5th September 2002 Archive

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Novell intros cheaper licenses for Web services

New Deal

Novell has announced cheaper prices for companies using its software to provide Web services. In addition to traditional pricing based on an organisation's employee users, Novell is offering heavily-discounted "Business-to-Consumer" (BtoC) and "Government-to-Citizen" (GtoC) user license pricing. BtoC user licensing is 25 per …

Hardware 5 Sep 2002, 07:04
DNS vulnerability ‘critical’

Fix available - at a price

Nominum Inc says a recently discovered flaw in the dominant domain name server on the internet is far more serious than originally thought, and could allow crackers to crash or even take control of any internet-connected application running on Unix, Kevin Murphy writes. "We know for sure we can use this bug to crash any …

Security 5 Sep 2002, 07:37
KT plans WCDMA 3G launch next June

Commercial success - why not?

KT ICOM, the third-generation mobile unit of South Korea's fixed-line incumbent, Korea Telecom, yesterday said it will launch 3G service based on WCDMA technology in June next year. The company said it has awarded a KRW 140bn ($117m) contract for 3G equipment with local manufacturer LG Electronics. As probably the most " …

Mobile 5 Sep 2002, 07:37
Borland preps more .NET support

Galileo

Borland Software Corp will increase its support for .NET with development tools the company believes will win corporate backing despite reduced IT spending, Gavin Clarke writes. The Scotts Valley, California-based company is preparing an integrated development suite called Borland .NET Development Environment, as an …

e-Business 5 Sep 2002, 07:38
WebSideStory upgrades HitBox Pro

Ecommerce ROI

WebSideStory Inc, the San Diego, California-based provider of web analytics software for mid-size firms has released a version of its HitBox Professional service that features enhanced e-commerce return on investment (ROI) functionality. Version 3 is the second major upgrade to WebSideStory's subscription-based service for …

e-Business 5 Sep 2002, 07:38
Solaris users slam Sun Intel plans (again)

'Shame on you, Scott'

Sun Microsystems Inc is still facing protests from unhappy Solaris x86 users despite announcing the resurrection of the Unix operating system for Intel Corp-compatible processors at last month's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Matthew Aslett writes. Santa Clara, California-based Sun has fought a running battle with Solaris …

e-Business 5 Sep 2002, 07:38
Intel spins out LANDesk

Lands in start-up

Intel Corp is spinning off its LANDesk desktop systems management software as an independent company, selling the products and assets to The LANDesk Acquisition Corp, a company created by venture capitalist firms Vector Capital and vSpring Capital. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Intel will …

e-Business 5 Sep 2002, 07:39
Siebel 7 performance issues revealed by user

Customers? Who needs 'em!

Rumors of performance issues with the Siebel 7.0 client, which have been circulating for several months, were yesterday confirmed by one of Siebel Systems Incs' biggest customers. During a presentation outlining Reuters Ltd's migration from version 6.3 of the Siebel software to Siebel 7, at the company's UK user group …

e-Business 5 Sep 2002, 07:39
More indictments for WorldCom brass

Back biters' fancy-dress ball

WorldCom's senior fraudsters executives are set to turn on each other under increasing pressure from federal prosecutors determined to get at former CEO Bernard Ebbers, the Associated Press reports. Former CFO Scott Sullivan, former comptroller David Myers and accounting exec Buford Yates have all been charged with securities …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 07:57
Music labels are bleeding – Midbar

Guess who's got the solution

Midbar, the company that has been selling a lot of anti-copying technology to music publishers, says it is just that: a technology provider. "It's up to the labels which of the CD products they want to implement," says Midbar's v.p. of sales and marketing, Noam Zur. Consumers with complaints need to contact the music companies …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 08:37
How to get out of Outsourcing

The customer is always right

Over the past couple of years we've seen the phenomenal growth of Outsourcing as businesses focus on their core competencies in an attempt to ride out the economic slowdown. We've also seen the emergence of the mega-Outsourcing deal - multi-million dollar and involving passing on a significant part of the customer's IT delivery …

Business 5 Sep 2002, 08:59
MS patches bogus certificate hole on NT, XP

The rest of you, Mac users too, will have to wait

Microsoft has finally begun patching a severe security flaw in its implementation of digital-certificate basic-constraints checking which we've been ranting about for nearly a month. The stuff-up makes it possible for SSL and e-mail signature certs to be forged. Currently, Win-NT and XP users have fixes available for their kit …

