7th October 2002 Archive

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Documentum books eRoom

Expects to hit profit targets in Q3

Documentum Inc, the document management turned enterprise content management (ECM) provider is to buy eRoom Technology Inc to bolster the collaborative capabilities of its expanding product suite. David Milam, chief marketing office of Pleasanton, California based Documentum said that it had agreed terms late yesterday "to …

Hardware 7 Oct 2002, 07:39
Aventail touts SSL-VPN appliance

Enters hardware biz

Aventail Corp, which started out in 1996 as a supplier of secure sockets layer virtual private networking (SSL VPN) software and then moved on to sell managed services, will today announce its steps into the hardware business with a new SSL VPN appliance targeting enterprise VPN deployments. Slated for general availability …

Security 7 Oct 2002, 07:40
Orange to launch MS Smartphone in UK

From HTC

Microsoft Corp's mobile handset dreams are finally set to become reality this month as the first Windows Smartphone 2002-powered device hits the shops, care of Orange SA. The mobile unit of France Telecom SA plans to launch the phone, built by Microsoft embedded OS enthusiast High Tech Computer Corp (HTC), in the UK before …

Personal 7 Oct 2002, 07:41
Novell Walks the Path to Re-Invention

exteNd 4.0

Novell Inc is today expected to take a practical step towards becoming a web services and application development vendor, announcing the first release of its re-brand exteNd suite. Provo, Utah-based Novell is due to announce exteNd 4.0 at GartnerGroup's Symposium/ITXpo in Orlando, Florida. Version 4.0 is the first …

e-Business 7 Oct 2002, 07:42
SPARCs fly: Tadpole sells hardware biz

MBO team

Tadpole is selling its niche SPARC-based hardware division to a management consortium backed by an unnamed Hong Kong investor. It will receive up to $11.6m - $3m in cash, $2.5m in a 7.5 per cent five year promissory note, and $6m by way of 5 per cent five-year convertible subordinated promissory note. The convertible bit is an …

Hardware 7 Oct 2002, 09:30
Hynix re-marked chips sourced to Rombyte, First Choice

Trial by press release

In May this year, Newbury memory distie Rombyte was raided by Trading Standards. It told us that it would send us a statement a few days later. We never received it. The same month Hynix sent out a note to the UK channel to watch out for low-quality counterfeit chips purporting to be from the Korean memory maker. Today the …

Channel 7 Oct 2002, 09:59
Reg Hackerettes: The future is black

Cash'n'Carrion expands women's Hacker range

In response to vociferous demands from female Reg readers, we have decided to complement the existing Hackerette range by offering our women's Hacker No.1 shirt in chic and timeless black. This magnificent variation on the Hacker theme is a 95/5 per cent cotton/Lycra mix, and is available in three sizes: To fit Small …

Site News 7 Oct 2002, 10:07
‘Free’ ADSL – 30 day trial for small businesses

Limited offer

B2B ISP Business Serve is offering 500 punters a "no obligation free 30-Day ADSL trial" in a bid to attract customers. The gratis trial is open to any business which orders a 20:1 ADSL product from Business Serve's Broadband for Business service. And at the end of the 30-day trial period, punters can either carry on or walk …

Telecoms 7 Oct 2002, 10:14
ATI designs fast graphics DRAM spec, enlists vendor support

It's called GDDR3

ATI today introduced a new specification for high-speed DRAM for graphics. Called GDDR3, this is the "first DRAM designed specifically for a market before an industry standard is available". No, ATI is not going it alone: it has assembled support from Micron, Infineon and Elpida for GDDR-3, and it it is targeting graphics DRAM …

Channel 7 Oct 2002, 10:43
Enterprise storage ‘loses profits momentum’

Q3 even worse than anticipated

It was a tougher than usual third quarter for the enterprise storage and switches vendors - and their resellers, channel consultancy Global Touch reports. But in a bad quarter some are doing better - or less badly - than others, according to Channel Tracker, the quarterly survey of resellers, disties, systems integrators etc. …

Storage 7 Oct 2002, 11:14
Eclipse begins SDSL trials

Nildram scoops broadband speed trials

Eclipse Internet has begun signing up businesses for an SDSL broadband trial. From today its broadband checker at eclipsebroadband will be able to check the availability of SDSL as well as ADSL. The ISP has already received "quite a lot of interest" from businesses looking to take advantage of the SDSL service, which transfers …

Telecoms 7 Oct 2002, 11:16
FBI sting snares top Russian crackers

Three years at Club Fed

A Russian cracker, tricked by the FBI into visiting the US on the pretext of a job interview, has been sentenced to three years in jail. Vasiliy Gorshkov, 27, was also ordered to pay $690,000 in compensation for his crimes by Federal District Court Judge John Coughenour, who took his family's medical and financial problems into …

Security 7 Oct 2002, 11:34
Tablet PCs – the cool portables that come with a free pen

No work-life revolutions in this phase, we fear...

