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19th May 2002 Archive

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  • Campaigners ‘hijack’ Treasury Holdings URL

    Waste not, want not

    An environmental campaign group has 'hijacked' the URL of Treasury Holdings, after the Irish property group forgot to renew the domain name. The domain name TreasuryHoldings.com is now directed to the home page of LuskPeople.com, a group of activists which is lobbying against plans by Treasury Holdings to build a waste …

    Music and Media 19 May 2002, 09:49

  • Time teams up with Tesco

    Changes direct-only tack

    Time is teaming up with Tesco to flog PCs through the UK's biggest supermarket chain. The pair are trialling the line in selected stores for two months and are targeting sales of approx. 6,000 units. Dependent on sales volumes, the deal could turn into a long-term partnership. This isn't the first time a UK supermarket chain …

    Channel 19 May 2002, 10:45

  • Virgin Mobile sets up shop in the USA

    Pay as you go with Sprint

    Virgin has hooked up with Sprint PCS to take its virtual mobile operator business to the States. The partners are pumping $150m each into Virgin Mobile USA, as the JV is called, with Sprint providing this mostly in the form of services, and Virgin supplying its share entirely in cash. The service should launch mid-2002. Virgin …

    Data Networking 19 May 2002, 21:08

  • Prisoners go to work for Dell

    Hey, it’s for a good cause

    Dell rose to the top by cutting more corners than its rivals. The PC giant is cutting another corner by employing prisoners to handle its new consumer recycling scheme in the US. Dell is not dirtying its hands directly with either the PCs or the jail-birds; it is instead obtaining their services through a US government agency …

    Personal 19 May 2002, 21:53

  • Mandrake 8.2 first look

    Hint: stick with 8.1

    I've had only about 72 hours to play with Mandrake 8.2-Pro. My initial impressions, as I expected, were largely positive; but in using it I've run into a number of quite irritating bugs. The installation is about as easy as it's humanly possible to make it. DrakX's hardware detection was flawless (though you're warned in the …

    Software 19 May 2002, 22:56

  • VeriSign focuses on managed security services

    PKI, SSL, DNS and other TLAs

    VeriSign Inc will today announce a series of new and enhanced managed services aimed at enterprises that want to outsource the complexity of their security infrastructure. The company has inked a number of partnerships to help it manage customers' firewalls, VPNs and intrusion detection systems. The company faces serious …

    Security 19 May 2002, 22:57

  • Sun to join Web services standards group

    Clubbing

    Sun Microsystems Inc is inching towards joining the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) organization on condition it receives board-level membership. Palo Alto, California-based Sun told Computerwire Friday it is in discussions with WS-I to join a newly expanded board. IBM last week proposed the WS-I board be expanded …

    Software 19 May 2002, 22:57

  • Intel cranks up desktop speeds

    Surges past AMD

    Intel today launched three new desktop P4s, with its fastest clock speeds to date. And more importantly, they incorporate support for the 533MHz frontside bus, through the new Rambus 850E chipset. This delivers 30 per cent more data throughput than the 400MHz option. The three new chips run 2.53GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.25GHz and …

    Channel 19 May 2002, 22:58

  • MS in Peruvian open-source nightmare

    The FUD isn't working

    There's a letter circulating, purportedly from Peruvian Congressman David Villanueva Nuñez to Microsoft Peru, which cuts the heart out of Redmond's chief 'panic points' to chill those considering open-source migration. Apparently, the Peruvian government is considering a bill mandating open-source software for all public …

    Software 19 May 2002, 22:58

  • StarOffice to eat MS share (probably)

    Gartner fixes odds

    Sun Microsystems Inc's StarOffice office applications suite is expected to wrest a 10% market share of the desktop productivity software sector away from Microsoft by 2004. Technology analysts at Gartner Group predict that Sun has a "slightly better than 50:50 chance" to win a 10% slice of business away from Microsoft, as …

    Software 19 May 2002, 23:12