28th January 2003 Archive

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i2 to re-cook books

Ariba Me 2

The former high-flying i2 Technologies Inc is to re-audit its financial results for 2000 and 2001, and also faces the humiliation of being delisted from Nasdaq, writes Tom Jowitt. The move follows an internal investigation of allegations regarding the company's financial reporting. The announcement comes on top of recent …

Business 28 Jan 2003, 08:47
IBM gets down to business with Grids

Grid Iron

IBM Corp yesterday announced ten new grid computing initiatives that are the culmination of six months of marketing and partnering work after the establishment of a cross-divisional organization last June that handles all development, alliances, marketing, strategy, and sales for grid technologies within IBM, writes …

Servers 28 Jan 2003, 08:48
Sun pencils Feb 10 for server refresh

Light Weight 8

Sun Microsystems Inc is getting ready to make announcements from its Volume Systems Products group on February 10, writes Timothy Prickett Morgan. The company was expected by many to announce the 12-way V1280 value-priced UltraSparc-III server, a kicker to the eight-way V880. Sun may also make its much-anticipated first …

Servers 28 Jan 2003, 08:48
VeriSign ‘violates DNS’ – IAB

Deviant

The Internet Architecture Board, which oversees the internet's standard-setting bodies, this weekend criticized as "a violation of the DNS protocol" a service VeriSign Inc recently introduced to help web users use non-English letters in domain names, writes Kevin Murphy. In a letter to the Internet Corp for Assigned Names …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 08:49
.org handover ‘successful’

Seamless

The handover of the management of the .org top-level internet domain from VeriSign Inc to the Public Internet Registry, an affiliate of the Internet Society, was successfully completed over the weekend, PIR said yesterday. Afilias Ltd, which has the contract to provide back-end systems for PIR, said the cutover left .org domain …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 08:49
Easynet ‘categorically denies’ child porn allegations

Ponders legal action

Easynet has strongly denied allegations made in a Sunday newspaper that it is "peddling child porn" and "making money from child porn". The Observer article claimed that Easynet customers have access to newsgroups which contained images of children engaged in sex acts. But in a statement the ISP said: "The Observer published …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 11:30
Man sacked for blogging

Blogger

A Brit living and working in the US has been sacked from his job for running a blog. Iain Murray - who until recently was the Director of Research for a Washington DC-based non-profit organisation - is currently considering whether to pursue legal action against his former employer. With that in mind he is reluctant to say …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 12:14
Mixed fortunes in becalmed storage market

Order cancellations

The enterprise storage and switches market experienced better than expected US sales last quarter, but European revenues fell short of expectations. That's according to the latest survey of storage resellers by channel consultancy Global Touch which reports how mixed fortunes for the channel on either side of the Atlantic …

Business 28 Jan 2003, 12:15
Where the hell is my website?

Feature Part I: The nightmare and the US system

"My primary domain name has disappeared from the face of the earth without warning or any reminder whatsoever earlier this morning," - Register reader's email to us, December 2002. "You are offering for sale my domains, which are not yours to sell," - a reader's email to Network Solutions, cc'ed to us, December 2002. Non- …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 12:54
Politicians must do more for broadband

Pull yer fingers out

Political leaders must do more to help the development and take-up of broadband in Europe if they want to secure the benefits of a wired world. So said European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen today as he convened a day-long workshop on broadband in a bid to hear what different countries and organisations are doing to drive forward …

Telecoms 28 Jan 2003, 16:03
IBM looks to summer release for T-Rex mainframe

A bit of a dinosaur

IBM is expected to begin selling its most powerful mainframe to date in the second half of this year. Code named T-Rex, the zSeries giant is expected to scale to 450 million instructions each second, or a third more than its existing top of the range z900 mainframe, according to wire reports. Analyst Phil Payne, of Isham …

Servers 28 Jan 2003, 16:08
Purple Software goes tits up

Creditors' meeting

The liquidators were called in last week to wind up the affairs of Purple Software, the mobile games software company. A creditors' meeting has been called for February 7, by London-based insolvency practitioners Middleton Partners. This will decide upon a creditor's voluntary winding up, called under Section 98 of the 1986 …

Mobile 28 Jan 2003, 16:34
EasyInternetcafe loses CD burning court battle

Victory for BPI

Cybercafe chain EasyInternetcafe has lost its High Court battle with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) over allegations that it offered a commercial service burning illegally downloaded music onto recordable CDs for customers. The BPI maintained that EasyInternetcafe - founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou and part of the Easy …

Music and Media 28 Jan 2003, 16:35
Server shipments rise in 2002

Investment stagnation

Global server shipments grew by 4.2 per cent in 2002, but economic downturns in key regions continued to impact on the sector's chances of a major up-turn. Preliminary findings from research firm Dataquest suggest that worldwide server shipments totalled 4.6 million in 2002, up 4.2 per cent over the previous year. However, …

Business 28 Jan 2003, 16:54
Apple unwraps tower PowerMac G4s

Big beast

Apple today let slip the new Power Mac G4 on to its web site. So let's race through some spec: it comes in three flavours, a 1GHz single-processor model, and 1.25GHz and 1.42GHz dualies. The latter are fitted with 2MB Level 3 cache. All three support 4x AGP graphics. Prices start at $1,499 for the base single-processor version …

Mac Channel 28 Jan 2003, 17:13
Linux infiltrates Homeland Security, and other conspiracies

Strategic Tux Initiative...

A tipster draws our attention to a posting from one Saddam Hussein on the linux-elitists list, pointing out an oddity concerning the US Department of Homeland Security's newly-launched web site. The site was announced on Friday, running on a spiffy combo of Linux and Oracle 9i, but if you consult its recent history at Netcraft …

Bootnotes 28 Jan 2003, 17:23
Missing Sun chip found in abandoned taqueria

Waiter - my Jalapeno's cold

The much-delayed Jalapeno chip has been rediscovered. Workmen renovating an abandoned taqueria in Sunnyvale, California found the processor and returned it to its owner, Sun Microsystems. UltraSPARC IIIi was revealed to the world here many moons ago, or June 2001 to be precise. The plan was to include the cost-conscious design …

Channel 28 Jan 2003, 19:20
MS struggles to contain the Slammer worm

MemoWatch : The worm that turned

An insight into the problems faced by Microsoft indealing with the Slammer (aka Sapphire) worm is revealed in internal company memos leaked to El Reg. The email memos from Microsoft security team (18 in all of which we publish only the first [most illuminating] four) reveal a giant corporation struggling to contain the effects …

Malware 28 Jan 2003, 21:18