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  • Bruce Schneier on crypto, the FBI, privacy and more

    A special issue of Crypto-Gram

    This is a special issue of Crypto-Gram, devoted to the September 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. Please distribute this issue widely. In this issue: The Attacks Airline Security Regulations Biometrics in Airports Diagnosing Intelligence Failures Regulating Cryptography Terrorists and Steganography News …

    Assault on America 3 Oct 2001, 03:05

  • Intel's Desktop Roadmap

    Updated Tulloch, Brookdale details; 533MHz FSB P4s and more

    With the 2GHz Pentium 4 nicely launched, Intel's attention will now turn to its successor, the 0.13 micron die-shrink codenamed Northwood, due to ship in November at 2GHz and 2.2GHz. Boxed versions of the new CPUs will follow hard on the heels of the OEM releaseas, according to channel roadmaps see by The Register. Said …

    Channel 3 Oct 2001, 10:33

  • We'll fork the Web to keep it Free – Perens

    Momentum gathers against W3C

    Free software developers are ready and willing to take up the challenge of creating open web standards, if the W3C implements royalty-bearing licenses. So says open source leader Bruce Perens, in one of the first responses to our Q and A with the man steering the W3C's patent policy, Danny Weitzner, where the issue of a forked …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 10:42

  • DSL should be £20 a month, says report

    High prices are the 'death knell for DSL'

    DSL services must be subsidised if the price is to fall sufficiently to make it a mass-market broadband product. A report handed to the Government last week claims that the pricing of ADSL is a "huge issue" and warns that the proposed price point of around £50 a month is regarded as a "death knell for ADSL". The view of the …

    Telecoms 3 Oct 2001, 10:45

  • A masterclass in ISP nonsense from 08002go.com

    You'll love this

    When is a business not out of business? When the managing director of 08002go.com says so. In a hilarious bout of ostrich hide-and-seek, Dennis Cawley has attempted to persuade customers that everything is hunky dory despite the fact that the entire service is to be shut down from today. Thing is though, it'll all be up and …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 10:56

  • BT urges reasoned debate on broadband

    Let's not get 'disconnected from reality', says Bonfield

    Sir Peter Bonfield, chief exec of BT, has warned that the public debate over broadband has become "disconnected from reality" and that hi-speed Net access is not "the answer to everything". He said that Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) had dominated the agenda when it was just a minor part of the broadband revolution. And he …

    Telecoms 3 Oct 2001, 11:01

  • Nortel reaches rock bottom

    And gets its pick axe out

    Nortel Networks has revised its forecasts to warn of deeper net losses of $3.6 billion on lower than expected revenues of $3.5 billion. Nortel's losses include restructuring charges of $735 million, extraordinary charges of $1.3 billion and ongoing amortisation of intangible assets of $650 million, as well as operating losses …

    Business 3 Oct 2001, 11:20

  • VIA September sales fall further

    Down on last year and on last month

    VIA sold NT$2.598 billion ($75.268 million) worth of silicon last month. That's well down on the NT$3.538 billion it sold during September 2000 - a decline of 26.56 per cent, to be precise. And it's worse than August, too - a surprise, perhaps, given that September is traditionally the best month in Q3 by a fair margin. VIA …

    Channel 3 Oct 2001, 11:30

  • 3ware ends life of Escalade storage line

    Has it told its UK sales channel?

    3ware, an American enterprise storage vendor, has decided to drop its Escalade line of storage switch products and focus solely on its Palinade line. The move was announced through an official document entitled "End-of-Life Announcement" and states that "3ware has made the strategic decision to focus its business on the …

    Channel 3 Oct 2001, 12:12

  • ATI nudges toward profitability

    Adjusted income - unadjusted loss

    ATI today said it made $2.2 million (one cent a share) in the three months to 31 August, the company's final quarter of its 2001 fiscal year. The quarter's revenues came in at $229.1 million, a 6.7 per cent fall on the same period last year. However, gross margins rose 5.5 per cent to 29.6 per cent and operating expenses fell 2 …

    Business 3 Oct 2001, 12:22

  • MS forecasts double-digit PC growth

    When upturn comes

    This year, PC sales worldwide will fall for the first time, and the longterm prognosis for the market is poor, according to some pundits. The US, accounting for 40 per cent of PC sales, is saturated -everyone who wants a PC has got one, so it's now becoming a replacement business. Europe, accounting for another 40 per cent or …

    Personal 3 Oct 2001, 12:26

  • Colt Telecom riding high after funding scare ends

    Shares up 43 per cent

    Colt Telecom has dramatically recovered from funding worries today with the announcement that major shareholder Fidelity is to increase its stake from 47.7 per cent to 54 per cent. Colt said this morning it was planning to release 650 million new shares at 62 pence each in order to raise enough money for business expansion - …

    Business 3 Oct 2001, 12:33

  • Azlan in reverse profits warning

    Upbeat statement

    Azlan, the European networking distie/trainingfirm , has broken through the doom and gloom with an upbeat trading statement. Sales for the half year to September 30, will "exceed £297 million (£262m) and pre-tax profits will exceed £7 million (2000: £5.4m). Second quarter revenues were up £7m sequentially, and £5m up on Q2 …

    Channel 3 Oct 2001, 13:07

  • BEA under attack from IBM

    What firepower has it got?

