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2nd October 2001 Archive

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  • ‘Nimda fix’ Trojan disguised as security bulletin

    Don't be fooled: .exe bad; .com good

    An e-mail message claiming to come from the SecurityFocus ARIS Analyst Team and TrendMicro is being used to deliver what appears to be a Trojan horse to unsuspecting users. Do not run this attachment. These messages do not come from TrendMicro or SecurityFocus, as a quick check of the headers will reveal. The e-mail message …

    Security 2 Oct 2001, 01:20

  • Novell sues Microsoft over Netware death ad

    'It's still our flagship'

    Novell filed a lawsuit against Microsoft yesterday in its home town of Salt Lake City for making "false and misleading statements about Novell and its products in violation of state and federal laws". It's furious about some advertising Microsoft sent out to Novell customers in which the Beast of Redmond alleged Novell was …

    Software 2 Oct 2001, 10:10

  • Imation sues Quantum for Antitrust

    Updated Quantum says Imation is bitter

    Imation (a large maker of storage media) has slapped a lawsuit against Quantum (large maker of storage devices) for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In return Quantum has replied and implied that Imation is bitter about its failure to qualify its tape media product for use with its DLTtape drives and the lawsuit is a ' …

    Business 2 Oct 2001, 10:30

  • WorldCom zaps 1,000 Euro jobs

    Been nice knowing ya

    WorldCom has confirmed it is to shed 1,000 jobs in Europe - many of them in the UK. According to the FT the cuts are a continuation of WorldCom's internal merger with UUNet. WorldCom also said the cuts were as a result of the slackening demand for Internet kit. The company is also in the process of moving its European HQ from …

    Business 2 Oct 2001, 10:52

  • Carly Fiorina most powerful woman in business

    Again. New Fortune top 50 out

    Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard has retained her crown as the most powerful woman in business, according to Fortune magazine in its new top 50. Carly has topped the list every year since it was first launched in 1998. The list is very US-centric but then since most of the biggest and richest companies reside …

    Business 2 Oct 2001, 11:03

  • W3C defends RAND license

    Extends review period

    The W3C has extended the public review period for its RAND proposal - which would permit royalty-bearing proprietary technologies to become web standards for the first time in the W3C's history. The review period opened on 16 August, but it was only at the weekend, 18 hours before it was due to expire, that world+dog took …

    Music and Media 2 Oct 2001, 11:16

  • Xmas sales kick in for Electronics Boutique

    Cuts first half losses

    Electronics Boutique has reduced first half losses on the back opening new stores in Europe. The UK's largest games retailer reported a net loss of £5.5 million for the six months to June 30. It lost £6.4 million in the same period a year earlier. EB expanded its European chain to 486 stores in the last year, up from 353 at …

    Games Industry 2 Oct 2001, 11:22

  • Semiconductor sales down 42% in August

    Return to growth forecast for early next year

    Worldwide semiconductor sales in August were just $10.49 billion, down $7.59 billion or 42 per cent from the $18.08 billion recorded a year ago, according to the latest figures from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). SIA reports that August sales were also down 3.4 per cent on July revenues of $10.86 billion, as a …

    Channel 2 Oct 2001, 11:34

  • Expiring OSes? Check the Windows ‘best before’ dates

    NT 4 gets it this week, massacre due in December...

    Microsoft claiming Novell products have an expiration date will have prompted gales of laughter in IT departments throughout the world. Redmond itself is home of the expiration date, habitually unleashes a 'new' operating system on us every year, and deploys a battery of weapons - retirement of MCP (Microsoft Certified …

    Software 2 Oct 2001, 11:40

  • Viral plague benefits Sophos

    Profits up 65% and plans to create 160 jobs

    Anti-virus specialist Sophos has posted annual results that show profits are up 65 per cent. It's also announced plans to expand its operations, creating 160 jobs. For the year ended 31 March 2001, Sophos made £7.8 million on a turnover of £22.6 million compared to profits of £4.7 million it recorded on a turnover of £14.7 …

    Malware 2 Oct 2001, 12:03

  • Time claims 1GB RAM PC breakthrough

    Not quite the 'greatest'

