30th January 2003 Archive

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• EBay pulls CNET staff auction

  Top web professionals for "Under a Tenner"

  EBay has pulled an auction in which the entire staff of ZDNet's Tech Update were available for sale. Personnel included three staff in San Francisco and seven in Boston, and touted the group as "formerly a vital division of one of the top ten highest-trafficked sites on the Web, currently available to instantly implement …

  Bootnotes 30 Jan 2003, 01:20

• NTT links mobile videophones with PCs

  Trials

  Japan's biggest telecoms company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT), is to launch a videophone platform that connects 3G phones and PCs. The NTT Group said on Tuesday that the platform will enable PC users with high-speed Internet connections to communicate via video with owners of NTT DoCoMo third-generation mobile …

  Mobile 30 Jan 2003, 10:07

• E-voting: another UK Government gimmick?

  Click early. Click often

  The UK Government is expanding its programme for testing "e-voting". In 2003 it will enable over 1.5 million voters to cast their votes in local elections electronically, writes Bob McDowall. The Electoral Commission, following successful trials last year, has approved extensions of the trials this year. Eighteen local …

  Music and Media 30 Jan 2003, 10:32

• Nintendo reveals GBA SP Japanese launch plans

  Big ship-out

  The latest version of the GameBoy will launch in Japan on February 14, with 300,000 units of the hardware available at launch, retailing at 12,500 yen - approximately £68 - and fully equipped with an oft-requested internal lighting system for the screen, as revealed earlier this month. Nintendo has also teamed up with Square …

  Personal 30 Jan 2003, 10:33

• Retiring old Microsoft OSes – how it works

  OEM licence Ts & Cs save crazy customers from selves, apparently...

  The processes whereby Microsoft squeezes a product out of the system and 'encourages' customers to migrate to the shiny new stuff are many, varied, and fairly well-known. But it's still worth documenting the occasional eye-witness account of how it works in practice. This week, when Microsoft has kindly extended the operational …

  Software 30 Jan 2003, 10:51

• AOL TW posts record $99bn loss

  It's only money

  AOL Time Warner lost a stonking $99bn last year. Still there's no need to be glum. The giant media and Internet may have lost loads of cash, but at least it earned something - a place in the history books as the company that notched up the biggest loss in US corporate history. Half of the loss came with $45.5bn charge in Q4 to …

  Business 30 Jan 2003, 11:48

• SAP money machine carries on regardless

  Slump? What Slump!

  Mighty SAP continues to shrug off all thoughts of IT recession, reporting higher margins on flat sales, and growing market share in Q4. Fourth quarter net income was €474m (2001:€319m) and margins were a whopping 34 per cent, compared with 22.7 per cent for the full year (calendar 2002) and 20 per cent in 2001. Revenues in Q4 …

  Hardware 30 Jan 2003, 12:13

• Dell and Tiscali hold hands

  Preload deal done

  Tiscali UK has signed a two-year distribution deal with Dell to pre-install dial-up and broadband software on the PC-maker's Dimension desktops and Inspiron laptops. The deal was struck a couple of months ago but was formally announced yesterday. Which explains why, from December 18, all you punters out there with a spanking …

  Personal 30 Jan 2003, 12:14

• Oracle All-in-One: price cuts or not?

  Count fingers - Gartner

  Oracle last week introduced All-in-One, a one price package for Oracle apps. Application licenses, installations and upgrades are all included in the deal. The enterprise software vendor sets out its stall here. Sounds good? Anything that introduces transparency and predictability to Oracle prices is to be welcomed. The …

  Hardware 30 Jan 2003, 13:49

• Bugging warrants double under Labour

  I spy with my all-encompassing eye

  The headline figure of communication warrants issued in the UK, hide the fact that authorised surveillance has more than doubled since the Labour government came to power in 1997. Figures published by the Interception of Communications Commissioner for England, Wales and Scotland (no figures have ever been made available on …

  Music and Media 30 Jan 2003, 13:53

• Canada's biggest Identity theft?

  IBM Hard drive contains 180K records

  IBM has lost a hard drive containing the records of 180,000 clients of an insurance company. Details include "names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names", according to wire reports. Anything else? Oh yes, their bank account details. …

  Security 30 Jan 2003, 14:47

• '$1m hacking challenge' product is flawed

  AlphaShield cracks

  AlphaShield's "unhackable" consumer security device isn't unhackable, Spanish white hat hackers claim. In a post to BugTraq, Infohacking.com reports that AlphaShield's appliances are prone to a flaw that could allow a cracker to inject packets into an established session. Potentially, this compromises the security of the device …

  Security 30 Jan 2003, 15:04

• Red Hat preps wider range of ‘Advanced’ server, client OSes

  And Advanced Server goes to five year support minimum

  Red Hat's new support policy for operating systems represents a long-delayed tidying up, and is only - as some of you have suggested - part of the whole picture, says company VP, product strategy, Erik Troan. At the moment, the company has a three- to five-year policy (which is being 'clarified' to a minimum of five this week) …

  Software 30 Jan 2003, 15:16

• Union recruits disgruntled workers at Time

  Unofficial strike called off

  The GMB union has launched a campaign to recruit employees of Time Computers in Burnley. Officials of the GMB have already held a number of "factory gate" recruitment drives signing up employees as they enter or leave the company's premises. So far, around 100 Time employees have joined the GMB. But the union is looking to …

  Channel 30 Jan 2003, 16:27

• Siebel swallows poison pill

  Feeling vulnerable, are we?

  Siebel Systems has a swallowed a poison pill to frighten away predators. The CRM vendor's board of directors today announced a Stockholder Rights Plan, a genteel term. Here's the deal. All stockholders of record as of February 13, 2003 will receive rights to purchase shares of a new series of preferred stock. The Rights Plan …

  Hardware 30 Jan 2003, 18:19

• Messenger Pop-up Spam makes us sick

  Kill and cure

  In recent days, pop-up spam has begun appearing, by way of Windows Messenger, on the home computer of a Reg staffer. Mostly, the messages promote porn sites. Last October, we revealed that a firm called DirectAdvertiser had worked out a way of using the Windows RPC (Remote Procedure Call) function to send spam messages which …

  Security 30 Jan 2003, 20:40

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