9th November 2001 Archive
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AMD holds steady
Confirms Q outlook
AMD yesterday confirmed its sales outlook for the current quarter. Jerry Sanders, Chairman and CEO, told analysts that sales will range from flat to high single-digit percentage growth, on the back of record sales of PC processors. So the state of play is unchanged from October 17, when the company announced its Q3 results. …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 06:29
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Nvidia coffers fill with cash
Recession? What recession?
The PC industry is suffering its worst recession, not that Nvidia, a key component supplier, notices. The graphics chipmaker turned in record revenues and profits in Q3, ended October 28, 2001. Sales were $372m, 87 per cent up on last year's Q1 ($198.2m). This points to a big jump in market share. Net income was $44.7m, …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 07:24
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MS throttles research to conceal SW bugs
Exclusive The truth will not set you free
Microsoft Security Manager Scott Culp revealed unilateral steps the company has taken to throttle the exchange of vulnerability information relevant to their famously buggy products, clearly in hopes that patches and fixes can be fed to consumers discreetly, without ever realizing they've been at risk to attack. During a …
Software 9 Nov 2001, 09:21
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Rose steps down from QXL
Losses down
Jim Rose, the professional manager recruited to run QXL Ricardo, is handing over day-to-day duties to chief operating officer Mark Zaleski. The move accompanies the publication of the online auction site's Q2 results. For the three months to September 30, the company made a pre-tax loss of £7.88m (Q2 2000: £67.67m loss) on …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 09:43
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Dell readies 1.2GHz C400 ultra-portable
Updated Latitude line to be updated
Dell today announced the Latitude C400 notebook, with prices starting at $2,400. We obtained a leaked copy of the spec and wrote the story below on Friday. Obviously, the launch date is wrong - it would be nice to think that our piece brought forward the announcement - but we're not that big-headed! Dell is prepping the follow …
Personal 9 Nov 2001, 11:22
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AMD to debut Mobile Hammer in 2003
AMD Roadmap Has to wait for 0.10 micron process
AMD will drive its Hammer family of 64-bit processors into the mobile market in the second half of 2003, a year or so after it makes its debut in servers, the company revealed at its analysts confab yesterday. The chip maker extended its mobile roadmap into 2003 at the conference, and slides from the presentation - which you …
Channel 9 Nov 2001, 11:29
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AMD plans to beat 4.4GHz desktops
AMD Roadmap Hammer to bash Pentium 4 - hard?
AMD's drive for desktop dominance will see the company ship what it will undoubtedly claim is the equivalent of a 3.4GHz Intel processor, when it ships its first desktop 0.13 micron Hammer chip in the fourth quarter of next year. That chip will be numbered 3400 in accordance with AMD's new nomenclature, the company told …
Channel 9 Nov 2001, 11:55
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How Microsoft invented open source, by Billg
Wouldn't it be great to wander round inside that head for an hour or so?
The open source movement wouldn't exist without Microsoft, Bill Gates told his company's shareholder meeting earlier this week. Open source is also a follower, not an innovator, and destroys jobs, the economy and world peace (we made that last bit up). Gates was responding to a question from the audience. The transcript doesn't …
Software 9 Nov 2001, 12:27
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AMD delays Sledgehammer to Q1 2003
AMD Roadmap Clawhammer too
AMD has again delayed the release of its 64-bit Sledgehammer server processor for two- to eight-way systems. Having previously put back Sledgehammer to the second half of 2002, AMD now expects to ship the part in Q1 2003. Clawhammer, the member of the Hammer family which is intended for uni-processer and dual-CPU servers, is …
Channel 9 Nov 2001, 12:41
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Zen puts ADSL on hold
Temporary measure to preserve QoS
Zen Internet has suspended the processing of orders for ADSL until after the completion of a network upgrade. The decision - described as a bold step by Lancashire-based Zen - has been taken to "preserve the quality of service to existing customers ahead of essential infrastructure upgrades". Orders currently in the system …
Telecoms 9 Nov 2001, 12:55
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Microsoft breaks into US cable market
Software platform
Microsoft has had its first success in the digital TV market in a supply deal with Charter Communications - the US' fourth biggest cable company. Charter will use Microsoft TV's software platform for its interactive TV services, running a field trial in St Louis before launching early next year. The deal will eventually provide …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 13:04
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Bluetooth will be a success after all
Next year
Bluetooth may be several years late but it's going to be a great success and 26.2 million Bluetooth-enabled mobiles will be sold next year, a new report by ARC Group claims. But that's nothing compared to the 100 million Bluetooth handsets which will be sold in 2003 when 3G networks start kicking in. From there the numbers get …
Data Networking 9 Nov 2001, 13:19
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Hack your bank for $995
Cambridge boffins post gory details on Web
Banks all over the world can be hacked and PIN numbers seized by exploiting a flaw in a common cryptoprocessor made by IBM, researchers from Cambridge University have found. The cryptoprocessor in question, the IBM 4758, sits at the end of cash machines and scrambles the PIN number that people type in, as well as the program …
Security 9 Nov 2001, 13:54
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TSMC, UMC October sales climb
Not a patch on last year
The world's two largest chip foundries, TSMC and UMC, have posted their October sales figures - and both report double-figure growth on the previous month. TSMC saw sales rise 11.1 per cent to $NT10.292 billion ($299.70 million), which the company was quick to highlight is a sign of the market's recovery. Some recovery: the …
Channel 9 Nov 2001, 13:59
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Is XP performance worse than Win2k, or just the same?
