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  • HTC, T-Mobile to launch Orange-like MS smartphone

    You're never alone with a clone

    High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) is prepping its second Windows Powered Smartphone 2002-based handset. The new GSM/GPRS handset, details of which were first revealed on the Federal Communications Commission's web site last month, will be launched with Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile International mobile network unit this quarter …

    Mobile 6 Jan 2003, 09:50

  • VeriSign Registry Service opens door for DNS redirects

    Character References

    VeriSign Inc on Friday announced how it intends to help overseas internet users access web sites in their own languages, but the system it introduced marks an unprecedented change to the domain name system that has some concerned, Kevin Murphy. Some commentators said that the proprietary way VeriSign has tweaked its .com and . …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 09:51

  • Network-1 runs out of cash, seeks buyer

    Firewall line up for grabs

    Network-1 Security Solutions Inc, the Nasdaq-listed firewall vendor, said last week it is seeking a buyer for the company and for its CyberwallPLUS distributed firewall product line, as it rapidly runs out of cash to continue operations. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based firm said in November it could not foresee any material …

    Storage 6 Jan 2003, 09:51

  • Kiwis redesign the ‘Back’ button

    Don't let me be misunderstood

    The highly used "back" button on common browsers has been redesigned in a move that could make navigating the Web more efficient. Computer scientists in New Zealand have developed a system that records every page in the order it was visited. The current back button stacking system only records index pages. With the back button …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 09:58

  • Linux can do hot backups on Oracle now

    STORserver app

    http://www.newsforge.com/"> Data backups are essential in the enterprise - not just a good idea. STORserver has an interesting backup appliance that installs in fifteen minutes, they say. Now, they're releasing a product that will allow companies to run "hot" backups on Oracle databases, in Linux. It is called SDP - STORserver …

    Storage 6 Jan 2003, 10:06

  • Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner – full details

    Sendo in the clowns

    If Microsoft's extended family of lawyers was thinking it could now kick back and anticipate a kind of extended Spring Break for the rest of this Bush administration, the pre-Xmas filing by British phone company Sendo could yet be the cause of a few unexpected late nights. Sendo's 27-page filing in a Texas court - disclosed …

    Mobile 6 Jan 2003, 10:07

  • Twelfth Night brings ADSL respite

    Epiphany

    Some ADSL users should see an improvement to their broadband service today - as long as they remembered to take down their Christmas decorations on Twelfth Night. It seems a festive message from zensupport.co.uk warned that some flashing Christmas tree lights could cause interference to ADSL kit. The advice from engineers to …

    Telecoms 6 Jan 2003, 11:19

  • Why Wall Street's tech swindlers don't go to jail

    Letters More Spitzer phlegm, feedback and fraud

    In one of many very funny moments in Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore's film about fear, Moore asks the producer of Fox TV's tacky Cops show (the one where cameras follow the police as they go around arresting black people) how he might make a show about white collar crime televisually appealing. "Maybe if they took their …

    Letters 6 Jan 2003, 11:40

  • Which? ditches Web Trader scheme

    Spiralling costs

    The Consumers' Association is to ditch its Which? Web Trader scheme at the end of the month because it costs too much to run. In an email sent out on Friday to etraders which had signed up to the UK-based scheme, the Consumers' Association claimed it has succeeded in its aim to increase consumer confidence in online shopping. …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 12:17

  • MS must ship Sun's Java – Judge

    At least for now

    Sun has won a preliminary injunction in its private antitrust case against Microsoft, requiring the monopolist to carry Sun's Java and not Redmond's feral version. Sun also scored a copyright victory in the Baltimore ruling today. In preliminary hearings this month, Judge Motz compared Microsoft's treatment of Java to the …

    Software 6 Jan 2003, 12:48

  • XP audio vuln shout goes out

    A word in your Shell-like

    XP users were warned last week of a critical buffer overflow flaw in Windows Shell that can be used to run arbitrary code on victims' PCs. The vulnerability, discovered by application security firm Foundstone, involves a fault in a Windows Shell function used to extract custom attribute information from audio files. Windows …

    Security 6 Jan 2003, 12:49

  • Appeals Court overturns VIA-Intel antitrust ruling

    Round 2 to VIA

    The Court of Appeal has paved the way for VIA to conduct an anti-trust case against Intel in England. Earlier this year, VIA issued a writ against Intel in England. In June, Intel applied successfully to the High Court have the case thrown out - a ruling that has now been overturned. Intel must pay costs incurred by VIA in the …

    Channel 6 Jan 2003, 12:49

  • Council workers face Lego email probe

    Some face sack

    Staff at Flintshire County Council are facing disciplinary action after allegations that they abused the local authority's email system. According to a story on ICNorthWales 47 workers have been interviewed as part of an investigation. Most of those concerned have already been dealt with but it seems a small handful could face …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 14:19

  • Watch out! There's a chatroom paedophile about

    £1m Govt ad campaign

    The Home Office today announced a £1m advertising campaign to warn children and their parents of the dangers of chat-room paedophiles, "without demonising the Internet". The government web site www.thinkuknow.co.uk has been redeveloped and updated with information and advice for young people who use the Internet. The Home …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 15:18

  • NTL in alleged hack probe

    New Year's fun and games

    NTL has launched an internal investigation following allegations that a Web site critical of the company was hacked by someone from within the cableco. The alleged incident, which took place on New Year's Eve, resulted in subscribers of ntlhell.co.uk receiving an email containing the phrase "ntlhell.co.uk is shitntlhell.co.uk" …

    Security 6 Jan 2003, 15:57

  • Hackers take on MS on copyright protection for eBooks

    Legally fraught

    Irked at his inability to read Microsoft eBooks on his older Win CE device, UK programmer Dan Jackson has set up a project to improve file conversion tools. Jackson obtained the source code of a program called Convert Lit (or clit.exe, no sniggering at the back there) from its developers and posted it on his Web site. He wants …

    Software 6 Jan 2003, 16:16

  • Flood warning site swamped by demand

    Their CSS runneth over

    Things are beginning to return to normal after the Environment Agency's flood warning Web site was swamped with demand last week. From last Thursday, surfers inquiring on the Agency's site about the likely impact on them of Britain's recent bad weather were treated with '504 Gateway Timeout' messages instead. If they were lucky …

    Music and Media 6 Jan 2003, 17:26