20th December 2002 Archive
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W3C sets specs for browser, player accessibility
Usability
Standards for accessibility to browsers and multimedia players have been hammered out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) after four-years' work. The Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 were ratified this week and set standards for developers of audio and video players, and web browser applications so products can …
Music and Media 20 Dec 2002, 08:38
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W3C, vendors dust down over WS-Choreography?
Or dust up Or dust up Or dust up
A New Year stand-off is brewing, after a leading standards group kicked off its ratifcation procedure for Web services choreography but three major vendors remained aloof from the process, Gavin Clarke writes. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating a working group to develop a standard for WS-Choreography, a …
Hardware 20 Dec 2002, 08:38
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The Microsoft CRM wait goes on
Opening new markets
The Microsoft Business Solutions division of Microsoft Corp is remaining circumspect about the new release date for its CRM software, following its last-minute announcement on Wednesday that it would not make its end of year delivery deadline. The company said the application is still on course for delivery in the very …
Hardware 20 Dec 2002, 08:38
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Veritas picks up blade, app management mavens
Cash (mostly) buyer
Storage management software specialist Veritas Software Corp has dipped into its sizeable cash reserves to buy two companies which despite appearances it insists are not systems management companies. The Mountain View, California-based company is acquiring application performance and availability management vendor Precise …
Storage 20 Dec 2002, 08:39
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Comet and Carphone Warehouse to flog AOL broadband
Nuff said
AOL UK has signed extended distribution deals with Comet and the Carphone Warehouse to flog its broadband service and ADSL starter kits. Comet is promoting and distributing AOL Broadband in its 260 stores across the UK. The Carphone Warehouse will begin punting the service next year. Both deals are extensions of existing …
Telecoms 20 Dec 2002, 12:40
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Police investigate porn DVD bought at Dixons
'Totally appalled'
Police in Birmingham have launched an investigation after child pornography was found on a DVD disk bought at a Dixons store in the West Midlands. The disk was part of software sold with a £200 CD rewriter. The family that bought the hardware told the ">Birmingham Post that they were "totally appalled" by what they saw. It …
Music and Media 20 Dec 2002, 12:42
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Welsh Web designer pleads guilty to virus creation
Sentence next year for author of Gokar, Redesi and Admirer
A 21-old Welsh Web designer has pleaded guilty to creating and distributing three mass mailer viruses, in a hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court this morning. Simon Vallor, of Llandudno, North Wales, admitted offences under section three of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in creating the Gokar, Redesi and Admirer mass mailing …
Security 20 Dec 2002, 14:59
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Student gets merit award for school computer hack
Grade A for cracking
High school student Reid Ellison did exactly the opposite of what most students would do when he hacked into his school computer records - he marked his grades down. The bright 15-year old changed his grades at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California from a A to a D+. However, Reid didn't get into trouble for his …
Security 20 Dec 2002, 15:01
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One Click Fraud: more MS scammers likely
Approval ratings
This week Seattle FBI told The Register that more arrests in the Daniel Feussner case were unlikely. Feussner was the Microsoft employee charged last week with selling $9 million of stolen software. But Microsoft itself believes more cases will be unearthed as it investigates abuse of its internal purchasing system, The Seattle …
Business 20 Dec 2002, 19:04
