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  • NY Times sicks FBI on MSNBC journo

    Screw press freedoms - we were hacked

    In 1998, kiddiots Slut Puppy and Master Pimp humiliated the New York Times with a defacement that took the paper's Web site off line for the better part of a day before its clueless admins could regain control of their equipment. This year, the venerable 'Gray Lady', as the paper loves to hear itself called, was stung again by a …

    Music and Media 5 Jun 2002, 06:11

  • Cisco aims small-ish with VoIP line

    Phone stuff

    Cisco Systems Inc has decided it's about time to broaden the potential customer base for its voice over IP products, by making a couple of discount bundles available to smaller enterprises than it usually sells to. The company announced yesterday a number of version releases in its VoIP product line, along with two …

    Data Networking 5 Jun 2002, 07:36

  • WebGain to exit tools, Oracle to buy TopLink

    Java IDE market up for grabs

    WebGain Inc is selling its TopLink Java/database connectivity business to application server wannabe Oracle Corp in a deal that also sees the Java IDE leader exit the tools market, Gavin Clarke writes. A WebGain company source told ComputerWire a deal would be announced during the next few days which would see Redwood …

    Hardware 5 Jun 2002, 07:42

  • IBM To Take $2bn charge for layoffs, HDD sale

    That's a lot, isn't it?

    IBM Corp will take a $2bn charge in its second quarter to cover the quiet flurry of restructuring it has been engaging in over recent weeks. The IT giant announced the charge late yesterday, the same day it announced 1,500 job cuts at its chip operation and a day after it finalized the sale of its hard drive business to …

    Business 5 Jun 2002, 07:43

  • Speedy HP makes cost savings, job cuts

    Quicker than planned

    Hewlett Packard Co told a security analysts' conference yesterday that its merger with Compaq Computer Corp will deliver better than expected cost synergies and that it was moving faster than originally planned on its headcount reductions. At the same time, the Palo Alto, California-based vendor said it did not expect any …

    Business 5 Jun 2002, 07:43

  • Microsoft shuts Swedish mobile technology unit

    Not wanted

    Microsoft Corp has shut its mobile internet business unit in Sweden in a move widely seen as indicating the software giant now believes it has the core technology it needs in the wireless markets. Michael Nash, deputy chief executive of Microsoft's security business told the Swedish paper Dagens Industri that the decision …

    Mobile 5 Jun 2002, 07:43

  • IBM cuts jobs at chip arm

    1,500 redundos

    IBM Microelectornics has become the latest unit of Big Blue to experience the vendor's job cuts programme as it pulls back from some markets and switches its emphasis to others. The unit, which handles the vendor's silicon production, is to cut 1,500 jobs, or 7.5% of its total workforce. A spokesman for the company said …

    Mobile 5 Jun 2002, 07:45

  • Apple launches eMac for the rest of us

    eMac goes global

    Apple has squeezed a sixth product into its neat four product quadrant - or a seventh if you count the iPod, as Steve Jobs apparently does when posed with this discrepancy at the rack launch last month - by making the eMac available to world+dog. Launched a month ago, the eMac is effectively the classic CRT iMac upgraded with a …

    Mac Channel 5 Jun 2002, 10:34

  • Paying for 802.11 by mobile phone

    One bill fits all

    The public WLAN scene is chaotic and, so far as billing revenues concerned, teeny-weeny. But the standards are coming together globally, and network providers are rolling out hotspots across the rich planet. The punters are keen to pay for this service, according to a recent In-Stat survey of early adopters. "Virtually all …

    Mobile 5 Jun 2002, 11:30

  • Microsoft plugs ‘inexpensive’ TV Net access

    That's it really

    Microsoft is trying to tempt US punters online with a TV-based Internet service that starts at under $10 a month. Yesterday, the MSN TV service - which used to be called WebTV - announced that its "Economy Plan" will give subscribers five hours Internet access for $9.95 a month. Additional time online can be bought for $2.95 an …

    Music and Media 5 Jun 2002, 11:34

  • Nader urges Feds to get into productivity software publishing

    And make closed source illegal, or something

    After a short layoff Ralph Nader and his oppo at the Consumer Project on Technology, James Love, are back on Microsoft's case, this time loudly lobbying the US federal government to use its purchasing power to squish the dreaded Microsoft monopoly. Their letter to Mitchell E. Daniels, Director of the Office of Management and …

    Software 5 Jun 2002, 12:12

  • Gopher holes in IE

    Blast from the past

    Finnish researchers Oy Online have discovered a way to root a windows box using a gopher URL to cause a buffer overflow in the IE Gopher client. "A test exploit has been successfully used to run arbitrary code without user intervention with various IE versions and systems including IE 5.5 and 6.0," the group says. A link in a …

    Software 5 Jun 2002, 15:47

  • VeriSign cashes in on CALEA procrastination

    Leave the bugging to us

    The federal Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which mandates that telecoms providers make their equipment wiretap-friendly, is scheduled to come into force on 30 June, though a number of carriers have yet to achieve compliance due to the expense and complexity involved. With that in mind, VeriSign is …

    Security 5 Jun 2002, 19:31

  • UnitedLinux agrees to differ

    Open access, but per-seat stays

    Caldera has pledged that developers and education users will get access to UnitedLinux binaries, after the four member distros have pooled their resources. But as the story unravels, it looks like the per-seat pricing looks like a stayer, at least for Caldera. "The technology itself must be in people's hands," Caldera's VP of …

    Software 5 Jun 2002, 23:12

  • Yahoo! and! SBC! cuddle! up!

    Co-branded Internet access service

    Yahoo! Inc and SBC Communications have hopped into bed together to launch a co-branded dial-up Internet service. Called SBC Yahoo! Dial, the US-based service costs $21.95 a month for unlimited dial-up access. For SBC, its rebranded service will be flogged to millions of US Net users in a move that it hopes will help grow its …

    Music and Media 5 Jun 2002, 23:13

  • BT scoffs at broadband upgrade figures

    Not as simple as that

    BT has dismissed claims that it can fund the upgrade of rural exchanges to broadband with the revenue from just 50 customers. Internet pressure group Broadband4Britain (B4B), consulted independent analysts, industry experts and equipment suppliers and concluded that any local telephone exchange in the UK can be affordably " …

    Telecoms 5 Jun 2002, 23:17

  • ITC bans ‘offensive’ Xbox TV ad

    'Shocking and in bad taste'

    Microsoft has been ordered to stop showing a TV commercial for its Xbox games console after it was dubbed "offensive, shocking and in bad taste". The Independent Television Commission (ITC) received 136 complaints about the ad claiming it has caused "considerable distress to many viewers". The ad starts with a woman giving …

    Personal 5 Jun 2002, 23:17