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  • AOL's Connie attacked in street

    'Shaken, but fine' says agent

    Rachel Willis, the model and actress who plays AOL UK's cyber-genie Connie in its ads, was attacked yesterday evening on her way home in South London. She was punched in the face and kicked before the attacker ran off with her mobile phone. Miss Willis managed to hang on to her handbag during the struggle. The Mirror reports …

    Music and Media 9 May 2002, 06:30

  • Datawiping works (true)

    Analysis Vendors slam 'defective' tests

    The sedate world of PC disposal has been rocked by a study which suggest deficiencies in many commercial datawiping products. But were the tests fair? John Leyden reports. Tests on a string commercial datawiping products - which suggested that only one worked properly - have provoked a backlash from vendors: they question the …

    Channel 9 May 2002, 06:37

  • Fujitsu Siemens breaks into the black

    Forecasts growth

    Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV has finally broken into the black and has forecast that it will be able to achieve revenue growth ahead of the overall IT hardware market in the current financial year. In the year to March 31, it made pre-tax income of 29m euros ($26.4m), up from a loss of 71m euros ($64.6m) on revenue of 5. …

    Business 9 May 2002, 07:06

  • Hynix board forced to meet

    Bad assets plans

    Hynix Semiconductor Inc's board is due to meet today to debate the possible breakup of the cash strapped Korean company. According to Reuters reports, the board was forced into setting the meeting to debate creditors' proposals for breaking up the company by the Financial Supervisory Commission, which had threatened to put …

    Channel 9 May 2002, 07:07

  • UK tech companies buck recovery trend

    Doing worse than non-techs

    The number of UK companies issuing profit warnings in the first quarter of 2002 fell to its lowest level for 15 months, despite continued bad news from technology companies, according to a study by Ernst & Young. The study shows that the number of profit warnings fell by 39% to 91 compared to 141 in the previous quarter, …

    Business 9 May 2002, 07:27

  • Akamai confirms IBM as Java partner

    Edgy stuff

    Akamai Technologies Inc yesterday confirmed suspicions that it will use IBM Corp software to deliver Java-based web services applications from its massive network of edge-of-internet servers. The content delivery service provider will deploy WebSphere, in a phased rollout, initially over perhaps a few hundred of its 13,000 …

    e-Business 9 May 2002, 07:27

  • Nokia pushes for flat-rate WCDMA royalties

    Corralling Qualcomm

    Global number-one mobile handset vendor Nokia Corp is attempting to push the rest of the industry behind a flat-rate licensing scheme for Wideband-CDMA third-generation mobile equipment and handsets. The company claims it would be sensible for the various vendors and intellectual property owners in the mobile industry to …

    Mobile 9 May 2002, 07:28

  • Kill the MSN Messenger

    Instant Messenger clients in 'critical' security update

    Microsoft has issued a 'critical' security update after the discovery of a buffer overflow vulnerability which may allow an attacker to execute malicious code against the majority of MSN Messenger users. The problem stems from a flaw in an ActiveX control, called MSN Chat, which is included with MSN Messenger since version 4.5 …

    Security 9 May 2002, 10:18

  • Sklyarov/ElcomSoft case sent to trial

    Judge rejects constitution challenge to DMCA

    The case against ElcomSoft, employers of freed Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, will go to trial after a judge yesterday denied the company's motions to dismiss the case. Judge Ronald Whyte of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Elcomsoft, which markets eBook formatter software, must …

    Security 9 May 2002, 10:20

  • NTL files for Chapter 11

    The saga continues

    NTL filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday as part of its ongoing strategy to save the business from crippling debt. The move follows last week's go-ahead from the banks to proceed with a $10.6 billion debt-for-equity swap. Once again NTL stressed that its operation in the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe would …

    Music and Media 9 May 2002, 10:23

  • England World Cup squad released first on the Net

    FA site swamped with traffic

    The Football Association Web site was swamped with traffic this morning, as football fan's throughout the country waited for first news of England's World Cup squad. Because of high traffic volumes, a quick loading page was set up to announce the squad line-up, which has just been released, later than expected. Here's the team …

    Music and Media 9 May 2002, 11:14

  • BTo limits time online for users – again

    Pay more for less

    BTopenworld is to cut the number of hours its Internet users are allowed to stay online in what is being regarded as a move to cajole users to upgrade to broadband. From 5 June punters on the ISP's narrowband unmetered AnyTime and Surftime packages will have their daily online allowance cut from 16 hours to 12 hours a day. …

    Music and Media 9 May 2002, 11:15

  • SuSE 8.0, KDE 3.0 first look

    Wow

    People have been wondering why a conservative company like SuSE would go with two x.0 versions, theirs and KDE's, to form the core of their latest distro; and I must say that on the basis of my experience with x.0's I was ready for some comic frustration when I installed SuSE 8.0-Pro the other day. Ah, but it was a delightfully …

    Software 9 May 2002, 12:47

  • Attack of the clones

    Mobile phone hacker attacks

    Hackers can clone mobile phone SIM cards in minutes, and make calls at their victims' expense. In theory, at any rate: IBM researchers have uncovered a process, dubbed partitioning attacks, which lets crackers extract secret key information from SIM cards by monitoring side-channels, such as power consumption and …

    Mobile 9 May 2002, 14:40

  • What Hailstorm did next: Allchin offers some pointers

    You don't need Passport, for instance...

    Last month Microsoft pulled the plugs on Hailstorm, aka .NET My Services, after failing to find partners willing to trust the company with their data. Hailstorm was kind of important to the whole .NET strategy, and one could therefore wonder about what was left of the latter after the former was gone, but it wasn't gone as such …

    Software 9 May 2002, 15:31

  • HP blades spared the axe?

    For this week

    HPaq has offered us some clarification on how it will juggle the rival blade offerings - from Compaq and the Old HP. HP certainly put a lot more marketing muscle behind its Compact-PCI blades, and earlier, than Compaq. HP had promised RISC-based blades running HP-UX as well as Linux and Windows x86 OSes.. Although, as many …

    Hardware 9 May 2002, 19:07

  • NEC puts Transmeta in silent desktop PC

    Fanless all-in-one

    The first all-in-one desktop PC to feature Transmeta's low processor is now available in Japan. The NEC Mate features the 900Mhz TM5800, but the remarkable thing about it is that it is its noise output. There's no CPU fan, and no power supply fan either. The hard disk drive - the third source of noise in desktop computers (or …

    Personal 9 May 2002, 19:34