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  • CNET's download.com fees, DNS in a can, Lab Hammers

    Letters And a miscellany of mail

    From the end of the month, CNET's Downloads.com page will charge every author $99 for listing the software. Non-payers will see their listings and software removed. You don't like this, and you don't agree when we argued that CNET had some justification for attempting to cover its bandwidth expenses. Here's what you say. Re: …

    Letters 24 Oct 2002, 01:22

  • Freeserve in legal fight against Oftel

    Broadband scrap

    Freeserve went to a Competition Commission tribunal on Tuesday to get an Oftel ruling concerning BT's alleged abuse of its dominant market overturned. The ISP claims it's been forced to take this action to ensure that the telecoms regulator complies with its responsibilities to enforce competition law in a proper manner. …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 09:24

  • Gartner OLTP numbers rank winners in server arena

    What's hot...

    The platform analysts at Gartner have released their sixth OLTP Server Evaluation study, which is a compact but useful way of gauging the relative strengths and weaknesses of the dominant server platforms available today, writes Timothy Prickett-Morgan. Gartner has been publishing this short OLTP platform evaluation …

    Hardware 24 Oct 2002, 09:52

  • Porn censorship at work shock

    You'll never believe this...

    Pornography is the most censored type of Internet content at work, according to those clever people at Datamonitor. Oh come off it now, is that right? Can porn really be more censored than, say, oh, I don't know, Web content about knitting? Or butterflies? Quite frankly, this piece of research is so unexpected, so out of the …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 09:55

  • STMicro expects strong chip recovery in 2003

    Past the worst

    Europe's largest chipmaker STMicroelectronics NV remains considerably more bullish than most in the sector, and says it shares the view of analysts that the market will show double-digit growth next year. "The worst is in the past," said chief executive Pasquale Pistorio. The company is confident that it will outperform …

    Channel 24 Oct 2002, 09:58

  • Sendo to launch Z100 MS ‘Stinger’ in November

    The rollout from beyond the grave...

    Sendo Ltd plans to turn the tables on Orange SA and hardware partner High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) by being the first vendor to offer a Windows Smartphone-based device to the Italian and Spanish markets. According to a spokesperson at the launch of Orange's SVP, Sendo plans to launch its much delayed Z100 handset "in …

    Mobile 24 Oct 2002, 10:02

  • McNealy slams Wall St over Sun ratings

    Carly blames drive for hot boxes, killer apps

    Chief executives for Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett Packard Co struck-out yesterday as they struggled to explain the technology slump, now projected to last into next year. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy decided to shoot the messenger. Speaking at a Vignette Corp customer conference, in Austin, Texas, Scott McNealy …

    Business 24 Oct 2002, 10:08

  • Security distie Peapod goes into administration

    Mushy peas

    High profile security consultancy/distie Peapod has gone into administration after attempts by parent company e-initiative to expand into Europe ran aground. e-initative's businesses will operate as a going concern following its decision to go into administration on October 16. Jon Birch, director at administrator Numerica, …

    Security 24 Oct 2002, 10:11

  • Server room dangerous? Here's BOFH armageddon

    Letters The dilithium crystals have left the building…

    : We hoped not to get any more of your pictures of dangerous server rooms, but you keep them coming, and they're too compelling to resist. [Last week's pictures are here] Armageddon is in the air, as you have probably noticed, and a new generation of high tech destructive technology will be unleashed for the first time. But if …

    Bootnotes 24 Oct 2002, 10:22

  • Bundled content and access the future for broadband

    Oh no it isn't, oh yes it is, oh no...

    Broadband won't become mass market in the UK until service providers bundle entertainment content with high-speed Net access. So says broadband gear manufacturer, Alcatel, which believes content, such as games, music and video, is essential if families are to turn to broadband. Said Dave Hills of Alcatel: "We predict that by …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 12:49

  • Canadian cons use PCs to hack, forge IDs and spread porn

    Inmates screw the Internet

    Canadian convicts have taken advantage of prison PCs to produce escape plans, make fake IDs and conduct scams. These are among the revelations from an internal report by Canada's Correctional Service (CSC), obtained by the National Post, which warns of the risk of cons spreading viruses or hacking into the prison service's …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 12:53

  • Demise of e-stockbrokers predicted

    Grizzly

    Three-quarters of Europe's 160 online-only stock broking Web sites will disappear by 2007, according to a new report by Forrester Research. It reckons that they will be either be integrated into their parent banks, sold, or wound up. The decline in popularity of online brokers - which were jolly popular a couple of years ago …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 12:54

  • Hint of UK recovery for IT jobs

    Not as bad as it was

    There is just the teensy weensiest hint of a sign that there could be the beginnings of a recovery in the IT jobs market in the UK. The number of IT job vacancies in the UK fell by 28 per cent between April and June 2002 compared to the previous three months - the lowest fall for several successive quarters. The South East of …

    Business 24 Oct 2002, 15:24

  • Arsonists wipe smile from the face of the Net

    Online bank denied Visa after cables burned

    Customers of online bank smile report problems accessing their accounts online following a suspected arson attack in Manchester which damaged the city's telecom infrastructure yesterday. A notice on the Manchester-based bank's Web site (headed We do like bonfires, We don't like them down BT manholes!) explains the scope of the …

    Music and Media 24 Oct 2002, 15:26

  • MS in blog parody takedown

    The big chill

    It's a pity that Microsoft's Beth Goza, who we teased here last week, has taken down her weblog. Far from wanting to see it disappear, it ought be preserved in a time capsule. But not only has Beth's blog gone underground - so has the parody which inspired our story. It's disappeared from no less than five mirror sites. Even …

    Bootnotes 24 Oct 2002, 21:27

  • Potholes on Apple's chip roadmap?

    Three wheels on their wagon. But they keep rolling along.

    Macintosh site Architosh has some reasonably intelligent speculation on unreleased Motorola processors, and offers a roadmap. The site has a good track record, and based its article from information in a Motorola document that has subsequently been withdrawn. The unsigned piece considers revisions to the 745x processor that was …

    Channel 24 Oct 2002, 22:18

  • Disney has Microsoft captive

    Dramatic evidence

    AP's Suzanne Plunkett has exposed the relationship between the entertainment industry and the technology industry, in a dramatic new photograph. The relationship, which has been marked by shadowy backroom politics and draconian technology, is thrust blinking into daylight. And as we suspected, it's a highly uneven contest: …

    Bootnotes 24 Oct 2002, 22:45