11th July 2002 Archive

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Software in China, India to top $27bn by 2006

And China to pass India, says Gartner

China's software and application development services sector has the potential to become as big as India's by 2006, when the industry in both countries is expected to generate revenue of more than $27bn, according to Gartner Inc. The Stamford, Connecticut-based market research company said China's WTO entry, its hosting of …

Software 11 Jul 2002, 08:22
Liberty move on Telewest faces legal challenge

Bondholders baulking...

A move by Liberty Media Corp to gain control of UK cable operator Telewest Communications Plc by buying a chunk of the company's bonds has hit a snag. A group of bondholders is taking legal action, claiming the move was illegal. Though Liberty denied the allegation, and said its offer complied with security laws, it …

Business 11 Jul 2002, 08:25
W3C releases first drafts of WSDL 1.2

Open for comment and review

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the first public working drafts of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, an XML-based language that describes a web service - the data exchanged, the protocol to use and its location on the web. The new specification was developed by the W3C Web Services Description …

Media 11 Jul 2002, 08:28
Soap and WSDL ‘must haves’ for web services – IDC

By the end of this year, already...

Support for fundamental web services standards such as SOAP and WSDL will become a "must have" feature of application server software platform (ASSP) by the end of 2002, according to the latest report from industry analyst firm International Data Corp (IDC). The Framingham, Massachusetts-based firm said that the majority …

Media 11 Jul 2002, 08:31
Yahoo! Back! In! The! Black!

Reasons to be cheerful

Yahoo!, the world's biggest Internet portal (whatever MSN claims), is on the road to recovery, reporting a 24 per cent advance in Q2 revenues to $225.8m (Q2 2001: $182.2m) and making its first profit in six quarters. The boost may be almost entirely down to HotJobs, bought in Q1, but sales are up, and that's what counts in …

e-Business 11 Jul 2002, 09:19
Fox recommends hacked DVD players for The Simpsons

Cartoon cuffs for Homer?

Fox is recommending that UK customers bypass the regional encoding system enforced by DVD manufacturers. And the recommendation comes from no less an authority than Homer Simpson himself. The call to action can be found on page four of the FAQ on the Fox UK website for the new DVD collectors' edition of The Simpsons First …

Personal 11 Jul 2002, 09:24
MS licensing deadline doom looms – buy or die

Or defect...

In three weeks time, corporate IT people, your Microsoft software licensing regime is completely screwed if you haven't done something about Licensing 6, which kicks in on 1st August. From that point you'll be unable to license Select version 5, Upgrade Advantage (UA) and Software Assurance (SA) on products you've already got …

Software 11 Jul 2002, 09:50
Attack of the Cyber-Terror Studies

No pass mark for Dartmouth College

Last month's Business Software Alliance report on cyber security (pdf) concluded that cyber terrorism was going to be really serious, so everyone should protect themselves by giving more money to the members of the Business Software Alliance. How did it reach this conclusion? No, not by using professional intelligence experts or …

Security 11 Jul 2002, 10:45
MS: our phone software might not be good enough

Don't ask me, I only work here

A refreshing wind of honesty seems to be blowing out of Microsoft's phone division these days. Yesterday Roberto Cazzaro gave an interview with IDG in which he admitted he had "no idea" if Microsoft new Smartphone software was good enough to be accepted by the carriers. Cazzaro is director of International Strategy at …

Mobile 11 Jul 2002, 10:48
MS SQL Server multiple vulns

Get your daily fixes

First up we have a trio of issues, all of which have been fixed with a single cumulative patch. There are two exploitable buffer overrun vulnerabilities, one of which allows an attacker to run arbitrary code, and a registry stuff-up enabling the SQL Server service to write to the registry and specify another account, like …

Software 11 Jul 2002, 11:03
PGP Outlook plugin has major security hole

Relax, there's a patch

A malicious e-mail can create a buffer overrun in Network Associates' PGP plugin for MS Outlook on Windows, which in turn can be used to run arbitrary code with the user's level of privilege. At a minimum this could compromise the user's passphrase and expose his encrypted messages, and at a maximum surrender control of the …

Software 11 Jul 2002, 11:35
Wales gets broadband boost

Let's all move to Llandegwning

The Welsh Assembly is to stump-up a load of cash to bring broadband to Wales, Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies announced today. The £100m Broadband Wales programme - made up of a combination of aggregated public sector demand and barrow-loads of cash - should bring broadband to 310,000 extra homes and 67,000 extra …

Broadband 11 Jul 2002, 12:34
IE scripting flaw uncovered

Full disclosure

Security researchers yesterday released details of a cross domain scripting flaw in Internet Explorer ahead of a fix by Microsoft. The flaw leaves applications that use WebBrowser control, including Microsoft IE, Outlook and Outlook Express (when run outside restricted zones), vulnerable to a variety of attacks, researchers …

Security 11 Jul 2002, 12:52
How to link to The Register

Reg Now

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The Company
MS talks to self about not talking about home 802.11b range

Doesn't actually announce something we all knew very little about already

Microsoft, as we've all been aware for some time, plans to enter the home wireless arena at the tail end of this year, and the company today announced that it, er, plans to enter the home wireless arena at the tail end of this year. And...? Er no, that's it folks, they're refusing to give details. But they're not refusing to …

Software 11 Jul 2002, 15:18
Contact The Register - FAQ

Here we are then

Contact The Register How do I submit a news tip? Reg Newsroom Alternatively, all the writers have feedback forms on the top of their articles. Feel free to contact them direct. The ads are crap / the site is slooowww / call that html! / there's a bug in my browser If you spot a bug, please tell us which page it's on, and …

The Company
Welsh Assembly Web site sick

Sorry to hear that

Oh dear - the Welsh Assembly is to spend £100 million on broadband. It might need to spend some of that on its Web site. A notice on the site reads: "The Assembly is experiencing technical difficulties in updating its websites due to problems with internet service provision which are beyond its control. Please bear with us …

Bootnotes 11 Jul 2002, 15:54
Fighting the Pigopolists with bricks not bluster

Letters Routing around the RIAA

An overwhelming response to our report on Rep. Rick Boucher's proposal to outlaw share-denial systems, beginning with copy-protected CDs [see Congressman vows Pigopolist legislation]. In this report we resurrected a modest proposal of ours which is neither new nor entirely original, but which caught your attention nevertheless …

Letters 11 Jul 2002, 17:22
Syndication

Republishing Register content: the Ts & Cs

We have no rights to authorise the republication of any content on The Register supplied by third parties - e.g. Security Focus, OUT-LAW.com, The Bastard Operator from Hell. So ask them, not us. Now for some FAQs. Can we photocopy your content? Yes, for internal corporate use only. It's free of charge. You want to reprint/ …

The Company
Open source developers wary of MS graphics patent grab

OpenGL mail

We solicited your views on Microsoft throwing its patents up for trade at an OpenGL meeting this year. Scare or dare? Key KDE developer Hetz Ben Hamo wrote to us - speaking for himself, he stresses, not the KDE Organization:- It's amazing how SGI was short-sighted when they sold lots of their patents regarding 3D to Microsoft …

Letters 11 Jul 2002, 23:39