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  • Sun drops bundle bombshell on BEA

    The great iPlanet giveaway

    Sun Microsystems is mulling the option of bundling the iPlanet app server in for free with Solaris, according to IDG News Service. The news wire quotes Sun software boss Pat Sueltz as confirming that iPlanet would form part of a bundle in the future, but reports that no final decision has been taken at Sun to give the app server …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 00:40

  • IBM server is really cool

    Power down

    IBM has announced a low-end Unix server which consumes 20 per cent less power than competing Sun Microsystems kit. The eServer p610 runs AIX5L or Linux (via Linux Affinity, full support isn't there yet) and comes with two Power3 microprocessor running at 375 or 450 Mhz, and in rack-mounted and tower versions. It is designed as …

    Hardware 25 Oct 2001, 06:49

  • Easy CD Creator touts WinXP upgrade

    Compatibility problems sorted?

    The company behind the popular CD-burning software Easy CD Creator, Roxio, is to have another stab at avoiding compatibility issues with Microsoft operating systems. It is releasing a Windows XP upgrade for its latest version - Version 5 Platinum. There is no WinXP version as yet and Roxio is only pulling Version 5 of its …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 06:55

  • Leaked MS email reveals WinXP, Xbox launch spin plans

    Free gear, 'timed' stories, privileged access, the news before it happens...

    With exquisite timing a very naughty mole leaks us an email from top Microsoft spinmeister Mark Murray. Not any old email, either - it details events for the week leading up to Der Tag, today, the XP launch in NYC. There's lots of good stuff in the email, which seems to be Murray's regular bulletin to get the spinmeisters und …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 07:35

  • Bin Laden hack-meister in defacement, financial debacles

    SecurityNewsPortal folds, YIHAT fortune evaporates

    Shameless German glam-h4x0r Kim Schmitz aka Kimble, who recently stole headlines with his YIHAT (Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism) publicity stunt and his unsubstantiated claims to have hacked a Sudanese bank with /bin/laden accounts, has been fingered in a defacement of SecurityNewsPortal (SNP) which prompted the …

    Security 25 Oct 2001, 08:10

  • SecurityNews Portal shutters site

    Hackers at war

    SecurityNewsPortal is shutting up shop after a defacement brought down its site yesterday. A notice on the site, which runs on a Linux platform, said its volunteers has no desire to rebuild the site only for it to be defaced again. It added that they were not personally in control of the site's security, which is outsourced to …

    Security 25 Oct 2001, 08:14

  • FAST ROI: InterX Net2020

    Bloor puts it through its paces

    Return on Interest is the latest tech magazine phenomenon in the US. At a time of folding titles and staff cutbacks, two magazines have launched recently in the States, joining Computerworld's ROI. We thought we'd get in on the act. In the UK, Bloor Research, a partner of The Register and owner of the IT-Director.com and IT- …

    e-Business 25 Oct 2001, 08:19

  • Reg Reader Research Win-XP buying intentions: You the Jury

    Between the end of September and the beginning of October, Reg Reader Research and Tom's MetaFacts Forum conducted an online study among 597 Forum members, split 69 per cent professional respondents and 31 per cent private respondents. Here's what you have to say about Windows XP - out on October 25. According to panel members …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 09:21

  • Euro Teen Sluts take on Ernst & Young

    And have them over a barrel by the looks of it

    An educational Web site run by Ernst & Young has been replaced by a XXX porn site featuring "165,000 Barely Legal Teen Movies", the global professional services company admitted yesterday. Its popular Moneyopolis game site - which is designed to improve numeracy and financial skills of students - has been available at …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2001, 09:46

  • ‘WinXP beefs up security’ story goes viral on Web

    And this is how it works...

