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  • Hammer momentum leaving Itanic stranded

    Microprocessor Forum It's no hummer

    AMD and Intel packed the floor with their staff at yesterday's server Q&A at the Forum. Questions from employees - inevitably to the opposition - dominated the session. AMD fielded VP and chip CTO Fred Webber, and Intel put Robert Yung, enterprise platforms CTO into the firing line. Fred starts his presentations with the …

    Channel 17 Oct 2002, 02:55

  • MS beta site cracked

    Hackers get .NET preview

    The server on which Microsoft makes its beta programs available for testing has been infiltrated by outsiders who have downloaded an unspecified cornucopia of programs. Among the items available are forthcoming editions of Win-XP, .NET Server, and some confidential works in progress. The company doesn't know how many programs …

    Software 17 Oct 2002, 07:55

  • Dead telcos situation slows net growth

    It's the bankruptcies, stupid...

    The growth of the internet is slowing in terms of the capacity of its cross-border backbones, and the financial crisis facing the carrier industry is mostly to blame, according to TeleGeography Inc, a Washington DC-based research firm. The company said that in 2002 the growth rate of international bandwidth slowed to 40%. …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 08:33

  • Chipzilla's 1GB phone

    Microprocessor Forum Gunning for OMAP with Flash 'sandwich'

    Texas Instruments had a very low profile at this year's Microprocessor Forum. Like Sun, with whom they shared a table outside the press room, they officially weren't there. Or at least not presenting. But TI's OMAP is the dominant platform for smartphones today, somewhere Intel very much wants to be. Intel yesterday announced …

    Channel 17 Oct 2002, 08:37

  • RIAA-backed webcast bill ‘a disaster for the US’

    Letters Artists, 'casters unite against HR.5469

    Some good may come out of the great webcasting betrayal - exclusively reported here and here - if the ire directed against the Recording Industry Association of America unites artists and broadcasters. The controversial, "RIAA-written" bill which creates an alternative tariff for webcasters has divided the community: it …

    Letters 17 Oct 2002, 08:45

  • The Ellen Feiss of blogdom?

    MS manager inspires satire, awe, naps

    A couple of weeks ago we linked to a weblog by Beth Goza, the marketing manager at Microsoft responsible for selling PocketPC to the world. Bravely, Beth used the blog to wrestle with her conscience over whether it was OK to cheat at XBox games. Since then it's become compulsive reading: it has all the hallmarks of the truly …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 08:49

  • Moby Monkey fined £10K for misleading text spam

    Strike two

    Moby Monkey - which was slapped with a record £50,000 fine in the summer for sending misleading spam text messages - has been fined again. This time the Leeds-based company has been hit with a £10,000 fine for running a bogus lottery. Premium rate watchdog - ICSTIS - received 35 complaints from people who received the spam " …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 09:00

  • MS eases up on ‘gimme all Your Stuff’ community license

    They'll be reinventing the GPL next...

    Microsoft Corp has re-worked a controversial license for a .NET developers' hosted community, after concern the company granted itself wide-ranging rights over developers' code. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has apparently loosened the terms under which ISVs post code to GotDotNet Workspaces, granting all community …

    Software 17 Oct 2002, 09:12

  • Symantec on a roll, thanks to security boom

    Er, shouldn't that be 'insecurity boom'?

    Symantec Corp yesterday posted a healthy-looking fiscal second quarter supported by revenue growth in all but one of its businesses, and reported a bottom line that beat analysts' and its own estimates. For the three months to September 30, the company saw a net income of $52m, compared to a year-ago loss of $12m, on …

    Security 17 Oct 2002, 09:15

  • AMD fiscally hammered, vows to claw way back

    'Unacceptable,' says Ruiz

    Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday outlined plans to claw its way back into financial stability as it unveiled third quarter results that were worse than market watchers had feared. The CPU and flash memory vendor unveiled sales of $506.2m for the quarter ending September 29, a drop of 33.6% on the previous year. …

    Business 17 Oct 2002, 09:20

  • New MS support policy takes Win2k off death row

    Analysis Strip away the undergrowth, and it's all pretty positive

    Following up on our slightly baffled take on Microsoft's new product lifecycle policy, which was announced earlier this week, senior marketing manager Lars Ahlgren called us up with a few clarifications. And although the big list of products is still currently messy (Lars says this should be fixed shortly) the core new policy is …

    Software 17 Oct 2002, 12:49

  • US Net users worried by lack of trust

    Personal info concerns

    Net users in the US still don't trust that their personal information is safe when they're online. A survey of 10,000 households found that more people in the US are going online compared to last year. The Consumer Internet Barometer - produced by NFO WorldGroup, Forrester Research and The Conference Board - found that 61 per …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 12:51

  • Fibernet reports pre-tax loss

    Revenue narrows too

    Shares in Fibernet slipped in trading this morning after the alternative carrier reported a pre-tax loss of £91m. Much of the loss - £70.1m - was attributed to an exceptional charge relating to Fibernet's exit from its French and German operations in the summer following the collapse of KPNQwest. Putting this to one side, the …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 12:53

  • Sky flogs BT Broadband

    Money-off promo

    BT and satellite TV broadcaster, Sky, have completed a mutual back-scratching exercise aimed at providing a bundle of services to compete directly with cablecos. The latest instalment of the tie-up between the two companies means that Sky will punt BT's frill-less high-speed Net access service, BT Broadband, to its high- …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 12:54

  • UK firm touts alternative to digital certs

    Secure token scheme launched at Parliament

    Two factor authentication, using secure tokens is being backed as an alternative to digital certificates by a UK company, which is enjoying support from the Parliamentary All Party Export Group. At an event in the Houses of Parliament yesterday, London-based Quizid Technologies launched its outsourced authentication solution. …

    Security 17 Oct 2002, 13:01

  • IT spending to increase in Europe – Gartner

    Two cheers

    The UK, Ireland and Italy could see better-than-expected growth in IT spending next year, according to Gartner. Analysts claims corporate IT spending in Europe is expected to show stronger growth in 2003 following a contraction during 2001 and only a 1.7 per cent increase during 2002. They predict that software and IT services …

    Business 17 Oct 2002, 15:00

  • Novell pitches Nsure at ID anywhere

    So that's where they've been...

    Novell yesterday fleshed out its plans to address the secure identity management market, as part of its attempt to reinvent its business around three key areas. These priority markets are: secure identity management solutions, under the brand name Novell Nsure; Web application development, or Novell exteNd, and cross-platform …

    Data Networking 17 Oct 2002, 18:16

  • BTo signs Brightmail to fight junk mail

    End users want ISPs to can spam

    BTopenworld has signed up Brightmail to tackle the junk mail bombarding its users' accounts. It is to install Brightmail Solution Suite at the SMTP gateway, to hoover up spam before it reaches users. Customers of BT's broadband service can look forward to relief from viral bombardment, after it licensed Symantec's AV server- …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2002, 18:19

  • Wall St. cheers Sun job cuts

    4,400 down - 35,000 to go

    Wall Street is always grateful to hear of job cuts, and Sun's decision to shed 11 per cent of its staff - or 4,400 people - saw its stock rally by almost ten per cent. The index saw its biggest rise for nine months in July when record unemployment figures were announced. We've noted the wisdom and foresight of financial …

    Business 17 Oct 2002, 22:44