23rd January 2003 Archive

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• Microsoft to convert world to “shared source” – by 15,625 AD

  Stampede

  Lost in the ballyhoo about Microsoft "opening" its "secret code" to the world is evidence of real world adoption of the Shared Source programs. Fortunately Microsoft-Benelux has some answers. And they prove that the scheme is far more successful at gathering press coverage than actual users. According to Microsoft-Benelux …

  Software 23 Jan 2003, 00:53

• Firewall/VPN vendors saw growth in 2002

  Big deals

  Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and NetScreen Technologies Inc, rival suppliers of firewall/VPN systems, yesterday both reported pleasing financials for calendar 2002, as demand grows for appliances that protect networks from attack, Kevin Murphy writes. Both companies beat analysts’ estimates. NetScreen posted …

  Business 23 Jan 2003, 09:20

• PeopleSoft sales, profits slip

  But beats targets

  PeopleSoft Inc delivered profits well above its previous guidance when it announced its fourth quarter results yesterday. The Pleasanton, California-based developer turned in sales of $512.3m in the quarter ending December 31, down 5.1% on the previous year. Operating income was down 2.4% to $78.4m, while net income was …

  Business 23 Jan 2003, 09:20

• Siebel reports Q4 loss

  Sharp sales fall

  CRM giant Siebel Systems Inc turned in a fourth quarter loss yesterday on the back of a sharp fall in software revenues. The San Mateo, California-based vendor reported revenues of $394.7m for the quarter ending December 31, down 19.1% on the year. While services, maintenance and other revenues were static, software …

  Business 23 Jan 2003, 09:20

• Sun’s Linux Desktop expected this summer

  Mad Hatter

  Sun Microsystems Inc's alternative to Windows-desktop PCs is scheduled for a summer launch, slipping from Q1, with the company also preparing to change the system’s proposed route to market. Santa Clara, California-based Sun said yesterday its Linux desktop, codenamed Mad Hatter, will ship this summer. However, the company …

  Software 23 Jan 2003, 09:21

• WS-I second round spec homes in on security

  And no, we're not going too fast...

  A Microsoft Corp-backed industry group is preparing its second set of web services specifications to ensure interoperability of emerging XML security standards, writes Gavin Clarke. The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization has created a working group whose task is to map out potential deliverables for a …

  Hardware 23 Jan 2003, 10:40

• SBC enforcing all-encompassing Web patent

  You've been Framed

  SBC Communications Inc is enforcing a patent it owns that, it claims, covers the use of frame-like user interfaces in web sites, it emerged this week Kevin Murphy writes. . If your web site uses a frames or a persistent user interface, then you could be in infringement. Using SBC’s interpretation of its patent, hundreds of …

  Hardware 23 Jan 2003, 10:40

• Hilary Rosen quits RIAA

  And we salute her

  The Recording Industry Association of America's chief Hilary Rosen is to step down after five calamitous years shilling for the music distribution cartel. In that period the pigopoly she represented squandered vast resources it could usefully have spent on creating alternative digital distribution channels on litigation against …

  Music and Media 23 Jan 2003, 12:00

• Nokia claims record Q4

  Not looking so goo this Q

  Nokia ended 2002 with € 8.8bn cash, a record. And it had a storming Q4, so far as volumes are concerned, shipping a record 46 million handsets in the quarter. The company also claims record market share in Q4, estimating that it produced 39 per cent of all handsets sold in the quarter. Profits were up 132 per cent to €1.046bn ( …

  Business 23 Jan 2003, 12:14

• ISP claims to offer ‘free’ broadband

  Deja vu anyone?