Software 5 Sep 2002, 10:34
BT slams ‘scandalous’ phone hacking claims

Denies practice is rife

A former BT engineer claims that phone hacking is a "disease" within BT and that the telco is failing to protect its customers from premium rate phone scams. Whistlebower Bob Godsiff was featured earlier this week on a Meridian TV show Cheatlines, in which he claimed that BT was ignoring the growing problem of phone hacking. …

Data Networking 5 Sep 2002, 10:35
Sage buys small US developer

Infill acquisition

Sage, the accountancy software supplier, has bought a small US firm for $14.3m in cash. Florida-based CPA Software supplies accounting practice management systems to 10,000 firms in the US. Turnover for the year to December 31, 2001 was $7.4m. Sage grew big in the UK by getting accountancy firms to act as its resellers to …

Business 5 Sep 2002, 11:01
Computacenter sales down on PC slump

Profits hold steady-ish

Slumping product sales were to blame for a big drop in half year sales at Computacenter, the UK's biggest reseller produced group revenues £975m for the six months to June 30 (2001: £1,173.7m). It notes a 20 per cent fall in product sales during the period. But improved margins on the back of better service revenues contained …

Channel 5 Sep 2002, 11:40
Orange offers DIY price plans

Gosh

Orange is to scrap different price plans and replace them with a single DIY package which customers can devise themselves. From October 1 punters will be able to build their own plan from a range of choices. "Your Plan", as it's called, offers a variety of options including inclusive call time minutes and access to information …

Mobile 5 Sep 2002, 12:14
HM Customs VAT probe paralyses UK CPU broking

Traders threaten legal action

The UK CPU broking market has been paralysed in recent weeks, following an industry-wide delay in refunding VAT payments on export sales. HM Customs & Excise confirmed this week that it is conducting "extended verification" of claims submitted by traders in computer chips and mobile phones. Exporters pay VAT upfront on …

Channel 5 Sep 2002, 14:14
IT is not geeky, says industry group

Hey kids, it's trendy, man

The IT industry is trying to shed its "geeky" image among schoolchildren in a bid to attract more youngsters into the sector. Industry group, e-skills UK, has launched an education initiative to coincide with the start of the new school year to promote a positive, exciting and up-to-date image of IT to secondary school students …

Business 5 Sep 2002, 14:15
PBS purges Web content on Israeli disapproval

Cyber-war, in a sense

The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is airing a documentary film this week by affiliate WNET in New York, called "Caught in the Crossfire: Arab-Americans in Wartime," which considers the predicament of Arab-Americans since the 9/11 atrocity. In addition to the film is a companion Web site offering background material for …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 14:38
One last feed for HP e3000 warhorse

Next stop, knacker's yard

HP unveiled the final upgrade - probably - for its venerable e3000 range yesterday, along with more details of the user migration programme to its mainstream range of HP/UX servers. Enhancements to the HP e3000 line of a- and n-class servers include: making HP's latest PA-8700 processor available with the server; OS upgrade to …

Servers 5 Sep 2002, 15:14
Anonymous $1m grant to test copyright laws

Duke University to add intellectual rigour

An anonymous gift of $1 million to Duke University in the US will be used to finance a new centre conductin research into curtailing recent extensions of copyright law. James Boyle, a Duke law professor, said the centre is likely to take a close and critical look at laws like America's highly-controversial Digital Millennium …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 15:14
MP presses ahead with anti-spam campaign

'Sick of the excuses'

Derek Wyatt is looking to press ahead with a national campaign to clamp down on spam. The MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey told The Register that he is "sick of the excuses" and wants something done to curb the amount of spam pouring into people's in-boxes. In particular, he's concerned about the rising quantity of …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 15:17
Flat-rate Net access returns to Ireland

About time

UTV Internet has launched a flat-rate off-peak Internet access service, making it the only ISP in the Irish market to offer such a product. The service, UTVip, will allow users throughout the Republic of Ireland to surf the Internet for up to 150 hours a month during off-peak periods at a charge of EUR29.99 per month. However, …

Music and Media 5 Sep 2002, 16:10
Oracle confirms numbers in UK jobs cull

270 axed

Oracle has confirmed that it is to axe 270 jobs in the UK, equivalent to eight per cent of the workforce. It seems that most, if not all the jobs are going from the company's consulting division. According to insiders, that's around a quarter of the division wiped out in one go. However, no one from Oracle was available to …

Business 5 Sep 2002, 16:28