For the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity, courtesy of those nice people at Microsoft, to change my life with the aid of a Tablet PC. As is so frequently the case with the Next Big Thing from Redmond, my life remains strangely unchanged; but perhaps more ominously from Microsoft's point of view, I've now stopped …

Personal 7 Oct 2002, 12:14
NetApp reads SAN script, heart stays with NAS

Swings both ways, but knows what it likes

Network Appliance ends NAS-SAN war So now that Network Appliance has a box which accepts incoming Fibre Channel connections, the SAN/NAS debate is over, right? Up to a point, Lord Copper. NetApp still thinks file-level access via NAS is the best way to go, albeit with Fibre Channel replacing SCSI inside the box. But customers …

Storage 7 Oct 2002, 12:17
Worms turn on Win/Linux users

Mighty, Opaserv

Amid the panic last week about the prolific, and very nasty, BearBug worm two more nasty varmints went largely unnoticed. Hot on the heels of the Slapper, comes the Mighty worm which uses the same well-known OpenSSL exploit to gain access to and infect computers running an Apache Web server on Linux. Mighty uses the same …

Anti-Virus 7 Oct 2002, 12:28
Sun preps server, clustering, blade launches for November

Stealing HP thunder?

The word on the street is that Sun Microsystems Inc is getting ready to make a whole slew of server announcements in November, possibly including the Sun Fire V1280 12-way server, Sun's first entries into the blade server market, its WildCat"system clustering technology, and maybe even a refreshed Linux server line, …

Servers 7 Oct 2002, 12:30
Calls for EU clampdown on online gambling

Learn lesson from Greek fiasco

Europe should introduce new legislation to clampdown on online gambling fraud, according to a top London lawyer. Steven Philippsohn, senior partner in the specialist fraud law firm Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald, says there are lessons to be learnt from a recent botched attempt to outlaw online gambling in Greece. "The Greeks …

Music and Media 7 Oct 2002, 12:36
Pipex calls for punters to be patient

Upgrade problems

Broadband ISP Pipex has apologised for poor performance and is asking customers to be patient while the problems are resolved. In an open letter to its 44,000 broadband customers the ISP explains that its service has been operating with reliability and stability levels "far below what Pipex considers acceptable". It reports …

Telecoms 7 Oct 2002, 15:09
Intel goes desktop hyperthreading chipset crazy

Seeds market for 3.06GHz P4

Intel today introduced four new P4 chipsets, all supporting hyperthreading. This positions the company and its OEMs nicely in advance of the launch later this year of the 3.06GHz P4, Intel's first desktop chip to actually have hyperthreading switched on. Hyperthreading (HT in Intel shorthand) enables software programs to run as …

Channel 7 Oct 2002, 16:29
WorldCom mid-fry pleads guilty

Feds still working on the heavyweights

WorldCom former accounting executive Buford Yates has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy and will cooperate with the Feds in obtaining the dirt on his bosses in a massive accounting fraud, the Associated Press reports. "WorldCom officials have said roughly $7 billion was misreported, and reports have pinned the …

Music and Media 7 Oct 2002, 19:25
Transmeta touts the ultra personal computer

Let a 100 form factors bloom

The PC market is fragmenting as it matures with new form factors such Tablet PCs and ultra personal computers set to change the user computing experience. That's the message from Matthew Perry, Transmeta's recently-appointed chief executive, who visited London today to deliver a update on the company. It's been a tough year …

Personal 7 Oct 2002, 19:35
Palm launches $99 PDA

Zire away

Palm has launched a PDA which breaks the $100 price barrier for the first time for a new offering from the company. The Zire is also the lightest model has offered (although it's a half a centimeter thicker than the Palm V/505) . Palm will sell the Zire direct from its website and through general stores, rather than through the …

Personal 7 Oct 2002, 20:29
House tosses Web-casters a bone

Tolerable royalties halfway there

The US House of Representatives passed a bill Monday which would give financial relief to small Internet radio broadcasters threatened by recording-industry royalty extortion. Rather than the industry's preferred per-play fee, the bill would assess costs based on the Webcaster's revenues. Those making less than $250,000 per …

Music and Media 7 Oct 2002, 23:54