4th October 2002 Archive
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IBM pencils Oct 8 for AIX 5.2
But holds fire on Power4 -IIs
IBM Corp is getting ready to take the wraps off the next release of its AIX 5L operating system for its pSeries servers. Sources familiar with IBM's plans say that the company is expected to make the announcement on October 8, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. This is just about when IBM was expected to make the AIX 5.2 …
Servers 4 Oct 2002, 07:53
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‘Brutal’ Q3 sees EMC lay-off 1,750
Back-end loader
The Register has a new Enterprise Storage Channel EMC Corp has warned that in a continuing "brutal" spending environment, it will not meet its third quarter guidance. Preliminary third quarter results are for revenue down around 10% on guidance, and a loss of two cents per share, compared to July guidance of a one cent …
Storage 4 Oct 2002, 07:53
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Vodafone cool on ambitions for Cegetel
Bluff and counter-bluff
Vodafone Group Plc will use its spare cash for a share buyback if its 13.5bn euro ($13.2bn) offer for French operator Cegetel is not accepted. "Control in France would be good to have at the right price," chief executive Chris Gent said in New York. "It would not be so important or the end of the world is it did not happen …
Business 4 Oct 2002, 07:54
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Gosling: Microsoft's Java threat is financial, not technical
C Sharp is 'obvious clone'
.NET's threat to Java is financial not technological, according to James Gosling who believes Microsoft's wallet poses the biggest challenge to Sun Microsystems Inc's drive for market share, Gavin Clarke writes. Gosling - the inventor of Java - concedes, though, Microsoft has made some inroads with Visual Studio.NET. The …
Software 4 Oct 2002, 07:54
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Bankrupt WorldCom sees major backbone problems
Outage blamed on 'routing anomaly'
WorldCom Inc, which is said to carry as much as 70% of the internet's traffic, suffered an outage followed by a sustained period of severe latency yesterday, apparently after a software issue occurred during routine maintenance, Kevin Murphy writes. The outage, referred to as a "routing anomaly", occurred on the UUNet …
Data Networking 4 Oct 2002, 07:55
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EDS ditches PwC Consulting
Shuts door to IBM drones
EDS Corp has confirmed that it has terminated its global SAP services alliance with management consultancy PwC Consulting LLC following its $3.5bn acquisition by IBM Corp. Plano, Texas-based EDS pulled the plug on the deal, which it set up with New York-based PwC Consulting last December to provide systems integration and …
Hardware 4 Oct 2002, 07:55
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Claire Swires MK II: Man suspended over sex boast email
Not so clever Trevor
A bank worker has been suspended from his job in the City after he sent an email to friends boasting about a chance sexual encounter while watching football on the telly, Trevor Luxton, who works as a clerk at Credit Lyonnais, sent the email to five friends on Wednesday morning. Within hours it had been forwarded around the …
Music and Media 4 Oct 2002, 09:00
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UK Govt slams ‘irresponsible’ speed camera refund stunt
Acclaim jumps overboard. Again
Criterion’s PlayStation 2 release of Burnout 2: Point of Impact hits retail on October 11th, and publisher Acclaim said on Wednesday that it would refund the fines of any driver caught by speed cameras on that day, to mark the launch and give them a chance to go and spend their hard-earned on speeding in a painless environment …
Personal 4 Oct 2002, 09:31
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Ximian to release enterprise level Red Carpet service
Inside the firewall
On Monday, October 7, Ximian is expected to announce Red Carpet Enterprise, the latest offering in the Red Carpet service family. Much the same as Red Carpet CorporateConnect, the difference is that systems administrators can put a Red Carpet server inside their firewall instead of having to rely on a less powerful and …
Servers 4 Oct 2002, 10:19
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Tiscali offers high-speed Net access for £20 a month
Choice
Tiscali UK is to offer an always-on high-speed Internet service for £19.99 a month, it confirmed today. The service is a 256 kbps ADSL service, which is five times faster than a bog standard dial-up connection. The cost of activating the line is £50. It will be available to almost everyone who can obtain BT-based ADSL services …
Telecoms 4 Oct 2002, 11:20
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PC World runs Freeserve ADSL promo
eMachines bundle
Freeserve has teamed up with former parent Dixons to offers cut-price broadband for customers who buy a new PC. Punters who buy an emachines desktop PC from Dixon's PC World will be able to sign up to Freeserve's ADSL service for £19.99 a month for six months, compared to the usual monthly subscription of £29.99. And those …
Telecoms 4 Oct 2002, 11:23
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Music biz strikes back with free, DRM ‘padlocked’ downloads
Massive take-up - trebles all round assured?
