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  • BT sets great store in storage

    Show us the bandwidth

    BT fleshed out its IP strategy just a smidgen today with a networked storage alliance with Dell and EMC, and plans to boost network capacity. The monster telco has set itself the goal of a £1.5 billion growth in revenue by 2004/2005, of which IP Services are expected to account for £200 million. Key to this ambition is BT Data …

    Data Networking 24 May 2002, 08:29

  • Check Point adds console management

    Ease of use

    Check Point Software Technologies Inc has produced an enterprise-class security infrastructure management console that finally brings to security administrators a level of product integration and ease of use to match technology so well established in network and systems management arenas. By incorporating "security …

    Security 24 May 2002, 09:29

  • KPNQwest collapses

    Bankruptcy protection

    KPNQwest NV yesterday joined Global Crossing, Williams Communications, and many carriers yesterday when it filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. The Hoofddorp, Netherlands-based carrier announced early yesterday morning that it might have to seek protection under Dutch moratorium law from its creditors, after all the …

    Business 24 May 2002, 09:30

  • No government rescue for Hynix

    Micron rumour returns

    Any lingering hopes that directors and shareholders of Hynix Semiconductor Inc might have that the South Korean government may yet rescue the company were dashed yesterday, as Finance Minister Jeon Yun Churl warned that Hynix may be close to imminent collapse and declared there would be no government intervention. Jeon's …

    Channel 24 May 2002, 09:30

  • Apple aims to boost bandwidth with 1.5GHz G4s

    G5 on track

    Recent word from sources close to Motorola confirm that a significant speed bump will be timed for MacWorld Expo in July, raising current bus speeds, and seeing new 7470-based G4s raise frequencies to as high as 1.5Ghz. The 7470 supports PC2100 DDR-SDRAM memory at 266MHz, as we told you back in February, (see New G4 roadmaps …

    Mac Channel 24 May 2002, 09:36

  • Ex-Symbian exec launches mobile software biz

    Chasing mass market

    Simon East, the ex-head of technology for Symbian Plc, has founded another mobile software company called Cognima Ltd, which he is currently unveiling to the public. It will develop a mobile application framework that will deliver services to inexpensive low-end phones that are currently only available on high-end phones. …

    Mac Channel 24 May 2002, 09:36

  • Microsoft backs WS-I expansion – with strings attached

    Must be 'fair and equitable'

    IBM's proposal to enlarge the board of a leading web services organization, granting possible admission to Sun Microsystems Inc, has received qualified support from Microsoft Corp, Gavin Clarke writes. Neil Charney, director of Microsof's .NET platforms strategy group, told ComputerWire his company would not oppose an IBM …

    e-Business 24 May 2002, 09:36

  • MS preps all-new warez busting antitrust complying XP SP1

    Spot the speed bumps...

    Microsoft's 'Seattlement' Service Pack for Windows XP is to go into testing within the next few weeks, and will ship later this year. The company doesn't usually make a big marketing deal of Service Packs, but for legal compliance reasons WinXP SP1 is special, so it's been taking some journalists through what's in it, how it …

    Software 24 May 2002, 10:52

  • Spammers threaten UK Net user

    Complain at your peril

    A British man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its activity to his ISP. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, is so concerned he fears for this own safety. "These people are nasty," he told The Register. "They said they were going to make my life 'not worth living'. If you complain then they …

    Media 24 May 2002, 11:18

  • Chatham girls offered bed and board

    Good Samaritan opens arms to homeless waifs

    There's some heart-warming news this morning in the shape of a free hosting offer for the much lamented Chatham Girls website. Sadly, this Geocities hosted effort was brought down by frantic Reg readers hoping for a glimpse of some hot Kent crumpet. However, Good Samaritan Jason Sheldon tells us that he's up for a bit of a …

    Bootnotes 24 May 2002, 11:57

  • MessageLabs in partial email outage

    Email slowed to snail mail for eight hours

    A substantial number of virus filtering firm MessageLabs' customers experienced severe delays in sending and receiving email yesterday because of network routing problems. Customers, mainly in the London area, connected to two of the managed service providers 20 server racks would have noticed slow email receipt and difficult …

    Media 24 May 2002, 11:57

  • Elbrus the Itanium Slayer Returns!

