29th August 2002 Archive

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HP beats IBM on TPC-C (trails Fujitsu-Siemens)

TPM on TPM

Back at the end of May when Hewlett Packard Co announced the 875MHz PA-8700+ processors for its Superdome line of 64-way enterprise Unix servers, the company hinted that it had high hopes of handily beating IBM Corp's performance results with the "Regatta-H" pSeries 690 32-way servers. These boxes were able to crank …

Servers 29 Aug 2002, 08:03
SCO slides in Q3

Revenue down 18%

SCO Group Inc, or Caldera International Inc as it was known until Monday, has released its financial statement for the third quarter ended July 31 2002, and reported revenue down 18% on the same period last year. The Lindon, Utah-based Unix and Linux operating system vendor reported a net loss of $4.5m on revenue of $15.4m …

Business 29 Aug 2002, 08:05
Developer army not on its way for BEA

Raising the Standard

BEA Systems Inc's dream of a vibrant online Java and web services community comprising one million developers by December faces a setback amid uncertainty over the company's credibility as an infrastructure provider, Gavin Clarke writes. San Jose, California-based BEA is failing to attract the "landslide" of developers it …

Hardware 29 Aug 2002, 08:07
Marconi shareholders to get only 0.5% of equity

Crash! Bang! Wallop!

Shareholders in Marconi Plc, which once had a stock market valuation of 35bn pounds ($53.5bn), will end up with only 0.5% of the equity under a humiliating debt-for-equity swap currently being finalized. To rub salt into the wounds of investors in the telecoms equipment company, they will be given the option of digging …

Business 29 Aug 2002, 08:07
Two-way blocking for McAfee.com desktop firewall

Personal hygiene

McAfee.com Corp yesterday said the latest release of its Personal Firewall applications feature options for blocking outbound traffic for the first time, addressing concerns du jour about spyware and hybrid viruses. The software, aimed largely at broadband users not on firewall-protected company networks, allows users to …

Security 29 Aug 2002, 08:07
Why Xbox Linux founder left the project

Artistic differences

The founder of the high-profile Xbox Linux Project has left the group over concerns about the direction of the project and disagreements with the anonymous donor who's contributed $200,000 to port Linux to the Microsoft gaming device. Enrico Kern, whose development team H Zero Seven founded the project in August 2001, says he …

Software 29 Aug 2002, 08:26
Kiwis test world's largest WLAN

It's big

A prototype wireless network, based on the 802.11b standard, in downtown Auckland is giving Kiwis a taste of high-speed mobile broadband without waiting for 3G. RoamAD has already deployed a 3 sq km demonstration network within Auckland's central business district, as part of a plan to roll out a 100 sq km metropolitan area …

Data Networking 29 Aug 2002, 08:26
Tiscali slips back into the red

Break-even was short but sweet

Tiscali has slipped back into the red just three months after crowing that it had reached break-even point. Today the pan-European ISP reported that Q2 revenues were up 16 per cent at E172.5m from E148.9m during the same period last year. However, revenues have fallen more than E20m compared to Q1 2002. The Sardinia-based ISP …

Business 29 Aug 2002, 11:19
Dell aims for small biz sweetspot with server refresh

Client server

Dell UK has launched a small business server designed to give smaller businesses an economical alternative to desktop PCs for applications like file and print sharing. The PowerEdge 600SC, with fast DDR memory and integrated gigabit Ethernet, offers double the performance of its predecessor, the PowerEdge 500SC, according to …

Personal 29 Aug 2002, 11:22
ATI outs mobility RADEON 9000

Rave (ish) reviews

ATI today launched the mobile version of its top-of-the-range RADEON 9000 graphics accelerator. This incorporates better power management, improved streaming capabilities for all those DVDs you need to see on the hoof, and something called the world's "first mobile quad-pipe 3D architecture". And it's the first graphics chip …

Channel 29 Aug 2002, 12:23
1901 Census available online for testing

Fingers crossed

It's been a long wait, but the 1901 Census of England Wales is finally online - well, kinda. Eight months after its ill-fated launch - and embarrassing crash - the site is undergoing testing to see if the faults that beset the service have been fixed. For the last couple of weeks the site has been available at a number of …

Music and Media 29 Aug 2002, 15:48
Oftel rejects Freeserve broadband complaints

BT strategy not anti-competitive, allegedly

Oftel has thrown out a string of complaints from Freeserve over allegations that BT's broadband strategy is anti-competitive. The allegations were raised in April when Freeserve launched a stinging attack against BT, claiming the monster telco was running an "orchestrated campaign of anti-competitive behaviour". At the time …

Telecoms 29 Aug 2002, 15:50
Keep fingers crossed for BT rural ADSL trial

And toes too

BT Wholesale is to embark next month on a series of trials to test if it can bring ADSL to areas where demand is believed to be too low to justify the high cost of converting an exchange to broadband. Currently, BT is looking to recruit upwards of 200 users per exchange to justify the investment of £250,000 - £500,000 it says …

Telecoms 29 Aug 2002, 15:59
MS in fresh digital cert flaw

ActiveX bug let's attackers rip up credentials

A flaw in the Windows handles digital certificates enables sophisticated crackers to get up to all sorts of mischief on unprotected boxes. An ActiveX control called Certificate Enrolment Control (which ships with all versions of Windows), which deals with web-based certificate enrolments, can be manipulated to delete …

Security 29 Aug 2002, 16:06
Morse FY sales, profits down

Weak start to new year

Morse, Europe's biggest Sun and HP reseller, saw sales and profits slump for the full year to June 30. And this year is slightly weaker than last. Sales were down 21 per cent from £586.1m to £465.2m, while Earnings before Bad Stuff fell 32 per cent to £24.3m. Pile in the Bad Stuff - exceptionals/ amortisation of goodwill etc - …

Channel 29 Aug 2002, 17:28
The BSD tattoo under Jaguar's fur…

Letters And other 10.2 feedback

A reader takes issue with our recent description of Darwin's ancestry:- "Jaguar moves OS X from its ancient BSD 4.2 undercarriage to a lightly-less-ancient 4.4, but next year sees the platform move to the state-of-the-art BSD 5.0, which is currently in beta," we wrote. And it's a sore we scratched red this week:- - OSX has …

Letters 29 Aug 2002, 18:20