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  • Ireland joins the flat rate society

    About time

    Esat could introduce flat-rate Internet access by the end of the summer, ElectricNews.Net has learned. Esat had previously said that it would launch flat-rate, which allows people to be on-line for as long as they like for a single monthly fee, sometime this year but no timeframe was given. Sales representatives in Esat Fusion …

    Music and Media 4 Jul 2002, 11:08

  • Grassroots Apple sites cower, close

    Jobs plays God

    Here's a funny thing. As in funny peculiar. Apple has never received a more positive coverage in Big Media. The Time cover was extremely generous: but weekly you can read hymns of praise in the Wall Street Journal (we imagine that Apple sends the drooling Mossberg a bib with every piece of review kit) and extensive coverage in …

    Mac Channel 4 Jul 2002, 11:09

  • EU delves further into .NET Passport

    'Opening a dialogue'

    European Union (EU) regulators are not satisfied that Microsoft Corp's .NET Passport complies with data protection law. Regulators have said that while Microsoft has put in place measures to address data protection, elements of .NET Passport require further consideration. Data protection agencies from 15 countries have …

    e-Business 4 Jul 2002, 11:17

  • Intel invests in Linux clustering

    Norwegian thing

    Intel Corp has joined a group of Norwegian investment and technology companies in providing second-round funding to Linux-based clustering software company Scali AS. Oslo, Norway-based Scali is the developer of clustering software for the open source Linux operating system. The company has its roots in a defense research …

    Servers 4 Jul 2002, 11:19

  • Symantec buys Mountain Wave

    What is a mountain wave?

    Cupertino, California-based Symantec Corp has paid $20m cash for Mountain Wave Inc and its CyberWolf real-time security incident detection and analysis software, in a move that will add automated response features to its security management software stack. The CyberWolf product started life as a Defense Advanced Research …

    Security 4 Jul 2002, 11:20

  • Palladium tech up for discussion, says MS security chief

    And if users don't buy it, it dies...

    Unaccountably, Microsoft seems to have forgotten to invite The Register to Tech Ed in Barcelona this week, but we're pleased to see some useful information making it into the public prints. Yesterday, IDG News correspondent Gillian Law obtained some useful information about Palladium from Microsoft UK chief security officer …

    Software 4 Jul 2002, 11:34

  • Microsoft books LinuxWorld stand in bid for ‘dialogue’

    Nixon in China?

    Microsoft is to exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo this August, and it appears that the company wants to be nice. Yesterday, Linux Today spotted the Beast's presence on the Expo exhibitor list, and after publicising this was contacted by an apparently kinder, gentler Microsoft. In the shape of Peter Houston, senior director of the …

    Software 4 Jul 2002, 12:10

  • 2600 withdraws Supreme Court appeal in DeCSS case

    Lost battle, but the war goes on

    Hacker magazine 2600 is to drop its appeal to the Supreme Court after concluding it had little chance of establishing its right to post links to the DeCSS utility. In a statement on the case, 2600 said that after consulting with its lawyers it decided it had taken the case as far as it could. The decision ends the publication' …

    Software 4 Jul 2002, 12:34

  • Liberty Media talks with Telewest

    Best interests of the company, apparently

    Telewest is to hold talks with Liberty Media about the future of the debt laden UK cableco. In a letter to shareholders Telewest - burdened by £5 billion in debt - said that it is in the "best interest" of the company to enter into discussions with Liberty (the US media investment outfit owned by gazillionaire John Malone) and …

    Business 4 Jul 2002, 12:44

  • Greek ban on gaming threatens Internet cafes

    There's a weird logic to it, though

    A Register reader in Greece emails us claiming that the Greek government has effectively outlawed Internet cafes by "all LAN and Internet games and any kind of game that is supported by electrical, electronic or software means." If anybody so much as has something looking like a game on the screen, he tells us, the cafe manager …

    Music and Media 4 Jul 2002, 12:50

  • Why Microsoft makes a complete hash out of C#

    English for Americans. An occasional series

    The # key on US keyboards is a minor irritation for the British - it's where '£', our pound sign, should be. Furthermore, Americans mispronounce the # sign as pound, when everyone else knows it should be 'hash' (Alright everyone except BT, whose operators insist on calling it the 'square' key on the phone). According to this …

    Bootnotes 4 Jul 2002, 13:34

  • Dan Technology – how big was it anyway?

