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  • VIA sales down in February

    Chinese New Year takes most of the blame

    VIA Technologies' sales came in at US$65.6m (NT$ 2.3bn) for February. This is around 15 per cent lower than January - not so surprising as most of its customers take a week off in Feb to celebrate the Chinese New Year. More instructive, certainly for ironing out seasonal sales fluctuations, is the year-on-year comparison kindly …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 07:48

  • Samsung preps 400MHz DDR launch

    Ambitious targets

    Samsung is to go into volume production of DDR400 SDRAM 128Mb memory in Q2. The world's biggest DRAM maker is already sampling the fast memory chip with its major customers - and it is gunning for $300m worth of sales from the graphics-targeted device in 2002. Samsung is making a big play for supplying graphics board makers …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 08:19

  • A radio on every chip in 10 years

    IDF Radio Free Intel

    Intel Corp's entire chip range could feature integrated software configurable radios within ten years, according to a startling roadmap unveiled by the vendor's chief technology officer, Joe Fay writes. In his keynote speech to the Intel Developer Forum yesterday Pat Gelsinger also claimed that Moore's law, and its cost …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 10:16

  • Intel ships P4-M, runs at 1.7GHz

    Power Play

    Intel today started shipping the P4-M, the first notebook chip to incorporate the Pentium 4 Northwood core. The P4-M has a clock speed of 1.7GHz, uses the new DDR-supporting mobile 845 chipset, and is supposed to be 43 per cent faster than its nearest PIII mobile antecedent. The P4-M incorporates a 400MHz FSB and 266MHz DDR …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 10:46

  • Intel chops desktop Celeron prices

    Holds steady on other lines

    Intel today refreshes its OEM price lists, last updated at the end of January. And whaddya know - all remains the same, except for the bargain basement desktop Celerons. The 1.3GHz Celeron with 256k cache now costs $84, 18 per cent down on the previous published price of $103. The 1.2GHz costs $79 ($87 -11%); The 1.10A GHz is …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 11:23

  • Gameplay castaways make good

    Dotcom afterlife

    So what do you do when the dotcom you work for goes titsup.com? Retire to the hills to become a freelance shepherd? Hell no – well, not if you’re a couple of castaways from former online games giant Gameplay. Arran D’Aubigny and Gareth Morris have given up the combat trousers and hooded tops and swapped them for city suits. …

    e-Business 4 Mar 2002, 11:54

  • Dell falls foul of pro-gun lobby

    Combat zone

    The USA's awesomely powerful pro-gun lobby is taking aim at Dell, after the patriotic Texan, PC maker, refused to take an order from a prominent American pistolsmith. Jack Weigand, president of the American Pistolsmiths Guild, was told by Dell that the company had refused to complete his order for a notebook, following the …

    Personal 4 Mar 2002, 12:06

  • Britney Spears virus fails to chart

    Hit me baby one more time - or not

    An email-borne virus that tries to spread by tricking users into clicking an attachment that promises a picture of Britney Spears has found few takers. Britney-A, a Visual Basic Script (VBS) worm, normally arrives at a victim's inbox with the subject line "RE:Britney Pics", body text "Take a look at these pics..." and infected …

    Security 4 Mar 2002, 12:23

  • All quiet on the malware front

    SirCam leapfrogs BadTrans-B to top virus charts in quiet February

    Incidents of email-borne viruses were markedly down last month but old favourites like SirCam and BadTrans-B are refusing to die a decent death. That's according to monthly statistics from managed services firm MessageLabs, which stopped 135,523 viruses in February, compared to 241,609 in January and almost 480,000 last …

    Security 4 Mar 2002, 12:24

  • Malware by numbers: online virus creation tool spotted

    Pirate site for click kiddies

    The world's first online virus generator has surfaced - but there's no need to get too alarmed, antivirus experts say. The Instant Macro-Virus Maker can be used to create macro viruses and dispenses with the need for virus writers to download virus creation toolkits. Wannabe click kiddies need only visit the site which has …

    Malware 4 Mar 2002, 12:39

  • IE, Outlook run malicious commands without scripting

    No patch, but the workaround works

    An attacker can run arbitrary commands on Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML, an Israeli security researcher has demonstrated. The exploit will work with IE, Outlook and OutlooK Express even if active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the browser security settings. The problem here is data binding, an old 'feature' …

