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  • Ebay hacking case gets weird

    Self-imprisoned suspect fires, re-hires lawyer

    A day of hearings Wednesday at a federal court in San Jose, Calif. ended with accused Ebay hacker Jerome Heckenkamp re-hiring his attorney, and the government accusing the 22-year-old computer expert of secretly accessing the Internet in violation his pre-trial release conditions. Heckenkamp has been in custody since Friday …

    Security 24 Jan 2002, 06:22

  • Antitrust legal beagles suing MS and DoJ

    Something doesn't smell right

    Antitrust watchdog group the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) will hold a press conference Thursday to announce details of a lawsuit they intend to file against Microsoft and the US Department of Justice, Reuters reports. According to the group, both parties have held meetings and exchanged memos which have not been fully …

    Software 24 Jan 2002, 07:46

  • Labels ask time-out in Napster battle

    Were they about to lose?

    Something seems amiss in the Recording industry's copyright battle with Napster, as the labels have sought and been granted a 30-day time-out in the action, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the labels will seek a settlement during the cease-fire. "Only Capitol Records and Virgin Records America didn't join …

    Music and Media 24 Jan 2002, 08:35

  • Woz goes wireless – by stealth

    Hyperdriven marketing?

    Steve Wozniak is launching a new wireless technology venture. For anyone who understands Apple co-founder Wozniak's pivotal role in the birth of the modern computer industry, this should be interesting news. However, neither Wozniak nor the venture capital firms backing the company, called Wheels of Zeus (wOz), are saying …

    Data Networking 24 Jan 2002, 11:35

  • NTT researchers predict 10Gbps wireless

    Relax - they've only demoed 2.5Gbps with a 50cm range so far...

    NTT Corp, Japan's incumbent telco, claims to have raised the ceiling on wireless bandwidth, after achieving a peak data transfer rate of 2.5Gbps in laboratory trials. The previous highest wireless transfer rate was 1Gbps, but NTT's researchers believe they can ultimately take wireless communications up to 10Gbps. Given …

    Data Networking 24 Jan 2002, 11:51

  • Baltimore sells content security business

    Says has enough money for next 12 months

    Baltimore Technologies has secured a much needed cash lifeline with the sale of its content security business to UK software firm Clearswift Corporation for £20.5 million. The deal represents a tiny fraction of the £692 million Baltimore paid for Content Technologies at the height of the stock market boom in 2000. It will …

    Security 24 Jan 2002, 11:53

  • Zetnet rescues Cloud Nine

    Is that a light at the end of the tunnel?

    Zetnet has confirmed that it has acquired the customer base of troubled ISP Cloud Nine. A statement on its Web site reads: "As of 24th January, customers of Cloud Nine Communications Ltd will be serviced by Zetnet following a successful agreement between the two companies regarding the transfer of customer contracts to Zetnet …

    Music and Media 24 Jan 2002, 11:55

  • Myth of storage security savaged

    Storage security "imperative" for 2002 - Yankee

    Storage security will become an "imperative" this year as the adoption of Internet technologies undermines the comforting notion that storage networks are safe from hacker attacks. In an analysis of storage security, the Yankee Group concludes that security will become an essential aspect of deployment strategies as users …

    Security 24 Jan 2002, 13:49

  • Click here for great IT book offers

    Reg and it-minds.com offer you the best in computer literature

    Vulture Central has teamed up with IT-minds.com, part of the mighty Pearson empire, to bring you some top deals on computer books. Eagle-eyed readers will already have spotted the link on our new 'Register Services' menu bar. As a Register reader, you are entitled to a 10 per cent discount on any book from Pearson's Education …

    Site News 24 Jan 2002, 13:56

  • Buy DVDs and games abroad – and break the law

    Playstation mod-chip ruling is bad news for Brits

    British consumers will be on the wrong side of the law for the first time if they buy overseas DVDs or computer games 'unauthorised' for the UK and play them on their PCs at home. This is the major implication of a ruling in the High Court yesterday over the sale in the UK of 'mod-chips' for the Sony Playstation. Channel …

    Personal 24 Jan 2002, 16:58

  • BT sniffs at broadband in the sewer

    Anyone smell a rat?

    BT has shrugged aside news that it faces competition from a new company laying fibre optic cables along London's sewers. Urband - a joint venture between Thames Water and 186k, the telecoms business of Lattice Group – has already layed cable in the sewers around London's Docklands area. This year it expects to wire up the City …

    Telecoms 24 Jan 2002, 17:01

  • Hackers crash online regal Dutch chat

    Updated DDoS attack directed against KPN

    An online chat with the heir to the Dutch throne was abandoned after hackers launched a denial of service attack. The interactive event was expected to attract a few thousand people at most, but received three billion hits as soon as Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and fiancee Maxima Zorreguieta went online. PC screens froze and …

    Security 24 Jan 2002, 17:15

  • Digital certificates for UK pathology results

    From snail mail to Royal E-mail

    The electronic transmission of patient's pathology results from labs to doctor's surgeries in the UK is to be protected using digital certificates from ViaCode, Royal Mail's encryption business. ViaCode digital certificates will protect the integrity, accuracy and confidentiality of patient information of the NHS Information …

    Security 24 Jan 2002, 17:39

  • The Linux-AMD AGP bug – who's to blame?

    Cache, check or card?

    After arranging a tete a tete between two representatives of the Linux kernel team and AMD, Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins has drawn some initial conclusions on the bug affecting Linux users on AMD Athlon AGP systems. Daniel concludes that neither side is guilty; that it isn't an AMD bug, more a feature; but he also recommends …

    Channel 24 Jan 2002, 19:46

  • Too many Updates already, users tell The Beast

    Windows Update workaround in the works

    Research commissioned internally by Microsoft amongst its corporate users has highlighted an unexpected gripe, sources tell The Register. The number one Windows bugbear, is that there are too many updates. Not just to the OS (annual revisions of Windows mean that a newer version is ready by the time a large organisation …

    Software 24 Jan 2002, 23:17