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  • Twelve attackers identified, 50 suspected

    It's not like they expected to get away

    If there's any good news here, it's that those on a suicide mission have little motive to cover their tracks. Indeed, most of the hijackers involved in Tuesday's suicide attacks in New York and Washington were hiding in plain sight and so left considerable evidence behind, including credit card records and suicide notes. Thus a …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 06:34

  • Heat brought the towers down

    The cold mechanics of molten metal

    If the sight of planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers was astonishing, watching them collapse into dust was quite beyond belief. Hollywood does this sort of thing with little balsa models and computer graphics. I watched it, all right; but my brain kept insisting, fiction. Pure fiction. This shit just doesn't happen …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 10:07

  • Intel vs VIA – get it sorted, demand Mobo makers

    Not interested, just want it over and done with

    Intel suing VIA? Pah! VIA countersuing Intel? Tish and pish! Taiwan's mobo makers couldn't give the proverbial flying fig for the two chip makers' spat. It will have no effect on their shipment plans, sources close to the likes of Asus, MSI and Gigabyte have said, according to DigiTimes. In a way they're actually looking …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 10:11

  • Lycos Europe axes 300 jobs

    More dotcom woe

    Lycos Europe is to axe 300 jobs in a bid to cut costs amid the slump in online ad sales. It claims that the major restructuring will help it to slash its quarterly EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, etc) losses from around E40 million (£25 million) to as little as E10 million (£6 million) by June next year. Three countries …

    e-Business 13 Sep 2001, 10:14

  • Amazon and Yahoo in disaster relief fund appeal

    Red Cross cash to help victims

    Leading Net names including Amazon and Yahoo are helping to raise cash for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The charity's Web site, redcross.org, has been overwhelmed by people seeking to donate cash in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US. So much so, its urging people to use different methods of payment to …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 10:32

  • AMD, Intel, Transmeta, VIA to go into launch frenzy on 15 October

    New chips, architectures, roadmaps to be revealed

    AMD will spill the beans on its Hammer 64-bit CPU architecture and how it extends the x86 instruction set into the 64-bit space on 15 October. On the same day, Intel is expected to make public its desktop, mobile and server processor roadmaps - and reveal further details of its next-generation mobile processor, Banias. And if …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 11:06

  • Mafiaboy given eight months

    Hailed by lawyers as 'strong message' to hackers

    Teenage hacker Mafiaboy has been sentenced to eight months in a youth detention centre. Lawyers have called it a "strong message" to the hacking community. But then they would. Mafiaboy - a 17-year-old from Montreal, Canada - committed a crime when he knackered Internet sites including eBay, Yahoo and Buy.com, said the judge. …

    Security 13 Sep 2001, 11:12

  • 3G is crap: BT

    Or words to that effect

    The 3G phone networks will be rubbish, a leaked document from BT announces. The FT managed to get hold of a copy of the draft document for the float of BT Wireless - sorry, mmO2 - in which, by law, all the financial risks faced by the company have to be laid out. In it, BT warns that UMTS - the system which 3G will be built on …

    Data Networking 13 Sep 2001, 11:17

  • WTC assault may delay Nanya share issue

    Terrorists have undermined investor confidence

    Taiwanese memory maker Nanya will decide shortly whether to delay its planned NT$8 billion ($232 million) overseas share sale. Behind the move are fears that Tuesday's terrorist action will further weaken computer sales and investor confidence in the IT sector, Nanya vice-president Charles Kau told Bloomberg. With memory sales …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 11:19

  • Maxtor intros monster drives

    They're big

    Maxtor this week began volume shipments of a very big, very fast hard drive (HDD) and announced a even bigger, and even faster HDD, supposedly the biggest and fastest drive the world has ever seen. (Actually, the company is claiming the world's biggest desktop drive - Seagate has a 180GB monster.) Shipping is the 80GB …

    Personal 13 Sep 2001, 11:23

  • UK MBO for Touch PC biz

    Handhelds break free

    The British management team of Touchstar Technologies has bought the company for an undisclosed sum. Venture funding was supplied by Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC). Touchstar is the maker of TouchPC rugged, hand-held computers and application software. Turnover is £17m and the business operates out of five locations in …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 11:45

  • Taiwan's DRAM makers prepare for Micron's anti-dumping suit

    Harsh competition in memory biz about to get harsher

    US memory maker Micron is unlikely to take legal action against its Taiwanese rivals for alleged product dumping. So said Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association president Gordon Chen this week, but he was sufficiently sure that there is a chance Micron will sue to warn the company that such a move will not go down at all …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 12:29

