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  • Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux

    News from India and some letters

    We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million. That means that Linux is more than four times worse …

    Software 13 Nov 2002, 04:23

  • HP tops Q3 EMEA Intel server sales

    Dpminant player

    The latest figures from research firm IDC Corp for the EMEA Intel Corp server market indicates that Hewlett-Packard Co has slightly increased its lead as the top vendor by unit shipments. Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC's latest analysis of the EMEA "Standard Intel Server Architecture" market gave HP a 42.8% share of …

    Servers 13 Nov 2002, 09:45

  • VeriSign tackles customer service problems

    Way to go

    VeriSign Inc, which is right up there with Microsoft Corp and America Online Inc in the disgruntled customer rankings, says it has made satisfying its dwindling base of domain name registrants its number one priority and has made progress this year, writes Kevin Murphy. According to John Donoghue, senior VP at VeriSign …

    e-Business 13 Nov 2002, 09:45

  • IBM tweaks WebSphere pricing

    Chasing medium-sized biz

    IBM Corp has overhauled its Websphere pricing structure as it dresses up the middleware family to appeal to the as yet untapped medium-sized business market. The IT giant recently announced a mid-market version of WebSphere Express family of Web application servers and associated e-business middleware. In a teleconference …

    e-Business 13 Nov 2002, 09:46

  • BIND vulnerable, upgrade now

    Haven't we been here before?

    There are several newly discovered "serious vulnerabilities" in BIND, the internet's dominant domain name system server that hypothetically could be exploited to bring the internet to a grinding halt if not widely patched. Internet Security Systems Inc, which discovered the flaws, and the Internet Software Consortium, …

    Security 13 Nov 2002, 09:46

  • RIM axes staff, cuts spending

    But will it make Feb. breakeven goal?

    Research In Motion Ltd, one of the pioneers of the PDA market with its Blackberry devices, plans to axe some 200 staff, and decrease discretionary spending, in an effort to reach its breakeven target date of February 2003. The staff reductions will bring its total workforce down to 2,000 employees, and will result in a …

    Business 13 Nov 2002, 09:47

  • HP claims first for automatic storage provisioning

    Hare and tortoise

    Hewlett Packard Co has at the very least pulled alongside EMC Corp in the race to the next major milestone in the automation of data center storage - and is claiming that it has actually beaten its rival to the draw. The company has begun shipping software that it promises will reduce the complicated and labor-intensive …

    Storage 13 Nov 2002, 09:47

  • Infineon climbs into bed with Nanya

    Big JV

    Infineon has signed a memory manufacturing and technology sharing deal with Nanya. The duo are to build new plant in Taiwan, committing €550m each to the project, until 2005. The deal will see 1,300 new jobs created and a total investment commitment of €2.2bn. The first chips will roll off the production line in late 2003 and …

    Channel 13 Nov 2002, 10:09

  • Cable & Wireless trims 3,500 jobs

    Massive losses

    Cable & Wireless is to slash around 3,500 jobs, as first-half losses ballooned to £4.5bn. In a statement on Wednesday, the beleaguered UK telecoms company said that it had plans to cut around 25 per cent of workers employed in its Global division, which provides data and Internet services to corporations around the world. These …

    Business 13 Nov 2002, 10:49

  • Eidos settles Hitman Sikh dispute

    Never meant to depict religion as evil cult

    Eidos has released an official statement about the controversy over Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, which came under fire from Sikh groups for allegedly depicting the religions adherents as members of an evil cult. The UK games publisher claims that it has now come to an "amicable position" with the Sikh Coalition, and will respond …

    Personal 13 Nov 2002, 11:19

  • T-Online ups rev and profit

    Stays in black

    Europe's biggest ISP, T-Online, added 200,000 broadband customers during the summer, taking its ADSL subscriber base to 2.5 million. This healthy growth in broadband punters helped deliver a 38 per cent growth in revenues for the first nine months of 2002 compared to the same period last year. Net revenues for the three months …

    Business 13 Nov 2002, 11:22

  • MS teams with Samsung Semi to produce low cost PDA design

    There go the margins, folks...

