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  • Nintendo drops GameCube price pants

    $149 in North America

    Nintendo is ratcheting up the console price war by dropping the GameCube's recommended retail price in North America to $149. That's approx. $30 cheaper than the RRP in the UK (although most of the difference is accounted for by the hefty whack of VAT incorporated into the UK price). Sony and Microsoft have driven their prices …

    Personal 20 May 2002, 08:31

  • US DoJ rep moves to blunt Europe's action on MS

    EU case wouldn't play in the States, allegedly...

    US assistant attorney general and DoJ head Charles James was in Brussels fingering (if not quite rattling yet) sabres last week. The "theory of monopoly leveraging," which appears to underly some of the European antitrust case against Microsoft, has "very little standing in the US" and "has been largely if not entirely rejected …

    Software 20 May 2002, 09:06

  • Ananova pushes mobile, scraps email

    Weird

    Ananova is turning Orange, the colour of its owner. The UK news site wants to concentrate on mobile service for Orange users and, astonishingly, is scrapping its popular email news alert service to achieve its goals. In a message send to email subscribers on Friday (May 17), the business said it would switch off news alerts on …

    Media 20 May 2002, 09:35

  • Government buys virus blocking from MessageLabs

    We could tell you more but then we'd have to kill you

    The Government has signed up managed services firm MessageLabs to protect Whitehall departments against mass-mailing viruses, in a deal worth over £1 million a year. The GSI (Government Secure Intranet), which provides the secure network infrastructure for all Government departments, decided to take on additional anti-virus …

    Security 20 May 2002, 09:37

  • Reg signs treaty with O'Really and Rockall

    Cash'n'Carrion forges strategic t-shirt alliance

    There's much frenzied unpacking of boxes this morning at the Cash'n'Carrion warehouse as Vulture Central unveils two completely new Summer lines. First out of the crate are some sensational new O'Really products, bastard offspring of the O'Really arm of cult site www.bofhcam.org The splendid new Distributing Clue to …

    Site News 20 May 2002, 09:45

  • Transmeta blades power landmark supercomputer breakthrough

    Chipzilla nuked

    The home of the atom bomb gave an extraordinary, and unexpected endorsement of Transmeta's low power chip Crusoe - and the ultra-dense blades pioneered RLX Technologies - last week, InfoWorld reports. It may even have come up with an answer to the Gelsinger Coefficient. Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico has built a modest 240-node …

    Data Center 20 May 2002, 10:02

  • Bonfield had no BT future

    Says BT chairman

    The former chief exec of BT, Sir Peter Bonfield, never had a future at BT, according to chairman Sir Christopher Bland. Bonfield announced in October 2001 that he would step down early at the end of January 2002. Which is just as well. In an interview this weekend Bland said that he drew-up a "To Do" list just after he joined …

    Business 20 May 2002, 10:06

  • Energis restates assets and calls EGM

    Misery continues

    Energis Plc has restated the value of its subsidiaries in its accounts following its admission last week that it could not find a buyer for its German web-hosting and internet services operation Ision Internet AG, just over a year after it completed the acquisition of the business for almost $1bn. The restatement of the …

    Business 20 May 2002, 10:08

  • Borland releases JBuilder for skinflints

    Cutdown, cheap

    Borland Software Corp will reach-out to low-end and entry-level developers for the first time this week with a cut-down release of its popular JBuilder, Gavin Clarke writes. Scotts Valley, California-based Borland is expected to launch a version of its enterprise suite lacking many high-end features, called JBuilder SE, …

    Software 20 May 2002, 10:14

  • BellSouth to cut 5,000 jobs, blames regulators

    The buck stops somewhere over there

    BellSouth Corp, the incumbent local carrier in nine US states, said Friday it is to lay off between 4,000 and 5,000 employees, up to 6% of its workforce, blaming pricing and competition concerns. The company hinted that recent regulatory action was a cause of the move, much the same excuse given by SBC Communications Inc, …