  • Korean chip exports fell 62% in August

    Full-year fall put at 31-35%

    Korea's chip makers will have seen their exports shrink 31-35 per cent by the time the year is up, the Korean Semiconductor Industry Association has said. Last year they exported $26 billion worth of semiconductors. This year that figure will fall to $17-18 billion - just above the 1998 figure of $17 billion. It's a sign of …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 12:30

  • Europa IT mops up rest of Karma

    Unveils new trading name

    Europa IT this week announced the acquisition of several country operations of Karma, the European hard drive distie - and a new trading name for the business. The group now claims an annual turnover of $1bn, making it Europe's tenth biggest IT distribution group. Europa IT was formed by MBO last year from the remnants of the …

    Channel 13 Sep 2001, 12:31

  • Ireland gets ADSL

    It ain't cheap and it's capped

    Eircom has announced the launch of Ireland's first commercially available ADSL service. Branded "eircom i-stream", the incumbent Irish telco said it will invest more than E125 million (£77 million) over the next five years to fund the roll-out of the broadband service. The telco added that the service would initially be …

    Telecoms 13 Sep 2001, 13:10

  • Lineo axes 22% of staff

    Another 37% to be lost as non-core projects are sold off

    Embedded Linux specialist Lineo is getting rid of over half of its staff, through a mix of redundancies and reassignment to "peripheral" projects the company hopes to sell or spin off. Sixty staff will be sent pink slips. Another hundred are left wondering when they will leave the company. Some 110 workers will be retained to …

    Business 13 Sep 2001, 14:21

  • Guillemot Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2 Pro

    Review Joystick

    Some games are more sensitive than others, with USAF ranking highly in this department - try to play it with a Microsoft SideWinder Pro and you'll end up eating a fair amount of tarmac. It's a fine contender, then, to put the Top Gun Fox 2 Pro through its paces. Control of the game was significantly easier than with the …

    Personal 13 Sep 2001, 14:28

  • Online merchant emails customer credit card details

    Bone-headed security breach

    Dabs.com has booted merchants BuyB4Sold.com off its Dabsxchange auction site after the latter committed a serious security breach involving its customers' credit card details. On 7 September BuyB4Sold.com distributed an email to their customers, who had purchased products from a virtual auction hosted by Dabs, with an Excel …

    e-Business 13 Sep 2001, 16:19

  • Scoot.com seeks buyer, new partner

    Losses stack up

    Scoot.com is looking to find a buyer for its business or a strategic partner to inject capital into the operation, the Yellow Pages-like outfit confirmed today. Announcing depressing figures for the first half of the year the troubled dotcom said it would have to consider its options if it could not sell the company or attract …

    e-Business 13 Sep 2001, 16:48

  • Anti-spammers compared to terrorists

    Tacky

    A mass marketing firm has sent out an email that compares anti-spammers to terrorists in a tirade that has infuriated Register readers. The email from StealthLaunch/PopLaunch starts off by giving contact details for organisations involved in support services following Tuesday's Terrorist attack in America, before launching into …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 16:58

  • NTL incurs wrath following yet another misleading ad

    ASA close to losing rag

    NTL has been found guilty of producing misleading advertisements again and the Advertising Standards Authority is very close to losing its rag. This month's adjudications - published yesterday - featured an incredible four complaints against NTL, covering five ads. All were upheld. It was guilty on several counts of …

    Telecoms 13 Sep 2001, 17:02

  • Cisco intros mid-range optical routers

    Routy tooty, shake your booty

    Cisco has launched a range of optical routers aimed at reviving its flatlining service provider services business. The Cisco 7300 Series Internet Router and enhancements to the Cisco 7600 Series Internet Router are designed to offer multi-protocol routing capability at optical speeds. As part of the Cisco 7000 family of …

    Data Networking 13 Sep 2001, 17:11

  • IT recruitment company pulls offensive job ad

    Updated More New York disaster woes

    UK IT recruitment company Mortimer Spinks has pulled a bad-taste job ad from the Internet and its managing director has issued a formal apology. The company has also posted the apology at the front of its Web site and you need to click on it to enter the main site. Why such a strong response? Well, this was the ad that was …

    Assault on America 13 Sep 2001, 17:15

  • SunFire 15000 – we have more details

    Mainframe for the networked data centre

    Details of the specification of Sun Microsystems' long-awaited replacement to its top of the range Unix server, the E10000, have been leaked to The Register. The SunFire 15000, which was due to be launched in New York on September 26, is supplied with up to 106 UltraSPARC III Cu 900 processors and 576GB of main memory. …

    Hardware 13 Sep 2001, 21:18