The juxtaposition of the words "free", "music" and "download" had its all too predictable effect yesterday when what was categorised as the UK music industry's kinder, gentler riposte to P2P (Probably to Pirate) file sharing kicked off. Digital Download Day, masterminded by Peter Gabriel's distribution company OD2 (On Demand …
Music and Media 4 Oct 2002, 12:34
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Apache fixes scripting flaw
SSI error pages
Apache is vulnerable to a number of cross-site scripting attacks. According to a posting to BugTraq this week, the popular Web server platform is vulnerable due to "SSI error pages of the Web server not being properly sanitised of malicious HTML code". Because of this, attacker-constructed HTML pages or script code may be …
Security 4 Oct 2002, 12:36
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Today is National Computing Day
Strike up the band
Today is National Computing Day in the UK. Surprised? So are we. No, it's not an official initiative, but the brainchild of ComputerActive, the UK's best-selling computer mag. Outside the ComputerActive's admittedly mass-market readership, National Computing Day is turning out to be a little bit of a damp squib - Originally it …
Music and Media 4 Oct 2002, 12:37
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O geeks, what has become of us?
Opinion Dangerous monoculture
Tom Steinberg is a founder of voxpolitics.com Guest Editorial Meet a man with a pony-tail, a pasty complexion, and a faded black t-shirt emblazoned with a logo involving the word *NIX, and you will normally be able to guess his techno-politics pretty easily. For a start, he's going to resent attempts to record his emails, hate …
Music and Media 4 Oct 2002, 13:23
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Claire Swires II: Get your Clever Trevor t-shirt here
Cash'n'Carrion jumps on humiliation bandwagon
How much worse can it get for poor old Trevor Luxton of Credit Lyonnais, aka Claire Swires II? Since he has already been suspended from his job and presumably facing the hellish fury of his girlfriend over email revelations that he received sexual favours from another woman while watching West Ham on TV, one can only imagine …
Site News 4 Oct 2002, 13:24
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No frills broadband could wipe-out ISPs
Oh no it won't, oh yes it will, oh no it...
BT Broadband - the no-frills access-only service from BT - could spell the death of ISPs, according to Forrester Research. "ADSL Lite" products - services which separate broadband access from content - will "force 'me-too' ISPs and portals out of business and extend cablecos' problems in fighting ADSL's," the analyst firm …
Telecoms 4 Oct 2002, 14:37
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Sun to unbundle Solaris 9 for x86
User campaign pays off
Sun Microsystems has given a clear commitment to ship its Solaris 9 OS on Intel as a standalone product for the first time. Later today Sun will announce plans to release an unbundled version of the Solaris 9 for non-Sun x86 hardware priced at $99 for a single CPU system, eWeek reports. Early versions will ship within four to …
Servers 4 Oct 2002, 14:38
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Infineon beats up Mosel-Vitelic
'Repeated breach of contract'
Infineon is cancelling its shareholder's agreement ProMOS DRAM foundry JV, citing "repeated material breach of contract" by Mosel-Vitelic, its Taiwanese partner. So what is this alleged material breach? Infineon ain't telling, but it says it gave prior warning to Mosel-Vitelic. (This EE Times piece offers some theories over the …
Channel 4 Oct 2002, 14:54
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Warning all RBS, Natwest punters. Withdraw cash now
Enough for the weekend
This weekend Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest integrate their computer systems. It goes live Monday. Staff are on stand-by to open branches on Sunday in case the ATM hole-in-the-wall machines fail during the exercise, an unwitting bank employee told a Register colleague going about his daily business (although since the …
Bootnotes 4 Oct 2002, 15:38
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UK to get Sat broadband for £30
Fingers and toes crossed
Two companies are to launch one-way broadband satellite services for prices that come close to the cost of ADSL. More importantly, the service would be accessible from almost anywhere in the UK. Full details have yet to be released but Leeds-based ISP Everywhere Broadband claims its service will start at around £20 a month for …
Telecoms 4 Oct 2002, 15:48
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The geeks are in fine fettle, Tom – get with the program
Counter-Opinion Common cause is not monoculture
Whichever one of my colleagues posted Tom Steinberg's guest editorial earlier today will have anticipated (gleeful rubbing of hands) much lovely, lively and enraged feedback. But probably not from me. Well, screw that, here we go. Tom is to some extent having his cake and eating it by dancing nimbly between condemning …
Music and Media 4 Oct 2002, 16:04
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Trainee(!) dishwasher pleads guilty to $80m identity fraud
Obsessive Compulsive Theft
A 32 year-old former trainee dishwasher (how can you be a trainee dishwasher?) has pleaded guilty to masterminding what investigators believe is the largest identity theft scam ever attempted. Abraham Abdallah, a high-school dropout and restaurant worker, obtained the personal details of top figures in Hollywood and Wall Street …
Security 4 Oct 2002, 16:46
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Nigerian freight forwarding scam hits UK
Small biz fights back against credit card fraud
Small businesses have launched a fight back against fraud through a Web site which provides early warning alerts about credit card scams. Early Warning, whose service is free to join for online merchants, collates warnings and provides detailed information on risks to e-tailers. The service is important the prevalence of credit …
Security 4 Oct 2002, 19:57