    Early-rising news junkies may have noticed a curious wave of 'WinXP beefs up PC security' stories creeping across the web, and no doubt spreading into the public prints. They may also have noted how curiously similar they are; but as Reuters, the source, doesn't figure on our good friend Mark Murray's list of "timed" XP story …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 09:49

  • L&H struck dumb

    Speech recognition firm declared bankrupt

    A Belgian court, which refused to extend its protection from creditors, has declared Lernout & Hauspie bankrupt. Ieper Commercial Court Judge Michel Handschoewerker dismissed L&H's recovery plan as "nothing more than a liquidation plan that kept the company artificially alive without restoring its fiscal health", Associated …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 11:14

  • Apple iPod redux

    Review We take a closer look

    Well, we finally got our mitts on an Apple's iPod last night. Just for a short time, you understand, while the company's staff were looking the other way, but enough to get a feel for what the new MP3 player is capable of - and what it isn't. Some readers will recall our initial scepticism about the device. There are more …

    Mac Channel 25 Oct 2001, 11:43

  • Orange: revenues up, shares down

    More results from mobile operator

    Orange has seen its revenues jump 29 per cent in the nine months to September, year-on-year, and is now the market leader for mobiles in the UK and France. That hasn't stopped its share price falling just under three per cent this morning though. Some people are so hard to please. The Orange group, owned by France Telecom, made …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 11:54

  • Content key to broadband success

    Is that all?

    Content is the key driver to making broadband Internet services a mass market product, according to the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). Yesterday it launched an awareness campaign, Positively Broadband, in which it called for a new "positive, competitive national agenda on broadband". The ITAA believes …

    Telecoms 25 Oct 2001, 11:56

  • Sony's results are pony

    Slump for PCs, chips, CD-R/RWs, CRTs

    Sony's games division has made its first profit since the PlayStation 2 arrived last year. But overall the company made a surprise Q2 loss due to price slides for components and products. For the three months to 30 September the company reported a group loss of 13.2 billion yen ($110 million), compared with a profit of 18.7 …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 11:57

  • AMD, Intel to meet in court

    AMD wants anti-trust testimonies passed to European Intel probe

    AMD is trying to boost the European Commission's anti-trust investigation into Intel by bringing documents relating to anti-trust allegations made against the chip giant in the US available to the EC probe. On 1 October, AMD filed a suit in the San Jose District Court seeking the release to EC investigators of expert witness …

    Channel 25 Oct 2001, 12:11

  • Matsushita, Hitachi back NEC ,Toshiba DRAM dumping charge

    All accuse Samsung and Hynix of selling memory too low

    It looks like NEC and Toshiba - now joined by Mitsubishi and Hitachi - will indeed make an official complaint to Japan's trade authorities that Korean memory makers Samsung and Hynix are dumping memory in Japan. NEC and Toshiba admitted earlier this week that they were considering making such a complaint, which claims Hynix and …

    Channel 25 Oct 2001, 12:27

  • Salmon Dazed: FishNet re-stocking

    Normal Service soon resumed

    Well that was fun: the Web site for our new vidstrip, SalmonDays, has crashed under the weight of enormous human traffic. Our suppliers were taken aback by the interest and are busily restoring the service. Sorry about that: but if there wasn't a technical hitch at the launch it wouldn't be The Register. The servers are being …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 12:37

  • Big Brother Award nomination for WPA, Passport pains MS

    'snot true, please take us off the list...

    Microsoft Austria has reacted with horror, pain and angst to the company's nomination for this year's Austrian Big Brother Awards, and has asked for the nomination to be withdrawn. But the begging email it sent to the organisers merely seems to have drawn more attention to the nomination - the awards themselves take place …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 12:53

  • Cisco shakes up distribution strategy

    Updated Fewer top-tier wholesalers

    Cisco has announced a shake up in its distribution strategy in EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) which means many of its disties will no longer deal with product procurement, effectively demoting their status. After February 2002, Cisco's Western European wholesalers are organised into two tiers: seven Cisco Distribution …

    Channel 25 Oct 2001, 12:59

  • Be Palms $1.135m in Q3 revenue

    OS supplier's future to be decided 12 November

    With Be's anticipated acquisition by Palm casting such a shadow over the operating system developer for the last couple of months, you wouldn't expect the company to have made much money during its most recently completed quarter, and you'd be right - it didn't. Be's accounts for the three months to 30 September record revenues …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 13:49

  • WinXP on the wall, who's the most incompatible of them all?

