5th February 2002 Archive

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• PIPEX slashes home ADSL charges

  That's more like it

  PIPEX, is slashing monthly fees for its home user ADSL service, Xtreme Solo, to a "cable-cutting" £24.95 ex VAT. So if you're not VAT-registered and working from home, it'll set you back £29.32. And there are no connection charges for the first 40,000 people who sign up - last week, Pipex announced a £2m Broadband Development …

  Telecoms 5 Feb 2002, 07:06

• Open source a needed outlet for programming pros

  Survey says

  Open source hackers are very likely to be programmers with a decade of professional experience employed by a commercial software company, and very unlikely to be the stock high school math-club geeks of popular press reports, a survey of SourceForge members conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates. These and other …

  Software 5 Feb 2002, 08:08

• Major privacy hole in Windows/MSN Messenger

  'Feature' introduces you and your friends to Web sites

  A nifty feature in MSN and Windows Messenger which apparently was intended to identify IE users (without their knowledge or consent) on Microsoft Web sites can easily be abused by any Webmaster with a bit of Javascript or VBscript, a clever empiricist has discovered. The feature allows anyone to obtain a surfer's Messenger …

  Software 5 Feb 2002, 08:10

• Intel caches up ahead of McKinley launch

  Big Bus

  Intel has pulled a little more tarpaulin off its McKinley processor, revealing ramped up cache and a faster system bus, which it claims will help to double the Itanium platform's performance, Joe Fay writes. The architectural changes, unveiled at the International Solid State Circuits Conference last weekend, will be built …

  Channel 5 Feb 2002, 08:27

• HP bows OpenBlade spec

  For Blade Server interoperability

  Hewlett Packard Co will today announce that it has released an open enhancement of the CompactPCI (cPCI) specification for servers commonly used at telecoms and dot-coms that the company hopes will eventually become a standard adopted by all manufacturers of blade servers, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. This is an …

  Hardware 5 Feb 2002, 08:28

• McKinley packaging – first photo

  Dense, supercooled cluster

  Intel had long planned to give the technical details of McKinley, the second generation IA-64 chip, a public unveiling at the huge chip engineers conference, ISSCC in San Francisco this week. Unfortunately press materials accompanying NDA press briefings last week were left on a public server and were became circulated. In some …

  Bootnotes 5 Feb 2002, 09:28

• The axe falls at mmO2

  Major job cuts

  mm02 is to cut 1,900 jobs in the UK and Germany in a major restructure. It will cost £110m this year to implement the plan which is expected to produce annual savings of £70m. In the UK, the mobile network operator is to close 133 of its 320 outlets and will implement job cuts throughout the back office functions. The company …

  Business 5 Feb 2002, 09:31

• Explain yourself Miguel, demands RMS

  .NETification of GNOME - latest

  A surprised and dismayed Richard M Stallman says Gnome project founder Miguel de Icaza owes the community an explanation for comments made to The Register, last week, in which de Icaza advocated basing the project on Microsoft.NET APIs. "I can't believe it's Gnome you're talking about but if it is, I wouldn't like that," …

  Software 5 Feb 2002, 09:32

• EuropaIT exits PC biz in France

  Seeks buyer

  EuropaIT has given up the fight to turnaround its French PC distribution business. The privately-owned company has also hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to explore options, including restructure around profitable elements, or a sale of some or all of the company's assets. It says it will make a decision on its future in the next few …

  Channel 5 Feb 2002, 10:02

• Pogo bounces onto Carphone Warehouse shelves

  PDA contender

  Pogo, the British designer of the eponymous mobile internet/PDA/MP3 phone device, has at last secured a retail launch date from Carphone Warehouse, its exclusive high street partner. Pogo devices is on the shelves as of February 4( and not March 1) as we wrote earlier. This is our review of a pre-release prototype, dating from …

  Personal 5 Feb 2002, 11:27

• Chinese SMS can crash Siemens mobiles

  Language skills

  Siemens is evaluating the impact of a security bug that allows malicious hackers to crash phones by sending a malformed SMS message in Chinese. The flaw, which affects Siemens 3568i (or below) mobiles but not Siemens 6688 phones, involves a bug in the way exceptional characters are displayed, Chinese researchers xfocus advise …

  Security 5 Feb 2002, 11:40

• Maxtor goes large with external HDDs

  Fat and fast

  Maxtor is inching its way into Iomega territory, by tripling the disk size for its Personal Storage 3000LE USB 2.0 external hard drive line. The latest 120GB model ships in the US 'in early February' and carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP)of $299.95. You can buy it also online through MaxtorDirect. Maxtor is …

  Personal 5 Feb 2002, 11:52

• Nvidia is Jon Peddie ‘Segment Leader’

  Analyst accolade

  Tomorrow, Nvidia launches the GeForce 4 GPU, of surprise to anyone interested in computer hardware only if they've kept their head in a bucket in recent weeks. The GeForce 4 will occupy the top of Nvidia's product line, with GeForce 3 boards now taking the middle ranking. GeForce 2 products occupy the low-end, while the TNT GPU …

  Channel 5 Feb 2002, 12:59

• Broadband in Europe stalls

  Nose down

  Price is key to the take-up of broadband, according to the latest research from Gartner. The analyst firm found that punters are unprepared to fork out the extra cash needed to buy broadband services and will only consider it if the price falls below £20 (E30) a month. According to Gartner, only one in ten people currently …

  Telecoms 5 Feb 2002, 13:31

• UK census site stays shut

  Still broke

  The re-opening of the 1901 census Web site has been delayed – again. Last month the Public Record Office (PRO) said the site would be up and running by the beginning of February, after it was taken down for vital maintenance. Its re-opening has now been delayed for another three weeks and could remain offline for longer unless …

  Music and Media 5 Feb 2002, 16:25

• Totalise suspended on AIM

  Late with its accounts

  Totalise, the formerly mutual ISP, was suspended on the AIM stock market on February 1 for failing to file its interim accounts on time. At time of writing, Totalise has not returned our calls to the company. So far as press coverage is concerned, Totalise has escaped pretty lightly - the announcement of suspension on RNS, the …

  e-Business 5 Feb 2002, 16:59

• 5,000 punters wait for Tiny PCs

  Don't worry, be happy

  Up to 5,000 consumers are without a PC following the acquisition of Tiny Computer by Time Computer. The punters had all bought machines before Tiny called in the administrators last week but have yet to receive them. Time says it is currently trying to contact these customers to provide them with alternative PCs. It is also …

  Personal 5 Feb 2002, 17:02

• HPaQ timetables merger vote

  The ides of March

  Hewlett-Packard has set March 19 as the day for shareholders to vote on the Compaq takeover. Their counterparts at Compaq make their marks the following day. This gives the HP board a useful few weeks to get the Big Mo going, more time to mop up stragglers in its proxy toe-to-toe with Walter Hewlett, son of a founder, leader of …

  Business 5 Feb 2002, 23:09

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