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  • 16,000 jump on BTo's new DSL bandwagon

    Would you Adam and Eve it

    BTopenworld has secured more than 16,000 orders for its DSL service in the last two weeks. The massive surge in demand coincides with BTopenworld's move to cut the cost of its single user DSL product to under £30 a month, following a fall in the wholesale costs. Speaking to The Register for the first time since her appointment …

    Telecoms 20 Mar 2002, 10:36

  • Cisco sued over Net2Phone ‘deception’

    Embrace and destroy claim

    Net2Phone Inc yesterday filed suit against Cisco Systems Inc, alleging the router maker conducted a two-year deception with the aim of seizing control of the voice over IP network management market, Kevin Murphy writes. According to Net2Phone, Cisco misled the company when they jointly launched Adir Technologies Inc as a …

    Data Networking 20 Mar 2002, 10:36

  • Certicom says Nokia will not kill its VPN sales

    Fee v. Free

    The fact that Nokia Corp is to give away virtual private network clients on its 9200 series Communicators does not signal the demise of rival client developers, according to one such provider, Certicom Corp, Kevin Murphy writes. The Hayward, California-based firm yesterday unveiled movianVPN for the Symbian operating …

    Mobile 20 Mar 2002, 10:36

  • EMC pushes WideSky on sometimes unwilling world

    Hardball with hardware vendors

    EMC today launched its WideSky storage middleware, but admitted that the software simply bundles together and puts a front-end on interfaces that have existed for some while, Tim Stammers writes. On the question of the still-missing support for key hardware products in WideSky, once again the company threatened that even …

    Hardware 20 Mar 2002, 10:37

  • Don't broaden case into new trial, MS judge tells States

    Spoilsport...

    Microsoft antitrust judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly yesterday appeared to fire a shot across the bows of the unsettling States' case. She refused to accept testimony from former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, and also said she was inclined to agree with Microsoft's view that most of the testimony from Sun's Richard Green should be …

    Software 20 Mar 2002, 11:40

  • CompuServe UK for the chop?

    Would anyone notice?

    AOL UK has refused to confirm or deny speculation that it is on the brink of axing its CompuServe ISP service in the UK. CompuServe users could find out as early as tomorrow that AOL UK intends to pull the service with customers offered the chance to transfer to AOL UK's subscription service. Asked to confirm or deny the …

    Music and Media 20 Mar 2002, 12:09

  • 3G phones – rarer than hen's teeth

    Preview But Simon R. got his mitts on this NEC prototype

    I wasn't supposed to review this phone. It's the most valuable one I have held; worth more than the solid platinum handset NEC made as a one-off back in 1998. The phone in question is also an NEC model, one of the prototype third-generation models being used in the Isle of Man to test the network that is under development …

    Mobile 20 Mar 2002, 12:10

  • Symantec spills email addresses of list subscribers

    Updated Tut, tut

    Subscribers to a Symantec digest have alerted us after receiving an administrative message that divulged user email details. Symantec sent out a message on Monday seeking to delete people from the list, which provided the addresses of 74 subscribers to its monthly Security Response newsletter. Two Register readers have copied …

    Security 20 Mar 2002, 12:24

  • A succulent bunch of fives from IT-Minds

    The usual 20 per cent off our featured titles

    This week's discounted bunch of fives from Reg associate IT-minds bookstore is led by Designing from Both Sides of the Screen by Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski. The book sets out to examine how designers and engineers can collaborate to build cooperative technology, offering a sound and proven philosophy for designing and …

    Business 20 Mar 2002, 12:32

  • Bill's vision for the future of the PC, c1980 – er, Xenix

    Failed business plans a-go-go...

    Microsoft attorney Dan Webb's precis of Bill Gates' forthcoming trial contribution has prompted quantities of correspondence from bitter old lags on the subject Microsoft's pivotal role in the history of the computer industry, and on His Billness' "vision." to refresh your memory: "They had a vision. Their vision was that …

    Software 20 Mar 2002, 13:14

  • ORBZ shuts up shop, cites criminal charges

    Updated Anti-spam blacklist blackout

    ORBZ, the anti-spam blacklisting service, is shutting down. Ian Gulliver, the administrator of ORBZ (Open Relay Blocking Zone), sent a message to its mailing list explaining that the service was been shut down because of "criminal charges for denial of service relating to the Lotus Domino issue". Last August, Gulliver sent a …

    Music and Media 20 Mar 2002, 14:29

  • OUP reference books go online

    You can put a price on knowledge

    The Oxford University Press (OUP) is making its academic tomes available online - for a fee. From today the core collection of the OUP's reference works - which includes more than 1.5 million entries - is available at Oxford Reference Online. The site has taken two years to develop and so far cost £1 million ($1.5 million). …

    e-Business 20 Mar 2002, 14:31

  • Mobo maker flushes P4 chipset through grey market

    Prices tumble

    Pentium 4 BO chipsets are falling in price on the gray market in Asia, in response to a big clear-out by a major, unnamed mobo maker, the ever resourceful Digitimes reports (although not resourceful enough to name the company). It notes that DDR-supporting 845BO (845D) chipsets can be bought in the region for $30, compared with …

    Channel 20 Mar 2002, 14:34

  • MS Mira beta: buy $800 web tablet, then pretend it's not

    Does all the things Mira isn't supposed to. Try not to notice

    Beta testers of Microsoft's Mira wireless display devices are going to have to pay for the hardware, according to an email sent to testers yesterday and obtained by ActiveWin. Well, fair enough, you might think, it is hardware so there's a cost factor that's absent from the usual software beta, but it's $800 for an 8.4in 800x600 …

    Personal 20 Mar 2002, 14:59

  • Police tackle global ‘elite’ paedo ring

    Two arrested in the UK

    Twelve people have been arrested in a global operation designed to crack down on an "elite" group of Net-based paedophiles. The arrests were made earlier today as part of coordinated raids led by Interpol. It claims those arrested were heavily involved in the production and distribution of child pornography. The operation, …

    Music and Media 20 Mar 2002, 16:52

  • Instant message, cracker tricks

    CERT warns on social engineering tricks

    IRC and instant messaging (IM) services are increasingly becoming vectors for social engineering attacks. That's according to an alert by security clearing CERT issued yesterday. This warns that script kiddies are tricking gullible users into downloading and executing malicious software using the services. These risks are well …

    Security 20 Mar 2002, 16:54

  • Sue Ellison, analyst tells Oracle users

    Multiplexing license caper perplexes punters

    Meta Group analyst Mark Shainman says Oracle users should take legal action to block the database giant from renegotiating some license fees. Meta says customers who aggregate feeds to and from data warehouses on Oracle databases are now being asked to pay more. The issue arises, according to Meta, because batch jobs to the …

    Hardware 20 Mar 2002, 23:51