NYC rescue hampered; DC inept

Updated A third building collapses

Lower Manhattan is shrouded in soot and covered in ash and debris. What appears to be an uncontrolled gas fire at the site of the World Trade Center collapse is compounding the tragedy, making it extremely difficult for emergency service and rescue workers to reach injured survivors in the immediate area. What remains of the …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 11:45
US terror attacks disrupt chip imports

Intel security 'beefed up'

As the reality of yesterday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York starts to sink in, fears are being raised over its effect on business. In the computer industry, OEMs worldwide face huge losses if US flights - used to transport PCs, chips and other electronic components, do not return to normal this week, …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 12:15
Web sites pool information on US attacks

Compile survivor lists

Following yesterday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC a number of Web sites have sprung up to help survivors inform friends and relatives that they are okay. The World Trade Center Information site at http://wtc.toto.com) provides links to a number of sites where databases of survivors are being compiled. Among …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 12:18
FBI steps up Net surveillance, following terror attack

Agents turning up with Carnivore listening boxes

The FBI has been accused of using yesterday's disaster as a way to install more of its Carnivore listening boxes into Internet systems. FBI agents have reportedly turned up at several Internet and network service providers with a number of boxes in tow and requesting permission to install them at the heart of people's networks …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 12:41
Email puts NYC relatives at ease

Phones and mobiles down but the word gets out

Email has puts thousands of relatives and friends of New York residents at ease in the last day. Phone networks have buckled under the weight of demand and through damage from the terrorist attacks, leaving thousands concerned for people's welfare. However while getting through to speak to people personally has become extremely …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 13:29
Novell frees clients with NetWare 6

Net services strategy

Novell today launched NetWare 6, its platform for the development of net services, which for the first time comes without the need to install client software. NetWare 6 is being positioned as an easy means to enable networks, composed of Windows, Unix or Mac clients, to access services such as file and print or storage over the …

Software 12 Sep 2001, 13:53
Akamai founder confirmed dead in US terrorist attack

On board American Airlines flight 11

Akamai Technologies has confirmed that Danny Lewin, its founder and chief technology officer, was one of the victims of the terrorist attack in New York yesterday. Lewin was aboard the American Airlines flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles - the first hijacked plane to crash into the World Trade Centre. The 31-year-old, who …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 14:59
US disaster causes some to slip a gear

Conspiracy and Commemmoration

It's a sad fact but whenever anything terrible happens, usually involving death, there will always be some that react bizarrely, go off on weird tangents or use the collective sorrow to draw attention to themselves. The terrorist attacks yesterday have focussed huge numbers of people on one subject as rarely before in modern …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 15:02
Microsoft ‘Xbox 2’ to use Pentium 4

Source confirms it will use Nvidia chipset too

Microsoft's Xbox successor, tentatively dubbed the HomeStation, will indeed be based on Nvidia' nForce chipset and Intel's Pentium 4 processor, a source familiar with the machine's development have told The Register. That suggests that Nvidia has or will shortly come into possession of one of Intel's Pentium 4 bus licences. …

Channel 12 Sep 2001, 15:24
Trust Wireless Audio/Video Transmitter 100V

Review Wireless Networking Kit

Our homes are gradually filling up with a multitude of entertainment systems and computer devices. While this is welcome, the cables they require are not. Getting devices to communicate without cumbersome cabling not only eases installation it also makes for a tidier house. Trust's wireless kit is designed for precisely this …

Personal 12 Sep 2001, 15:31
Titus nominees to replace resigning Interplay board members

One week ahead of AGM

Troubled American publisher Interplay has announced a "change of board composition" and future restructuring plans, with confirmation that French company Titus (which now owns 51 per cent of Interplay's stock) has nominated "a slate of individuals for election as directors at Interplay's annual meeting of stockholders". …

Games Industry 12 Sep 2001, 15:40
IBM touts world's fastest midrange server

Unix bragging rights

IBM is shipping "the world's most powerful midrange server", claiming that it outperforms larger and more expensive Sun Microsystems boxes. The eight-way p660 Model 6M1, which includes a 750 MHz RS64 IV processors featuring IBM's copper and silicon-on-insulator technologies, beat every Sun system with under 24 processor in Java …

Hardware 12 Sep 2001, 15:56
Chris Gent still under fraud investigation

Media reports wrong, says German state prosecutor

Chris Gent, the chief exec of Vodafone, is still being investigated for fraud the German authorities have said, despite media reports that it had all been called off. A spokesman for state prosecutor of Dusseldorf said that no new information had come to light that would have caused him to drop the investigation in Gent and …

Business 12 Sep 2001, 15:57
Hotmail vulnerable to JavaScript exploit

Security sent to ObLiviON

A hacker has developed a method of bypassing the JavaScript filtering mechanisms of Hotmail, in the latest security flap to hit Microsoft's Web-based email service. ObLiviON has sent details of a sample exploit that shows how to smuggle JavaScript code through Hotmail filters and into a user's In-box, to security mailing list …

Security 12 Sep 2001, 16:49
US terror attack linked with computer game

Astonishing

The first inevitable news reports linking the terrorist attacks to computer games have emerged, with Britain's Sky News suggesting earlier this afternoon that the terrorists could have used software such as Microsoft's Flight Simulator games to practice flying to other cities and crashing their planes into buildings. Despite …

Assault on America 12 Sep 2001, 16:57
Sales reps peddle through terror aftermath

Bad taste or Capitalism?

A Cisco Systems representative has apologised for an ill-considered email sent out today that suggested the terrorist-created chaos in the US was a "good opportunity" for UK resellers to sell kit here. The email said: "Please be aware that if you have customers in the city, temporary dealing rooms are being set up if they do …

Business 12 Sep 2001, 18:27