    Why is no-one complaining

    An unnamed buyer is waiting in the wings to buy Dan Technology, the bust computer builder, receivers BDO Stoy Hayward told Computer Buyer today. And as a going concern. But as just about everyone was made redundant when the company fell into receivership last month, it's difficult to see what's going. At the time of collapse, …

    Channel 4 Jul 2002, 14:09

  • IBM blades cut it for Giga

    Which is nice

    IBM's launch of high-end enterprise blade servers in Q3 has earned the thumbs up from analyst firm Giga. Giga reckons that IBM's e-server BladeCenter by a "slim margin" to better recent high-end blade server announcements from Dell and what it believes Compaq (HP) will deliver. BladeCenter, like competitive offerings, is …

    Servers 4 Jul 2002, 14:48

  • Orange network glitch resolved

    Kinda...

    Orange claims the network problems that hit some phone users yesterday have now been resolved. Trouble is, we're still getting reports from readers who say their phones don't work. Said one hacked off reader whose phone's been dead for two days: "Orange are being evasive - I can't get a straight answer off anybody. "They won' …

    Mobile 4 Jul 2002, 14:55

  • Microsoft's Mac chief explains Hebrew position

    Not on To-Do List

    Microsoft's Macintosh chief Kevin Browne has responded to our questions. He urges users to contact the Mac team, providing an email, and suggests that Microsoft can't make much more headway with right-to-left support before Apple provides the necessary support in the operating system. Browne says that previous experiments with …

    Mac Channel 4 Jul 2002, 14:58

  • cDc prepares user-friendly stego app

    Secret messaging made simple

    In an effort to help Netizens in the more paranoid corners of the world evade national censorship, the cDc's Hacktivismo group is developing a browser product called Camera/Shy capable of creating and displaying images with messages which would likely get a Web site shut down or filtered in places like Saudi Arabia and China. …

    Security 4 Jul 2002, 15:52

  • Freeserve junks Inktomi, goes FAST

    Search engine madness

    Freeserve, the UK's biggest ISP, has picked FAST to run its search engine, directory and ecommerce search ops. The software, from Norwegian firm Fast Search & Transfer, is replacing Inktomi technology, adopted by Le Freeswerve two years ago. Freeserve told us it chose FAST for its "advanced search...", before running out of …

    e-Business 4 Jul 2002, 18:00

  • DRAM VAT fraudsters jailed for 18 ½ years

    £39m component fraud

    Four British computer dealers were sentenced today a total of 18 and a half years for a £39 million series of VAT and duty frauds involving components imported from the US and Hong Kong. Omar Bassam, 44, of Girton, Cambridge; Paul Burke, 38, of Shelfield, Walsall; Nicholas Skidmore, 35, Southport, Merseyside; and David Withers …

    Channel 4 Jul 2002, 18:02

  • Tesco to become a telco?

    Maybe, maybe not

    Tesco could be about to flog telecoms service to rival the likes of BT. The FT reports that the supermarket giant is holding talks with operators to offer the services. No one from Tesco was available for comment on the story. However, a spokesman for BT said the monster telco had no plans to start selling groceries. News …

    Data Networking 4 Jul 2002, 18:15

  • Web Server vulnerability reaches all time high

    Web Wobbles

    The Web may be more vulnerable to attack now than at any time previously. That's the stark conclusion of Netcraft's latest monthly survey of Web servers, which expresses concerns over the emergence of serious vulnerabilities in both Microsoft IIS and Apache Web servers over the last month. These vulnerabilities create a …

    Security 4 Jul 2002, 18:17