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  • Network Associates puts PGP up for sale

    Baby and bathwater

    Network Associates plans to sell off its PGP desktop encryption and Gauntlet firewall product lines. It's a surprise move that reflects weakness in the encryption market that has hit other major players, such as Baltimore Technologies. Up until Network Associates can find a buyer, development will cease on those products ( …

    Business 12 Oct 2001, 09:54

  • Security fears hit unbundling progress

    Sabs could be at work

    BT is to oppose plans to give rival telcos free access to its exchanges claiming the measures are a security risk. Telecoms regulator, Oftel, has published proposals that could allow operators to cut significantly the costs involved in local loop unbundling (LLU) by installing their kit in operational parts of BT's exchanges. …

    Data Networking 12 Oct 2001, 09:57

  • Pain in the RSA

    15% of workers face axe, US workers face pay cut

    RSA Security, best known best known for its SecurID key-token authentication products, has announced plans to lay off up to 215 people after it reported losses on declining sales. Revenue for RSA's third quarter was $62.6 million, compared to $72.0 million for the same quarter last year. The firm made a net loss of $15.5 …

    Business 12 Oct 2001, 10:16

  • Intel's Server Roadmap

    Updated New parts, prices and more

    You might think that Intel's server processor release schedule would be settling down a little after the problems the company has had over the last quarter or so with late shipments of Pentium III Xeons and the delays to Foster, the 0.18 micron Pentium 4-derived Xeon processor. And indeed Intel's latest roadmap does show the …

    Channel 12 Oct 2001, 10:25

  • Doubleclick in the Q3 dumps

    Job cuts should improve Q4

    Doubleclick is cutting jobs to slash costs, and expects to make a smaller Q4 loss than expected. But it will still miss its forecasts. As for Q3, it has reported an operating loss of $12.6 million, compared with a profit of $3.7 million for the period a year earlier. Sales fell 31 per cent to $92.7 million. Chief Exec Kevin …

    e-Business 12 Oct 2001, 10:34

  • Resellers confirm PowerBook G4 shortage, update

    Looks like the iBook is getting an upgrade too

    Suggestions that Apple is planning to launch new portable Macs in the very near future - as we reported yesterday - are gaining credibility thanks to numerous reports coming in from UK and US Mac resellers. One of The Register's Apple sources yesterday told us that the company intends to upgrade its Titanium PowerBook G4 line …

    Mac Channel 12 Oct 2001, 10:47

  • Juniper buried in telco gloom

    The song remains the same

    Juniper Networks, Cisco's main rival in the high-end router market, remains in the red with its latest financial results. The slowdown in spending by debt-laden telcos is continuing to hit networking firms. Net revenues for Juniper's third quarter were $201.7 million, compared with almost the same figure $201.2 million for the …

    Data Networking 12 Oct 2001, 11:02

  • Bonfield to leave BT early?

    Sun to rise tomorrow?

    Sir Peter Bonfield is to quit as chief exec of BT before his contract ends in December 2002, the FT has reported this morning. Which is along the same lines as announcing that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. But since the FT has gone to the trouble of sticking it at the top of its Companies & Markets section and listed …

    Business 12 Oct 2001, 11:08

  • Intel's Small Form-factor Desktop Roadmap

    Little fleas have lesser fleas...

    Intel's latest desktop processor release schedule includes a new category: small form-factor machines. Some industry analysts have been banging on about how these slimline desktops will soon come to dominate corporate PC purchasing, and it appears Intel is beginning to take note. It all sounds a bit too much like previous fads …

    Channel 12 Oct 2001, 11:30

  • $200m WinXP media assault begins

    Fluffybucks and Madonna's Ray of Light

    Microsoft will kick off a $200 million marketing campaign on Monday 15 October to build consumer awareness of Windows XP. A decent slice of this is likely to be in the currency of channel promotion 'fluffybucks'. As our own John Lettice pointed out here, in the marketing spend minefield the only thing clear is that nothing's …

    Software 12 Oct 2001, 11:31

  • CA cans 900 workers

    Says it's shedding duds

    Computer Associates, the world's fourth largest software maker, will lay off 900 people, five per cent of its total staff. President and CEO Sanjay Kumar said the company has changed its focus over the past twelve months towards security, storage and enterprise management, resulting in a need for different skills. It will also …

    Business 12 Oct 2001, 12:05

  • IBM preps low-power PowerPC for PDAs

    Draws ten per cent of the power rival chips do, apparently

    IBM's key contribution to the numerous launches to be made at next week's Microprocessor Forum will centre on the unveiling of a low-power, PDA-oriented version of the PowerPC, the company has said. The chip is a version of the PowerPC 40x family - the same line that bred the PowerPC 406 used in Nintendo's GameCube - and will …

    Channel 12 Oct 2001, 12:38

  • IBM to unveil faster G3 CPU next week

    Updated Upgraded iMacs on the way, as well as iBooks?