    While Palmsource's Dave Nagel was denouncing Microsoft for attempting to commoditise the PDA market, Microsoft was, er, commoditising the PDA market some more. Following up on its production of reference designs for Microsoft-based mobile phones earlier this year Microsoft has teamed up with Samsung to produce a reference design …

    Channel 13 Nov 2002, 11:32

  • Opera 7 browser goes into beta

    Now available for download

    Beta 1 of the latest version of the Opera browser, Opera 7, was released late last night, and is now available for download in the Windows version from Opera.com. Version 7 is an extensive rewrite intended which includes a new rendering engine with support for Document Object Model (DOM) version 2, a new email client and Opera's …

    Media 13 Nov 2002, 11:55

  • Tiscali remains in the red

    Oh well

    Sardinia-based ISP Tiscali remains in the red despite posting a modest improvement in figures. Earlier this year the pan-European ISP was cock-a-hoop when it reported that it had scraped into the black for Q1. However, those giddy times were short-lived as the ISP plunged back into the red during Q2. Today, it has published …

    Business 13 Nov 2002, 12:24

  • Unholy trinity puts users in a BIND

    DNS flaws threaten Net stability, again

    Multiple vulnerabilities in older versions of BIND could lead to compromise and denial of service attacks against vulnerable Domain Name System servers, security tools vendor ISS warned last night. The companies advises of three remotely exploitable flaws affecting BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server) 4 and BIND 8. The …

    Security 13 Nov 2002, 12:27

  • Welsh Web designer charged with virus writing, child porn offences

    FBI involvement

    A 21-old Welsh Web designer has appeared in court charged with creating and distributing three mass mailer viruses. Simon Vallor, of Llandudno, North Wales, also faced charges relating to the possession of indecent images of children in an appearance before Bow Street Magistrates Court last Friday (November 8). The appearance …

    Security 13 Nov 2002, 12:32

  • Remote Windows desktop access with the Sharp Zaurus PDA

    Enterprise play

    theKompany and ThinSoft are working together to bundle tkcJabber and WinConnect Z, in a deal that will have them co-marketing the products on each other's site. WinConnect Z is especially interesting because it allows remote access to a Windows PC. Shawn Gordon, theKompany CEO, says that ThinSoft approached him because of …

    Mobile 13 Nov 2002, 13:00

  • ‘Successful IT Project Delivery’ at 30 per cent off

    Play to win with IT-Minds

    This week Reg associate IT-minds.com is steering you towards success. Discounted specials include a range of Cisco certification libraries, a digital seminar from Scott Mueller to help you upgrade and repair your PC and our book of the week on IT project delivery. The consequences of IT project failure are enormous. Successful …

    Site News 13 Nov 2002, 13:30

  • UK tipped for bumper eChristmas

    Ho, ho, ho etc

    European online sales this Christmas are set to beat all records, according to Santa's little helpers at Forrester. They predict European online retail sales will total €7.6bn this year - up 86 per cent on last year. And they claim the UK will be the brightest star of this year's ecommerce Christmas tree by spending a festive …

    e-Business 13 Nov 2002, 13:56

  • Brit charged with hacking Pentagon, NASA

    Military left Windows server wide open to attack

    An unemployed British sysadmin was yesterday indicted for what US authorities describe as the "biggest hack of military computers ever detected". Gary McKinnon, 36, of London, was charged in absentia with one count of causing intentional damage and seven counts of computer fraud relating to alleged attacks on scores of US …

    Security 13 Nov 2002, 22:46

  • A Linux smartphone that does Bluetooth

    IBM makes persuasive pervasive case (at last)

    With Qualcomm more preoccupied by pumping out press releases than modern phone chipsets, it isn't possible to buy a CDMA 1x phone that does Bluetooth here in the US, we noted here. But a former Qualcomm employee, with the backing of IBM, has created a Swiss Army knife of a smartphone which boasts biometrics, Bluetooth on a …

    Personal 13 Nov 2002, 22:46

  • ASA clobbers Vodafone for texting and driving

    We're shocked, shocked

    Vodafone's been clobbered - again - by the advertising watchdog following allegations that its saucy ads promote texting while driving. Last month the giant telco got a ticking off after the ASA (Advertising Watchdog Authority) ruled that an ad featuring a semi-naked couple on the bonnet of a car with the woman straddling the …

    Bootnotes 13 Nov 2002, 23:26