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25th September 2002 Archive

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  • Xbox names broadband partners for Live gig

    Usual suspects

    Telewest, NTL and BTOpenworld are to provide the broadband connections in the UK for Xbox Live - the online gaming service from Microsoft. BTo is currently Microsoft's only partner in the UK that is providing an ADSL connection for the service. Microsoft is looking to sign up other service providers before Xbox Live is made …

    Personal 25 Sep 2002, 09:15

  • An XP Tablet with 16 hours' juice?

    Battery maker fancies PC pie

    A Canadian battery manufacturer reckons it can produce an XP Tablet PC with up to 16 hours' untethered life. The company, formerly known as ElectroFuel Inc. is best known for its lithium ion batteries, and claims its 'Scribbler' tablet can last between 10-16 hours on a 100W charge, running on an 866Mhz mobile PIII processor. …

    Personal 25 Sep 2002, 09:18

  • Taiwan institute licenses ARM core

    For mobile devices

    Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute has taken out a license for ARM Holdings Plc's ARM922T core. The institute said it would use the core in a number of mobile device projects. The institute already has a license for the ARM7TDMI core, and expects to have prototype information appliances based on that chip …

    Channel 25 Sep 2002, 09:42

  • Orange France falters on lower handset sales

    Multimedia not yet hitting the spot

    Orange SA is struggling to meet its target of 15% of revenue growth this year and has blamed the low level of new customer growth in maturing markets and handset sales. The mobile arm of France Telecom SA said that while revenue from its network is on target, handset sales are below expectations. Though handsets with color …

    Personal 25 Sep 2002, 09:45

  • IBM ‘Xcalibur’ blades stack up with eServer range

    Related but distinct

    With the announcement yesterday of its "Xcalibur" BladeCenter blade servers, IBM Corp has introduced what could evolve into a new family of products under its eServer umbrella, writes Timothy Prickett-Morgan. The eServer line includes xSeries Intel-based servers, its pSeries Unix and iSeries OS/400 RISC-based servers, and …

    Hardware 25 Sep 2002, 09:57

  • Intel eases up in race to 10GHz

    Siu tweaks the roadmaps

    A casual observer at Intel's Developer Forum earlier this month might have thought the company that grew fat on the back of ever faster desktop PC chips was now more focused on mobile and server chips, writes Joe Fay. In the company's client day presentation at the conference, discussion of desktops was largely restricted …

    Channel 25 Sep 2002, 10:01

  • MS chief Ballmer rules out services buys

    No consulting arm? Shurely shome...

    Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer has said that the company has no plans to ramp up its IT services business. The company is the largest IT company not to have supplemented its products business with a high-margin, reliable stream of revenue from a systems integration and consulting arm, and has been tipped as a …

    Software 25 Sep 2002, 10:05

  • Host pulls satire site after police ‘incitement’ claim

    Threat of mob violence averted, apparently

    A satirical Web site that attempted to parody concerns over child safety has been shut down following the intervention of police. Thinkofthechildren.co.uk was pulled on Monday after officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Obscene Publications and Internet Unit contacted the site's hosts alleging that that it could …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2002, 11:33

  • Of Voda, voodoo and GPRS

    Psion netBook scores narrow win over ThinkPad in connectivity race

    A couple of weeks back, while getting all excited about the Psion netBook finally getting Ethernet, I intimated that I might well buckle and spring for a Nokia 7650, thus adding the joys of GPRS connectivity and massively enhancing my new untethered lifestyle. I resisted the temptation for a whole two days, then reported to the …

    Personal 25 Sep 2002, 13:24

  • Oftel boss gets Ofcom job

    Pah!

    Heavily criticised Oftel boss David Edmonds has secured a place on the board of the new Office of Communications (Ofcom). His appointment (it's possibly because he knew the PM when he used to rock and roll - Ed) will be scoffed at by those in the industry who believe the telecoms regulator has failed to keep BT in check - …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2002, 13:28

  • HP: following DEC's fate as Microsoft VAR?

    Analysis Geese and golden eggs

    A story that old DEC hands like to tell is about the time Digital was designing the MicroVAX. Ken Olsen went to the board and told them they could expect the share price to stagnate for a couple of years. Digital Equipment Corporation, Olsen said, would focus all its efforts on putting the VAX onto a chip (from a board) and …

    Hardware 25 Sep 2002, 13:38

  • Core Java from IT-minds.com

    30 per cent off Volumes I & II

    This week's specials from IT-minds.com include the newly updated Core Java books from Cay Hortsmann and Gary Cornell - mandatory reading for any Java programmer. Both books normally retail for £39.99 but you can get them for £27.99 - a saving of 30 per cent. Core Java 2, Volume 1 - The best-selling guide for serious …

    Site News 25 Sep 2002, 13:40

  • Less RMS, more freedom – FSF pitches to wider audience

    The Digital Speech Project

    Now that GNU/Linux is becoming a household commodity, the Free Software Foundation is facing changes in its priorities. Used to be that rounding up Free Software developers to complete a non-proprietary operating system was job one. Now other things are more urgent, like fighting digital rights management (or digital " …

    Software 25 Sep 2002, 14:22

  • Stelios protests at threat of music biz CD burning gag

    Easy...

    EasyInternetCafe - the high street Internet café chain - is to protest outside the High Court in London tomorrow against the threat of a gagging order from the music industry. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is to apply for an injunction against both easyInternetCafe and the easyGroup from publicly discussing the …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2002, 14:27

  • The Red Hat, IBM pitch for Linux in the enterprise

    It's the salespeople, stupid...

    Earlier this week The Register had an interesting talk over lunch with Red Hat VP marketing Mark de Visser, covering a fair range of topics, including how Redmond finally gets it, what takes its place (no, not Red Hat, we agreed on that) and the two Next Big Things for Red Hat - the Red Hat Desktop, and the Advanced Server deal …

    Software 25 Sep 2002, 17:01

  • Greece lifts computer games ban

    We think...

    Greece's ban on playing computer games appears to have been lifted. According to an article in the English language Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the Government has sought to clarify a poorly worded law designed to crack down on electronic gambling. The newspaper quotes a statement from the Economy and Finance Ministry, which …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2002, 17:10