28th May 2002 Archive

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• Consolidated Carlyways: the New HP

  A lament

  Re: HP is a very big company indeed Channel partners cool on the new HP From H to P and back again Sircampaq: The Winners and Losers Don Capellas articulates HPaq's vision thing Alphacide yesterday, Yamhill tomorrow: HP merger architect talks HP dropping the names that formed their acronym was not at all bright. Now they …

  Letters 28 May 2002, 06:20

• Clock running out on Sun StarOffice 5.2 freebie

  You can still grab it with a 56k dialup, if you hurry

  In order to encourage sales of StarOffice 6, Sun has decided to close down free access to 5.2. You have until Midnight, May 29 to grab it right here. Version 6.0 costs $76.00; but after the 29th you'll be able to get 5.2 for $40.00 if you want the deluxe setup and $10.00 for a stripped-down version. You can also get 6.0 by way …

  Software 28 May 2002, 06:50

• How the British lost it – in 89 words

  FoTW Armed American frowns on discobiscuit abuse

  This isn't exactly a flame, but it's the best-written letter in the current postbag. Enjoy. From: "ray hartman" To: tim.richardson@theregister.co.uk Subject: poor gelded bas*ards tr: So spammy-poos are coming after the brit-twit. Poor Brit bastards ya used ta be tough. Till the Gv'mnt tit became more important than Brit- …

  Letters 28 May 2002, 09:06

• Yahoo! Messenger! multiple! vulns!

  What do you want to patch today?

  There are two new Yahoo Instant Messenger (YIM) vulnerabilities which can potentially compromise a user's machine, Vietnamese researcher Phuong Nguyen has discovered. Yahoo! has been notified and a fixed version is available for download here. First up, an unchecked buffer which enables any URL beginning with 'ymsgr:' to call …

  Security 28 May 2002, 09:08

• Intel steps back from InfiniBand

  All aboard the 3GIO bus

  Intel Corp has stepped away from its commitment to ship InfiniBand interconnect chips by 2003 in favor of a renewed focus on developing the PCI Express internal PC bus replacement technology. Although the Santa Clara California chip manufacturer still maintains that it is committed to InfiniBand development, it has decided …

  Personal 28 May 2002, 09:28

• Let's not hear it for silent PCs

  Letters Your pointers to a quiet life

  Our story NEC puts Transmeta in silent desktop PC raised some fruitful correspondence from readers about quiet PCs. The most interesting comes from Mats Oscarsson, whose company Captech makes dedicated silent PCs featuring both AMD and Intel chips. Writes Mats:- It's challenging for the title of the world's quietest desktop …

  Letters 28 May 2002, 09:41

• Sage throws spanner in MS Navision works

  Wants takeover stopped

  Sage wants to kill Microsoft's agreed $1.3bn takeover of Navision, according to a Danish newspaper. The accountancy software firm is preparing to a case with regulators in Denmark, where Navision is based, and it will extend this to France, Germany and the UK, Boersen reports, by way of Bloomberg. Sage is to argue that MS will …

  Business 28 May 2002, 09:54

• Vodafone turns in record £13.5 bn loss

  And the investors cheer up...

  Mobile phone giant Vodafone lost a whopping £13.5 billion in the last year in what is believed to be the UK's biggest-ever corporate loss. The monster pre-tax loss includes a £6 billion charge for investments that have lost value as a result in the fallout in the telecoms sector. Despite these one-off charges Vodafone …

  Business 28 May 2002, 09:57

• Samsung preps DDR II DRAM

  On sale (late) next year

  Samsung today claims an industry first, a high-density 512Mb DDR-II memory chip. Or rather a prototype, the company says it's developing the part which is it says the first to fully satisfy the new JEDEC DDR-II standard, introduced in March 2002. It will go in to volume production in Q3 2003. The Korean giant today also …

  Channel 28 May 2002, 10:22

• Intel gouges desktop P4 prices

  Most of them

  Intel's new CPU price lists, published Sunday, show some hefty prce cuts on most of its desktop P4s. Price drops range from 12-43 per cent, with the biggest drops reserved for the 2.2 and the 2.25GHz, both of which tumble from $423 to $241. Intel's fastest P4, the 2.53GHz stays the same at an eyewatering $637. Prices as ever …

  Channel 28 May 2002, 10:30

• PDAs make easy pickings for data thieves

  Flaky security hands crooks bank details and more

  PDAs make easy pickings; a survey reveals that private and corporate secrets are all too frequently left unprotected. One in ten peoples' bank accounts could be accessed if they lost their Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). That's according to a survey of PDA usage by mobile security firm Pointsec, which discovered owners …

  Personal 28 May 2002, 11:17

• Egg gets Zebank

  Done deal

  Egg has completed the acquisition of the French online bank, Zebank, after getting the thumbs-up from Banque de France. Egg paid E5.5 million (£3.5 million) for the business - E2.5 million (£1.6 million) less than first expected. This was due to a E2.5 million correction made between Zebank's draft accounts and its final …

  Music and Media 28 May 2002, 11:18

• Anti Big Bro charges petition grows

  'Rip-off' fees no good

  Big Brother bosses have come under fire for charging punters £9.99 a month to view material online from the cult TV show. More than 1,700 people have signed a petition calling for the "rip off" charges to be scrapped. Last year the streaming of live action from the BB house was free. This year, though, Channel 4 has imposed …

  Music and Media 28 May 2002, 11:48

• Intel launches 802.11a Euro assault

  World swings its way

  Intel today launched 802.11a WLAN cards into Europe, or quite a lot of it. The company has received regulatory approval for the use of 802.11a products in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. And it reckons other European countries will soon follow suit. It's also shipping the Intel PRO/Wireless 2000 …

  Mobile 28 May 2002, 12:38

• Letters RoundUp Lynching Merrill Lynch, Passport spam fright and more

  Do you read spam? Of course not. But it's sometimes inadvertently hilarious. What on earth persuaded this Chinese manufacturer to use spam email as a marketing device? The company is genuine:- From: chinavibrator<hnayzd@public.ayptt.ha.cn> sender: chinavibrator<hnayzd@public.ayptt.ha.cn> Subject: construction machinery ? …

  Letters 28 May 2002, 14:12

• Kimble/Schmitz gets 20 months suspended sentence

  Fat fake escapes porridge

  German glam-hax0r Kim Schmitz (aka Kimble) has received a 20 month suspended sentence from a Munich court after being convicted of stock price manipulation designed to net him €1.2m (£750,000). Schmitz, who was extradited from Thailand in January after a botched attempt to flee justice, was also fined €100,000 by the court …

  Music and Media 28 May 2002, 14:17

• THUS warns ‘hole tax’ will slow up broadband Britain

  Blimey

  THUS has warned that a new "hole tax" to be imposed on utilities for digging up roads will slow the pace of broadband roll-out in the UK. The new measures - designed to make utilities finish their work quickly in a bid to ease disruption - are currently being trialled in Middlesbrough and Camden, London. Under the trials some …

  Music and Media 28 May 2002, 15:13

• European Parliament poised to cave in on Internet privacy?

  Crucial data retention vote looms

  A campaign has been launched to persuade Members of the European Parliament to reject proposals on data retention which critics believe will have grave civil liberties implications. A debate on general data retention of communications for law enforcement authorities, scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday in Brussels, is critical …

  Music and Media 28 May 2002, 17:12

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