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  • Dell Computers are American – official

    So now you know

    After a long and tortuous process of deliberation, US Customs has decided that Dell's notebook computers are American. Even though in one of the computers under examination, the chassis is from Taiwan, the hard disk from Thailand, the floppy disk drive and power supply are from China, the CD-ROM is from Japan, and the memory …

    Personal 26 Sep 2002, 08:41

  • Slapper Worm brought to heel

    As variants appear

    Two fresh variants of the Slapper worm, which spreads through Linux machines by exploiting a well-known flaw in OpenSSL libraries, have been sighted this week. Slapper.B (or Cinik) differs from the original worm in using port 1978, instead of port 2002, to control infect machines. The filename of the worm has been changed to " …

    Security 26 Sep 2002, 08:44

  • Siebel reference sites give poor references

    Call that CRM!

    Already reeling from the effects of poor sales, job cuts and a tumbling share price, further bad news appears to come from Siebel Systems Inc's own reference customers as they are said to reveal a catalog of issues with Siebel and its software suite. A report from Nucleus Research Inc, an analyst firm that specializes in …

    e-Business 26 Sep 2002, 08:49

  • Register.com renewal strategy responsible for loss?

    SafeRenew backfires

    Register.com Inc may have shot itself in the foot to an extent when it introduced a controversial customer retention system in January 2001, writes Kevin Murphy. The company reported yesterday that it will make a loss for the first time in over a year, and its SafeRenew system seems at least partly to blame. The New York- …

    Media 26 Sep 2002, 08:56

  • KDE – Red Hat spat escalates

    Krippled?

    A leading KDE developer has quit Red Hat, in objection, he says, to the leading distro's decision to "unify" the desktop. "I don't want to work on crippling KDE, and they don't want an employee who admits RH 8.0's KDE is crippleware" wrote Bernhard 'Bero' Rosenkraenzer in a posting to the KDE developers list. People leave …

    Software 26 Sep 2002, 08:58

  • 'Yes, I cheat', admits Microsoft manager

    Relative and squishy moral values

    Oh, the perils of blogging. On her new weblog, the Belle of every PocketPC Ball Microsoft's Beth Goza admits to cheating at Xbox games. "i finally found some buffy cheats over the weekend over at gamefaqs.com. i had to do some soul searching on whether or not to use them, and this is what i decided." "it's not a matter of …

    Software 26 Sep 2002, 08:58

  • China implicated in Dalai Lama hack plot

    Virus attacks

    China has repeatedly attempted to crack into the Dalai Lama's computer network, according to its administrators. Over the last month there have been repeated attempts to infect systems used by the exiled spiritual leader. This takes the form of a computer virus which attempts to send information back to China, Jigme Tsering, …

    Security 26 Sep 2002, 08:59

  • HP ships Itanium workstations running Red Hat

    TPM runs through the specs

    The new HP Workstation zx2000 and zx6000 Itanium-based workstations can now be configured with Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation edition in addition to HP's own HP-UX 11i Unix variant, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. These Itanium-based workstations are built on HP's Pluto zx1 chipset and Intel Corp's McKinley generation …

    Servers 26 Sep 2002, 09:04

  • SCH acquires French dealership

    All into Allium

    </ Specialist Computer Holdings Ltd has acquired French reseller EBC Informatique in a move that will make SCH one of the largest players in the market. Birmingham, UK-based SCH, which claims to be Europe's largest privately held IT company, paid an undisclosed sum to acquire the 100-strong Reims-based company with operations in …

    Channel 26 Sep 2002, 09:05

  • HP pink slips another 1,800

    Market slowdown

    Another 1,800 Hewlett Packard Co workers are set to lose their jobs in the wake of the company's merger with Compaq Compaq Corp. Palo Alto, California-based HP confirmed yesterday that it had raised the number of planned job cuts following the merger, and that 16,800 workers would lose their posts by the end of its fiscal …

    Channel 26 Sep 2002, 09:05

  • C&W preps massive job cuts

    Over-Capacity

    Another huge round of job cuts is expected at Cable & Wireless Plc after the London, UK-based carrier asked trade unions for a meeting within the next three weeks. With revenue on the slide and shares that have lost two-thirds of their value in the past year, cost-cutting remains the only route to an improved performance. …

    Business 26 Sep 2002, 09:32

  • Sony to unleash Wi-Fi, camera toting PalmOS 5 Clie

    And dashed convincing it looks, too...

    Next week, 2nd October, Sony will launch a deeply cool-looking PalmOS 5.0 Clie range, according to confidential Sony documentation seen by The Register. It's still only PalmOS 5.0 of course, rather than the Next Big Thing, but from the look of the flagship PEG-NX70V Sony is mounting a serious stab at making the stop-gap …

    Personal 26 Sep 2002, 15:40

  • Most parents don't use Web filters

    Accidental exposure

    A new UK survey of parents whose children use the Net shows that only a minority employ a filter to restrict access to certain Web sites. The survey found that while nearly 70 percent of parents said they monitored their children's use of the Internet, only 32 percent said they used a technical filter that limited access to …

    Media 26 Sep 2002, 15:43

  • Freeserve gets nod for AOL legal action

    Taxing times

    Freeserve has been given the green light to challenge HM Customs and Excise's decision not to charge VAT on AOL's Internet service in the UK. In London's High Court yesterday Mr Justice Moses cleared the way for Freeserve to continue its long running battle to achieve what it regards as a "level playing field" regarding the …

    Media 26 Sep 2002, 15:45

  • Fibernet offers SDSL in Scotland

    Good-oh

    Fibernet is to roll-out SDSL services in Scotland to offer businesses a a super-fast 2Mb broadband service. The wholesale operator, which provides services over unbundled lines, has signed up Scotland On Line as its first ISP to offer SDSL to Scottish businesses. The service will be available in Glasgow initially with …

    Broadband 26 Sep 2002, 15:46

  • Virgin.net does sub-£25 ADSL

    Catchup

    Virgin.net has under-cut the UK's big name ISPs* with the launch of a broadband ADSL service for less than £25 a month. The service goes live from October 1 and will cost £24.99 a month - a couple of quid lower than its trial price, which was run during the summer. As part of a promo the cost of activating the service will set …

    Broadband 26 Sep 2002, 15:48

  • Judge postpones easyGroup CD burning hearing

    Orange is the new black

    The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) today failed in its bid to get an injunction gagging easyGroup and its Internet café business from talking publicly about its row with the music business. The judge did not see any urgency in the matter and postponed the hearing until next week. A dozen or so people in orange boiler …

    Media 26 Sep 2002, 15:49

  • xDSL overtakes cable in Europe

    Broadband races

    DSL has overtaken cable as the most popular broadband technology in Europe, according to the latest research from Forrester. Comparing the two technologies, it found that 56 per cent of broadband connections in Europe were based on xDSL, with cable making up the rest. The reserach did not compare other broadband technologies …

    Broadband 26 Sep 2002, 15:52