    Reports from Reuters indicate that BEA is going to come under intensified pressure from IBM as Big Blue has set about bundling WebSphere with its servers and has also developed a partnership with a European software house that, previously, worked with BEA. The major attack on BEA's share of the market will come from IBM's plans …

    Hardware 3 Oct 2001, 13:19

  • New .info roll-out in all sorts of trouble

    A storm brewing

    The "landrush" for new .info domains is exposing weaknesses in its registrar's infrastructure and already protest sites are sprouting up. We've explained previously how the company that runs the new domain, Afilias, has tried to keep a huge number of pirate registrations quiet - leading to the resignation of one of its key …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 13:36

  • Openwoe offers free DSL installation for existing punters

    Roll up, roll up, one month only...

    BTopenworld is offering 850,000 existing narrowband customers the chance to upgrade to its broadband DSL service for nowt. The offer only runs for October but means that punters won't have to cough up £75 for installation. The promo is one of a number initiatives designed to give a fillip to demand, something which BT …

    Telecoms 3 Oct 2001, 13:42

  • Win XP doesn't work with WorksSuite Money 2001

    Updated System builders may delay XP launch

    There is a very serious issue with Microsoft's WorksSuite Money 2001 product working on Windows XP - it doesn't. And this means system builders may delay selling XP based machines. Money 2001 is a component of Microsoft's WorksSuite 2001, which is a common software option on many system builders’ machines. The other Works …

    Software 3 Oct 2001, 14:08

  • FBI lists 20 most dangerous Internet security holes

    Start patching

    The FBI has teamed up with the industry experts to formulate a list of the 20 most important Internet security vulnerabilities. Acting as a resource to show which security holes of common platforms should be prioritised, the list covers general vulnerabilities, as well as bugs specifically affecting Windows and Unix boxes. A …

    Security 3 Oct 2001, 14:13

  • EMI signs to Pressplay

    One step closer to a better, more competitive digital music model

    EMI has taken the first step toward the creation of a universal digital music delivery platform by licensing its back catalogue to Pressplay, nominally a rival to EMI's joint venture with BMG and Warner, MusicNet. We say 'nominally' because to all intents and purposes Pressplay and MusicNet actually compete as much as a butcher …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 15:26

  • RIAA targets post-Napster MP3 sharers

    Will have a much tougher time bringing them to heel

    The Recording Industry Ass. of America has sued peer-to-peer MP3 file sharing services FastTrack, Grokster and MusicCity. We can't say we're entirely surprised. Having neutered Napster, it was only a matter of time before the RIAA targeted other networks designed to allow at best music buyers to share songs and at worst lots of …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 16:18

  • DRAM forecast to sink below $1 in Q4

    RDRAM is on the up, though

    DRAM is forecast to plummet through the $1 barrier before the end of the year. The DRAMeXchange forum has revised its estimate that $1 time would occur in Q1 2002, and now reckons Q4 2001. It has stated that some prices are already touching as low as $1.15. The positive outlook offered on the scenario was that the sooner the …

    Channel 3 Oct 2001, 17:23

  • Zimmermann defends strong crypto against govt assault

    Backdoors are 'worse than futile'

    Strong cryptography does more good for society than harm and placing backdoors in encryption products to allow law enforcement access to plain text messages would be "worse than futile", encryption guru Phil Zimmermann told The Register today. Zimmermann, the creator of the popular email encryption package PGP, told us that …

    Security 3 Oct 2001, 17:40

  • W3C denies misleading world+dog on RAND license status

    But it's already in Beta

    The W3C today denied that it has misled the web community on the status of its controversial RAND license, but confirmed to us that RAND was effectively already in "beta". In its FAQ in support of the pay-to-play web standard RAND licensing policy, the W3C emphasizes "NOTE: The W3C is not presently aware of any non-free patent …

    Music and Media 3 Oct 2001, 19:00

  • Brain-scans can defeat terrorism, InfoSeek founder claims

    Phrenology to the rescue

    Just when you thought crowd surveillance with facial recognition gear was the sickest idea circulating, some naive do-gooder comes along with 'brain fingerprinting' to detect evil memories, loudly urging its use as a public security measure in the wake of the 11 September tragedies. Steve Kirsch, founder of InfoSeek and current …

    Security 3 Oct 2001, 20:57

  • Sun goes the whole Enchilada

    Sun Fire 240R specs leaked to El Reg

    Details of the proposed specification of a Solaris system featuring an appliance-optimised version of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC III processor have been leaked to El Reg. Enchilada, a two-way multiprocessor Solaris system based on the UltraSPARC IIIi (Jalapeno) processor, will become a cornerstone of Sun's low-end …

    Hardware 3 Oct 2001, 21:56