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  • OASIS approves ebXML

    Messaging standard

    The ebXML Messaging Service standard version 2.0, which provides a secure method for exchanging electronic business transactions using the internet, was approved by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) at a recent election by consortium members. ebXML Messaging is one of a suite …

    e-Business 10 Sep 2002, 08:24

  • Hutchison to push 3G with cheap voice calls

    Makes sense

    Europe's first 3G network service will make cheap flat-rate voice calls a main plank of its challenge to established operators when it enters service in the UK later this year. According to the Financial Times, Hutchison 3G UK Holdings Ltd, likely to be Hutchison Whampoa Ltd's most important European operating unit, will " …

    Mobile 10 Sep 2002, 08:25

  • Microsoft identifies source of Windows 2000 attacks

    Users

    Microsoft Corp is blaming users' failure to apply listed security measures for an "unexplained" surge in attempted hacks against Windows 2000-based servers. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft yesterday said it has determined a spate of hacks against Windows 2000-based servers do not exploit product-related security …

    Security 10 Sep 2002, 08:25

  • AOL reduces ad outlook

    Sees downside risks

    AOL Time Warner Inc yesterday said the performance of its America Online Inc online unit will not be as good as expected, due to "the continued softness" in online advertising. But the company said that, as a whole, it will hit estimates. "America Online's full-year advertising and commerce revenues are tracking to $1.7bn …

    Business 10 Sep 2002, 08:25

  • Sun tweaks entry servers with faster CPUs

    Keeping up with the neighbours

    Sun Microsystems Inc will today put faster processors in two of its most popular entry servers so it can keep pace with the competition in the low-end Unix, Wintel, and Lintel server markets that still drive the bulk of its server shipments and a large portion of its annual revenues, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. The Sun …

    Servers 10 Sep 2002, 08:27

  • Esat BT launches flat-rate Net service

    Ireland joins rest of Europe

    Esat BT has become the second ISP in Ireland to begin selling a limited flat-rate Internet product, readying users for a true flat-rate service next year. NetSmart is the name for Esat BT's new flat-rate Web access service, which will let Irish Internet users log on to the Net at evenings and weekends for between 40 and 120 …

    Music and Media 10 Sep 2002, 08:27

  • Are Apple's Emagic switch rebates enough?

    Miffed musos mull moolah

    Some 60,000 users of Emagic Logic software hold the key to Apple's future in the audio business, and despite a $1300 rebate on the table to Windows users, it might not be enough. Apple announced it was buying Emagic in July, and it will cease selling the Windows versions at the end of the month; from then on, only patches will …

    Mac Channel 10 Sep 2002, 08:30

  • Rare deal for Microsoft

    Nintendo second-party becomes Xbox first-party

    British developer Rare, the legendary studio founded by the Stamper brothers, is thought to have been bought by Microsoft in a deal worth between £250 million and £350 million – with an official announcement expected at X02 in Seville later this month. The studio, which has traditionally been seen as one of Nintendo's leading …

    Personal 10 Sep 2002, 08:47

  • Intel says there's more to like than speed

    3GHz and Beyond

    Intel president and COO Paul Otellini conceded speed might not be everything as he delivered the opening keynote address at the vendor's developer forum in San Jose yesterday, Joe Fay writes. While Otellini debuted faster versions of the vendor's mainline Pentium 4 processor, he also said that eventually other factors …

    Channel 10 Sep 2002, 08:47

  • PC slump hits ATI sales

    Q4 update

    Weak sales in the PC market are having a knock-on effect on ATI. The graphics chipmaker now estimates that revenues for Q4, ended August 31, 2001, are expected to be in the range of US $235 million to US $240 million. Earnings will be flatter than a flat pancake - between 0 and 2 cents a share. In June, the company forecast Q4 …

    Channel 10 Sep 2002, 10:04

  • Apple preps OS X-only booting

    January 2003 cut-off point

    Apple is to switch to Mac OS X-only booting for new Mac PCs, starting January. It says the new machines can run "most" Mac OS 9 apps, through bundled Classic software. Also, it points to "nearly 4,000 native applications now available for Mac OS X". Apple reckons that 20 per cent of its entire user base will be using Mac OS X …