Latest test shows marginal gains at best
A pretty comprehensive set of benchmarks over at The Tech Report comes up with the possibly less than earth-shattering conclusion that WinXP is pretty much neck and neck with Win2k, from a performance point of view. XP seems to be slightly better than Win2k when it comes to office productivity, but is pretty well tied with it on …
Software 9 Nov 2001, 14:07
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Surfers look for jobs in company time
Job seekers shaft bosses
If you're hacked off with work, fed up with constant sniping from your boss or just bored of the same old tedious nonsense, then join the rest of the UK's disenchanted labour force and hunt for a new job at your firm's expense. According to e-recruitment outfit jobpilot.co.uk, the peak time for people visiting its site in …
Music and Media 9 Nov 2001, 14:47
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Seagate hits 100Gb/ square inch
Tech demo
Seagate today demonstrated technology capable of banging 100Gb of data onto a square inch of storage media. This means the company will be able to cram 125 gigabytes of capacity onto a single 3.5-inch drive platter, compared to current products shipping with 40 gigabytes. Seagate's demonstration uses a fully integrated magnetic …
Hardware 9 Nov 2001, 15:01
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IBM builds absolutely super computer
Swinging Blue Gene
IBM is teaming up with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop Blue Gene/L, a supercomputer which will be 15 times faster, 15 times more efficient and use 50 times less space than today's supercomputers. Part of IBM's Blue Gene research project, the machine will operate at 200 teraflops, or 200 trillion operations …
Hardware 9 Nov 2001, 15:32
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Cancom sucks up MacLine assets
Trying to put its towel on all UK AppleCentres
Cancom, a German owned Apple reseller, is picking the bones of defunct Mac resellers. It snapped up the assets of bust Cambridge-based dealer MacLine on Thursday 8 November, just a month after grabbing the remaining goodies of liquidated London business Mygate. MacLine called in the receivers and ceased trading on Monday 5 …
Channel 9 Nov 2001, 15:34
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Salmon Days: Keepers of The BOFH flame
Letters Scriptwriters beware
Salmon Days is inspired by BOFH: it is not meant to be a transliteration. However, the scriptwriters will have their work cut out to keep Simon Travaglia's legion of fans happy. Some, we suspect, know more about The Bastard Operator from Hell than Simon does himself. While it seems that youve screwed the image of the bofh …
Letters 9 Nov 2001, 16:02
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Salmon Days: Format Wars
Letters Go DivX!
Several viewers complained about format incompatibilities when watching the trailer Salmon Days, our BOFH-inspired comedy epic. Most have been resolved. This correspondent questions the entire basis of our streaming video encoding efforts. I noticed that your Salmon Days video trailer is trying to feed us, the general public …
Letters 9 Nov 2001, 16:02
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Natalie Imbruglia wins CD protection race
So why is it on file-swap sites?
Aussie pop star (and former Neighbours actress) Natalie Imbruglia has won the race to produce the first copyright-protected CD on general release to the UK public. White Lillies Island, which includes current anti-melody hit single That Day, features Cactus Data Shield protection. This is designed to prevent MP3-ripping by …
Music and Media 9 Nov 2001, 16:51
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HP delays pay rises
Sorry
HP will suspend all pay increases from February 2002 until business conditions improve. An email to employees from 'The Executive Council' blamed the September 11 disaster for the decision. Last December it announced that all planned raises would be deferred three months. As the message notes, employees that had their increases …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 16:52
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Salmon Days makers are Commies
Letters Are you or have you ever been a Capitalist?
OK, so now we've had 73,485 people call by on Salmon Days, the trailer for our BOFH-inspired vid streaming comedy epic. We'll be shooting Episode One soon, and that will be out before Christmas. Subsequent episodes will start spilling onto a computer screen near you come sometime in January - it's taking us time to get our act …
Letters 9 Nov 2001, 17:00
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When will Apple hook PDAs into the OS X digital hub?
Comment One for the company's to-do list
Now here's a thing. In the Apple QuickTime demo of iTunes, which transfers music to its new iPod MP3 player, the device is shown mounted on the desktop - just like any other hard drive. This is not such a surprise - iPod doubles up as a portable FireWire hard drive and appears on the Mac OS desktop to provide access to the …
Mac Channel 9 Nov 2001, 17:35
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Comdex 2001: smaller and tighter
numbers down, crazy security rules
Next week sees the world's second biggest IT show Comdex arrive in Las Vegas. But despite featuring the same enormous range of IT companies, smattering of IT's top bods (Billg, Larry Ellison (Oracle), John Chambers (Cisco), Meg Whitman (eBay), Kunitake Ando (Sony)) and usual Las Vegas distractions, it is expected to be the …
Business 9 Nov 2001, 20:32
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One in three business users steal software
Digital Discontent
Nearly a third of business users steal software or digital content, by grabbing it from the Net. Thirty per cent could be considered to have pinched code or content via chat rooms, peer-to-peer file sharing systems, email, or by FTP, according to a survey conducted by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and …
Software 9 Nov 2001, 20:50
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Singapore pirates flog WinXP for $2.75
Police raids
Singapore software pirates have been busted selling Windows XP for as little as $2.75. More than 4,000 illegal copies of Microsoft software have been seized in seven police raids across the island, CNET reports. Windows XP Home edition was going for $2.75, and the Professional version was altogether pricier at $5.50. More than …
Software 9 Nov 2001, 21:20
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Shoe salesman quits PDA company
Palm seeks new CEO
Palm's CEO, Carl Yankowski, has resigned, with board veteran and chairman Eric Benhamou taking over the reins as the PDA leader begins the hunt for a successor. The former Reebok executive and marketing maestro joined less than two years ago, and presided over Palm's decline from its leadership in the standalone PDA business to …
Personal 9 Nov 2001, 23:48
