6th August 2002 Archive

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Microsoft exposes more Windows code

Jumps antitrust gun

Microsoft Corp will expose more Windows source code for public consumption today, this time in compliance with a proposed antitrust settlement. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is making available to third parties 113 protocols used for communication between Windows clients and servers under the Communications Protocol …

Software 6 Aug 2002, 08:07
HP refreshes midrange PA, Alpha servers

Utility pricing model

Hewlett Packard Co today will roll its 875MHz PA-8700+ processor into its core midrange Unix server line. It will also roll out enhanced AlphaServer machines in the line of Unix machines inherited as part of its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp a few months ago, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes The new PA-8700+ chips …

Servers 6 Aug 2002, 08:07
Sun puts 1.05GHz US-III+ in midrange, enterprise servers

15% more performance

Sun Microsystems Inc today will announce that it is rolling out its 1.05GHz UltraSparc-III+. It has been selling this in its Sun Blade workstations but has not yet put into its server line, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. The fastest UltraSparc-III processor that has been available in all of Sun's entry, midrange and …

Servers 6 Aug 2002, 08:08
Vodafone to source Sharp camera phones – report

Pic me up for Xmas

Vodafone Ltd, Vodafone Group Plc's UK network operator, is preparing a pre-Christmas marketing blitz based around the virtues of camera-enabled phones similar to those that have proved a roaring success for its parent's Japanese subsidiary, J-Phone Ltd. In Japan, camera phones have been credited with igniting massive …

Servers 6 Aug 2002, 08:08
Linux sales fell in 2001, on rebound

Storms Asia Pac

Revenue from the open source Linux operating system dipped in 2001 after two consecutive years of substantial growth, but is still on track to become a $280m market by 2006, according to the latest research from IDC. According to the Framingham, Massachusetts-based market research company, worldwide revenue from Linux was …

Software 6 Aug 2002, 08:13
Network Physics tackles network chaos

Chaos Theory for sysadmins

Network Physics Inc, a company that launched last year with the intent of bringing chaos theory to enterprise network management, sees itself in the internet route control market by the end of the year, and yesterday released the second in a trio of product upgrades that will take it there. Having released its packet …

Data Networking 6 Aug 2002, 08:13
BT looks up directories for revenue boost

Get ready for the Purple Pages

BT today outlined plans to expand its directories operation following Oftel's decision to deregulate the 192 service and the recent acquisition of Scoot's business. BT Directories will see the expansion of the basic directory enquiries service into an "integrated multi-media information service" by the end of this year. …

Business 6 Aug 2002, 11:58
BT sets broadband trigger levels for 88 more exchanges

Some very high targets

BT Wholesale today set broadband registration trigger levels for 88 more exchanges. For 53 exchanges, the telco has set a trigger level of 200 customer registrations. This reflects lower than average costs, BT says. The other 35 exchanges have much higher triggers of, variously, 650, 700 and 750 end users. These reflect the " …

Telecoms 6 Aug 2002, 13:40
Yahoo! takes! stake! in Sonora! Zed!

Ringtones a go go

US Internet giant Yahoo! said on Tuesday it had acquired a 15 percent stake in European wireless portal Sonera Zed. The two firms declined to put a value on the deal, though early speculation has pegged Yahoo's cash outlay for the purchase at around EUR15 million. Moreover, Yahoo! said it has the option to acquire 100 percent …

Mobile 6 Aug 2002, 14:12
IT and the Business Cycle

Putting the house in order

There is a regular business cycle, which lasts for about 9 years. The cycle is characterised by a period of growth, then strong growth and then recession. Unfortunately, the cycle isn't exact and it isn't dependable, or else you could make money out of it, by gambling on it. Sometimes it lasts 7 years, sometimes 10 or 11. In …

Business 6 Aug 2002, 14:13
Israeli teenagers charged with Goner virus outbreak

Nasty tricks

Five Israeli teenagers have been charged with creating and spreading the W32/Goner-A virus, which spread rapidly on the Internet after its release in December last year. The Ha'aretz newspaper reports that the five were charged at Haifa District Court with wilfully causing damage to computers belonging to companies and private …

Business 6 Aug 2002, 14:31
Redbus runs over Stanford

Wheels fall off campaign

Redbus Interhouse, the Uk web hosting firm, has successfully beaten off a challenge from co-founder Cliff Stanford to overthrow the board. At an Extraordinary General Meeting(EGM) yesterdya, the shareholders not associated with the bickering management voted 4:1 against Stanford's attempted ouster. Stanford, the guy who set up …

Business 6 Aug 2002, 14:59
Telecom Italia shows startling honesty

Press release headline of the day

Today we received a press release by email with the following headline. Subject: Telecom Italia reduces operational efficiency by up to 20% using Micromuse based solution The amend came shortly afterwards. Should have been 'increased'. We still haven't read the release. ®

Bootnotes 6 Aug 2002, 15:29
NEC flogs Transmeta green PC

Loadsamoney

NEC yesterday unveiled the Powermate eco, a 'green' PC, incorporating 100 per cent recyclable plastic, low-power Transmeta CPU, and 15in LCD monitor. The materials will mean that crushing will be less environmentally unfriendly - CRT monitors in particular are filled with hazardous materials. but easier to recycle materials are …

Personal 6 Aug 2002, 16:48
BTopenwoe gives up punters' home addresses

Doh!

A security gaffe by BT means that if you know someone's BT Click email address you stand a good chance of finding their place of residence. This interesting tool for stalkers, debt collectors and snoops comes about because BTopenwoe's ADSL order tracking page doesn't check for a password when giving out details of addresses, …

Security 6 Aug 2002, 16:52
FBI plays cyber-fear card again

NIPC entertainment

There's a new warning from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an elite cyber squad famous for infecting its own network with SirCam, and which consistently manages to worry us about the wrong things at the wrong time. Today it's a blistering cyber attack from Europe targeting American ISPs and Web sites …

Security 6 Aug 2002, 21:24