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21st March 2002 Archive

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  • Online dealer makes a Komplett hash of DRAM offer

    Another Kodak? We don't think so

    Our email inbox was inundated today with complaints concerning a bargain basement price for DRAM offered and then withdrawn post- credit card-debited sale on a UK computer dealer site. Komplett.co.uk, an online computer reseller of computer components, earlier this week offered a 512Mb DRAM module for £13. Owing to "gross human …

    Channel 21 Mar 2002, 10:07

  • FIC wins eMachines PC gig

    Upping the build quality

    eMachines, the US maker of bargain basement PCs, has signed up Taiwanese mobo maker FIC to supply a "significant number of PC systems from its extensive range of products". The contract is described as "lucrative" by FIC, while eMachines, recently bought out from its Korean owners, will, we guess, have lower working capital …

    Personal 21 Mar 2002, 10:24

  • New Tomb Raider game released in November

    It's a Lara, Lara waiting

    Lara Croft fans will have to wait until November before they can get their hands on her latest adventure. The new game The Angel of Darkness will be released on November 15 on PlayStation 2 and PC formats Game maker Eidos claims the game is "classic Lara as both hunter and hunted relying on her ingenuity, athleticism and a new …

    Personal 21 Mar 2002, 10:49

  • Yahoo! charges! for! email! services!

    Time to coff

    Yahoo! is to start charging for its email forwarding and POP3 services. Users of the service have until April 24 to decided whether to cough up for the service. Yahoo! said it will offer existing users the service for a special promo price of $19.99. The normal fee is $29.99 a year. Yahoo! claims it is imposing the …

    e-Business 21 Mar 2002, 13:53

  • W3C OWL proposals take flight

    Ontology. Not a word you see every day

    The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Ontology working group has published a working draft of the requirements for its Ontology Web Language (OWL). The working group, part of the W3C's Semantic Web activity, is chartered to create a language that extends the semantic reach of previous metadata efforts based on eXtensible …

    Media 21 Mar 2002, 15:02

  • Openwave, opens back door for US mobile messaging

    Service agreement with Verisign

    Openwave Systems Inc has opened a back door into the US market for mobile messaging through a service agreement with VeriSign Inc, and a new cross-network compatible version of its gateway product, Tony Cripps writes The Redwood City, California-based company was unavailable for comment as ComputerWire went to press. …

    Mobile 21 Mar 2002, 15:02

  • Time preloads Tiny PCs with Supanet ISP

    Not exactly a surprise

    Tiny PCs will come pre-loaded with Supanet ISP access, following brand owner Time Computers's decision to switch from Tiscali. Supanet expects to gain up to 150,000 customers a year through the move. The decision is hardly a surprise - we predicted this when Time bought the assets of Tiny from the receivers in January. Supanet …

    Channel 21 Mar 2002, 15:03

  • Sun to bang Java drum but J2EE 1.4 slips

    Trailing .NET

    Sun Microsystems Inc will attempt to galvanize developers at its set-piece JavaOne conference next week - and deflate Microsoft Corp's .NET hype - with tools and partnerships that prove Java's increased adoption in web services construction, Gavin Clarke writes. Away from the hype, Java programmers risk slipping behind …

    Software 21 Mar 2002, 15:05

  • Red Hat forecasts strong growth after dismal year

    Hit by chip slump (yes, that's what they said)

    Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc expects revenue to grow at least 26% to between $99.5m and $101m in the current financial year and anticipates an operating loss of $3m to $4m for the year, with the company breaking even at that level in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter to February 28, the net loss was $41.9m …

    Business 21 Mar 2002, 15:05

  • Vendors sharpen tools to thwart DoS attacks

    Attack mitigation

    A new breed of security products designed to mitigate the risk of denial of service (DoS) attacks is coming to market. Earlier this week, Top Layer Networks announced the general availability of its Attack Mitigator appliance, which gives an added layer of protection that is more effective than traditional firewalls at stopping …

    Security 21 Mar 2002, 15:06

  • Netscape exec on IE APIs, and why hiding it isn't enough

    The Lazarus factor

    Judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly yesterday ruled out more trial material as "hearsay," and suggested both parties try to address one another's allegations more directly. Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's contribution on venture capital (a claim that it was extremely difficult for companies going up against Microsoft to get …

    Software 21 Mar 2002, 15:30

  • MS judge in shock MSWord to WordPerfect defection

    No change in Adobe hatred yet recorded

    In among yesterday's procedural and admin discussion from the Microsoft trial lurks a minor triumph for the non-Microsoft camp which we hope will go a little way to helping Michael Cowpland, formerly of Corel, pay off some of his fines. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly (for it is she) is arranging her daily delivery of …

    Software 21 Mar 2002, 15:54

  • XBox 2 ‘designed with AMD processor’

    MS plays footsie with Nvidia

    Microsoft engineers are busy designing the second version of Xbox around an AMD CPU, according to Fechtor Detwiler, the Boston-based investment bank. Their channel checkers picked up this tidbit, and say that Intel won't be able to snatch and grab the contract as easily as it did first time around. "One of the primary reasons …

    Channel 21 Mar 2002, 16:15

  • Kiddie protection filter goes live

    50k sites signed up

    A new system designed to protect children from unsavoury content on the Internet has been unveiled today by the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA). The ICRAfilter is free of charge and allows content providers to label their sites. Once labelled, parents can then use the filter to block access to sites which they feel …

    Media 21 Mar 2002, 16:18

  • Britain is a nation of cyber snoopers

    Workers search In-boxes for gossip

    Britain is a nation of cyber snoopers. Almost nine in ten (87 per cent) of UK workers have surreptitiously read a boss's private email on at least one occasion. That's according to a survey of 200 professionals, sponsored by security firm Indicii Salus, which found that the vast majority of snoopers were motivated by curiosity …

    Media 21 Mar 2002, 16:21

  • Politics or bugs behind Microsoft exec massacre?

    Blood on the carpet

    Ballmer has the HP-Compaq media circus to thank for distracting attention from the most recent Redmond reshuffle, which leaked out on Monday. In Microsoft's mobile division, reorgs seem to take place with great regularity, and it's only three months since Ballmer streamlined the troubled phone side of the operation by ensuring …

    Personal 21 Mar 2002, 19:24

  • Netscape Online to close in June

    Cheerio

    AOL UK has finally set a date for when its subscription free ISP Netscape Online will close. The service will shut on June 27 - nine months after AOL UK first announced its intention to close the ISP. In an email to its Netscape Online users, AOL UK claims that service is being canned due to the "increasing popularity of …

    Media 21 Mar 2002, 21:35

  • Symantec gains heuristic patent

    Belated recognition won't spur fresh legal spat, says AV firm

    Symantec yesterday announced that it has been granted a patent on antivirus heuristic (automatic detection) technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Symantec's patented heuristic technology (US patent number 6,357,008), which is used within its range of AV products, "detects new and unknown viruses without traditional …

    Security 21 Mar 2002, 21:35