3rd June 2002 Archive

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Now you pay for Drivers – UMAX pioneers new price gouge

Updated Virtual madness

A week ago scanner giant UMAX began to charge its US customers for driver updates that were previously free as a web download. PC users expecting to get XP drivers, and Macintosh users expecting to get upgrades to Mac OS X had a shock in store. Device drivers that were previously available as a free download had been withdrawn …

Mac Channel 3 Jun 2002, 08:22
Dell goes Plural

Gets serious about services

Dell Computer Corp served notice that its intends to make a concerted effort to barge its way into the high margin services space by snapping up Plural Inc on Friday. JOe Fay writes. The deal, for an undisclosed amount, is the first instance of Round Rock, Texas-based Dell following through on its declared plans to get …

Business 3 Jun 2002, 08:41
Mass VoIP moves closer to reality

ENUM delegations begin

The International Telecommunications Union has published procedures for administering ENUM, the fetal internet telephony addressing system, and a number of governments have already begun to test-bed services based on the system, it emerged Friday, Kevin Murphy writes. The move sets the ball rolling for the further …

Data Networking 3 Jun 2002, 08:42
United Online cable gets off the ground

Roll-out over Comcast network

United Online Inc, the company behind Juno and NetZero ISPs, last week went live with its first cable broadband service. The company will start offering Juno Broadband to consumers passed by Comcast Cable Communications Inc's network in Indianapolis and Nashville. The Westlake Village, California-based company said the …

Telecoms 3 Jun 2002, 08:43
Chip industry rebounds (a bit) -SIA

Wireless is key driver

The Semiconductor Industry Association dared to say the R word on Friday, as it unveiled its latest figures for chip sales. According to the numbers, sales in April were $11.07bn, up 3.1% on the previous month. On a three month moving average basis, the SIA's preferred indicator, sales were up 10.5%. The SIA's president, …

Channel 3 Jun 2002, 09:20
Intel boosts RosettaNet

It's PIPs

Intel has given RosettaNet something of a boost by releasing a new development toolkit for B2B applications. Of course, it is not doing this entirely out of the goodness of its heart. RosettaNet is tightly linked to the technology sector and Intel expects to benefit from the tighter links that the toolkit will create. …

e-Business 3 Jun 2002, 09:33
Sports.com goes titsup.com

Isn't this supposed to be a winner

"Our attitude has been to be the last man standing at the end." Gavin Chittick, COO Sports.com, November 2001 Sports.com, Europe's biggest sports web property, has placed its UK operations into administration on Friday morning (May 31). The business will operate as a going concern during the World Cup, but this will require …

e-Business 3 Jun 2002, 11:47
Randomisation – IBM's answer to Web privacy

Have your cake and eat it

IBM Corp's new Privacy Institute has decided that randomization may be the key to protecting consumer privacy on the web while also providing e-businesses with informative metrics on their customers. Thursday last week, the company said it has developed software that ensures consumers' sensitive data never leaves their …

e-Business 3 Jun 2002, 11:49
Hardware world loves AMD Opteron

Nvidia, VIA, Asus, ECS, Gigabyte etcetera

A couple of weeks ago, AMD announced the support of ATI, 3DLabs, SiS and Matrox and for its upcoming 64-bit chips. Today, it’s the turn of Nvidia and VIA to pile in with their support for the Opteron (MP) and Next-Generation Athlons (singletons). Both companies are to produce optimised chipsets – Hypertransport, fat graphics etc …

Channel 3 Jun 2002, 13:24
Why Net filtering is an abomination

Philly court spells it out

The recent ruling by a Philadelphia court in response to a challenge by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) represents another setback for Congressional prudes and the filtering software lobby. Briefly, the CIPA would deny public …

Software 3 Jun 2002, 14:30
FoTW: Leave our President alone, nincompoop

Letters Respect due

Re: Frontside buses vs Backside drug caches To: andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk Cc: [everyone else at The Register] Subject: No humor, just stupidity Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 12:33:47 -0400 In reference to "Frontside buses vs Backside drug caches". I am very offended by your comparing this letter's writing style to …

Letters 3 Jun 2002, 17:04
Transmeta takes the Microsoft Tablet

HPaq blesses Crusoe

Transmeta has inked a deal to power HPaq's Tablet PC. The 1Ghz Crusoe will be the CPU of choice for the Compaq Evo, and you can see pictures of the prototype here. Although Transmeta has touted web appliances from day one, with its Debian-based reference design, Microsoft's Tablet PC calls for a much more expensive and …

Channel 3 Jun 2002, 18:15