    Business 20 May 2002, 10:14

  • The rise of New Chip Order in Asia

    West flocks East

    Taiwanese and Chinese companies are likely to be the only chip makers significantly increasing investment this year, according to VLSI Research Inc, which said that western manufacturers are moving more production to independent foundry operators such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) rather than building …

    Channel 20 May 2002, 10:16

  • Microsoft wins Chinese vendor for Mobile OS

    Little by little

    Microsoft Corp's mobile strategy continues to gather pace with the announcement that the company has agreed to supply the leading Chinese domestic mobile handset manufacturer TCL Mobile, with both its Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition and Smartphone 2002 operating systems. Microsoft, having been shut out of the major global …

    Mobile 20 May 2002, 10:17

  • Sky falls down on digital TV recorder

    Upgrade cock-up

    Software bugs in the Sky Plus digital recorder have become so severe that customers who complain are having their monthly subscription fee refunded. Launched last September, the £300 rival to TiVo allows Sky Digital viewers to pause live television and record without video tapes. It is integrated into Sky's on-screen listings …

    Personal 20 May 2002, 10:57

  • Freeserve slams Oftel over BT Broadband

    'Gifted anti-competitive advantage'to BT

    Freeserve has slammed the telecoms regulator Oftel, accusing it of caving-in to BT and gifting the monster telco with the chance to dominate the broadband market. The comments from the UK's biggest ISP come as Oftel attempted to clarify how BT can market its new "no frills" BT Broadband service without acting anti-competitively …

    Broadband 20 May 2002, 11:52

  • Ford US in grand theft automated

    ID thieves swipe data on 13,000

    Ford has warned 13,000 US consumers that their credit history has been illegally obtained by identity thieves posing as the motor manufacturer's credit lending arm. The data, believed to include details of Social Security numbers, bank and credit card account information, was obtained by criminals between April 2001 and …

    Security 20 May 2002, 12:07

  • EU probes HP over ink prices

    Printer's Devils

    HP is coming under scrutiny of the European Union over antitrust issues in the inkjet cartridges market. The printer and imaging division of HP accounts for almost half of the group's (pre-Compaq) revenues; and supplies, such as printer cartridges, accounts for more than half of that division's sales. The EU is contemplating …

    Personal 20 May 2002, 12:31

  • World Cup network goes live

    Kitting out for The Beautiful Game

    Wireless and VoIP feature heavily in the communications network for the World Cup, which was completed by networking supplier Avaya last week. Avaya's converged Internet Protocol (IP) network features 40,000 connections and an estimated two million metres of cabling among 20 stadiums, two international media centres and two …

    Data Networking 20 May 2002, 14:10

  • Police swoop on 30+ in UK pedo raids

    US tip-off

    More than 30 people in the UK have been arrested on suspicion of accessing US-based paedophile Web sites. Officers from 30 forces took part in the raids, which were coordinated by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). They were tipped off by US authorities, which passed on details of people suspected of …

    Media 20 May 2002, 14:12

  • Living dummies hang out in Harrods

    What some people will do

    Four people are to "live" in Harrods' shop window over the next five days to publicise the launch of a range of Internet gadgets. The living dummies are camped out for all the world to see in the London department store surrounded by wall-to-wall kit. There's a Multimedia Internet Fridge Freezer which has a 15" touchscreen set …

    Personal 20 May 2002, 15:56

  • Altnet wakes up as worm spreads through KaZaA

    Coincidence, cock-up or conspiracy?

    A worm is spreading through the KaZaA file sharing network: we hope it's unrelated to today's activation of the controversial Altnet piggy-back P2P network. The worm, dubbed Benjamin, creates a directory accessible to other users of the KaZaA network and regularly copies itself into this directory under a multitude of different …

    Security 20 May 2002, 19:11

  • Juniper buys Siemens' Unisphere

    The return of the network acquisition

    Juniper, main competitor to Cisco in the high-end routing space, has acquired Siemens subsidiary Unisphere Networks in a $740 million cash and stock deal. It will pay $375 million in cash and 36.5 million shares of Juniper stock. As part of the deal, announced today, Siemens and Juniper signed a "global partnership in the field …

    Data Networking 20 May 2002, 19:14