    HWRoundup Asustek cheapos, VIA branches out, Counterstrike league

    Who remembers Elbrus, the Russian CPU designer of a supposed Merced (now Itanium) killer? ExtremeTech's very fine journalist Mark Hachman does: "Elbrus MCST (Moscow Center of Sparc Technology) could still turn out to be a mountain of hype. But the great white whale of microprocessors, the Elbrus E2K, resurfaced recently amid …

    Personal 24 May 2002, 12:50

  • Seagate chases retail upgrade market

    Consumer friendly HDDs

    Seagate is coming to the upgrade market with a new line of "consumer friendly hard drives" which it will sell through retailers. It claims the new HDDs are "easier to install and maintain than any other retail hard drive". They spin around at 7,200RPM and will be available in 40, 60 and 80GB flavours. They're bundled with …

    Personal 24 May 2002, 14:02

  • Netscape 7 beta: first looks

    Cautious optimism

    The first beta of Netscape 7, released earlier this week, has been received with cautious enthusiasm. Netscape 7.0 Preview Release, which is based on the recent Mozilla 1.0 RC2 build and the Gecko browser engine, features a variety of enhancements on Netscape 6.2. These include tabbed browsing (a la Opera), print preview, the …

    Software 24 May 2002, 14:39

  • US e-ad revs fall

    You surprise us

    US online ad revenues fell 12 per cent last year, according to data from the Internet Ad Revenue Report. All told, online ad revenue touched $7.2 billion - down 12 per cent on last year. In Q4 Internet advertising revenue in the US declined 7.5 percent reaching $1.7 billion. While this decline has hit many Internet operations …

    e-Business 24 May 2002, 15:32

  • Systemax completes UK restructuring…

    The announcements, anyway

    Systemax, the IT mail-order reseller formerly known as Globaldirect, has completed the announcements for its UK consolidation, Les Biggs VP of Europe told us. The changes which should be completed in September will see Systemax's seven UK sites cut to three: Wellingborough, Greenock and Walthamstow. Forty stores staff are …

    Channel 24 May 2002, 16:24

  • Raid on Spider Man DVDs piracy factory

    BSA seeks tougher piracy sanctions

    More than 10,000 pirate Spider Man and Star Wars: Episode II DVDs and 31 DVD burners were seized in the UK, in a raid carried out by Surrey Trading Standards and Hampshire Police. The illegal copies of the movies were made in a pirate DVD-R factory, after they were downloaded from the Internet. The raid was welcomed by the …

    Channel 24 May 2002, 16:40

  • PCG hit by ‘internal bickering’

    Dispute ends in expulsion

    The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) is best known for its opposition to the Government's plans to introduce a new "stealth" tax which specifically targets contractors. Set up in May 1999 to fight the Government's plans to introduce IR35, the PCG has grown from a single-issue campaign group into a professional trade …

    Business 24 May 2002, 17:00

  • EU looks at MS Passport for privacy infringement

    Another day, another investigation...

    Microsoft's problems with Brussels have been compounded by news that the European Commission is investigating whether Passport is compatible with European data protection law. European law is substantially tougher than the US equivalent in this area, and Microsoft's record on database control is somewhat patchy, so it wouldn't …

    Software 24 May 2002, 18:39

  • HP is a very big company indeed

    Passion. Strategy. Breakout

    And so to a characterless but swanky London hotel to see Hewlett-Packard's post-merger big guns, wheeled out yesterday morning before the UK press. The Top Five managers, two from HP, three from Compaq (although one of these, the Service Guy, joined Compaq only last year - from HP) took their turns on the twin podiums yesterday …

    Business 24 May 2002, 23:19

  • BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

    I want my Spam TV

    Users of the TiVo digital video recorder have reacted angrily to a new sponsorship feature that automatically records certain programmes, adverts and other promotional material. One of TiVo's more innovative features is its ability to recommend programmes based on viewing habits, such as watching every episode of a soap opera …

    Personal 24 May 2002, 23:22