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22nd May 2002 Archive

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  • Net radio wins reprieve

    Marybeth thwarts the pigopolists

    The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) - the pigopoly dominated by the five biggest record labels - has suffered a setback in its attempt to extinguish Net music broadcasts. A royalty proposal that strongly favored the RIAA, produced by the arbitration panel CARP, has been rejected by the Library of Congress on the …

    Music and Media 22 May 2002, 02:48

  • MCI paralyzes US Reg bureau

    Further acts of random billing "likely, impossible to prevent" - experts

    A week before US homeland defense chiefs warned of further domestic subversion, the nation's most notorious homegrown crime syndicate was quietly going about its lethal business. It goes by many names, but you've probably heard of at least one: "MCI Worldcom", and it's this faction that chose to strike at the very nerve center …

    Bootnotes 22 May 2002, 07:39

  • BTo extends ADSL promo

    Is this competition at work?

    The price war for broadband is hotting up following news that BTopenworld is to extend its free ADSL activation offer. In March it decided to waive the £65 line activation fee for new subscribers of its Home 500 and Business 500 Plug & Go broadband products. That promo was supposed to last until May 31 but BT's mass market ISP …

    Telecoms 22 May 2002, 09:35

  • Mobile operators want EU hands-off

    Give us some room

    A group of 18 representatives from European mobile operators yesterday went to Brussels to meet with European Commission to ask for less restrictive regulations to be placed upon them, and for a certain amount of leeway until 3G services are launched. The meeting took place under the banner of the European GSM Association …

    Mobile 22 May 2002, 09:40

  • Trend Micro strengthens hybrid worm defences

    Malicious attacks

    Anti-virus vendor Trend Micro Inc is expanding its software and services portfolio on order to respond to hybrid worms and malicious code attacks such as Nimda. The company currently offers pattern file responses and scanning to enable customers to respond to malicious attacks, but it is now reacting to customer concerns …

    Security 22 May 2002, 09:41

  • Small shareholders seek to block Hynix creditor takeover

    They want blood

    Yesterday in the Seoul District Court, a group claiming to represent holders of 38 million Hynix Semiconductor Inc shares (3.8% of the company) sought to prevent shareholders including the KEB, Korea Development Bank and Hanvit Bank converting KRW 3 trillion ($2.3bn) of bonds into shares, which would give them sufficient …

    Channel 22 May 2002, 09:43

  • Symantec speeds appliance with AES

    Faster encryption

    Symantec Corp has upgraded its line of VelociRaptor firewall and VPN appliances to support the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for VPN security that is said to be three times faster than conventional Triple DES encryption. Unlike DES, the federal standard which was designed for hardware, AES runs efficiently in a broad …

    Security 22 May 2002, 09:44

  • Altnet plays P2P leapfrog

    Or is that KaZaA piggy-back?

    There's at least eight young companies with peer-to-peer content delivery network stories on the market at the moment, each hoping to revolutionize the internet and save companies money, but Altnet Inc, which launched this week, reckons it can leapfrog them all, The company, a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment …

    e-Business 22 May 2002, 09:45

  • MS customers flirt with increased Windows costs

    Deadline looms

    The majority of Microsoft Corp's enterprise customers risk missing the deadline for looming licensing changes, and face massive increases to software price rises as a result. Analyst GartnerGroup warned yesterday customers who miss the July 31 start for Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 could pay up to 45% more for software at …

    Software 22 May 2002, 09:46

  • Milly search takes to the Net

    Info seen by 650,000 people

    Some 650,000 people - 4 per cent of home users - in the UK have seen the pop-up box publicising details of missing teenager Amanda Dowler, known as Milly. The initiative was devised by the National Missing Persons Helpline, missingpersons.org, as part of the hunt for 13-year-old Milly. The pop-up box appeared on a number of …

    Music and Media 22 May 2002, 10:27

  • Open source offer from IT-minds

    30 per cent off Multitool Linux

    This week Reg associate IT-minds.com is offering you the chance to get your hands on an essential tool of the trade - Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software from Addison-Wesley. This unique, practical resource delivers specific Linux-based open source solutions to dozens of today's most common computing and …

    Site News 22 May 2002, 10:40

  • Demin takes Hyunju PCs to Europe

    Looking for system builders

    Ali Demin, the former boss of Samsung's UK computer business, has resurfaced as European CEO of Hyunju, the Korean PC maker. Joining him is Geoff Bigg, CTO, one-time R&D director for Samsung in Europe. Together, they are promoting Hyunju's debut in Europe, and gunning for one million unit sales per annum in three years. It's …

    Channel 22 May 2002, 11:03

  • SQL server worm throttles bandwidth

    Spida spins a malicious Web

    Database admins are warned to bolt up the security of their Microsoft SQL Servers after the discovery of a worm which infects machines with default passwords. The Spida worm attempts to locate and login to Microsoft SQL Servers with the default SQL administrator account, "SA", and a blank password. SQL Server ships with this by …

    Security 22 May 2002, 11:05

  • Nigerian email fraud gang nabbed

    Six caught in SA police swoop

    South African police have arrested six West Africans, allegedly members of a 419 email fraud gang which is thought to have tried to con thousands of pounds out of their victims, according to this report. Sometime in 1992/1993, I received my first airmail letter with a Nigerian stamp offering me a few million dollars, if only I …

    Music and Media 22 May 2002, 12:18

  • Sun bundles app server with Solaris 9

    Commoditising

    Today is the day when Sun continues the roll-out of its Sun ONE strategy with the latest release of the Solaris operating system. Solaris 9 starts to bring together some of the components of the iPlanet environment within the operating system and should make the integration of business applications considerably easier. The key …

    Hardware 22 May 2002, 12:37

  • Chatham Girls – the online user guide

    Everything you need to know about the UK's best-kept secret

    Following on from our recent and highly-popular spotlight on Sheppey - The UK's fight capital, we thought that readers might enjoy an insight into nearby Chatham. Forming, along with Gillingham and Rochester, the Axis of Banality that is the Medway Towns, Chatham is celebrated locally for the particularly high quality of its …

    Bootnotes 22 May 2002, 12:39

  • Tiscali suffers email glitch

    Sorry

    Tiscali UK has been hit by an intermittent technical problem which has left its customers without access to their email. The ISP says it became aware of the problem yesterday although The Register has been told by some customers that they began experiencing problems on Monday morning. A spokeswoman for Tiscali said the company …

    Music and Media 22 May 2002, 13:54

  • Extreme Computing Festival to feature author of ‘Chuckie Egg’

    Plus Physicist Freeman Dyson

    Acclaimed theoretical physicist FREEMAN DYSON, inventor of the "Dyson Sphere", will be joining an unprecedented lineup of guests - which also includes NIGEL ALDERTON, the creator of "Chuckie Egg" - at this year's FESTIVAL OF EXTREME COMPUTING, taking place at the Camden Centre in London, from 11am-7pm Sunday 9th June 2002. …

    Bootnotes 22 May 2002, 14:26

  • We've got a survey which needs filling

    Networking types needed, small baubles offered to lucky few

    OK, we've teamed up with our survey chums at Metafacts once again, to conduct a study, grandly titled: Market Expectations in the IT and Telecommunications Sectors. We are looking for recruits - approx. 300 of you. What do you get in return? Some brownie points, our undying gratitude, and entry into a prize draw. Only three …

    Data Networking 22 May 2002, 16:09