    Time Computers is marketing its latest desktop PC with the slogan "I am the Greatest", and to justify the claim it's packed it with 1GB RAM.. The slogan is reminiscent of boasts surrounding great boxing matches involving Prince Naseem Hamed or Lennox Lewis (surely Mohammed Ali - Ed). And Time's boast for the machine is that …

    Personal 2 Oct 2001, 15:26

  • Top Cisco execs forego bonuses

    CEO Chambers' stock options sunk underwater

    Top Cisco executives have forgone bonuses this year as falling demand, particularly from key telco customers, continues to affect the performance of the networking giant. Chief executive John Chambers received no income from stock options this year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made this …

    Business 2 Oct 2001, 15:40

  • Robbers hit Microtronica for £500K

    Look out for P4 2GHz chips on the cheap

    Thieves have raided PC component distributor Microtronica UK and made off with £500,000 worth of kit. Trays of Pentium 4 2GHz chips made up most of the haul. Microtronica, which is part of the Arrow Group, was hit at the weekend. UK MD, Les Billing, said the job was done extremely professionally, but could not comment on …

    Channel 2 Oct 2001, 15:55

  • Iomart call centre ‘tampered with’

    Whodunnit?

    Police have been called in to investigate the alleged tampering of phone lines at Iomart's call centre in Stornoway. Communications at the Scottish broadband provider's call centre were snagged yesterday although repaired after a couple of hours downtime. Sources have told El Reg that someone took a pair of shears to Iomart's …

    Telecoms 2 Oct 2001, 16:16

  • Thousands of idiots still infected by SirCam

    Still the most common mass mailing virus

    The Nimda worm might be the worst virus at the desktop level but SirCam continues to be the most widely circulated email-borne virus. That's the conclusion we draw from September statistics on viruses blocked by MessageLabs, a managed service provider that scans its users email for viruses. MessageLabs blocked 143,949 emails …

    Malware 2 Oct 2001, 16:31

  • Amstrad CEO resigns over Sir Sugar's emailer obsession

    Flawed device bringing down company

    The CEO of Amstrad, Bob Watkins, has resigned after 25 years with the company, less than a week after it had unveiled yet another poor set of results. The reason is believed to be chief exec Sir Alan Sugar's obsession with the emailer device - a phone that lets you send emails. The emailer has been a fantastic failure, cost the …

    Personal 2 Oct 2001, 16:38

  • Sun unveils kinder, gentler StarOffice

    Office software masochists, rejoice!

    Office software masochists, rejoice! Hot on the heels of Office XP, Sun has made a beta of StarOffice 6.0 available for download. It's the first major update in the suite for eighteen months, and in the intervening period there's been a drastic change of license: the code's slipped away from the lease of Sun's Community License …

    Software 2 Oct 2001, 17:05

  • Intel releases 1.2GHz Celeron

    Straight after AMD's 1.1GHz Duron

    Just one day after AMD's launch of its 1.1GHz Duron processor, Intel has released a new Celeron chip, running at an increased clock speed of 1.2GHz. The processor includes features such as 256KB on-chip, level two cache with a high-bandwidth interface to the processor core. In quantities of a thousand, the chips are selling at …

    Channel 2 Oct 2001, 17:33

  • Afilias' .info launch hurt by backstage shenanigans

    Cock-up cover up

    The arrival of the first Web sites using new top-level domains has been greeted with joy by Internet enthusiasts this week. However, the success of finally enlarging the Net despite years of arguments has been undermined by the bad-tempered behaviour of the board of the company behind the .info TLD, Afilias. It has been …

    Music and Media 2 Oct 2001, 17:47

  • Web standards schism ‘terrible’ – W3C patent policy boss

    But it's heading that way...

    A web standards schism would be "a terrible thing", says the man at the centre of the firestorm over the blessing of royalty-bearing patents by the World Wide Web Consortium. Danny Weitzner is the head of the W3C's Patent Policy Working Group, and we caught up with him earlier today. We raised the prospect of a breakaway after …

    Music and Media 2 Oct 2001, 19:28

  • Carnivore substitute keeps Feds honest

    Mitigating on-line terrorist witch hunts

    The Forensics Explorers division of CTX has lately come to market with a Carnivore-like suite called NetWitness which, the company says, can enable ISPs to surrender to the Feds only those specific bits of information about a suspect which a court has authorized for collection. The NetWitness package can separate data to ensure …

    Security 2 Oct 2001, 20:33