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  • EFF BOFH arrested

    Bartcopped

    Marc Perkel, sysadmin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, has been arrested by LA police department. A political activist, civil libertarian and member of both Rep and Dem parties, Perkel runs the overthrowthegovernment.org and hosts the Bartcop web sites. He was arrested on returning to the country from …

    Data Networking 13 Mar 2002, 00:46

  • Those techs raped your stupid mind good

    FOTW Words of enlightenment from the rude masses

    Our recent item, Win-XP kills Verizon DSL, has attracted over two hundred notes of appreciation and solidarity, and one flame. That's right, only one; but it just doesn't get any better than this: Return-Path: [tou4you2000@yahoo.com] Received: from web21307.mail.yahoo.com (web21307.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.128.232]) by sys3. …

    Bootnotes 13 Mar 2002, 04:23

  • Compuware launches antitrust suit against IBM

    Couldn't be bothered queueing for MS, apparently...

    Compuware Corp has filed a federal lawsuit against IBM Corp alleging that Big Blue has copied Compuware's software testing tools source code and used monopoly power in the mainframe market to compete unfairly in mainframe software tools, writes Matthew Aslett. The lawsuit, filed by Farmington Hills, Michigan-based …

    Hardware 13 Mar 2002, 08:33

  • You got the LOOX

    CeBIT Fujitsu Siemens PDA

    Fujitsu Siemens makes its big play for the high-end PDA biz next week with the official 'launch' of the Pocket LOOX. Retailing at an expected EUR699 (EX-VAT), the LOOX is Wintel through and through - it uses an Intel ARM-based XScale processor and Microsoft Pocket 2002 OS. There's no shipping date yet, beyond "sometime in Q2 …

    Mobile 13 Mar 2002, 08:35

  • RealNetworks clinches Nokia mobile phone player deal

    Handsets by the million

    RealNetworks Inc made its most significant play in the wireless internet market yesterday, announcing a deal with Nokia Corp that will see its media software bundled on millions of mobile devices, writes Kevin Murphy. Not only will Nokia include a cut-down RealOne player on the forthcoming 9210i, 9290 and 7650 models, but …

    Mobile 13 Mar 2002, 08:40

  • IBM unleashes 8-way Foster Xeon servers

    Builds on Summit

    IBM Corp wants a bigger piece of the enterprise Windows server market, and the new xSeries 440 server, codenamed "Vigil," that was announced yesterday as part of Intel's "Foster" Xeon MP processor rollout, is part of IBM's long-range plan to do its own engineering at the high end and bring more money to the top and bottom …

    Hardware 13 Mar 2002, 08:54

  • AMD aims high in Hannover

    CeBIT three new Athlons

    AMD announced three new high-end CPUs, coinciding nicely with the first day at CeBIT, the world's biggest computer show. On parade is the Athlon XP 2100+ for desktops, which gets a huge thumbs-up from Tom's Hardware. This clocks in at 1733MHz, but outstrips faster clocking Intel P4s, THG says. However it notes that the …

    Channel 13 Mar 2002, 11:22

  • Email more popular than letters

    Gosh

    Email is more popular than snail mail, according NetValue. The Internet measurement outfit claims that in January home Net users sent a staggering 550 million emails compared to just 258 million letters. "This is a real milestone for email," said Alki Manias, MD of NetValue UK. "Email has surpassed hundreds of years of …

    Music and Media 13 Mar 2002, 12:28

  • Lucent expects recovery to be delayed

    Plans to spin off Agere pulled back as telecom woes continue

    Beleaguered telecoms equipment vendor Lucent has issued another profits warning, which advises that it expects its return into the black will be delayed until next year. The company said it now expects pro-forma revenues to show a "modest-to-10-per cent" improvement on a sequential basis for Q2 2002 instead of the 10-15 per …

    Data Networking 13 Mar 2002, 12:31

  • Murdoch company cracked our smartcard, claims Canal+

    Lawsuits at dawn...

    A row has broken out among pay TV companies after Canal+ alleged in a lawsuit that rival NDS arranged for the posting of information on how to crack the encryption used in its digital TV smartcards on a pirate Web site. Canal+ alleges that NDS Group, which is majority owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, deliberately …

    Personal 13 Mar 2002, 13:13

  • Factoring gains won't break strong crypto – Schneier

    Serious number crunching

    Concerns that improvements in factoring technology might make it easier to break large key length encryption codes are misplaced, according to noted cryptographer Bruce Schneier. Last year mathematician Dan Bernstein circulated a paper discussing improvements in integer factorization, using specialised parallel hardware, …

    Security 13 Mar 2002, 17:05

  • Intel adopts PR rating/ part number shock?

    Taking the A train of thought

    Clock speed is the bane of AMD's life, especially when it comes to marketing processors to retail customers. It has Athlons performing better than higher-clock rated P4s, so what is it to do? It introduces part numbers to imply equivalence with Intel PCs. So the Athlon 2100 desktop CPU, launched today, clocks in at 1733MHz and …

    Channel 13 Mar 2002, 17:40