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28th December 2001 Archive

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  • NEC, Hitachi mull DRAM dissolution

    Consolidation city

    NEC and Hitachi are mulling over the dissolution of their memory manufacturing joint venture and fleeing the DRAM business entirely, according to investors cited by Bloomsberg. NEC and Hitachi are fifth and seventh biggest DRAM makers respectively and have suffered badly with this year's collapse of DRAM prices - down 90 per …

    Channel 28 Dec 2001, 11:05

  • Sex, Text and Wireless Profits

    2001 Review Walk on splintered Gilders

    How come the world has a communications infrastructure that the United States - its most prosperous and influential nation and a leader in every other technology market - can't enjoy? How is it that next year will see a flood of new devices that most Americans won't see, let alone be able to use. And how is it, quite simply, …

    Data Networking 28 Dec 2001, 11:09

  • EasyGroup domain name dispute inches towards court

    Mud flies

    An MP has taken up cudgels on behalf of the owner of a domain name which features the word "easy". EasyGroup - the company run by entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Iannou and known for its defence of consumers through budget pricing - says it will take the 31-year-old owner of www.easyelectrical.com, Sacha Visram, to court over his …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:22

  • Playmate of the Month coming to handsets RSN

    At last, the 3G killer app...

    The Playmate of the Month is coming to a mobile handset near you Real Soon Now. No, really. Finnish value added services (that's what they claim, anyway) company Wireless Entertainment Services has struck a deal with Playboy.com to offer downloadable playmates and other Playboy related content and general stuff. The service …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:23

  • IBM demos quantum computing

    Atoms correctly factor fifteen

    Well it's a start, anyway: IBM übergeeks have managed to factor fifteen with mere atoms, using an algorithm for quantum factoring by mathematician Peter Shor, the journal Nature reports. The basic idea of quantum computing is to store data in the nuclei of atoms by altering their orientation, thereby producing a binary scheme. …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:24

  • WD buys Fujitsu desktop HDD ops

    Bulking up

    Western Digital is buying up some of Fujitsu hard drive ops. It is taking on 1,100 Fujitsu employees based in Thailand and some of the production facilities. Terms are otherwise undisclosed, but considering the commitments, WD is taking on, the price will be low, low, low. In August, Fujitsu announced its intention to withdraw …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:27

  • Apple bugfix cheers mobile mavens

    Ten Ten Point One Point Two, to you

    While Apple sites were awash with leaks of the next major point revision of Mac OSX, 10.2 codenamed Jaguar, Apple quietly sneaked out a point-point revision: 10.1.2. That's pronounced Ten Ten Point One Point Two. Don't let the version number deceive you, for at 30MB it's the heftiest point release so far. The most sought after …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:27

  • Porno paymaster CCBill hacked hard

    Entire database may have been compromised

    Porn site billing processor CCBill has somehow managed to leak the server passwords of well over a thousand of its clients, whose systems have since been infected by IRC bots listening on port 9872 for whatever commands their owner wishes to issue. The immediate, superficial concern is that someone is planning a significant …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:28

  • MS warns of severe universal plug & play security hole

    Gives up complete control of victim machine

    A trio of flaws in the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service, which allows for automatic hardware detection in a network environment, can offer up total ownership of your machine to a malicious third party, Microsoft warns. First up, and by far the most serious, an unchecked buffer in a component handling NOTIFY directives …

    Business 28 Dec 2001, 11:28

  • Yahoo! wrests HotJobs from Monster.com

    They want you for a new recruit

    Yahoo! is to become the world's second biggest online recruitment business, following the successful snatch of HotJobs from the hands of TMP Worldwide. Yahoo! made a surprise eleventh hour $436m cash-and-shares bid for Hot Jobs, trumping an agreed offer from TMP, owner of Monster.com, the world's biggest online recruitment …

    e-Business 28 Dec 2001, 12:30