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  • Tiscali denies it is selling out

    Not 'cash-strapped' either

    Tiscali has strongly denied a report that Wanadoo or T-Online could buy the "cash-strapped" pan-European ISP within the year. The FT cited an unnamed "senior Tiscali executive" as the source of the story. The paper also quoted an assessment of the ISP by the bank J P Morgan, which concluded that Tiscali would run out of cash …

    Business 1 Jul 2002, 09:56

  • Win an Atari Star Wars arcade console

    Return of the Rackspace Managed Hosting Competition

    Earlier in the year we ran a delicious competition in association with Rackspace Managed Hosting after which one lucky reader walked away with an original Atari Space Invaders arcade machine. So popular did this prove that Rackspace has taken time off from its fanatical support responsibilities to team up with AMD and offer Reg …

    Channel 1 Jul 2002, 09:57

  • Insignia strikes Palm OS Mobile Java deal

    Path clearing

    Insignia Solutions Inc has sealed a lucrative deal to work with PalmSource Inc to create a standard Java interface for Palm OS-powered devices. Although Insignia would not reveal the value of the arrangement, the deal will see the Fremont, California-based mobile Java specialist's Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) implementation …

    Mobile 1 Jul 2002, 10:03

  • IBM, Microsoft and Liberty: together at last

    In Software We Trust

    A Sun Microsystems Inc-backed initiative on secure network identity has taken its first steps towards supporting a specification from Microsoft Corp and IBM, Gavin Clarke writes. The Liberty Alliance Project this month had a presentation from VeriSign Inc, a co-author of WS-Security with Microsoft and IBM, with a view to …

    e-Business 1 Jul 2002, 10:05

  • T-Mobil launches MMS

    Picture this

    T-Mobil AG, the wireless service unit of Germany's incumbent operator, Deutsche Telekom AG, said Friday that it will start offering multimedia messaging service (MMS) from today. T-Mobil will become one of the first operators outside of Japan to offer the high-tech evolution of the phenomenally popular short message …

    Mobile 1 Jul 2002, 10:13

  • ICANN board adopts reform plan, ditches elections

    Industry luminaries

    The board of the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers on Friday unanimously approved an internal reform plan that dramatically changes how directors are selected and how internet domain name policies are made. The proposals, which are set to be honed and possibly enacted at the organization's next quarterly meeting …

    Music and Media 1 Jul 2002, 10:20

  • Apple drops Emagic bombshell

    Hands Cubase a Windows monopoly

    Apple dropped a bombshell on music makers today by acquiring Emagic which, with Steinberg, dominates the market for sequencing software. Apple said it will axe the Windows version of Emagic's Logic sequencer come September. "I'll bet there are 70,000 fucked-off users," a musician who uses PC versions of both products told us …

    Mac Channel 1 Jul 2002, 11:10

  • BT trials mesh in Wales

    Pinch punch

    BT Wholesale is to trial mesh radio technology in Wales as part of the monster telco's bid to broaden the availability of broadband in the UK. Mesh radio works on the principle that a small radio antenna installed at each household or business, transmits on to neighbouring users to form a network or "mesh". This approach does …

    Telecoms 1 Jul 2002, 11:11

  • Carmack backs OpenGL in shader wars

    Nvidia rebuff

    Game god John Carmack has given OpenGL his blessing in the ever-thickening shader wars. Carmack says that given the 3Dlabs P10 card, he opted to use the OpenGL 2.0 extensions for the shader path, even though the Nvidia Cg extensions offered "the most expedient choice". And the port went so well, he writes in the latest addition …

    Software 1 Jul 2002, 11:12

  • Opera signs with RedFlag in China embedded Linux deal

    Norwegian road to socialism...

    China's RedFlag Software is to offer embedded versions of the Opera browser on a range of Linux-based devices and appliances for the Chinese market. According to a strategic alliance announced today, RedFlag will become an Opera reseller and will begin joint development and marketing efforts to tailor Opera for the Chinese …

    Software 1 Jul 2002, 11:36

  • Reg gets Yaha treatment from top exec

    O dear O dear...

    Ah, the perils of profile. Every morning The Register has to get out the shovel and the wheelbarrow to deal with the huge pile of viral dross infesting the inbox. Well OK, we just use the delete button really, but it's still ordinarily a pretty tedious process. But just occasionally, you get a shipment that cheers you up …

    Malware 1 Jul 2002, 12:16

  • UK tips Fayrewood into loss

    Europe OK

    Fayrewood blamed a rise in expenses at its UK distie for sinking into a net loss for the year to April 30. But the networking distribution group said that costs are back under control at Interface Systems International, with a new management team in charge. There's a way to go before it returns to profit but losses are reduced …

    Channel 1 Jul 2002, 13:15

  • Mafia boss jailed in FBI keyboard bugging case

    Crypto Nostra

    A New Jersey federal court has sentenced Nicodemo Scarfo to 33 months in prison at the end of a case that tested the legality of law enforcement surveillance techniques. Government agents placed a keystroke-logging device on Scarfo's computer and a key point in the case was reached when US District Court Judge Joel Pisano ruled …

    Security 1 Jul 2002, 13:22

  • Ex-Intel, Sun chip guru brewing multichip SPARC

    More on secretive Sun acquisition

    Sun Microsystems has a closer connection to Afara Websystems, its most recent acquisition, than we realized last week. One of Afara's co-founders is Les Kohn, one of the designers of Intel's i860 and i960 RISC chips, NatSemi's 320xx Swordfish and the UltraSPARC-I. The secretive start-up won't say what it's doing, but …

    Servers 1 Jul 2002, 13:29

  • War, famine, disease. Never mind – 1bn PCs built

    Charity appeal

    A billion PCs have rolled off the world's production lines according to Gartner Dataquest today. No, more, the milestone was reached in April this year. So that would translate into how many thousands of tonnes of lead and hundreds of tonnes of cadmium? How many water supplies destroyed, how many tens of thousands of poisoned …

    Personal 1 Jul 2002, 14:15

  • Britain trails Euro broadband chart

    Oh well

    When it comes to the adoption of broadband, Britain still trails behind the rest of Europe. So says research outfit NetValue which found that Denmark tops the European broadband charts with one in four of all households online connecting via broadband. Like its performance in the World Cup, Germany came second with 15 per cent …

    Telecoms 1 Jul 2002, 16:01

  • Klez tops virus charts – again

    No sign of let-up

    Variants of the Klez worm were by far the most common viruses circulating on the Internet this month. Again. That's according to monthly statistics from managed services firm MessageLabs, which stopped 788,137 copies of the virus in June, compared to 524, 507 in May. Virus infection rates are currently running at around one …

    Malware 1 Jul 2002, 17:12

  • IBM's utility computing push

    Linux on tap

    Utility computing is on the way, says IBM, which today opened a pay-as-you-go service offering software resources over the Net. Linux Virtual Services connects customers with Linux-based applications to IBM e-business hosting centres that provide managed server processing, storage and networking capacity on an on-demand basis …

    e-Business 1 Jul 2002, 22:43