12th June 2002 Archive

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IBM dumps mobile software vendors with new Domino

Sync Sink

Mobile middleware vendor Extended Systems Inc appears to have been dumped by IBM Corp in the latest release of its Lotus Domino groupware and application platform. The move will also be bad news for other vendors that specialize in linking Domino to mobile devices, Tony Cripps writes. Boise, Idaho-based Extended has …

e-Business 12 Jun 2002, 09:26
France Telecom cuts off MobilCom

Playing hardball

French incumbent telecoms company France Telecom SA could have found a way to squeeze itself out of the restrictive agreement that bound it to supply finance for German mobile operator MobilCom AG's roll-out of 3G services, a bill that could have topped at least $2.5bn. This agreement could also have crippled France …

Mobile 12 Jun 2002, 09:26
Nokia's handset strength shields it from telecoms slump

Not so comic relief

Nokia Corp substantially downgraded its second-quarter sales forecasts yesterday, but such is the misery surrounding the telecoms sector that its share price rose in relief that the news was not worse. In a trading update, the Espoo, Finland-based company said it expected second quarter sales to fall between 2% to 6% to a …

Mobile 12 Jun 2002, 09:26
Telewest admits it could face funding gap

Has to keep performing

UK cable operator Telewest Communications Plc has for the first time acknowledged it could face a funding gap. The London, UK-based company had been telling a disbelieving world that it was fully-funded despite a widespread belief that it would join other cable operators in a debt-for-equity restructuring. Chief executive …

Mobile 12 Jun 2002, 09:27
VPN adoption is strong

And getting stronger

Sales of virtual private networking (VPN) products and services should top $21.3bn this year, according to the latest estimates from San Jose, California-based market research firm Infonetics Research Inc, with future spending levels more than doubling by 2006. Based on a series of interviews with 240 network managers at …

Security 12 Jun 2002, 10:21
Baltimore updates PKI software

Cloning

Baltimore Technologies Plc has released a new version of its security infrastructure software designed to enable the deployment of public-key enabled applications. The financially troubled security software company has added "cloning" and XKMS (XML Key Management Specification) support to version 5.0 of its UniCert PKI …

Security 12 Jun 2002, 10:21
KPNQwest limps on

Buying time

Struggling KPNQwest appears to have bought itself some more time, giving rise to hopes that its fibre-optic network will remain open for at least the rest of the month. Despite cash-flow problems, it seem the trustees for the failed communications group have given the thumbs up for the network to remain open for business until …

Music and Media 12 Jun 2002, 11:01
Upbeat Dell pumps up printers, routers

Take no quarter

Dell has issued an upbeat assessment for Q2, holding steady on previous sales guidelines ($8bn), and claiming it's taking share against the backdrop of a "pretty rough" market. Dell is also expanding its wings: Dell CFO Jim Schneider says it is intensely focused on printers while networking veep Kim Crawford says the company's …

Personal 12 Jun 2002, 11:44
Billion dollar bungle ‘loses’ US tech lab

Livermore? Never heard of him. Or it. Whatever.

If any more proof were needed that the most powerful nation on earth is now governed by a junta of panic-stricken, innumerate provincial nitwits, consider this. For fifty years Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California has earned the respect of scientists around the world, pioneering ground-breaking research. It's a nuke …

Bootnotes 12 Jun 2002, 11:45
Affinity Internet narrows losses

Revenue up

Shares in Affinity Internet slid 13 per cent by late morning as the company report increased turnover and narrowing losses. Turnover for the three months to the end of March jumped from £5.6 million in 2001 to £19 million in 2002. Pre-tax losses more than halved from £6.6 million to £2.5 million. The bulk of the company's UK …

Music and Media 12 Jun 2002, 11:47
X-windows remote DoS with big fonts

Mozilla implicated

X-windows, with or without the font server (XFS) running can be crashed remotely via Mozilla when fonts are set to an unnaturally large size with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Tom Vogt of Lemuria.org has reported. An X bug allows all available memory to be consumed, which causes the system to freeze. The behavior can be …

Security 12 Jun 2002, 15:07
Credit-card hackers stung with bogus IIS 'sploit

Dumb and lazy

What happens when you float a counterfeit IIS hole in a carder chatroom on IRC, tantalizing its young denizens with a quick, easy score? Do they proxy up, patiently enumerate the site, grab banners, analyze what they're up against and carefully plot an attack? Or do they rush into the trap like so many elite lemmings? That's …

Security 12 Jun 2002, 18:25
Feds, industry battle the biggest network bug

Relax, the President's been briefed

Four months after a public advisory warned of security vulnerabilities in a ubiquitous Internet remote management protocol, there have been no widespread attacks exploiting the holes. But technology companies and a special U.S. government panel are quietly evaluating the threat of related vulnerabilities in some of America's …

Security 12 Jun 2002, 18:53