27th January 2003 Archive

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Channel

• Dealer uproar prompts Sage rethink over price rises Line 50 Dancing
• Infineon turns screws on ProMOS License? What License!

Comms: Mobile

• MMS revenues will disappoint – report All is not lost
• Orange and 02 users able exchange picture messages today But will the MMS bug spread?
• Orange pitches standards-based M2M Man to Machine
• Paybox scraps m-payment service Looking for big companies
• Purple Software considers future Takes time over wording

Comms: Networks

• Broadband awareness soars Eight out of ten cats prefer broadband
• Firstnet confirms Liberty Broadband buyout Like pulling teeth
• Telewest in cut-price self-install broadband deal No 'gimmick'

Hardware

• Novell slashes Directory prices Unexpected headache for Sun

Hardware: Servers

• Windows NT 4.0 Server gets another year's life Security hotfix support to remain until end 2004

Management

• Register.com rejects ‘inadequate’ hostile bid Too much pressure
• SEC probes Ariba over restatement Dangerous distraction

Music and Media

• Child porn list leaked to Sunday Times The Great and not so Good
• Crooks harvest bank details from Net kiosk We have a victim. There may be many more
• Internet suicide chat room killer held Houston police seize would-be sex strangler
• Microsoft Data Protection Register entry expires Doh!

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH 2002: A Reader's Digest Travelling Companion

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Beware new Nigerian Bush spam scam Well connected autocrat seeks your money

Odds and Sods: Letters

• FoTW: "Look in the mirror, Mr Piranha" Flame of The Week It's the public dole for us
• On stats and chatroom paedophiles Letter

Security

• Microsoft preps Firewall upgrade 'More and more filters'
• PKWare adds RSA crypto across Zip Have-nots become Haves

Security: Anti-Virus

• ATMs, ISPs hit by Slammer worm spread Damage reports
• SQL worm slams the Net Slammer gobbles Internet bandwidth

Software

• Bad publicity, clashes trigger MS Palladium name change To Labbatts Apollo. Well no, not really...
• Red Hat intros 12 month only support on ‘consumer’ OSes Surely not a 'switch to Advanced Server' stick, people?