19th November 2002 Archive
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Zippy – a Lotus Notes for the rest of us?
Groupware on a stick
A fresh approach to workgroup collaboration and file sharing will emerge this week with the launch of Zippy. It's a hosted service that offers file sharing, instant messaging and PIM functionality for a fixed fee per user per month. Zippy was founded by John Carosella, formerly of Ipsilon and Nokia, who devised the CheckPoint …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 00:42
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CA founder Wang retires
Kumar takes reins
Computer Associates International Inc has announced that its founder Charles Wang has retired as chairman of its board of directors, effective immediately, and that the board has elected president and CEO, Sanjay Kumar, to replace him. No reasons were given for Wang's departure from the Islandia, New York-based company's …
Hardware 19 Nov 2002, 08:24
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Microsoft Business Framework: The 10-year plan
Single code base, new platform
Microsoft is in for the long haul as far as its business applications are concerned with a 10-year development plan and a new Microsoft Business Framework to support the basket of disparate applications offered under the Microsoft Business Solutions banner. In an interview with ComputerWire, Simon Edwards UK MD of …
Hardware 19 Nov 2002, 08:24
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Windows .NET Server slips (again) to April 03
The final countdown
Delivery of Microsoft Corp's latest server operating system Windows .NET Server 2003 has slipped for a second time, as the company attempts to unify developers around its .NET strategy, writes Gavin Clarke. During his Comdex Fall 2002 opening keynote speech this week, Microsoft's chairman and chief executive Bill Gates …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 08:25
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C&W reveals lease liabilities
Investors plot coup
Cable & Wireless Plc has been forced to clarify its outstanding lease commitments in the face of suspicions that big cut-backs in its international operations would leave it with huge liabilities on leases of property that it will vacate. C&W insisted that the £700m ($1.1bn) lease commitments that follow the restructuring …
Business 19 Nov 2002, 08:25
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JD Edwards tidies management mess
Reshuffle
JD Edwards has eliminated the position of chief operating officer as it reorganizes its executive reporting lines. Hank Bonde, who served as COO since joining the company in February 2001, will leave the company on December 31. The company said the move is designed to enable it to increase its responsiveness and the speed …
Business 19 Nov 2002, 08:25
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Comcast largest cable firm after AT&T buy
Big Broadband
Comcast Corp yesterday became the world's largest cable company, following its merger with AT&T Broadband, which was spun off from parent AT&T Corp yesterday as part of the $29.2bn deal. The new Comcast Corp has 21.4 million cable TV subscribers and is worth an estimated $60bn. The company obtained regulatory clearance for …
Business 19 Nov 2002, 08:25
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Compel takes £400K restructuring charge
Gloomy trading statement
Compel, the mid-range computer dealer/rental firm, is to take a £400,000 charge for bringing expenses into line with business levels and prospects. The company says it "remains sound and strongly funded" and insists that costs are "largely" under control, but it is gloomy about trading. In an AGM statement released today, …
Channel 19 Nov 2002, 09:33
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Intel spruces Xeon line
CPUs, chipsets, mobos
Only Tuesday, and already it's an exhausting week for product launches with world+dog determined to make a noise for Comdex. Intel is not one to let a PR opportunity go to waste and is leading this week with a big refresh for Xeon, the almost-venerable server CPU line. It's not the first product group that springs to mind for a …
Servers 19 Nov 2002, 10:24
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Sun kills COD server price premium
Capacity on Demand
Sun Microsystems Inc today will revamp its capacity on demand offering for its Sun Fire midframe and enterprise servers, writes Timothy Prickett Morgan. Sun was the first vendor to offer COD, jumping into the game in late 1999 one day ahead of Hewlett Packard Co. The original Sun and HP COD offerings for their Unix servers …
Servers 19 Nov 2002, 10:36
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Heathrow thieves steal 1,400 SPV Orange smartphones
The Sting(er)
Thieves made off with 1,400 Orange SPV (Sounds Picture Video) smartphones after raiding a warehouse in Heathrow last Friday. The theft has led to rumbles of discontent on Internet bulletin boards from small retailers who were due to take delivery of long-awaited Orange SPV phone, which is based on Microsoft's Stinger (Windows …
Mobile 19 Nov 2002, 13:08
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FAST hails copyright ‘big stick’
PC Seizures R'US
On November 20, Copyright etc and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002 comes into force. This will see the balance of power between copyright holders and consumers tilted significantly away from the latter. FAST, the Federation against Software Theft, a rival (and as such mostly inconsequential) to the Business …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 13:08