    IBM will next week unveil the latest member of its G3-class PowerPC 750 family, the chips that currently power Apple's consumer computers, the iBook and iMac. Apple uses the 500, 600 and 700MHz PowerPC 750CXe in its current iMacs; the iBook uses the 500MHz part. Little is known about the next member of the 750 family - the …

    Mac Channel 12 Oct 2001, 12:53

  • The world will end tomorrow – official

    WTC attack spawns net industry of fear

    There's some good news today for all our London readers who have always believed - as do we - that two days is just not enough of a weekend. Well, we have it on good authority that you won't have to get up early on Monday and trudge your way to the office. Here's why: To all, I have just been told this story from a friend at …

    Bootnotes 12 Oct 2001, 13:11

  • BTopenworld in game of snakes and ladders

    A tale of mambas, boas - but no snakecharmers

    BTopenworld has admitted the existence of "Mamba" and "Boa" - internal projects that should help solve its narrowband network congestion problems. According to last night's BBC consumer affairs programme, Watchdog, the secret projects are designed to "constrict" the service (a boa kills by suffocation, a mamba by poison, by the …

    Music and Media 12 Oct 2001, 14:22

  • Symantec users risk redirection to hacker sites

    LiveUpdate attack

    Users of older versions of Symantec's anti-virus software have been warned of an exploit that might mean users looking for virus updates get redirected to hacker sites instead. The issue concerns Symantec LiveUpdate, a component of Norton Anti-Virus which checks for fresh virus signature definitions and installs them from …

    Malware 12 Oct 2001, 14:56

  • Bulldog snaps at BT's co-mingling security fears

    Just a 'smokescreen'

    The CEO of Bulldog Communications - one of the companies that is still committed to local loop unbundling (LLU) - has hit back at fears that co-mingling would pose a security threat. Richard Greco told The Register that security fears over the planned installation of a rival telco's equipment in BT exchanges - known as "co- …

    Data Networking 12 Oct 2001, 15:06

  • Captain Cyborg becomes nutritionist and mind-reader in one day

    What the hell is going on!!!!

    You simply will not believe what Captain Cyborg aka Kevin Warwick has been up to this week. Even for a publicity obsessive, he has really outdone himself. Perhaps for the first time though, the press are as much to blame - Kev is one thing, but for journalists to buy this bull... First up: "Bacon, the brain food - A tasty butty …

    Bootnotes 12 Oct 2001, 15:13

  • AOL CD record bid in boy band frenzy

    Take that, and that

    There's encouraging news concerning 24/7 Freecall's world record attempt to collect one million unwanted AOL CDs. Last week MD, Sal Abdin, announced his intention to get in the Guinness Book of Records - but only if he can get enough unwanted AOL CDs. According to Sal, so far he's received 87 of the shiny discs along with 15 …

    Bootnotes 12 Oct 2001, 15:28

  • What the hell is Microsoft's new software licensing programme?

    A cut out and weep guide

    There has been a lot of fuss made about Microsoft's new software licensing programme recently but following weeks of claim and counterclaim, depositions to government bodies, two delays and plenty of public posturing, if you're anything like us you will be completely confused as to what the hell is actually going on. That is …

    Software 12 Oct 2001, 16:28

  • Christmas cancelled for Logica staff

    Internal memo says the good times are over

    Christmas has been cancelled for staff at Logica, despite the company proudly announcing a 60 per cent rise in profits at the start of September. In an internal memo sent out today, the COO of Logica Mobile Networks Gerry McKenna lays out the company's extensive cost-cutting plans which includes the removal of all pay reviews, …

    Business 12 Oct 2001, 16:30

  • The Time/Tiny concession battle

    Powerhouse doesn't know whom to sleep with

    In what is will inevitably be marketed by both sides as a victory, competing computer retailers Time and Tiny have announced major plans for their retail operations. It looks as though Time is leaving home appliance chain Powerhouse, where it runs concessions in 60 branches, and we suspect Tiny is moving into some of them. …

    Channel 12 Oct 2001, 17:34

  • SirCam due to wipe Windows PCs next Tuesday

    But payload looks buggy

    SirCam, the bandwidth-munching privacy invading mass mailing virus, is due to attempt to wipe infected users' Windows PCs next Tuesday. That's the bad news. The good news is that indications are the malicious payload the virus contains isn't particularly effective, probably because of shoddy programming on the virus writer's …

    Malware 12 Oct 2001, 17:37

  • This is a great deal. No, really!

    Crafty Canadian Win XP upgrade scheme

    A large Canadian electronics chain, FutureShop, placed an ad yesterday offering "do a Windows XP upgrade analysis on your computer for only... $19.95", which works out to about US$12. As Ralph Grabowski (the reader who made us aware of this fine deal) rightly points out, this leaves us with two possible outcomes: 1. Yes, …

    Channel 12 Oct 2001, 17:51