3rd December 2001 Archive
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Synad builds dual mode WLAN chipset
UK issues
Synad, a fabless UK-based chipmaker, today announced Mercury5G, the "world's first dual mode WLAN chipset", straddling both 802.11b and 802.11a networks. The chipset will allow client-side NICs to connect to existing 11Mbps 802.11b networks communicating at 2.4GHz, as well as the new 54Mbps 802.11a networks, which speak on the …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 10:33
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Govt launches pedo warning campaign
Kids told to 'wise up to the Net'
The UK Government has launched a £1.5 million advertising campaign to warn children and parents about the potential dangers of paedophiles lurking on the Net. This comes less than a week after an international paedophile ring was smashed with the arrest of 130 suspects from 19 countries. Today's initiative urges children and …
Music and Media 3 Dec 2001, 10:38
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VIA November sales dip 10.9% month-on-month
Up fractionally on last year, though
VIA's November sales were up just 0.15 per cent on the same month last year, the chipset maker reported today. But the company sold more product in October than November - 10.9 per cent more. Last month, VIA sold NT$2.710 billion ($78.493 million) worth of semiconductors, up from the NT$2.706 billion it reported this time least …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 10:39
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Intel cuts up to 20% off Pentium III prices
Some still more expensive than P4s
Intel today cut the prices of selected desktop and server Pentium III processors by up to 20 per cent in a bid to shift stocks of the chips while buyers wait for the supply of Pentium 4 chips to ease. The biggest price cuts came at the server end. The price of the 0.18 micron 1GHz 256KB L2 PIII was cut 14 per cent, from $173 to …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 11:12
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Deckhand killed playing PlayStation
Water and console don't mix
An Australian deckhand was electrocuted while thumbing the controller of a Sony PlayStation when a wave smashed into the boat's wheelhouse. The 19-year old man, Richard Wells, was sitting at a metal table playing with the console when a huge wave broke through the cabin window. The trawler was lying off the southern Queensland …
Personal 3 Dec 2001, 11:38
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Intel Processors and Prices
Updated What Chipzilla's shipping right now
After the price cuts Intel yesterday (2 December) made to its desktop and server Pentium III families here's how Intel's processor product line currently stands. We've broken them down by market and by processor type, and included up-to-date official prices, which are based on bulk orders of 1000 chips. Prices market in red are …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 11:51
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FBI ‘Magic Lantern’ reality check
It's not Echelon
There's been a lot of noise since MSNBC's Bob Sullivan broke the story of a new viral snoop tool called 'Magic Lantern' which the FBI is purportedly developing to capture crypto passphrases so they can decrypt files on suspects' computers. Of course this all comes from an anonymous source whose level of access isn't even hinted …
Security 3 Dec 2001, 12:41
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BadTrans surges past SirCam as most infectious virus
Plague begins to tail off
BadTrans-B has eclipsed SirCam to become the most common email-borne virus on the Internet. MessageLabs, a managed service provider which scans its users email for viruses, blocked 170,510 emails containing BadTrans-B, in the last four weeks. SirCam was the next most common virus -it was filtered out by MessageLabs 52,179 …
Malware 3 Dec 2001, 13:04
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PSINet Europe ‘displaces’ 55 jobs
That's 'axes' to you and me
PSINet Europe is to axe 34 jobs in the UK as part of Europe-wide cull from its network, hosting and customer operations. In total 55 jobs in Europe will go, with cuts in The Netherlands and Germany, as the ISP centralises its support services in Switzerland. Employees were told of the job losses on Friday. However, it's …
Business 3 Dec 2001, 13:10
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Mobile phones name that tune
Making a hash of music
Philips has developed an m-commerce app which lets mobile phone users identify and buy a song playing on the radio. It works like this: dial a service provider, put your handset near the source of the music for a few seconds and then receive the track title - with an offer to buy - via text message. Developed by CryptoTec, a …
e-Business 3 Dec 2001, 13:53
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Ginger aka IT aka Segway demonstrated
Really great news for dogs
Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrated his 'Segway Human Transporter' in New York's Bryant Park Monday. With him for the staged festivities were Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson from ABC's "Good Morning America" which aired the event live. So what is it? Well, it looks like a push mower, but it's actually a battery-powered scooter …
Personal 3 Dec 2001, 14:00
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UPC zaps MS digital TV platform plans
Cableco opts for rival technology
UPC, Europe's largest cable company, has announced it will not include Microsoft software in its digital TV offering, due to continued delays. The FT today quoted one insider as saying: "We have taken Microsoft off the trials and are re-evaluating what we are going to do." The companies worked together for three years and …
Telecoms 3 Dec 2001, 14:15
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UK Govt backs telecoms regulator
In a football manager kind of way?
