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  • Sun WTC staff are all alive

    Minor miracles

    Although it may look like clutching at straws after the slaughter of so many lives, minor miracles do appear have taken place. Brokers Morgan Stanley occupied 25 floors of the World Trade Center, employing 3,500. Remarkably only 15 are missing. All 340 of the staff in Sun Microsystems' field office at the South Tower has been …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 08:40

  • Kimble.org offers $10m reward for arrest of bin Laden

    Revulsion at US terror attacks

    Kim Schmitz - computer hacker turned Internet millionaire - is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading directly to the arrest of Usama bin Laden, the man many believe is behind the terror attacks in the US. A statement on Schmitz's home page, kimble.org reads: "Kimble.org most wanted terrorist. "Murder …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 09:27

  • Handspring pre-announces two new Visor PDAs

    Pro and Neo due Monday

    Handspring will launch two new PDAs next week, the Visors Pro and Neo, the company has admitted after some initial shipments hit store shelves too soon. The existence of both models was leaked in August, but the rumoured ship date came and went with nothing but a 'there's nothing going to happen' message from Handspring. The …

    Personal 14 Sep 2001, 09:44

  • ‘Fluffi Bunni’ hacker declares Jihad

    Netnames customers affected

    An undisclosed number of Web sites have had their front page redirected by "Fluffi Bunni" in response to the events that have shaken the world. They all appear to be victims of a hacking of the DNS( Domain Name Sytstem Server) of NetNames, a domain name registrar. Entitled "Fluffi Bunni goes Jihad", those behind the hack say …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 10:04

  • Be to appeal against Nasdaq de-listing

    Just in case Palm deal falls through

    Alternative operating system vendor Be has been threatened with having its stock booted off Nasdaq. Under the stock exchange's rules, if a company's shares fall below $1 for more than 30 consecutive trading days, the company risks being de-listed. It has 90 more days to get its shareprice back over $1 - or else. And that's …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 10:44

  • Palm gets snotty with Palm-friendly Web sites

    License and use the names we tell you to - or else

    Palm has been tacitly threatening Web sites set up by fans of its PDAs with legal action for alleged trademark infringement if they don't license the company's name or change their own. A number of sites, including PalmSorcerer, PalmGuru and PalmLoyal, have been told by Palm that they must come up the new monikers or modify …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 10:49

  • Hard times for Linux biz

    Scaldera's turn

    A day after Caldera-spin off Lineo laid off 22 per cent of its staff, Caldera itself confirmed fifty one redundancies. Up to 20 per cent more are expected according to Linuxgram, which first caught wind of the redundancies a couple of weeks ago. Caldera, which finally acquired SCO's Unix on Intel business earlier this year …

    Software 14 Sep 2001, 11:06

  • Anonymous Remailers Survive Politech Attack

    Privacy, free speech networks not cowed

    The anonymous remailer network isn't closing, despite an alarmist and inaccurate story by Wired's Declan McCullagh, and postings to his own widely-read Politech mailing list. Len Sassaman, a security expert and privacy advocate who runs the Randseed remailer, is cited by McCullagh as having "pulled the plug" on his system in …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 11:29

  • MS forecasts XP will generate £13.2bn in UK

    But everyone's got to buy everything

    Microsoft is forecasting the launch of Windows XP will generate £13.2 billion in IT sales across the UK in the year following its launch. The figure includes software upgrades, new PCs, and other bits of kit like printers, memory, scanners, CD-Rs, digital cameras, and the rest. Microsoft's UK group marketing manager Nick …

    Channel 14 Sep 2001, 11:57

  • HP ships chipset staffers to Intel

    PA-Risc next, no doubt, once Intel has Alpha and HP has Compaq

    Hewlett-Packard has transferred nearly 100 chipset designers to Intel, almost certainly to develop Itanium support chips. That's what they did at HP, after all. They also worked on chipsets designed to work with HP's PA-Risc processor line. For some time now, Intel has relied on third-parties, such as ServerWorks and Micron, …

    Channel 14 Sep 2001, 11:58

  • Down's Syndrome screening failures linked to Y2K bug

    150 pregnant women affected

    More than 150 pregnant women may have been given incorrect results from a test for Down's Syndrome because of the Y2K software bug. Between January 4 and May 24 last year, the PathLAN system at Northern General Hospital, which processed results of the screening of mothers at nine hospitals in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and …

    Software 14 Sep 2001, 12:02

  • Airline security measures damage e-ticket simplicity

    More checking

    New security measures installed at the request of the FAA at all US airports will remove much of the simplicity of tickets bought over the Internet. Previously, passengers needed only to show a valid form of ID like a driving licence at the gate to catch an internal flight. Now however, passengers will be required to present a …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 12:06

  • Letter from Cisco

    Duncan Mitchell writes

    I read your story 'Sales reps peddle through terror aftermath'(12/09/2001) with great distress. The content of the email you refer to is in incredibly bad taste and the story is categorically NOT representative of mine nor any of my colleagues' thoughts at this time. Our number one priority right now is people - families, …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 12:21

  • So how much memory does XP need?

