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16th August 2002 Archive

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  • Ad watchdog critical of Domain Registry of Europe

    Change your letters or else

    The Advertising watchdog has slammed Domain Registry of Europe (DRoE) for misleading consumers over its mailshots that "look like bills". Last month The Register reported how the Canada-based domain registration outfit is currently targeting domain holders in the UK with unsolicited letters that readers claim "look like bills …

    Media 16 Aug 2002, 10:07

  • Check Point secures IPv6 and P2P

    With VPN/Firewall update

    Check Point Software Technologies Ltd is gearing up for a new release of its Check Point VPN-1/Firewall-1 security software, and is claiming a number of industry firsts will be delivered in the new version. The Ramat-Gan, Israel-based company is claiming to be the first vendor to secure IPv6, peer-to-peer, instant messaging and …

    Security 16 Aug 2002, 10:10

  • LSB certifications confuse Sun's Linux standards story

    Smoke and mirrors

    Red Hat Inc, SuSE Linux AG, and MandrakeSoft SA have become the first Linux distributors to have their versions of the open source operating system certified as compliant with the Free Standards Group's Linux Standards Base (LSB) specification. The announcement of the first certified distributions is particularly …

    Software 16 Aug 2002, 10:28

  • Genuity pulls plug on European Web Hosting arm

    Situations vacant

    Ailing network services and hosting firm Genuity Inc has pulled the plug on its European web hosting business Integra SA after securing a new 30-day lifeline with its banks. Woburn, Massachusetts-based Genuity, which acquired a 93% stake in Paris, France-based Integra for $125m last October, said it had decided not to …

    Data Networking 16 Aug 2002, 10:28

  • Agere to exit optoelectronics, fires 4000

    Market collapse

    Agere Systems Inc plans to pull out of the optoelectronics business after a catastrophic collapse in demand for products that provided the company with $1.2bn of revenue last year. The move is part of a huge round of cost-cutting at the Allentown, Pennsylvania-based company that will reduce its 11,200-strong workforce to …

    Data Networking 16 Aug 2002, 10:28

  • Dell reports higher profits

    Market share up

    Dell has posted a fiscal second quarter profit of £501 million, beating analysts' expectations, as its worldwide shipments rose 18 per cent. Dell reported net income of $501 million, or $0.19 per share, compared with a net loss of $101 million, or $0.04 per share in the same quarter last year and profits of $0.16 per share in …

    Personal 16 Aug 2002, 12:13

  • Record A-Levels. Thank you, PC World !

    Classes? Who needs'em

    So you thought yesterday's record A-Level results were down to easier exams or brighter youngsters or better teaching? Go to the bottom of the class. No, it's down to students making better use of their PCs, according to PC World, the UK's leading retailer of PCs. In a survey of 300 students, 'making most of their computer …

    Personal 16 Aug 2002, 12:20

  • MPs shun email

    Numpties rule, OK

    The UK's politicians are reluctant to use email to communicate with their constituents, according to a survey by IT outfit Parity Group. The survey found that the vast majority of MPs conducted less than a quarter of correspondence with their constituents via email, with MPs preferring to use snailmail instead. The survey also …

    Media 16 Aug 2002, 12:35

  • MP3s are good for music biz – Forrester

    Pigopolists should monetize P2P networks

    Forrester Research has surveyed a thousand music customers and concludes that MP3 downloads are good for the music business. Twenty per cent of those surveyed - two groups Forrester describes as "music lovers and music learners" - buy 36 per cent of CDs, and these enthusiastic downloaders said MP3s had no effect on their CD …

    Media 16 Aug 2002, 12:45

  • MS soft-pedals SSL hole

    Hardly a problem, the way they tell it

    A Microsoft security PR bulletin dealing with the recent SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate hole reported by Mike Benham goes out of its way to assure Windows users that there's little to be concerned about. The recent negative talk about it hasn't been properly 'balanced' (i.e., approved by the Marketing Department), …

    Software 16 Aug 2002, 13:13

  • Rock bible returns

    Stuff We Like Trouser Press

    For music fans under fifty, this site will keep arguments raging well past last orders have been called. Trouser Press was a New York-based shoestring independent music 'zine that ran for ten years from 1973, with a heavy bent towards British artists - it was named after a Bonzo Dog band tune - and new music. And it published …

    Bootnotes 16 Aug 2002, 18:35

  • Russians accuse FBI agent of hacking

    Sting stung

    An FBI agent was charged yesterday with computer hacking by the Russian counterintelligence service. The unprecedented charges by the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, follow the involvement of FBI Agent Michael Schuler in luring two Russian hackers Vasily Gorshkov, 26, and Alexey Ivanov, 20, to the US in November 2000. …

    Security 16 Aug 2002, 22:29