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  • Hong Kong tops mobile internet league table

    Finland marked down on broadband

    The mobile internet will be "one of the major [telecoms] demand drivers of this century" according to a new report from the International Telecommunication Union. And countries such as Hong Kong which can display a combination of high existing internet and wireless usage and infrastructure, and open telecoms markets, will …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2002, 10:08

  • Claranet mops up Netscalibur's German ops

    Euro expansion

    Independent UK ISP Claranet has acquired the German subsidiary of Net services outfit Netscalibur in a move to boost its presence in Europe. The acquisition gives Claranet additional operations in Berlin and Munich as it continues to provide Net access, hosting and IP security solutions to its European customers. Claranet …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2002, 10:10

  • Earthlink to bundle with Lindows PCs

    Easier setup aimed for

    In an attempt to enter the new market for ultra-low-budget Linux-based consumer desktop PCs, EarthLink Inc announced this week it is to distribute its software on machines running Lindows.com Inc's operating system. Setting up a dialup networking account on Linux boxes is not as easy as on Windows, the companies said. …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2002, 10:13

  • Taiwan poised to gain from chip upturn

    Early switch to 12 inch a key advantage

    The Taiwanese semiconductor industry was given a rallying call as the Semicon trade show opened in Taipei this week. David Wang, vice president at Santa Clara, California-based chip making equipment vendor Applied Materials Inc, told delegates that the industry had bottomed out and was on the road to recovery. Taiwan would …

    Channel 18 Sep 2002, 10:16

  • White House report to call for tougher net security

    But will skip mandates

    President George Bush's senior internet security advisor will this morning present the IT industry with a set of recommendations, almost a year in the making, on how the internet can be secured against criminals and terrorists, writes Kevin Murphy. Special advisor to the President Richard Clarke's five-part document, …

    Security 18 Sep 2002, 10:21

  • ABIT system brings high performance to budget GeForce4

    New cooling system the key

    ABIT is making a play for the high performance graphics market with a new cooling system that it claims will allow you to push performance of a GeForce4 Ti4200 chip up to the level of a Ti4600. The company has just completed a European tour extolling the virtues of the Siluro GF4 Ti4200 OTES, which will be available on 23rd …

    Channel 18 Sep 2002, 11:10

  • AOL Europe gets new president

    Chairman Case under pressure

    Philip Rowley has been named president and COO of AOL Europe. Taking up the newly created position, AOL Europe's former executive VP and CFO will report to Michael Lynton, president of AOL Time Warner International and CEO of AOL Europe. President Rowley will oversee all corporate and operational functions of AOL Europe …

    Business 18 Sep 2002, 15:00

  • Get blogging with IT-minds.com

    'Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content' at 30 per cent off

    If you're tempted by the idea of jumping on the blogging bandwagon, you could do worse than read Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by blog ace Biz Stone. IT-minds.com is offering this blogtastic tome to Reg readers at a 30 per cent discount, so you can get blogging for just £16.45. Back on the discounted list …

    Business 18 Sep 2002, 15:06

  • UltraSPARC III hits 1.2GHz

    130nm process gears up

    Sun Microsystems will today announce its fastest microprocessor, the 1.2GHz UltraSPARC III. The chip, manufactured by Texas Instruments (TI), is fabricated using a 130nm process, instead of the 150nm process used in older UltraSPARCs. This means lower power consumption (53 Watts compared to 75 Watts, when the chips start making …

    Channel 18 Sep 2002, 15:11

  • Leading Tory moots electronic tracking for UK paedos

    Cites Florida 'success'

    The UK's shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin has called for the setting up of a government working party to investigate the feasibility of electronically monitoring paedophiles. Letwin, who is frequently categorised as one of the more sensible components of the Conservative Party high command, cites the "success" of Florida's …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2002, 15:12

  • Convergys, Deloitte face £8m unfair dismissal suit

    TelesensKSCL ex-staffers in class action

    More than 200 IT workers are expected to lodge Scotland's largest class action for compensation on Friday after they were laid off without any redundancy pay in the summer. The former employees of billing systems outfit TelesensKSCL in Edinburgh are suing US billings giant Convergys and receivers Deloitte & Touche for more than …

    Business 18 Sep 2002, 15:22

  • MS and ARM announce three new CE supporters

    Motorola, NeoMagic, STMicro

    Microsoft and ARM announced three new supporters for Windows CE on ARM platforms today, at the MS-ARM 'buddies' Executive Summit in Redmond. The three latest, Motorola, STMicroelectronics and NeoMagic, become members of the ARM Consortium for Windows CE, joining the likes of Cirrus Logic, Intel, LG Semicon, Hynix, Samsung and …

    Channel 18 Sep 2002, 16:16

  • MS addresses Hotmail spam blizzard. At last

    Signs up Brightmail

    Microsoft today signed up Brightmail to tackle the junk mail bombarding Hotmail accounts. It is to install Brightmail Solution Suite at the SMTP gateway, to hoover up junk mail before it reaches the user. According to Rick Holzli, general manager of MSN Hotmail, "unsolicited junk e-mail is a global problem in the industry today …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2002, 16:19

  • Nectar suspends Web registrations

    Can't cope, won't cope

    Users flocking to sign up to the newly-introduced loyalty card scheme Nectar have flooded the site, forcing its backers to temporarily suspend Web-based signups. As with the protracted delays in getting the 1901 Census Web site up and running, the backers of Nectar.com (Sainsbury's, Barclaycard, Debenhams and BP) have …

    e-Business 18 Sep 2002, 16:20

  • Microsoft tops Google hell search rankings

    Even beats hell.com...

    Weirdisms in Google's ranking system are sent to entertain us occasionally, and as we've had this one from a couple of people today, we suspect it's new. But don't blame us if it's not, we lead sheltered lives sometimes. Currently, if you type "go to hell" into Google, then Microsoft Corporation, Where do you want to go today? …

    Bootnotes 18 Sep 2002, 17:30

  • Sun punts cheap PCs at blue collar workers

    Our hairball is cheaper than their hairball

    The network is still the computer, Sun insisted today, only now it includes cheap PCs too. Kicking off Sun's Network conference in San Francisco, Scott McNealy talked about "light purple box" desktop hardware, as opposed to "white box" PCs. Education, government and retail banking are targets. But Sun has heartlessly condemned …

    Hardware 18 Sep 2002, 17:39

  • MS silently fixes password sniffing bug with XP SP1

    Naughty. Very naughty

    Keystrokes, including passwords, can be sniffed when using Windows Terminal Server or the XP remote control feature. MS has rolled a fix silently into SP1 without making any public statement on this serious problem. The cause of the keystroke -sniffing feature is a design mistake in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) …

    Security 18 Sep 2002, 21:38