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  • EMC opens roadmap kimono

    Virtualisation bit by bit

    EMC Corp is preparing to launch new generations of its Symmetrix and Clariion storage arrays, as well as the first in a series of installments of a virtualization system that will be delivered bit by bit, Tim Stammers writes. An outline of the company's long-term and short-term technology plans emerged last week at its …

    Data Center 10 Jun 2002, 08:39

  • IBM goes vertical on WebSphere integration

    And why not

    IBM Corp will today announce the launch of five new packaged integration products aimed at specific vertical sectors - further proof of the company's increased focus on this rapidly growing market sector, Susie Harwood writes. Today's announcement comes just weeks after IBM announced the latest release of the WebSphere …

    e-Business 10 Jun 2002, 08:41

  • HP announces HP-UX 11i for Itanium 2

    Looks like July 8 for McKinley roll-out

    Hewlett Packard Co will today take the wraps off of the second release of its HP-UX operating system for workstations and servers employing 64-bit Itanium processors from Intel Corp. HP-UX 11i version 1.6, which will start shipping in the second or third week of July. This launch date for the Itanium version of the HP-UX …

    Servers 10 Jun 2002, 08:43

  • China overtakes Taiwan as world's hardware workshop

    Taiwan helps

    The Taipei-based Institute for Information Industry (III) said that China has this year overtaken Taiwan to become the world's biggest producer of information technology hardware. However, a great deal of China's IT growth stems from the activities of Taiwan-based companies on the mainland. In III research published by the …

    Personal 10 Jun 2002, 08:44

  • Micron to Hynix: you don't call, you don't write

    Will a megaphone do?

    The Korean government is banking on Micron Technology Inc as the most likely white knight for faltering memory vendor Hynix Semiconductor Inc. However, the Boise, Idaho has yet to saddle up its charger, because no one from Korea has actually been in touch with it yet. Korean reports on Friday quoted government officials …

    Channel 10 Jun 2002, 08:44

  • First people injected with ID chips, sales drive kicks off

    Round up the couch potatoes...

    The 'barcoding' of people has quietly begun rolling out in the US, via Applied Digital Solutions' VeriChip, which has its genesis in Digital Angel. Last month the "historic chipping of the Jacobs family" took place, with a total of eight people having a unique identifier injected under their skin, and last week Digital Angel …

    Personal 10 Jun 2002, 08:52

  • AMD's Thoroughbred out of the stalls

    New core, faster clock speed

    AMD today launched the long-awaited AMD Athlon XP 2200+, the first CPU with the cooler Thoroughbred core. And it has named two big OEMs - HP in the US, and Fujitsu Siemens in Europe - as customers. The Athlon XP 2200+ is based on 0.13 micron manufacturing technology - which means smaller die size, lower power consumption and …

    Channel 10 Jun 2002, 09:21

  • Orange tops mobey ops list

    97 per cent success rate overall

    Orange is the most reliable mobile phone operator in the UK, according to telecoms watchdog Oftel. Its latest test of the UK's four mobile network operators found that Orange managed to connect and complete 97.8 per cent of all calls made on its network. Vodafone managed it 97.5 per cent of the time, O2 a smidge under at 97.3 …

    Mobile 10 Jun 2002, 09:25

  • UMAX steps up US scanner scam

    Bogus alarums

    UMAX US is continuing its full-frontal assault on the intelligence of its American customers. The company - whose Stateside operation, we discovered, is now a mere shell operation using an unlisted number in Texas - has stern warnings for UMAX owners wishing to use its parallel port scanners under Windows 2000 or XP. A …

    Personal 10 Jun 2002, 09:25

  • Azlan buys Horizon's training biz

    Beefs up Cisco arm

    Azlan is beefing up its training arm with the acquisition of Horizon Technology group's Cisco training division for up to £7.4m cash. It is not taking on any debt: Horizon's training arm had net liabilities of £2.6m at December 31. On completion of the sale, the business will retain liabilities of £200,000. Azlan reckons the …

    Channel 10 Jun 2002, 11:26

  • Chimp nicks mobile phone

    Bizarre

    Police in London are hunting a chimpanzee after it broke into a house and stole a mobile phone. Cops reckon the ape is also responsible for at least one other burglary and claim it might have been trained to steal. Mustapha Riat, was in bed yesterday morning when the chimp opened his ground floor flat window. Mr Riat told the …