The Government has denied weekend reports that it has lost confidence in the telecoms regulator over its failure to introduce competitive and widely available broadband services. Yesterday, the Sunday Times reported that former gas industry regulator Clare Spottiswoode has been called in to advise the Government on how to …
Telecoms 3 Dec 2001, 14:16
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Ever wanted to see Star Wars in Telnet?
Now's your chance
You can now watch Star Wars on Telnet. No, change that: you must watch Star Wars on Telnet. Telnetified by Snore (a "whacked Dutch hardware geek" called Sten) it takes all of 13,935 frames and the mad, delightful enterprise is here. And when you've finished this, how about Star Wars in ASCII? There's a lot of things you can …
Bootnotes 3 Dec 2001, 14:28
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Cisco takes IPv6 closer to the mainstream
Momentum grows for next-gen protocol
Cisco today rolls out IOS enhancement which are designed to ease deployment of next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, services on existing network infrastructures. The network giant released its first IPv6 features solution in May 2001, and Phase II (of a three part plan) introduces improved security support, scalable routing …
Hardware 3 Dec 2001, 16:00
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HP extends ‘pay as you go’ to storage
Utility bills
HP believes that a utility pricing model is appropriate for a slump as it was for the boom. It's extending utility pricing to storage too, so users only pay for the storage they use. Both Hewlett Packard and IBM offered capacity on demand services during the dot-com bubble, and HP formalised this earlier this year by introducing …
Hardware 3 Dec 2001, 16:22
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PowerPC G5 redux
Analysis What's coming to Macworld Expo next month? G5, Apollo or both
So, how likely is Apple to release the Power Mac G5 next January, as our regular correspondent, who claims to be close to the company's hardware division, has said? With the anticipated launch date now barely more than a month away, it's time to take a closer look at what's being claimed and what picture of Apple's product plans …
Mac Channel 3 Dec 2001, 16:47
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Micron, Hynix confirm talks
Talking about discussions about negotiations
Micron has confirmed it is talking to Hynix - the subject: the merger of the two chip companies' memory operations. In a terse press release, the two companies said they will today begin exploratory discussions "regarding a possible strategic alliance or other transaction". We can't say we're surprised. Micron has, after all, …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 17:01
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Terrorism bill ‘biggest threat to competition since RIP’ – ISPA
Heavy-handed, disproportionate
The UK ISP Association (ISPA) has raised several strong reservations about new laws introduced in the new Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, created in response to the 11 September attacks and currently going through the Lords. When the measures were first announced - just two days after the terrorist attacks in America …
Music and Media 3 Dec 2001, 17:12
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IBM, AMD unveil terahertz transistor breakthroughs
My chip is smaller than your chip
Male semiconductor engineers are the only men on the planet who boast about how their private parts are much smaller than everyone else's and how quickly they're through using them. This week at the 2001 International Electron Devices Meeting, held in Washington DC, there will much little-but-rapid swinging dickery. AMD, for …
Channel 3 Dec 2001, 17:32
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Ximian Evolution 1.0 links Linux to Exchange
Parts not open source
Ximian today officially releases its long awaited 1.0 version of Evolution, a sophisticated mail client/address book/calendaring package. Evolution has been in production for more than two years and consists of more than 750,000 lines of code. In a second announcement, Ximian announced an Evolution plug-in called Ximian …
Software 3 Dec 2001, 17:51
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UK Govt rejects tax breaks for broadband
Oh well, worth a try
The Government has rejected the use of tax breaks to stimulate investment in broadband networks in the UK. The final report from the Broadband Stakeholders' Group (BSG) published today calls for Government to introduce some kind of fiscal measures to help reduce the cost of capital investment. The BSG argues that such measure …
Telecoms 3 Dec 2001, 20:43
