2nd April 2002 Archive

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• NTL defaults on payments

  Chapter 11 rumours spread

  NTL Inc, struggling to restructure a $17bn debt mountain, said yesterday it will not make interest payments due yesterday on a number of US-traded high-yield bonds, as speculation that the company is set to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection continues to mount. The company, which is based in New York but which has …

  Business 2 Apr 2002, 09:18

• Taiwan recovers from earthquake

  Some supply dislocation

  Taiwan's IT sector appeared to have escaped relatively unscathed on Monday, after a massive earthquake rocked the country over the weekend. But some effect on component supplies is expected, as manufacturers check their production lines in the wake of the quake. Even before the earthquake, there had been been complaints …

  Business 2 Apr 2002, 09:18

• Sun raises curtain (a little) on Solaris 9

  Ready-ish to rumble

  Sun Microsystems Inc is working towards getting the next release of its Solaris operating system - known as SunOS 5.9 internally at Sun and Solaris 2.9 or simply Solaris 9 externally - which should be shipping if all goes well before the end of Sun's fiscal year in June, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. Sources at Sun have …

  Software 2 Apr 2002, 09:19

• AT&T Comcast says customers will have ISP ‘choice’

  Regulatory pitch

  AT&T Comcast, the company that will form from the merger of AT&T Broadband and Comcast Corp, Friday outlined its intention to give cable customers access to unaffiliated ISPs, but stopped short of committing to fully open networks, Kevin Murphy writes. In a document filed with the Federal Communications Commission, which …

  Telecoms 2 Apr 2002, 09:19

• Sun preps fight over application server spot

  Aggressive campaign

  Sun Microsystems Inc plans product and service announcements next month in what the company called an "aggressive" campaign to promote its Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) iPlanet application server and fulfill the Open Net Environment (ONE) roadmap, Gavin Clarke writes. A tight-lipped Sun told Computerwire it will " …

  Telecoms 2 Apr 2002, 09:19

• AOL UK ups subscription costs

  Follows in Freeserve's footsteps

  AOL UK is to up the price of its flat rate subscription service by £1 a month. From May 2 the cost of the unmetered dial-up service, "AOL Flat Rate", will rise from £14.99 to £15.99 a month. The ISP claims the "modest increase" is a result of investment in its service and network. This is the first price rise since AOL Flat …

  Music and Media 2 Apr 2002, 10:05

• VIA sales down, SiS sales up

  March figures

  VIA Technologies posted sales of $66.36m in March (NT$2.32bn), 0.87 per cent up on February, but 48.37 per cent down on the same period last year, when the Taiwanese core logic designer posted revenues of $128,545m. SiS, its chipset rival, by contrast saw March sales rise 16 per cent on February, posting revenues of NT$ 1.286bn …

  Channel 2 Apr 2002, 10:05

• HP board blackballs Walter

  'Lack of candour and issues of trust'

  Hewlett-Packard has dropped dissident director Walter Hewlett from the list of candidates up for re-election to its board. In a strongly-worded statement, HP said: "The board's decision not to nominate Walter Hewlett is based on his ongoing adversarial relationship with the company, as evidenced by his recent litigation against …

  Business 2 Apr 2002, 10:30

• IBM, Sony, SCE, Tosh queue up for SOI source

  'Powerful alliance'

  IBM has teamed up with Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba, to create a "powerful alliance" for chipmaking. At the heart of the alliance, is the jewel in IBM's semiconductor crown - its silicon-on-insulator (SOI)technology. Using this technogoly, the four companies are to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on …

  Channel 2 Apr 2002, 11:49

• BTo ups subs

  Talk about coincidences

  BTopenworld is to increase the cost of its unmetered dial-up service by £1 to £15.99 a month from May 1. A short notice on its Web site reads: "From 1st May 2002, BTopenworld Anytime will be charged at £15.99 a month." BTopenworld's decision to up the cost of its flagship unmetered service comes on the same day that AOL UK …

  Music and Media 2 Apr 2002, 11:50

• MS security patch fails on local files

  Updated Not an unmitigated disaster, but you be the judge

  The MS patch intended to fix a data binding flaw in IE, which enables a script to call executables on your Windows machine using the object tag, does not protect against malicious files launched from a local directory. We had several anecdotal reports of trouble -- enough to cause alarm -- and went so far as to wipe a perfectly …

  Software 2 Apr 2002, 12:14

• Undead virus infects the dim-witted

  SirCam tops March charts

  A worm which poses as a caricature of former US president Bill Clinton stole the headlines last month, but old favourites like SirCam and Klez-E were far more of a problem for most Internet users. That's according to monthly statistics from managed services firm MessageLabs, which stopped 161,904 viruses in March, slightly up …

  Malware 2 Apr 2002, 12:40

• Windows Messenger ‘Trojan update’

  How to kill it, how Redmond resurrects it

  This is too cute. You can wipe Windows Messenger from XP with a simple hack, and yet MS will defy you with a 'Critical Update'. That's how desperate they are to force this little Trojan on you. Following a tip from a Messenger-averse reader whose uninstall got thwarted, I looked into it, starting with a clean install of Win-XP …

  Software 2 Apr 2002, 13:50

• SONICblue bins refinancing plans

  Better than expected Q1

  SONICblue has scrapped plans to seek private equity-financing, citing current market conditions. The company can always dip into its rapidly depleting pot of UMC shares (there are two entries for UMC investments on SONICblue's Q4 balance sheet, amounting to just over $163m at December 31, 2001, compared with $500m worth of …

  Personal 2 Apr 2002, 14:48

• McAfee punts proactive virus protection

  ThreatScan

  McAfee, the AV division of Network Associates, has released a virus vulnerability assessment tool designed to help firms spot weaknesses in anti-virus defences. McAfee's ThreatScan software works in conjunction with McAfee's anti-virus management console, ePolicy Orchestrator, to scour the enterprise network for devices which …

  Malware 2 Apr 2002, 14:50

• BTo slaps AOL UK over broadband

  AOL UK bites back

  AOL UK has reacted angrily to claims made by BTopenworld that it has "done the least of all the major players in the UK market to advance Broadband Britain". The comment was made by BTopenworld CEO Alison Ritchie in a letter to Paul Boateng MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, concerning AOL UK's current exemption from …

  Telecoms 2 Apr 2002, 16:42

• EB UK v. EB US

  Royalty payments at stake

  Electronics Boutique UK is going to the High Court to see if it can overturn a royalty agreement with Electronics Boutique. EBUK, the UK's biggest games software retailer, currently pays one per cent of turnover to EB Inc., of America, in accordance with a services agreement struck between the two firms in 1995. This amounted …

  Channel 2 Apr 2002, 17:35

• ElcomSoft squares up to Feds in Sklyarov test case

  Motion to dismiss

  ElcomSoft, the employer of freed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov, and federal authorities have squared up in court for the first time in a case that will challenge America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In a pre-trial hearing yesterday, lawyers for Moscow-based ElcomSoft argued that charges …

  Security 2 Apr 2002, 17:40

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