    Hi-ho, hi-ho, Disney cock-up in tow

    Owners of the new shiny Windows XP operating system will be disappointed if they try to play another new shiny product - Disney's re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on DVD. The company that created the DVD standard for linking content to the Web, InterActual, has posted a warning on its support site saying that the …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 13:49

  • Oftel probes another BT ADSL install complaint

    This time it's Freeserve that's unhappy

    Oftel is investigating a complaint that BT is subsidising installation costs for its multi-user business class broadband service. Freeserve lodged the complaint with the telecoms regulator earlier this month urging it to consider whether this represented an unfair cross-subsidy and breach of BT's licence. The regulator …

    Telecoms 25 Oct 2001, 14:11

  • Cisco does a road runner from Wile E Coyote plan

    Campus expansion plans scaled back

    Cisco has scaled back plans to expand its campus into one of the few undeveloped portions of Silicon Valley. The Coyote Valley Development, which was opposed by environmentalists, was originally set to involve the construction of 6.6 million square feet of office space to house 20,000 workers but will now be between 1-3 million …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 14:24

  • WinXP London launch

    We were there so you didn't have to be

    Windows XP kicked off in fine form at London's Royal Festival Hall this morning with much singing, dancing and loud music. Okay, well, maybe just loud music (think Madonna). Team MS appears to have worn itself out a little in preparation for the global launch; while everything was super slick (and no system crashes to be seen …

    Software 25 Oct 2001, 14:45

  • UK Govt calls for e-democracy

    Power to the e-people

    The Government has called upon the IT and Internet communities to come up with new ways to encourage online democracy. In a major announcement today e-commerce minister, Douglas Alexander, said he wanted technology to empower people to give them a voice other than the few seconds they have in the voting booth once every four or …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2001, 14:49

  • Western Digital bigs up 120GB hard drive

    Space for all those MP3s

    Western Digital has announced its WD1200BB hard drive, which it claims is the first 120GB drive on the market. To provide an indication of capacity, the company says the drive can store 2,000 photos, 45 hours of music, 5 hours of digital video, 22 games and 35 software programs. The Caviar, an ATA/100 EIDE drive spinning at 7, …

    Personal 25 Oct 2001, 15:48

  • HPaQ gets thumbs up from Saudi billionaire Prince

    An investor who's no stranger to losing money

    Royal dotcom stock splurger Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has said he's right behind Hewlett-Packard's takeover of Compaq. He thinks it's all a great idea. Prince Alwaleed says he owns one per cent of Compaq's stock, and doesn't seem perturbed by both company's share drop since the deal was announced. But then he is no stranger to …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 15:50

  • Government shuts down IT learning scheme over fraud scams

    Staggering lack of foresight

    The government has decided today to shut down an IT training scheme it set up in 1999 that has become a magnet for unscrupulous training organisations and conmen. The decision follows a full-scale investigation by the Department of Education urged by Trading Standards at the start of the month. The Individual Learning Account ( …

    Business 25 Oct 2001, 15:53

  • Fibernet offers unbundled DSL from next week

    Nice

    Fibernet - one of the handful of operators actively involved in local loop unbundling (LLU) in the UK - is to launch its range of hi-speed Internet services next week. Initially, unbundled wholesale services will be available in Bristol, Warrington and Leeds with a further 27 exchanges being deployed between now and the …

    Telecoms 25 Oct 2001, 16:03

  • So how many PS1s and PS2s has Sony shipped?

    Shedloads

    Sony has shipped 19.57 million Playstation 2 and 88.26 million units of the original Playstation games console as of 30 September 2001. In the three months ended 30 September, Sony's Q2, the company shipped 4.62 million PS2s and 2.82 million PS1s. Sales of the original console are up, as Sony only shipped 2.37 million of them …

    Personal 25 Oct 2001, 16:45

  • ICANN caught red-handed

    Rewrites rules to exclude disruptive influence

    The Internet's overseeing body, ICANN, has been caught red-handed manipulating its own rules to protect existing members at the expense of its stated philosophy of openness. A series of delays in processing an application by domain registrar New.net to join one of ICANN's representative bodies (called constituencies) was …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2001, 16:58