11th November 2002 Archive

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Unifying software release cycles and price at Sun

TCO play

Sun Microsystems Inc is moving towards unified release cycles and simplified pricing for software components of its desktop and server stack, to build market share and undercut Microsoft Corp's rival products, writes Gavin Clarke. Santa Clara, California-based Sun said Friday its goal is to unify release cycles of its ONE …

Hardware 11 Nov 2002, 07:46
IBM cranks up pSeries Power 4+chip speed

Regatta-Mi goes toe-to-toe with Sun Fire V880

IBM Corp is pulling out the stops in the eight-way Unix and Linux server space this week as it rolls out its pSeries 650 "Regatta-Mi," an eight-way server that uses its new 1.2GHz and 1.45GHz Power4+ processors and aims to take the wind out of Sun's sails (and sales) for its Sun Fire V880 and Sun Fire 3800, writes Timothy …

Servers 11 Nov 2002, 07:47
UK wireless data numbers disappoint

Page imps count, but for how much?

You might have thought it would never happen, but here it is, the first official count of the number of Internet pages served on mobile phones and wireless devices. The data has been gathered and analysed by the Mobile Data Association, on behalf of O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. It makes for disappointing reading. The …

Mobile 11 Nov 2002, 08:04
Gator bites back, sues suer

Pop-up goes the weasel

On-line ad company Gator has bitten back against recent lawsuits by launching its own case against a business that has complained about its pop-up ads. US-based Gator Corp provides free software to consumers that enables them to store information such as passwords for logging onto sites. The catch however is that users of its …

e-Business 11 Nov 2002, 08:05
IBM charts utility computing path

Another meaning for COD

Sam Palmisano is feeling more comfortable in Gerstner's shoes nowadays. From his appointment as CEO of IBM in March of this year, last week he was confirmed as the firm's new chairman too. It's been a heady and expected rise. First on his 'to do' list was to outline the company's future plans. Computing on demand pretty much …

Hardware 11 Nov 2002, 08:10
IBM fixes ‘Toxic’ Thinkpad

Letter Honour restored. Owner loves IBM, Thinkpad

I'm STeve Andre', the owner of the poor little ThinkPad whose image was besmirched by the accusation that it carried some horrid compound in it. I am happy to report that IBM will make well of this situation and I will be up and running properly next week. The mark of a good company is what they do when they made a mistake, I …

Bootnotes 11 Nov 2002, 08:18
Gates flies into India ‘AIDS scaremongering’ row

Health Minister lashes out...

Kicking off a visit to India today Bill Gates may have expected (in the words of the New York Times "a fawning group of state chief ministers and federal political leaders lining up outside his hotel suites, waiting for a chance to meet with the world's richest man." Instead, he may have flown into a storm over AIDS …

Software 11 Nov 2002, 09:01
Next XP rev Longhorn a 2003, client-only product?

The Politburo hints...

The Grand Old Duke of York is clearly in charge of Microsoft's operating systems roadmaps for, having marched Longhorn up to the top of a distant (2005, said his Billness) hill earlier this year, he has now marched it straight back down again. Longhorn, the next version of Windows XP, will not after all be a 2005 product, but …

Software 11 Nov 2002, 09:29
Euro thought police criminalize impure speech on line

Involuntary castration program expands

The Council of Europe has amended its cybercrime treaty to devise criminal penalties for those who dare to express unpopular ideas for public consumption with any manner of computer equipment. The measure specifically targets so-called 'racist and xenophobic material', and would apply to any controversial Web-site, or even a …

Music and Media 11 Nov 2002, 09:41
Panama bans voice over IP

Stick IT (Internet telephony) up your junta!

Developing nations have pushed through programmes to curtail Internet telephony, in moves designed to protect the revenues of incumbent telecoms operators. The government of Panama has ordered ISPs to block 24 UDP ports in order to implement its ban on VoIP (voice over IP) services, Linux Admin (which broke the story earlier …

Music and Media 11 Nov 2002, 18:40
Sun aims to oust MSOffice from UK schools

Updated Mounts StarOffice blitz

Sun is aiming to persuade schools to ditch Microsoft Office in favour of its StarOffice productivity suite, with a marketing campaign launched today. The new StarOffice 6.0 education licenses mean that the software is offered at cost (£23 for the a CD, support documents and shipping) to all eligible schools in the UK and …

Software 11 Nov 2002, 18:49
SGI bakes denser superbricks

Made possible by MIPS

Silicon Graphics will debut a 128-node, single system image NUMA system at the Supercomputing 2002 show next week, cranking up the density of the Origin series. For a while now, SGI has hinted that the low power, low thermal characteristics of the MIPS chip (one eighth of an Itanic core) would allow it to build denser systems …

Hardware 11 Nov 2002, 23:36