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  • Sun tweaks Solaris 9 performance

    Register Server Channel Step upgrade

    No one has ever accused the top brass of Sun Microsystems Inc of having a shortage of wiseguys and smart-alecks, writes Timothy Prickett Morgan. If IBM is announcing a new release of its AIX Unix operating system, as it did yesterday, then Sun picked that same day to launch its updated release of the Solaris 9 operating …

    Servers 9 Oct 2002, 07:46

  • AMD eyes Chinese education market

    Desktops for schools

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc laid the groundwork for a major drive into the Chinese PC market yesterday when it signed a joint venture agreement with a state-backed company targeting the country's education sector. The Sunnyvale, California-based vendor has struck a research and development joint venture agreement with …

    Personal 9 Oct 2002, 07:46

  • Microsoft to build secure corporate IM infrastructure

    That's what it says here

    Microsoft Corp will drive instant messaging (IM) as an enterprise-class collaboration platform using security features planned for its next server operating system and e-mail server, Gavin Clarke writes. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft plans features for use with Windows .NET Server 2003 and the next version of …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2002, 07:47

  • VeriSign and IBM Team for hosted access, provisioning

    Based on Tivoli

    Taking aim at a traditionally software-only market, VeriSign Inc this week introduced a hosted access control service, the fruit of a deal signed with IBM Corp back in January, Kevin Murphy writesThe companies also expect to work together further on hosted provisioning services in the future, ComputerWire has learned. The …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2002, 07:47

  • Websense hopes to filter more than just the Web

    Many trick pony

    Websense Inc wants to help companies go beyond the web browser when it comes to regulating their employees' computing habits, writes Kevin Murphy. The company yesterday outlined its plans to enable central control of applications, bandwidth and legal liability. Websense Enterprise v5, due to ship in January, will become a …

    e-Business 9 Oct 2002, 07:47

  • Satellite systems hackable – study

    Unencrypted uplinks invite hijinks

    Critical commercial satellite systems relied upon by federal agencies, civilians and the Pentagon are potentially vulnerable to a variety of sophisticated hack attacks that could cause service disruptions, or even send a satellite spinning out of control, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office, the …

    Security 9 Oct 2002, 08:25

  • Hedge fund that nearly brought down Peru wants COLT dead

    Vulture Capitalists swoop

    A New York-based hedge fund wants to have COLT Telecom wound up. Highberry Ltd has notified the board of the alternative telco carrier that it seeking the appointment of an administrator. It says that COLT will not be able to repay or refinance its bonds when they become due between 2005 and 2009. COLT has today issued a …

    Business 9 Oct 2002, 08:58

  • EMC carries on driving Clariion downmarket

    With a little help from Dell

    Check out The Register's Enterprise Storage Channel EMC Corp is continuing its descent into the midrange of the storage market with the launch of the smallest ever full-function storage array in the company's midrange Clariion line-up. Like other Clariion arrays, the CX400 launched this week by EMC will be resold by Dell …

    Storage 9 Oct 2002, 08:59

  • Trojanized Sendmail distro circulated

    Check those checksums

    An enterprising computer enthusiast has managed to insert a Trojan in the source code for a recent Sendmail distro and to substitute the malicious package for the real McCoy on the Sendmail.org FTP server. The malicious files were available from 28 September 2002 until 6 October 2002. The affected files, with their correct …

    Security 9 Oct 2002, 09:10

  • Gio does ADSL for £17.99 a month

    Broadband promos a go-go

    Oldham-based ISP Gio Internet has joined the ever-growing number of broadband outfits to offer promos for its broadband service. It's cut the cost of its ADSL broadband package from £24.95 a month to £17.99 a month. The offer runs until the end of 2002 and anyone taking up the offer during this time will be charged at the …

    Telecoms 9 Oct 2002, 09:20

  • Torvalds stays out of MS debate

    Absence of Malice

    Linus Torvalds, the founder and creator of the Linux operating system, has admitted that he would be stuck for words if he ever found himself standing eye to eye with Bill Gates. It's not that he hates the man, far from it in fact, but rather that he simply wouldn't know what to say, he told the BBC's ClickOnline this week. …

    Software 9 Oct 2002, 09:27

  • Intel's Barrett talks up tech rebound

    Few convinced

    Craig Barrett, the head of Intel, predicted a bounce back to full strength for the tech sector by early 2003 at the latest. Speaking at a conference in Spain the man was strangely upbeat, given that many in the semi-conductor industry are saying this is the worst recession in the industry's history, claiming that the next year …

    Business 9 Oct 2002, 09:30

  • My name is Canary: The Orange Smartphone

    Preview What Mobile gets paws on prototype

    This preview, taken from the October issue of What Mobile is of an early version of the HTC Canary prototype. The device which was looked at was sneaked around the world to get into What Mobile's hands. What Mobile is primarily a buyers guide for mobile phones and this is probably the first time the device has been looked at …

    Mobile 9 Oct 2002, 11:45

  • Union wants Net access at work for members

    Calls on Govt to take lead

    The Public & Commercial Services union (PCS) - one of the UK's largest trade unions - wants its 288,000 members to have access to the Internet at work. The PCS - whose members work in the civil service and companies supplying government services - claims that the Government should do this and set an example to other employers …

    Music and Media 9 Oct 2002, 11:45

  • UK urged to invest in fibre networks

    Future of broadband

    On the day that the UK celebrated its one millionth broadband connection the boss of a Swedish company called on the British Government to start thinking about the national roll-out of fibre for next generation broadband services. Martin Thunman, CEO of PacketFront, said there were very few initiatives or projects in the UK …