    Opinion is divided

    Microsoft's XP sales push to UK system builders, at the annual Personal Computer Association conference, prompted friendly discussion on the memory requirement for the OS. A few laughs of disbelief, and mutters of "No way will it run on that" and "As if", met group marketing man Nick McGrath's word on the subject. He said 64MB …

    Channel 14 Sep 2001, 12:36

  • STMicro trims workforce by 2500

    650 sent pink slips

    STMicroelectronics intends to rid itself of six per cent of its workforce - some 2500 staff in total - this year, although only 650 of them will be fired. The rest will go through voluntary redundancy schemes, the company has said in an email sent to the Bloomberg newswire. The announcement follows a report in the La Tribune …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 12:48

  • This is how we know Echelon exists

    European Parliament report

    The European Parliament published its report into the Echelon spying system last week in which it concluded it did exist, was against the law and that the UK had a lot of explaining to do. We've sifted through about 100 of the 194 pages and decided that since no one had yet to officially admit its existence, you may be …

    Security 14 Sep 2001, 13:45

  • Anna Kournikova virus author stands trial

    Lenient sentence in prospect

    The author of the infamous Anna Kournikova email worm has appeared in court in the Netherlands with prosecutors calling for a lenient sentence for his admitted crime. Lawyers for 20-year old Jan de Wit have called for the dismissal of charges against him, arguing that the worm caused minimal damange. The FBI submitted evidence …

    Security 14 Sep 2001, 13:58

  • Creditors cast doubt on Hynix bail-out plan

    Another entry for fuckedcompany.com?

    Hynix's $5.4 billion debt rescue plan is, like the troubled memory maker itself, in danger of collapse after a creditors' meeting failed to back the company's plan. Essentially, Hynix wants to borrow a further 500 billion won. It also wants the banks to extend its repayment terms for 2.1 trillion won it has already been lent, …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 14:25

  • UK shares out £25m XP ad bonanza

    Big Booty

    Microsoft will spend £10 million marketing XP in the UK. Add in the marketing spend from Intel and the major PC manufacturers and the figure is expected to hit £25 million. Microsoft group marketing manager Nick McGrath likens the spend to the amount used in launching a new car. The OS comes out on 25 October but gets its big …

    Channel 14 Sep 2001, 16:20

  • PC builders have to sell 20% more kit to stand still

    Average selling price slides

    UK system builders have to sell 20 per cent more kit than they did last year just to stand still. This is the view of Rafi Razzak, MD of Centerprise, the company which builds Dixons' Advent brand PCs. Razzak made the observation at the Personal Computer Association annual conference where he acted as chairman. He was trying to …

    Channel 14 Sep 2001, 16:25

  • BTopenworld to get new chief exec

    Andy Green to head up BT Ignite

    BTopenworld is looking for a new chief exec following today's announcement that CEO Andy Green is to take charge of BT Ignite from November. The current BT Ignite CEO, Alfred Mockett, is to step down at the end of November to take up a position as chairman and CEO of an as yet unnamed US-based public company. The monster telco …

    Business 14 Sep 2001, 16:27

  • SSL toolkit flaw poses risk

    RSA patch

    A vulnerability has been discovered in versions of software development toolkits from RSA Security, which could allow an attacker to bypass SSL client authentication. In a security notice on the issue, RSA said the vulnerability meant that hackers "might potentially gain access to data intended only for authorised users". The …

    Security 14 Sep 2001, 16:44

  • Over-zealous mourners backtrack

    Collecting thoughts

    It's hard to know how to react when something on the scale of the recent attacks occurs, however in attempting to do something tangible to express their concern, some people got carried away. The CEO of one company sent out a company-wide email an hour after the attack which said: "We would like to also say on record that if …

    Assault on America 14 Sep 2001, 16:46

  • DNS mega-hack hits thousands of sites

    More on Fluffi Bunni Jihad

    Thousands of UK Web sites registered with domain name registrar NetNames had their front pages redirected to a rant by hacker Fluffi Bunni this morning. Jonathan Robinson, chief executive at Net Benefit, which runs the NetNames registration and hosting service, told us that the "majority" of its 100,000 customers had their Web …

    Security 14 Sep 2001, 22:07