    Software 4 Mar 2002, 13:41

  • Mobile phone masts have low emissions

    Apparently

    The level of emissions from mobile phone masts in the UK is well below international guidelines, according to the latest Government research. The Radiocommunications Agency tested 100 base station near schools last year and found that electromagnetic emissions were, in some cases, many thousands of times below exposure …

    Data Networking 4 Mar 2002, 13:59

  • C# virus pitched against .NET

    Sharpei is low risk, but worrying

    A new virus uses Microsoft's C# language to target .EXE files under the Microsoft .NET Framework. The Sharpei mass-mailer targets machines running .NET and consists of three components: a simple file dropper program, a mass mailer which uses Microsoft Outlook to spread, and a .NET component. Although considered low risk, …

    Malware 4 Mar 2002, 14:45

  • Nvidia looks Elsawhere for Quadro back-ups

    Hunt is on for new partners

    Elsa's collapse last week into receivership has seen Nvidia scrambling for new workstation graphics board partners. Currently, Elsa retains exclusive rights for Nvidia's workstation graphics CPUs (anything with Quadro in the name). A Nvidia representative told us the company remains committed to the German board maker - "so …

    Channel 4 Mar 2002, 15:31

  • Thus cans In2Home ISP

    Cheerio

    Thus is canning its pay-as-you-go ISP In2Home at the end of the month. A spokeswoman for the company said the decision had been taken thanks to a change in strategy at Thus (formerly Scottish Telecom) as it focuses on providing services in return for cash. She added that it was all part of Thus' shift to providing telco and …

    Music and Media 4 Mar 2002, 15:32

  • Removing IE would kill Win2k, WinXP, MS, says Redmond

    Big Red Legal Switch marked 'don't press'

    Both Windows XP and Windows 2000 will be rendered inoperable, and Microsoft will be unable to develop future new operating systems, if it is forced to separate IE from the operating system, according to court filings the company made on Friday. The US States still fighting Microsoft argue, on the contrary, that separation of …

    Software 4 Mar 2002, 15:41

  • Use Windows to ‘turn your PC into a love machine’

    No, really, Visio is sexy...

    The Register was until minutes ago entirely unaware that the Sun newspaper had even been running a ten part guide to building your own PC, far less that it completed it today. But after a tip-off from a Microsoft spinmeister who wishes to remain anonymous, but says it wasn't his idea anyway, honest, we feel the need to bring …

    Bootnotes 4 Mar 2002, 16:43

  • Morpheus fesses up to user lockout security breach

    Exchanges insults with former ally KaZaA.com

    Morpheus has re-instated its file swapping service after ditching support for the P2P stack supplied by developer FastTrack and embracing the Gnutella protocol. Last week, users unexpectedly found themselves locked out of the MusicCity Morpheus network. The organisation blamed incompatibilities between Morpheus and a fresh …

    Music and Media 4 Mar 2002, 20:27

  • Curious employees are biggest security risk

    The devil inside

    Forget about Internet crackers, employees are the biggest security problem for most businesses. That's the main conclusion of a survey of UK IT managers which suggests that most firms are prepared for the threats posed by viruses and hackers, but are still struggling to secure data on their own networks. Around half (51 per …

    Security 4 Mar 2002, 20:35

  • One.Tel cuts cost of broadband

    Nice

    One.Tel has introduced cut-price broadband for its existing customers almost a month before BT reduces its wholesale price for DSL. From today One.Tel's single user service costs £27.99 a month as the ISP prepares to absorb the additional cost in the hope of attracting new punters. New users who sign up now also can also start …

    Telecoms 4 Mar 2002, 20:38

  • FT.com, Slashdot, GeoCities flag up charges

    And more on Avantgo

    The free Internet is looking somewhat frayed at the edges with three prominent web sites in recent days announcing their intention to charge for access to content or services. FT.com, Europe's biggest business news website, today said it would charge 'under £100' a year for a soon-to-be closed area of the site. But what's up …

    e-Business 4 Mar 2002, 21:43