11th February 2002 Archive
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UK Ltd flocks online
Oftel SME test
Sixty three per cent of Britain's small and medium-sized businesses are connected to the Internet, up from 55 per cent in May. SMEs (the E stands for enterprise) are cranking up their involvement with telephonyh, all around, according to Oftel's latest usage survey. Around two-thirds use a mobile phone, just over a third use …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 09:58
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Snap! Bestbuy.com does a Kodak
Nvidia GeForce pricing debacle
US clicks and mortar electronics retailer – Best Buy - has done a Kodak. It recently advertised a VisionTek GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Card for $129.99. But the graphics card should have been priced at $399.99. Bestbuy.com has emailed those who took up the offer and cancelled the orders blaming a "system error" for the …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 10:33
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Best Buy offers, withdraws, $129 GeForce-4
End-of-the-world sale
Approximately 1,400 on-line buyers have been disappointed to learn that the $129 GeForce-4 they ordered from Best Buy will not be delivered, a number of Reg readers tell us. The absurdly low price, Best Buy says, was the result of a "systems error" which has since been corrected. The current price listed is a more plausible $ …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 10:33
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Elsa derailed by closed credit lines
Insolvency looms
Elsa, the German graphics board maker, will decides this week whether or not it files for insolvency, following the withdrawal of credit facilities worth eur 38m on Friday, February 15. A member of the loan syndicate of eight banks has also told Elsa that it will not extend credit facilities worth eur 10m when this line expires …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 11:44
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BlackICE slips up over serious security risk
Modified ping flood attack
Security tools vendor ISS is warning of a potential denial of service risk to its range of desktop firewall/intrusion protection systems. Crackers might be able to crash or disrupt affected versions of its BlackICE Defender and BlackICE Agent desktop products, and affected versions of RealSecure Server Sensor using a modified …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 13:05
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Oftel gets tough with mobile phone spammers
Disconnected
Oftel has issued a warning shot across the bows of rip-off premium rate text message spam merchants. It will order mobile phone networks to disconnect spammers if they ignore a "request" from the premium rate service watchdog ICSTIS to stop offending services. This is not quite the same as banning mobile phone spam per se, but …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 13:17
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VIA taps Phoenix BIOS for P4 mobos
Mother of all boards
VIA has named Phoenix as the BIOS software supplier for its new P4XB line of Pentium 4 mobos. The Phoenix tie-in shows VIA's committment to building a world class motherboard business, the Taiwanese chip designer says. It will be interesting to see how VIA carries this off - the company risks upsetting chipset customers, …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 13:48
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e-district.net divvies up disgraced CEO's shares
Commercial settlement
e-district.net, the community site with the blown-up reader numbers and blown-up turnover, has closed the book on the man who did the inflating. It has secured high court approval to settle proceedings against Steven Laitman, founder and former CEO, who pretended that money he pumped into the AIM-listed company was in fact …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 15:07
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The Valentine's Day virus massacre
Cupid's poison arrow
Exchanging electronic Valentine's cards and downloading romance-themed programs from the Internet increases the risk of spreading viruses. So says Sophos which we applaud for its initiative in unearthing the antivirus angle in February 14. The AV vendor cautions users to be vigilant because disguising worms as greetings card …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 15:14
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You cannot record this program
Sky Plus cans and can'ts
There is confusion today after British Sky Broadcasting first confirmed, and then denied that the company's digital recorders have built-in support for recording restrictions. Launched last September, the key features of the Sky+ system are its twin decoders and disk-based digital recorder. Viewers pay £300 for the actual …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 15:51
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EFF urges support for Philips' stand on protected CDs
Tell Philips you love them...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued an Action Alert urging people to support Philips' stand against audio CDs which use anti-copying systems. Last month Philips set the cat among the pigeons by insisting CDs be clearly marked as such, and that they should not bear the familiar Compact Disc logo, because effectively …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 16:39
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US tycoon in rescue talks with NTL
'Cable Guy' Malone stars as white knight?
US Media tycoon John Malone has been in secret talks with the head of NTL, Barclay Knapp, about an investment deal that may result in him becoming the dominant player in the UK cable industry. Liberty Media, which Malone controls, could acquire between 25 and 51 per cent of NTL, which is involved in a massive debt restructuring …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 16:51
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Alldas carries on defacement mirror
Rumours of death exaggerated
Rumours of the death of defacement archive Alldas.de are much exaggerated. Although a posting on the site records that several members of its volunteer team (including founder Stefan Wagner) are leaving amid feelings of "total burnout and frustration", this doesn't mean that Alldas is quitting the hacking scene. Remaining …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 20:29
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Am I annoying or not?
Chris Evans leads celebrity slapdown
Fed up with celebrity pap? Get your own back at AmIAnnoyingorNot.com, and pass judgement on more than 3,000 (so far) people or groups in the public eye. You can vote on whether celebrities are annoying or not, but you cannot grade the level of the annoyance. You can sit on the fence, by saying you're undecided. There's a brief …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 20:38
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New G4 roadmaps promise Apple harvest
Exclusive RapidIO, revved bus options for iMac2
While Apple watchers look for first sightings of the G5 chip, Motorola is taking the G4 into fertile territory. By this time next year three as yet unannounced versions of the G4 will dramatically boost internal bandwidth, support switched fabric interconnects, and will see the processor talk to memory at full bus speed, …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 20:52
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Crusoe blade server pioneer picks Intel
Updated Still best pals with Transmeta
RLX Technology, which blazed the trail for high density blade servers using Transmeta's Crusoe chips, will launch systems based on Intel CPUs in a fortnight, IDG reports. Chris Hipp, who co-founded RLX with John Cracken and John Harkey, couldn't comment on a precise date but confirmed that Intel-based blades will be added to …
Business 11 Feb 2002, 23:56