    Bootnotes 10 Jun 2002, 11:28

  • Java applets for the masses

    Kill all the programmers

    A new software tool which enables programming virgins to build their own Java apps and applets makes its debut at Internet World tomorrow. And it's cheap - £99. or £40 if you’re a student. Called Imitate, the software is designed to bring Java applets to the masses. Its maker claims that a user new to Imitate can build from …

    Software 10 Jun 2002, 12:17

  • Software pirates cost industry $11 billion

    Vietnam tops worst offenders list

    Global software piracy is on the increase costing the industry almost $11 billion*. The worst offender is Vietnam where an estimated 97 per cent of all software is unlicensed. It was followed by other offenders including China where 94 per cent of software is illegal, Indonesia (89 per cent), Ukraine (89 per cent) and Russia ( …

    Channel 10 Jun 2002, 12:33

  • Simple hack yields free Times Web content outside UK

    Security through obscurity fails again

    I don't normally read Establishment gazettes like the London Times or the Sunday Times, but whilst trawling the Web yesterday I spotted a link to a story which I thought might interest me. Imagine my disappointment when I attempted to access it and learned that only those Netizens located in the UK are permitted to read the …

    Security 10 Jun 2002, 13:56

  • Novell buys SilverStream

    Takes Web Services fight to IBM, Sun etc.

    Novell is fleshing out its Web services portfolio with the agreed $212m cash purchase of SilverStream Software. The $9 a share offer represents a 75 per cent premium over Friday's closing price, so it's not altogether surprising that the deal is agreed. However, SilverStream has around $100m in cash and marketable securities on …

    e-Business 10 Jun 2002, 14:21

  • Broadband over power lines trial in Scotland

    Fingers crossed

    Some 100 people in Scotland are to take part in a trial that could enable them to get broadband access using existing electrical wires instead of telephone lines or cable. The trials in Crieff and Campbeltown once again raise the hope that people living and working in rural areas might be able to get broadband without having to …

    Broadband 10 Jun 2002, 14:23

  • IBM beats up on Dell servers

    Price and Performance

    IBM today announces a new dualie Intel Xeon server and it's positioning it head-to-head against Dell. The x235 two way Xeon DP server targets what it says is "the sweet spot of Dell’s server lineup", coming in at up to $1,000 cheaper – 20 per cent less - than a similarly specced Dell Poweredge 4600. Oh and it beats up on the …

    Servers 10 Jun 2002, 16:05

  • BT ups cost of SurfTime

    Dig deep

    BT is to up the price of its SurfTime Internet access products for its one million punters from July 1. The monster telco BT claims the price rises - the first since it launched the service in June 2000 - are necessary to maintain its service and to cover increased costs. Evening & Weekend customers will be told about the …

    Media 10 Jun 2002, 16:21

  • WPA wars resume over WinXP SP1 beta

    First workaround turns up bang on schedule

    Here we go again? Shortly after the beta of WinXP Service Pack 1 was released, locking out installations using leaked activation keys, a workaround with what appears to be a replacement key began circulating on IRC. We can therefore look forward to a repeat of the Windows Product Activation wars that were waged during the …

    Software 10 Jun 2002, 16:52

  • Web Services to aid DOS attacks

    Security wrapper

    The development of web services standards allows us to contemplate the creation of business applications that are based upon collections of loosely-coupled components served up by a variety of third parties. The question that arises is just who it is that is going to expose themselves to denial of service attacks in this way. …

    e-Business 10 Jun 2002, 17:16

  • MS-funded think tank propagates open-source lies

    Updated Catastrophe in the making

    A Washington think tank called the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution has released its anticipated study of the dangers of open-source software. Much to our disappointment, the organization's press release, which last week promised that the study would explain in gory detail how open-source software will foster international …

    Software 10 Jun 2002, 17:43

  • Klez, the poor-man's virus

    The class politics of AV reporting

    Despite its virulence, the Klez worm is ignored by the newspapers and dismissed by the digerati. Could the demographics of its victims be a factor? Repeatedly dubbed the most common virus ever in recent reports from on-line newsmongers, it has yet to break into print in any interesting way. A box of news clippings near my …

    Security 10 Jun 2002, 18:20

  • XCom 2002 takes the STAND

    Post Office to steam open your history file

    Yesterday, around 1,200 people tipped up at XCom 2002, otherwise known as The Extreme Computing festival, in London's sunny Kings Cross. There was laughter, there were tears (from cigarette smoke mostly), there was lots of alchohol, edgy art manifestos, t-shirts (black, typically), a surprising number of retro-Spectrum games …

    Bootnotes 10 Jun 2002, 21:11