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mmO2 climbs towards black
Improves on all key metrics
mm02 is claiming a good set of interims with EBITDA (Earnings before Bad Stuff) achieved in all four countries where it operates a mobile phone network. The news that O2 is now generating positive EBITDA in Germany, Europe's fiercest market - and where it is weakest - is particularly good news to shareholders. Group revenue is …
Mobile 19 Nov 2002, 13:30
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Vodafone touts remote access for road warriors
Might not cost a packet
Vodafone has released a new GPRS-based mobile data service providing business customers with remote access to their offices. The Remote Access product allows business customers to connect to their corporate LAN to access e-mail, calendar and other business applications from remote locations. The service is available immediately …
Mobile 19 Nov 2002, 13:48
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IBM wins US Gov super computer deal
Bags $290m for two monsters
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded IBM a $290 million contract to build the two fastest supercomputers in the world with a combined peak speed of 460 trillion calculations per second (teraflops). The first supercomputer (ASCI Purple) will be used to simulate the ageing and operation of US nuclear weapons. The second …
Servers 19 Nov 2002, 14:15
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MS accused of banning mod chip Xbox from Live service
Have they got a little list?
Microsoft's campaign against Xbox mod chips has ratcheted up a notch with the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming service. According to a posting at Got Mod?, (there's a site that's going to be pretty concerned about the issue) the company is attempting to detect mod chips when users connect, then placing them on a banned list …
Personal 19 Nov 2002, 15:40
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BT touts broadband for everyone
Every day, in every way, we're getting faster and faster
BT today announced that broadband would reach 80 per cent of the UK in the next few years. Speaking at the e-Summit in London, BT Retail chief exec Pierre Danon said the current momentum of broadband roll-out meant that many more people could get broadband in the near future. The optimism surrounding the availability of …
Telecoms 19 Nov 2002, 16:13
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IBM's S/390 Linux guru on the Open Source patent question
An old interview, but a good one...
Following yesterday's piece on Microsoft playing the patent card against Linux we were pointed to an interview with IBM's Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer at Linux Forum Denmark. It's been around for a while, but Strassemeyer has some interesting things to say about IBM, Linux and patents, so it's still worth looking at. Strassemeyer, …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 16:53
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WinXP ‘Second Edition’ leaks
2003 update now a racing cert
Back in March we brought you the news that Microsoft was preparing enterprise customers for an evolutionary (read: "cashflow-friendly") upgrade to Windows XP, dubbed "XP Second Edition", as an interim before the much-vaunted Longhorn overhaul. That looks a little more likely after the leak last night of a fresh Longhorn build …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 19:42
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HPQ storage blitz shows continued convergence
Small earthquake...
HP has announced a swathe of new StorageWorks products and upgrades, to shore up its position in the multi-vendor networked storage business. If any more proof were needed that the Compaq team holds the reins in the New HP's storage group, all are part of ENSAextended, the latest version of Compaq's Enterprise Network Storage …
Storage 19 Nov 2002, 21:35
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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life
Bit of a phone phreak
Usenet posts show Gary McKinnon was a bit of a phone phreak, knew where to buy lock picks, and had an early interest in defense computers. A former employer says he was bored at work. The British man accused of the most ambitious hack attacks against Defense Department computers in years was also a fine network administrator, …
Security 19 Nov 2002, 21:57
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Linux Professional Institute raises the bar on testing
Linux Certs (part one)
The Linux Professional Intitute isn't out to make money. That could be the factor that sets this Linux certification agency apart from the others - if nothing else, LPI can certainly claim to be the only certification body with non-profit status. Not having to focus on the bottom line provides certain benefits to people who …
Software 19 Nov 2002, 22:12
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Edubroadband, edubroadband, edubroadband
For all UK schools by 2006
Tony Blair today commited the government to funding the provision of broadband to every school in the UK by 2006. Speaking at the e-Summit in London, the Prime Minister said that IT was essential to the future of the UK economy. Blair said that the fundamental challenge is to create a knowledge driven economy that serves the …
Telecoms 19 Nov 2002, 22:33
