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  • Palm leaks unannounced m125 onto Web – then pulls it

    But not before we confirmed our previous stories...

    Palm yesterday posted on its Web site pages devoted to its upcoming m125 PDA - and then pulled them as many of its fans started taking a look at the new machine. According to Register readers who saw the additions to Palm's site before they were yanked, the machine's spec. turns out to be pretty much what last month's leaks had …

    Personal 19 Sep 2001, 08:42

  • Palm m525 to boast built-in Bluetooth

    End tangled HotSync cable misery

    Palm's follow-up to its m505 PDA, the m525, will connect to the outside world through a Bluetooth wireless link. That's what a "source who has asked to remain anonymous" has told Palm Infocenter, at any rate. Said source also indicated that the m525 will boast a better screen than the m505, although the screen resolution and …

    Personal 19 Sep 2001, 09:10

  • Dell to launch Intel's 2GHz Xeon any day now

    Announcing ahead of chip's formal launch

    Dell will shortly announce workstations based on two of Intel's 2GHz Xeon processors four weeks ahead of the CPU's formal launch, system builder sources have told The Register. The 2GHz Xeon - based on the Pentium 4 - was delayed last month by Intel for what the company described as extra validation. The server and workstation- …

    Channel 19 Sep 2001, 09:36

  • BT's 192 service faces competition

    Telegate says it will compete

    BT is to lose its near-monopoly for providing directory enquiry services telecoms regulator, Oftel, confirmed today. The Winged Watchdog said the move would promote greater innovation, lower prices and an improved quality of service than is currently being provided in the UK. It made its decision to deregulate the market after …

    Business 19 Sep 2001, 10:24

  • Mitsubishi to double chip unit job cuts

    1000 more contractors to lose contracts

    Mitsubishi, Japan's fifth biggest chip maker, will rid itself of 2000 staff employed by its semiconductor operation - twice the number it said last week it would eliminate in the light of a collapse in the company's projected earnings. Chip production will be cut 26 per cent. The company currently employs 8000 people, around …

    Channel 19 Sep 2001, 10:39

  • Rambus rises on Intel investment

    Shares up 16.5% yesterday, 7% Tuesday

    Rambus' shares rose rather better than they had the previous day, the effect of a second day of investor confidence in the company after it announced it would be making $200 million over the next five years out of a licensing deal with Intel. In the immediate aftermath of Monday's annoucement, RMBS shares closed on Tuesday up …

    Business 19 Sep 2001, 11:28

  • Online travel industry reeling from US attacks

    Share collapses, job losses, services suspended

    The online travel industry, specifically the airlines themselves, are still reeling from the terrorist attacks in the US last week. Share prices of online travel agents have plummeted and several US airlines have warned they may have to declare themselves bankrupt unless federal aid is forthcoming. The shining light of Internet …

    e-Business 19 Sep 2001, 12:00

  • BTopenwoe ditches portal plans

    It's all about access don't you know

    BTopenworld has completed a U-turn on part of its broadband strategy by deciding to concentrate almost solely on providing access and ditching plans to create a portal of broadband content. Instead of creating a "walled garden" of content BT's Internet division will instead focus on providing limited content in just four or …

    Telecoms 19 Sep 2001, 12:08

  • Online shoppers are getting ripped off

    Says global consumers group

    Online shoppers are still being ripped off according to the latest survey from Consumers International. The global federation of more than 260 consumer organisations in 120 countries found that eshoppers still can't shop with confidence with too many etailers failing to deliver the goods, as it were. In its second report …

    e-Business 19 Sep 2001, 13:38

  • Norway – is it part of Europe or what?

    Reg Shop offends entire nation

    The big debate raging today at Vulture Central centres on Norway, to whit, is it part of Europe, or what? This polemic was provoked by a large number of Norwegians complaining bitterly about their country's status on our Cash'n'Carrion Register shop. The obstreperous emails in question focus on Norway's economic relationship …

    Bootnotes 19 Sep 2001, 13:44

  • Meet Ziggy Switkowski

    He's the man Australia blames for their crap Net access

    The head of incumbent telco Telstra has become a hate figure throughout the Australian Net community because in his wisdom he has decided that even those paying Au$90 (£30) for a DSL account will have a 3Gb per month cap on their usage. This man is Ziggy Switkowski and he's not flavour of the month. He claims the cap is …

    Telecoms 19 Sep 2001, 13:51

  • Wintel forces raise the fault-tolerance standard

    Combatting market knowledge

    Fault-tolerance = Unix (or Proprietary), right? Wrong, in June this year, Stratus, the veteran maker of fault-tolerant servers, debuted its first system based on Windows 2000 and Intel chips. The company has now joined forces with five other firms, including Microsoft and Intel naturally, to educate the IT world about this " …

    Hardware 19 Sep 2001, 15:24

  • BT kits out 1,000th DSL exchange

    Available to 13m homes

    BT Wholesale today hit a significant milestone in the roll-out of broadband in Britain with the announcement that it has installed ADSL kit in its 1000th exchange. The "historic" exchange is in Livingston in the east of Scotland. It's not known if a plaque will be mounted on the exchange wall to commemorate this worthy event. …

    Telecoms 19 Sep 2001, 15:36

  • MSN.co.uk begins Web email migration

    Users confused

    All has not gone smoothly with the migration of MSN's UK customers to Web-based email accounts. At the beginning of the month, subscribers of MSN.co.uk (which still has 15,000 active users) were corralled from a POP3-based email system to a system very similar to (but not the same as) Hotmail. According to Microsoft, this was …

    Music and Media 19 Sep 2001, 15:47

  • Hackers lash out at Islamic Usenet group

    Cyber Vigilantes

    S'kiddies have taken out the mail server used by the moderators of an Islamic Usenet group in the latest of a serious of untargeted attacks by "vigilante" hackers following last week's terrorist attacks on the US. The admin of soc.religion.islam told us that hackers threw a mail attack against its server over the weekend which …

    Security 19 Sep 2001, 15:58

  • Software firm takes on mighty financial watchdog

    Cybersquatting? Hardly

    A UK software company is being forced to defend itself against the attentions of the UK's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA is insisting that the company hand over its www.fsa.co.uk domain name for the simple reason that it is trying to pass itself off as the independent non-government body it …

    Music and Media 19 Sep 2001, 16:05

  • M$ unveils Office for OS X

    It's pricey

    Microsoft will ship Office for Mac OS X in November for a decidedly steep $499. Whatever the price, Apple will be pleased to see the new software. Its next-generation operating system isdue to be upgraded itself this month, to version 10.1, and will arguably be ready for prime time. It won't make it there unless users have …

    Mac Channel 19 Sep 2001, 16:05