    Telecoms 9 Oct 2002, 11:47

  • Liberty Broadband gets new funding

    Remember? Used to be Tele2 UK

    Liberty Broadband - formerly known as Tele2 (UK) - has secured new funding following its severance from parent Millicom International Cellular (MIC) earlier this year. A group of investors under the name of Birmingham Online has provided new funding to support the wireless broadband outfit, giving the company renewed security …

    Telecoms 9 Oct 2002, 11:49

  • SuperDLT increases capacity, cuts choice

    Quantum works hard to keep LTO at bay

    Check out The Register's Enterprise Storage Channel With the SuperDLT 320 tape drive now available in quantity and the Benchmark takeover underway, Quantum is working hard to keep LTO at bay. "LTO is now our main competitor, but we can go further than them because we have more surface area to play with - they have to use a …

    Storage 9 Oct 2002, 12:02

  • E-minister broadbandless

    Very, very busy

    E-commerce Minister, Stephen Timms, doesn't have broadband at his home in East Ham, London - even though he has the choice of xDSL and cable. The reason he's broadbandless, it seems, is because he's been "very, very busy". Still, we're told he's currently mulling it over and will make a decision "imminently" about which …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2002, 12:09

  • Dixons takes control of Italian retailer

    Exercise options

    Dixons is to pay €368m to take control of UniEuro, described as Italy's leading independent electronics retailer. Dixons already owns 24 per cent of the company, acquired last year, and had an option to buy the rest, which it is now exercising through the acquisition of 71 per cent of the outstanding share capital. Post …

    Channel 9 Oct 2002, 13:08

  • Time opens 8 more retail stores

    40 jobs

    Time Group is adding another eight stores to its 140-strong high street retail chain The Computer World. The new outlets are in West London, Merseyside, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds and Manchester and are set to open by March 2003. Around 40 jobs will be created through the expansion, says Time. ®

    Channel 9 Oct 2002, 13:10

  • Gaze into the crystal ball with IT-Minds

    Get 'The Catalog of Tomorrow' today at £15.99

    This week's clairvoyant tome from Reg associate IT-minds.com is hot off the press and offers a glimpse into the technological crystal ball. The Catalog of Tomorrow features input from some of the world's leading futurists, visionaries, and technology commentators, examining the trends and technologies that will shape our lives …

    Site News 9 Oct 2002, 13:11

  • ‘You are a dick and I am going to kick your head in ya big useless donkey’

    ASA upholds text complaint

    The advertising watchdog has reprimanded a company for sending an offensive text message calling for consumers to upgrade their mobile phone. Phonetastic UK, based in Newport, Gwent, sent a text message that stated: "You are a dick and I am going to kick your head in ya big useless donkey. UPGRADE UR MOB 0800 0859362". The …

    Mobile 9 Oct 2002, 14:20

  • North Yorks to get wireless broadband network

    £12m goes a long way

    North Yorkshire is to get a £12m wireless broadband network which will connect council offices, schools and libraries across England's largest county. The initiative is spearheaded by North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) backed by public and private finance. Bucks-based MLL Telecom is providing the broadband network to NYCC …

    Telecoms 9 Oct 2002, 14:35

  • E-envoy declares broadband Britain a success, claims credit

    Or something like that, anyway...

    UK e-Envoy Andrew Pinder has decided to bunk off his homework this month, and instead of focusing on "specific areas" of his getting Britain online strategy, has decided to "pause and reflect on the increasing extent to which the changes it [the strategy] is bringing about, are being felt across all aspects of our national life …

    Music and Media 9 Oct 2002, 15:03

  • 3: a LogoWatch special

    Fun and functionality. Cool and vibrant

    From time to time we poke gentle fun at the efforts of companies to articulate their new logos. This is a public service conducted on the behalf of marketing philistines everywhere. This time it's different. We are simply publishing this Hutchison 3G press release. In full. London - 08 October 2002-The Hutchison Whampoa Group …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2002, 15:41

  • BT is broadband slacker – survey

    Pull yer finger out

    Nine out of ten of communications professionals believe BT is still not doing enough to deliver broadband in the UK. The survey by of 422 members of the Communications Management Association (CMA) found that BT should be forced to speed up the roll-out of ADSL. Eight out of ten people said the Government should intervene to …

    Telecoms 9 Oct 2002, 15:45

  • Want to teach in the UK? Give us your bank password then

    UK gov furnishes itself with tools to steal all your money

    Despite the odd unfortunate reverse, creeping control-freakery and privacy invasion is alive, well and thriving in UK government circles. As evidenced by this exchange from yesterday's proceedings in the House of Lords, which was drawn to our attention by Register reader "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells." Baroness Blatch: My Lords …

    Music and Media 9 Oct 2002, 15:52

  • Thieves snatch £4.5m DRAM from Heathrow

    Good old, bad old days

    Thieves stole £4.5m worth of computer memory from a warehouse near Heathrow, just hours after it arrived from Korea. Police are calling on computer dealers to watch out for cheap memory chips. The thieves conducted their "carefully planned" raid in the early hours of Monday, getting away with 290 boxes of memory on four pallets …

    Channel 9 Oct 2002, 16:52

  • MS backs away from media copy restrictions

    Learns what people don't want after designing it

    Numerous studies have confirmed for Microsoft what any fool knows: people are not much interested in a home-entertainment device masquerading as a computer that burns special mission-impossible DVDs which can't be played on any device other than the specific machine which recorded them. Unfortunately, that's just how MS …

    Software 9 Oct 2002, 18:23