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  • Music industry blames Net for all evil

    'We've done everything right...'

    Despite the music industry's heroic efforts to produce, promote and distribute the finest fruits of American artistic genius, sales of CDs fell seven percent in the first half of 2002, after falling 5.3 per cent overall in 2001, the Recording Industry Ass. of America reports. Because of the exceptional brilliance and innovation …

    Music and Media 27 Aug 2002, 07:08

  • NAI beefs up sniffer, surveillance with DragNet buy

    Gets drop on Symantec?

    Network Associates Inc reckons it has bought technology with the potential to give it a unique edge in the internet security marketplace, with the acquisition this week of privately held Traxess Inc of Lindon, Utah for an undisclosed sum, writes Kevin Murphy. Traxess's technology, currently in beta under the name DragNet …

    Security 27 Aug 2002, 07:48

  • DoubleClick pays up to end privacy probes

    Foots states' bills

    Online advertising systems maker DoubleClick Inc said yesterday that an investigation by ten US States Attorneys General into its privacy protection practices has been halted after the company agreed to a number of safeguards on its data usage and agreed to pay out $450,000 to offset the cost of the probe. The company has …

    Music and Media 27 Aug 2002, 07:51

  • HP blades to skip Foster, go straight to Gallatin

    And Prestonia for early 2003

    As expected, Hewlett Packard Co yesterday unveiled updated blades for its "QuickBlade" ProLiant BL line of blade servers, writes Timothy Prickett-Morgan. The QuickBlades were announced in January and are one of the earlier entries in this nascent but interesting and growing segment of the server business. The first …

    Hardware 27 Aug 2002, 07:57

  • AMD to target Intel 32-bit, not Itanium, with Opteron

    Expects shift to 64 to gather speed

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc will steer clear of established 64-bit computing vendors when its launches its Opteron architecture later this year, and will instead aim its attack squarely at long-time 32-bit rival Intel Corp, writes Joe Fay. The vendor's Opteron architecture, previously codenamed Hammer, will offer customers …

    Channel 27 Aug 2002, 08:00

  • SCO lives! Caldera reinvents itself under the old brand

    Or should that be deinvents itself?

    SCO lives again. Caldera International executives yesterday executed a massive corporate U-turn, distancing the company from its earlier acquisition strategy and glorious - if brief - Linux heritage, writes Gavin Clarke. Two years after Caldera acquired the SCO Unix operation, company president and chief executive officer …

    Software 27 Aug 2002, 08:06

  • MS plays volume licensing upgrade card against Naked PCs

    If you want full, untied product, you pay retail, apparently

    Businesses wanting to deploy standard configurations across a number of machines frequently take out one of Microsoft's volume licensing programs, set up their own standard distribution then use it to hose whatever OS the PCs they bought came with. Frequently they are under the impression that this involves them paying for two …

    Software 27 Aug 2002, 11:00

  • McAfee.com board accepts improved NAI offer

    Tortuous acquisition nears completion?

    Network Associates on-off bid for the 25 per cent of shares in McAfee.com it doesn't already own looks to be nearing completion after McAfee.com's board recommended its approval. Shareholders in NAI's partially owned consumer ASP subsidiary are been offered $8.00 in cash plus 0.675 of a share of NAI common stock in exchange for …

    Business 27 Aug 2002, 12:23

  • Pipex punters in powwoe

    User group stuff

    Pipex has become the latest ISP to come under the spotlight from its users. Punters have created an online forum so they can share their concerns - and praise - for the ISP. Pipexwoe is the sister site of BTOpenwoe, which already keeps tabs on the woes and wows of BTopenworld. According to the blurb on the recently-launched …

    Music and Media 27 Aug 2002, 12:24

  • Intel touts benefits of 2.8GHz P4

    Boon for business, consumers, education and video pirates

    Intel yesterday, as expected, debuted a 2.8GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor and three other lower speed chips. The introduction of Intel's highest speed processors to date comes as its marketing battle with AMD steps up a gear with the debut of AMD's Athlon XP 2600+ last week. Intel's latest processors are: a 2.8GHz …

    Channel 27 Aug 2002, 12:52

  • Broadband could generate $500bn a year

    World peace thrown in

    Broadband could prove to be a massive catalyst for economic growth, according to the latest pie-in-the-sky crystal ball gazing from Gartner Dataquest. Forget the broadband currently on offer - Gartner's talking about broadband with speeds starting from an eye-watering 10Mbps. Using an economic model from the International …

    Telecoms 27 Aug 2002, 14:18

  • Broadband – ‘We know you want it’

    Want it, but can't get it

    BT Wholesale began a four-week ad campaign today in a bid to raise awareness for its broadband pre-registration scheme. The scheme - launched earlier this summer - allows people to register their interest in broadband even if they are in an area currently not wired up for ADSL. The theory is that if enough people register …

    Telecoms 27 Aug 2002, 15:27

  • The Jagwyre Review

    Rumbles in the Jungle

    Using Mac OS X is like touring a land of fabulous ancient treasures - with a tourist authority that's still busy renovating them, and that hasn't quite completed the infrastructure. The sights can be breathtaking, but the roads are potholed and incomplete, and sometimes you have to get out and push. There are a few magnificent …

    Mac Channel 27 Aug 2002, 16:43

  • Samsung phone sales soar

    Diddle-ee, etc

    Sales of Samsung mobile phones jumped by a huge 46 percent in the second quarter, as the rebounding industry saw the top four handset makers increase shipments. Overall, global mobile sales edged 0.8 percent higher in the April to June quarter, with 98.7 million units sold in that period, research company Dataquest said this …

    Mobile 27 Aug 2002, 17:13

  • Virus writers ‘obsessed with sex and computer games’

    Dr Evil need not apply

    Virus writers are sados obsessed with sex and computer games, not the evil geniuses Hollywood and fear-mongering Washington politicians portray them as. That's the view of Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, who said "virus writers are much more likely to be teenage males than crack cyberterrorists bent on …

    Security 27 Aug 2002, 17:18

  • Cornwall gets even more broadband

    Thousand punters sign up since April

    A move to bring broadband to Cornwall using both public and private sector funding is to be expanded. More than 1,000 businesses and homes have signed up for broadband at six BT exchanges in Truro, St Austell, Redruth, Camborne, Newquay and Penzance since the ACT NOW scheme went live in April this year. With new orders being …

    Telecoms 27 Aug 2002, 17:18