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  • Furry Fetish Fury!

    Letters "We are normal and we want our freedom"

    A snide reference to the Furry cult - it's not a fetish, as we'll discover- has prompted two letters to El Reg. Dear Mr. Orlowski, Is it true? Have we finally become large enough of a subculture as to not only mocked for shock value in MTV and Vanity Fair pieces, but actually in random references by the media? If so, I say …

    Letters 20 Jun 2002, 04:09

  • MS refuses judge's order, antitrust meltdown to follow?

    I'm sorry CKK, I can't do that right now...

    Two days ago Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order demanding a measure of compromise from the warring parties, and yesterday Microsoft refused to comply. So the scene is now set for a collision that could take down the DoJ-Microsoft settlement and set the whole trial roadshow in motion again. CKK was hearing closing …

    Software 20 Jun 2002, 08:45

  • Microsoft's Hebrew, Arabic snub: your pain

    Letters And where to complain

    Your letters continue to flood in about the lack of support for Hebrew, Arabic and right-to-left languages on the Macintosh. Several bring home what a nuisance it is. What the current situation requires is that after I write an article in my English-Hebrew word-processor for Mac (Nisus), I have to use another special program ( …

    Letters 20 Jun 2002, 08:48

  • HP upgrades NonStop Servers

    We don't want no stinking faults

    Hewlett Packard Co made good on its promises and those made by the executives in charge of the former Tandem Computers line of fault tolerant machines to keep upgrading and improving these machines, which are a major backbone in the financial services industry and which are increasingly used for high-end e-business …

    Servers 20 Jun 2002, 08:57

  • MS serves up BizTalk for smaller businesses

    Two new editions

    Microsoft Corp has released two editions of BizTalk Server 2002, in a bid to further extend the reach of the product and bring integration technology to the low end of the market. Microsoft is rapidly gaining momentum in the integration software market with BizTalk, which is attractive to small-to-medium-sized companies …

    Hardware 20 Jun 2002, 08:57

  • Cloudmark takes Napster model to spam blocking

    And why not?

    Cloudmark Inc came out of stealth mode yesterday with a product that applies Napster-style technology to combating unsolicited commercial email or spam. The company released SpamNet, a free Outlook plug-in that is ultimately expected to leverage the opinions of many thousands of email users in filtering spam. The San …

    Music and Media 20 Jun 2002, 09:00

  • Taiwan LCD sector overtakes Korea

    Samsung still tops

    Taiwanese LCD suppliers outstripped their Korean counterparts for the first time in the first quarter, the latest numbers from DisplaySearch show. The research house, which specializes in the display market, said that shipments of 10-inch-plus LCDs rose 88% year-on-year and 9% sequentially to 16.1 million units in the …

    Channel 20 Jun 2002, 09:00

  • Arson blamed for Beijing cyber cafe fire

    Two arrested

    Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire at a cyber cafe in Beijing in which 24 people died and 13 were injured. Police investigating the blaze found traces of petrol at the scene, according to State media. They claim the two suspects, aged 13 and 14, bought petrol at a nearby petrol station shortly …

    Music and Media 20 Jun 2002, 09:01

  • Monday: gets that Monday morning feeling

    Rebranding: madness: provokes: savage: comedy: backlash:

    Those readers who enjoyed our recent report on the moment of corporate insanity which provoked PwC Consulting to rebrand as Monday: will doubtless take malicious pleasure in the following. Yup, Monday:'s flashtastic launch site was just asking to be held up to public ridicule, as www.monday.cc more than adequately demonstrates …

    Bootnotes 20 Jun 2002, 10:02

  • WLAN Hotspots warm up

    Obstacle race

    Two WLAN hotspot surveys are out (or rather publicised for the first time). this week and both predict roaring trade. There’s a difference opinion over the numbers, but both InStat/MDR and TeleAnalytics (TA) predict big growth. By 2006, InStat reckons that WLAN hotspots will reach 46,000 worldwide, up from 2,000 in 2006. TA …

    Mobile 20 Jun 2002, 10:36

  • Microsoft takes hostages for next anti-Java legal round

    New lawyers, please

    Rick Ross, founder of the JavaLobby community forum was deposed by Microsoft attorneys last week and his account of the session gives a glimpse into Microsoft's next round of legal warfare against Sun. Microsoft is homing in on what's a sore point for Sun - as a trawl by The Beast's attorneys through Sun's confidential memos …

    Software 20 Jun 2002, 10:41

  • BT thumped by new competition proposals

    'Very good news' says Centrica

    BT faces the threat of stiffer competition from rival operators following the announcement of reforms from telecoms watchdog Oftel. Top of the list is the opportunity for companies to offer a complete residential telephony service to consumers. BT will be forced to provide a wholesale line rental product to rival telcos on the …

    Business 20 Jun 2002, 10:53

  • Nokia lowers sales estimates

    Sets out MMS pitch

    After announcing reduced sales estimates, Nokia said colour screens and MMS technology will entice consumers to buy new mobile phones. Nokia's preliminary outlook for the second half of 2002 is for year-on-year sales growth of around 10 percent, compared with previous expectations for at least 15 percent growth. The world's …

    Mobile 20 Jun 2002, 11:14

  • MS to pull Java in 2004 – why you knew this already

    Pay attention at the back...

    Microsoft, you may have heard from many sources in the past couple of days, is to stop shipping Java in 2004. Shocking, eh? But you've known that for well over a year, really. We at The Register are now sufficiently browned-off with termination of Java stories that we feel moved to make a public service announcement, explaining …

    Software 20 Jun 2002, 11:36

  • US ISPs fight for ‘competitive broadband markets’

    'Tremendous concern'

    Around 100 US ISPs have banded together to fight for what they describe as the "future of competitive broadband markets". The BroadNet Alliance is fighting proposals made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and some Members of Congress that claiming that they would be bad for competition and bad for the roll-out of …

    Telecoms 20 Jun 2002, 14:49

  • Opera makes hay with MS Mac Arabic/Hebrew snub

    alt.browser weighs in

    Opera software has responded to the international outcry against Microsoft's lack of support for localization in its Macintosh products. This isn't exactly news to many of you: the historic lack of Arabic, Hebrew has thwarted the adoption of the Macintosh in several markets: obliging scholars and ordinary consumers to turn to …

    Letters 20 Jun 2002, 21:30