  Sceptics and ever-hopeful optimists alike shouldn't have to wait too long for the inside story on freebb.co.uk, a new outfit which claims to be offering free broadband. Those behind the scheme have told El Reg that they'll speak to us tomorrow (Friday) when "further details will be given". "We are of course keen to allay any …

  Telecoms 23 Jan 2003, 12:14

• Open letter

  By Erol Ziya

  AN OPEN LETTER FROM EROL ZIYA TO THE BROADBAND STAKEHOLDER GROUP It would seem that, according to various press reports, the new head of Ofcom is Stephen Carter. Executive summary UK consumers - shafted. Main body As someone who has worked for six years or so now to try and ensure that the needs and the voice of the user / …

  Odds and Sods 23 Jan 2003, 13:10

• Campaigner slams Ofcom's new boss

  Stinging attack on Ofcom chief exec

  A member of the Government's influential Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) has openly criticised the appointment of former NTL boss, Stephen Carter, as chief executive of the new giant communications regulator, Ofcom. In a stinging attack Erol Ziya - a leading campaigner for flat-fee dial-up Net access in the UK and a vocal …

  Data Networking 23 Jan 2003, 13:12

• Linux Comes to Unisys Servers (via SCO)

  Versatile

  SCO is to release versions of its Linux operating system for Unisys Corp’s ES7000 servers and ClearPath mainframes, confirming ComputerWire’s reports of late 2002 that Linux would soon be available for the machines. The development is significant due to Unisys’s tight relationship with Microsoft Corp, and also because it …

  Servers 23 Jan 2003, 13:13

• McAfee highlights mobile network threat risk

  Absurdly precise

  McAfee Security today released research designed to persuade mobile operators to invest more in security - or risk huge loses through malicious attacks by 2005. Mercer Management Consulting, commissioned by McAfee to look into the issue, reckons that from 2005, European operators stand to lose $10.5bn annually, unless they …

  Malware 23 Jan 2003, 15:13

• dabs.com buys French reseller

  For cash

  dabs.com is dipping its toes overseas with the cash purchase of SOS Developers, a French B2B software reseller. The online PC retailer will pay up to €8m, funded out of its cash resources, for the reseller, but there's an unspecified, both in time and amount, earn-out element. According to dabs.com, SOS Developers turns over € …

  Channel 23 Jan 2003, 15:31

• ISPA posts shortlists for Internet industry awards

  Judges' decision is final

  A polite and respectful ripple of applause for the following item please. ISPA (the Internet Service Provider's Association) has just announced the nominees for this year's industry awards. So, put your hands togeher for AOL, Easynet, Freeserve, NTL and PlusNet who've been nominated for the for the best consumer unmetered ISP …

  Music and Media 23 Jan 2003, 15:32

• One, two, three, four MS alerts are at our door

  Redmond AlertWatch

  Today's inbox is packed with security alerts from Microsoft. You wait ages - OK, days, maybe weeks - for Microsoft vulns, then four come at once. Just like London's buses. And so to Microsoft's first security alert of 2003. A buffer overflow flaw in the Locator Service in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP can allow …

  Security 23 Jan 2003, 17:59

• Row brews over Eircom's low-cost DSL

  Guess what? BT is the underdog

  Esat BT has attacked Eircom's introduction of a new DSL service in Ireland as anti-competitive because the incumbent did not offer a wholesale version before its launch. Eircom said today that it will introduce a new mass market, low-cost broadband DSL service from March 2003. With an intended monthly charge of €45 per month ( …

  Telecoms 23 Jan 2003, 18:11

• NSI sends customer list to customer list

  Spammers' goldmine

  The consolidated e-mail addresses of many thousands of .org Web site owners has accidentally been included in a mass customer-notification missive from NSI to each address included in the list. A 1.7 MB text file forwarded to us by a number of moderately displeased NSI customers lists every contact e-mail connected to .org …

  Security 23 Jan 2003, 21:23

• Nintendo confirms next-gen console

  Life after GameCube

  Nintendo says it plans to a launch a new console to replace Gamecube in 2005 or 2006, scotching speculation that it plans to exit the console hardware marketd, NCL president Satoru Iwata told Reuters: "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business". The GameCube is now …

  Personal 23 Jan 2003, 22:00

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