27th November 2002 Archive

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• Sun builds StarOffice SDK

  Office macro conversion

  Sun Microsystems Inc is building a StarOffice developers kit, to further boost its desktop productivity suite's chances against Microsoft Corp's Office, writes Gavin Clarke. Santa Clara, California-based Sun told ComputerWire it is working on developer tools which simplify construction of both enhancements to StarOffice …

  Software 27 Nov 2002, 01:12

• South Korea leads the way on 3G (even though it's 2.5G)

  How it should work

  South Korea may be the great world economy recovery play, but it's only just out of the sick bay. And, as the case of the sorry Hynix illustrates, admittedly in extremis, the world's eleventh biggest economy has to overcome this basic problem - not enough profit and too much debt. But in some matters South Korea is world-class …

  Mobile 27 Nov 2002, 01:20

• Shareholders block C&W chairman choice

  Nash Trashed

  Institutional investors have blocked the appointment of David Nash as the next chairman of Cable & Wireless Plc, and have forced the loss-making carrier to look for someone from outside the company. Non-executive director Nash was due to become chairman at the end of this year. But after a meeting between directors and …

  Business 27 Nov 2002, 09:27

• Vivendi fills war chest for Cegetel battle

  No-one dies in NeverNeverLand

  French media giant Vivendi Universal SA has signed a 1bn euro ($1bn) loan with its banks, in a clear sign to the market that it is ready to enter a bidding war with Vodafone Group Plc for control of French telecom operator Cegetel SA. The new financing, added to recent asset sales, should give the Paris-based conglomerate …

  Mobile 27 Nov 2002, 09:28

• Sun on track for $2.9bn in Q2

  Analysts get sums right shock

  Sun Microsystems Inc yesterday held its traditional mid-quarter update with Wall Street analysts and confirmed that the company was on track to meet the analyst consensus of about $2.9bn in sales for the second fiscal quarter ending in December, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. However, Stephen McGowan, Sun's chief …

  Business 27 Nov 2002, 09:30

• WorldCom settles with SEC

  Still in rehab

  The US Securities and Exchange Commission drew a line under its fraud action against WorldCom Inc yesterday, when the embattled telecoms carrier agreed to a partial settlement in the case. The move marks a major step forward in Clinton, Mississippi-based WorldCom's rehabilitation effort yesterday, and its efforts to emerge …

  Business 27 Nov 2002, 09:30

• 2003 Tech spending flatter than flat pancake

  More consolidation - Gartner

  Tech budgets through 2003 will not grow as many predict, falling instead by 0.03%, finds a new tech spending confidence study from Gartner. It might not sound like much but it shows the tech blues will continue for at least another year. Tech spending in 2003 will be flat, the same as in 2002. One can assume that the IT …

  Business 27 Nov 2002, 10:45

• Free Chinese Net users – Amnesty

  Prisoners of conscience

  Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to free all those who've been locked up for using the Internet to express their views or share information. The group claims that at least 33 people - including writers and political activists - have been detained for Net-related offences. Two of those died in custody …

  Media 27 Nov 2002, 10:48

• Possessed! The Solaris font daemon

  Crusty old buffer

  A buffer overflow risk exists in the font service which ships with Solaris. There is a workaround, but no comprehensive fix just yet. Security clearing house CERT warns in an advisory that Solaris X Window Font Service (XFS) daemon (fs.auto) contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability which could allow an …

  Security 27 Nov 2002, 10:49

• Chip industry heads for bounce back

  Dataquest revise figures

  The latest slump in the semiconductor industry has hit beyond the usual manufacturing base of Intel et al and reached right out to the UK with its community of specialist chip designers - the effects of which have been devastating. With redundancies, office and plant closures this has been, "...the worst recession in the …

  Channel 27 Nov 2002, 10:57

• Incorporated man makes ‘murder confession’ online – arrest follows

  Unabomber redux?

  New Hampshire police arrested a man yesterday after a poster 'confessed' to the murder of a California policeman online. In this extraordinary post to San Francisco's Indymedia site on Monday evening, one "Andrew McCrae" wrote:- "Hello Everyone, my name’s Andy. I killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, California in a motion to …

  Media 27 Nov 2002, 13:34

• Lik-Sang changes hands, preps mod-chip court case

  Blimey

  Lik-Sang, the Hong Kong based online retailer of videogames "accessories", is to hand over the running of its business to a company called Pacific Game Technology Limited, in a move designed to allow the current management of the company to focus on fighting its forthcoming court case against Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The …

  Personal 27 Nov 2002, 13:35

• Danish anti pirates continue to target copyright theft

  Ongoing campaign

  The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) is to continue targeting Net users who swap copyright material illegally. Confirmation that the APG is to continue its hard line comes after it issued invoices totalling 1m Danish Crowns (£86,200) to around 150 users of KaZaA and eDonkey for allegedly illegally swapping …

  Media 27 Nov 2002, 16:42

• First hackers sighted in high speed mobile phone arena

  T-Mobile puts up firewall to guard against risk

  T-Mobile has installed a firewall on its GPRS network in the States after a small number of users complained of receiving hacker probes when using its high-speed mobile service. The issue came to light after Mike Palmer, the technology director for the broadcast division of AP, spotted numerous probes against his PC while using …

  Security 27 Nov 2002, 16:47

• BT's broadband registration scheme a ‘shambles’

  Think of the punters

  The organiser behind a campaign to get his local exchange upgraded to ADSL has described BT's pre-registration scheme as a "shambles". Lee Stoneman is the driving force behind the campaign to bring broadband to Worle, near Weston Super Mare. Three weeks after reaching its trigger point of 400 registrations, fewer that 15 per …

  Broadband 27 Nov 2002, 16:50

• BTo anti-spam move kills its users' mail servers

  D'oh...

  BTopenworld anti-spam measures introduced today are preventing customers with dynamic IPs from running their own mail servers. The prohibition comes after that the ISP blocked inbound port 25 communications on all of its narrowband services (except Connect LAN with static IP address) and most of its broadband services. Of these …

  Media 27 Nov 2002, 16:53

• SMS security risks highlighted by Friends Reunited hacking case

  But you knew that, didn't you?

  Breach of trust by two dismissed mm02 workers, rather than deeper problems, led to the release of private text messages to a jealous boyfriend that sparked a campaign on revenge against his cheating girlfriend. Last week, 21 year-old student Philip Nourse was jailed for five months at Guildford Crown Court for his subsequent …

  Security 27 Nov 2002, 16:57

• We've got a mobile computing survey which wants filling

  Help us to help you etc.

  We are, at long last, thinking of setting up a mobile/PDA Reg, but it needs funding. For The Register that means numbers to crunch for advertisers. Rather than make up the figures, we thought we'd ask the people who know best. You. So we've compiled a reader survey. If you have 10 minutes or so out of to spare, oh, and have an …

  Bootnotes 27 Nov 2002, 22:58

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