    Mac Channel 10 Sep 2002, 10:52

  • Oftel plans BT leased-line wholesale cuts

    BT denies overcharging claim

    Telecoms regulator Oftel has tabled measures that would force BT to slash the price it charges rivals to provide leased lines using its network. Under the proposals, connection charges for PPCs partial private circuits (PPCs), the key wholesale components of leased lines, will be typically reduced by 50 per cent, and rental …

    Data Networking 10 Sep 2002, 10:56

  • And with one bound Engage is debt free

    CMGI cuts cord

    Engage, the ad-serving firm, can at last present a credible alternative to Doubleclick, after breaking free from the $40m debt owed to ailing parent CMGI. CMGI is to return all the equity it holds in Engage to the company and it is cancelling its debt. In return, Engage is paying $2.5m in cash upfront, and $6m in earn-out …

    Business 10 Sep 2002, 12:13

  • Intel's new chip for security Renaissance

    The Lullaby of Trust

    Hideous viruses and terrifying hackers will soon be neutralized so that the computing public might finally doze blissfully in a cocoon of safety, Intel announced yesterday at the Developers' Forum. The proposed solution is LaGrande -- which is not, as it sounds, a genteelized pickup truck for suburban use, but a hardware system …

    Security 10 Sep 2002, 13:01

  • Reg envies Billg's omnipotence

    FOTW Impotent anti-MS Nazis

    Your article sounded like nothing but Nazi anti-Intel, Microsoft (Wintel) propaganda to me. I can see in a few years time when still nobody listens to you about upgrading their computers you start spouting stuff like 'Intel and Microsoft use mind control on your children' or 'Buying Intel and Microsoft Products will give you …

    Letters 10 Sep 2002, 15:40

  • IE 6 SP1 omits fixes for 20 outstanding flaws

    In the frame

    Researchers have discovered that inadequate security restrictions in Internet Explorer make it possible for an attacker to execute script on any Web page that containing frames. Grey Magic Software describes the vulnerability as critical, a warning backed up by several proof of concept demonstrations. Because of the way frames …

    Security 10 Sep 2002, 16:56

  • AOL UK creates 125 jobs (In Ireland)

    Waterford

    Would you Adam and Eve it - some good news for a change. AOL UK is creating 125 new jobs at its call centre in Waterford, Ireland, to cope with an increase in demand for its services. The jobs created will be in tech support, sales and customer services and will swell numbers at the centre to around 650 over the next couple of …

    Business 10 Sep 2002, 17:09

  • Hyperlink case ‘not on priority list’ – BT CEO

    Wait and see

    The head of BT is waiting to hear back from lawyers in the US before deciding his next move concerning the telco's claim to own hyperlinks. Last month the monster telco lost its legal challenge to charge US ISPs a fee for using hyperlinks after a judge ruled that ISPs did not infringe a patent filed by BT more than 25 years ago …

    Music and Media 10 Sep 2002, 17:14

  • Sendo ships self-destructing Stinker phone SDK

    Mission: Improbable

    Microsoft's flagship phone vendor Sendo is poised to ship the much-delayed smartphone to its developers, but there's a catch. The software will expire on September 30, giving ISVs two weeks to compile and test their applications, giving a new dimension to the term Rapid Application Development (RAD). One mailed us in high …

    Personal 10 Sep 2002, 18:01

  • Yes! We now have Banias!

    Updated Confessions of an Intel mobile chip engineer

    Phwoarr! Intel enlisted a Randy Plumber to showcase its Banias mobile processor at its Developer Forum keynote in San Jose this morning, although those of us hoping for a cameo by Robin Askwithhimself - or even something saucier - were disappointed. There's no need to stiffen Intel's mobile initiative with such smut. Banias …

    Channel 10 Sep 2002, 19:58

  • Intel drops dual-core Itanic hint

    Backroom antics

    Intel dropped the strongest hint yet that it will build dual core processors based on the IA-64 architecture, at its Developer Forum in San Jose. It's just not going to happen tomorrow. Mike Fister, senior VP for servers, claimed Intel has the know how to do dual core better than anyone else in the world, at a briefing today. …

    Channel 10 Sep 2002, 20:51

  • Insecurity plagues US emergency alert system

    Spoofing invited

    A national alert system that gives the president the ability to take over the U.S. airwaves during a national crisis may inadvertently extend hackers the same courtesy, thanks to security holes that put radio stations, television broadcasters and cable TV companies at risk of being commandeered by anyone with a little …

    Security 10 Sep 2002, 22:21