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14th February 2003 Archive

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  • Make Love To Your IT Manager on Valentine's Day

    Love is in the air, and in IT press releases

    Microsoft is appealing to computer users to save their IT Managers' heartache this Valentine's Day by...being vigilant and guarding against computer viruses. It does this through a press notice titled: Microsoft Launches Nationwide Appeal to UK Businesses: "Make Love To Your IT Manager this Valentine's Day". Unfortunately the …

    Malware 14 Feb 2003, 09:56

  • Nintendo games seized in Chinese piracy raids

    GBA haul

    Authorities in southern China have recovered around 300,000 counterfeit Nintendo games in factory raids, including copies of the recent released Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby for the Game Boy Advance. This latest batch of raids - on factories in the Guangdong province, which borders the notorious piracy hotbed of Hong Kong - marks …

    Channel 14 Feb 2003, 10:19

  • Microsoft returns to form with InfoPath

    Data capture

    Microsoft has unveiled a new XML-based product for the Office group which allows users build dynamic forms to share with clients and colleagues. InfoPath, formerly codenamed XDocs, is a client application that combines traditional word processing programs with the data-capture capabilities of a forms package. Based on XML, …

    Hardware 14 Feb 2003, 10:19

  • Reg is UK's No.1 IT news site – official

    Hits up, trumpets blown

    It's official: The Register is the UK's No.1 UK IT Media website. Q4 2002 figures from industry monitors Hitwise confirm that the Runaway Reg lassoed the lion's share of UK readers in this category between October and December 2002. Hitwise monitors the daily Internet usage of more than 7.6 million UK internet users to provide …

    Site News 14 Feb 2003, 10:55

  • Jedis reach the stars in UK census

    May the fuss be with you

    More than 390,000 people in the UK claim to follow the Jedi way, according to the 2001 Census. The figures revealed that 0.7 per cent of the UK population gave their official religion as Jedi, following a massive campaign to try and get it recognised. At the time the issue caused a jolly great deal of fuss as deadly serious …

    Music and Media 14 Feb 2003, 11:43

  • New Linux support policies are ominous

    Security nightmare, says Jon Lasser

    Opinion Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet, says Jon Lasser. Open source opponents have for years warned, "You get what you pay for." Now some Linux distributors are planning to make good on that threat. Red Hat …

    Servers 14 Feb 2003, 11:44

  • MS Product Support worthy successors to Donne & Milton

    English language elevated to new heights

    You've got to hand it to Microsoft Product Support Services - when it comes to fluidity of prose they'd certainly give Donne or Milton a run for their money. Indeed, try this worthy successor to the classic "No man is an island, entire of itself", found in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 325331: A Connection Manager Connection …

    Bootnotes 14 Feb 2003, 11:47

  • Orange launches flat rate GPRS billing for business

    Price transparency

    Orange yesterday announced a flat rate GPRS business pricing package, designed to help drive the adoption of high speed mobile data services across the UK. The mobile operator says offering flat-rate means businesses know exactly how much their bills will be each month, and that the approach will provide savings over current …

    Mobile 14 Feb 2003, 13:55

  • Former Orange person charged with voucher theft

    Bailed until next month

    A man is to appear at Teesside Crown Court next month charged with fraudulently obtaining more than £9,000 in mobile phone vouchers while working at Orange's call centre in Darlington. The man from Yorkshire was granted unconditional bail by magistrates in Darlington, according to a report by the Northern Echo. ® ®

    Mobile 14 Feb 2003, 13:57

  • Legal action mulled over NTL BB cap

    Row rumbles on

    Angry NTL customers are considering legal action over the cableco's decision to cap its broadband service. The Register understands that lawyers are currently examining the possibilities of setting up a "group action" against the cableco. The fact that a legal team is mulling court action shows the depth of feeling among …

    Telecoms 14 Feb 2003, 15:25

  • Locust preps GPRS salvation plan

    Online text community battles on

    The founder of Locust has devised a cunning plan to save the popular text messaging community, following Orange's decision to withdraw support for the service at the end of March. In 2001 Orange announced it was dropping its Talk 60 Text 1500 tariff, which let organisations send large numbers of text messages for only £60 a …

    Mobile 14 Feb 2003, 17:01

  • WLAN security still dismal – survey

    London Calling

    The security of London's wireless networks remains pitifully slack. The second annual survey of WLAN security revealed the number of wireless networks deployed in businesses across London has grown 300 per cent in the past year. However the increased popularity of wireless networks hasn't been matched by realisation of the …

    Security 14 Feb 2003, 17:07

  • CA clears way for CleverPath 4.5

    Good story (shame about the delivery)

    Press releases are supposed to be nice, simple introductions into whatever a company is doing next, that the man on the Clapham Omnibus can read and understand, writes Phil Howard. Imagine my perplexity therefore, when Computer Associates issued a press release on February 4 entitled CA announces CleverPath "Information in …

    Hardware 14 Feb 2003, 17:33

  • Symantec PR bunnies score Slammer own goal

    Silence is Not Golden

    Symantec says it discovered the prolific Slammer worm "hours before it began rapidly propagating". The claim, contained in a press release extolling the company's DeepSight Threat Management System, suggests that Symantec notified its own customers of a serious threat hours before the wider Internet community knew anything was …

    Malware 14 Feb 2003, 23:14

  • Spam Arrest denies sending spam

    If it looks like spam, and it tastes like...

    Anti-spam outfit Spam Arrest uses opt-out marketing practices which look - just like spam! Users who wish to send a message to Spam Arrest's customers must enter a keyword, as part of the sender-verification scheme. This ensures a person - and not a spam programme - is sending a message. When email senders do this they …

    Music and Media 14 Feb 2003, 23:23