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  • SCO offers Linux and UNIX courseware for sale to all

    Dealers still get best deals

    SCO announced that anyone can now purchase the company's Linux and UNIX courseware for the purpose of conducting training and certification, but only "authorized partners" will get the best deals. The Authorized Education Partner program, or AEP, gives IT testing and training centers the opportunity to offer SCO's courseware, …

    Software 26 Feb 2003, 08:52

  • M-Commerce for All

    Euro networks form mobile payments club

    Four big European mobile network operators are clubbing together to form the Mobile Payments Services Association. Step forward Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, and Vodafone, founder members of an organisation to drive m-commerce and more to the point, interoperable m-payments across countries under a single brand. 02, KPN Mobile …

    Mobile 26 Feb 2003, 09:20

  • US drags down HP sales

    PCs up, server down

    HP produced sales of $17.9bn for Q1, ended January 31, down slightly on the previous quarter. But cost-cutting fed through to a 49 per cent increase in earnings to $721m. But revenues were less than consensus analyst forecasts of $18.5bn and the reason for this, HP says, is weaker commercial IT spending in the US and Japan. …

    Business 26 Feb 2003, 10:18

  • Easynet is UK LLU leader

    90 per cent of all unbundled lines

    Pan-European broadband business Easynet has more than 90 per cent of all unbundled lines in the UK, making it the country's leading local loop unbundling (LLU) outfit. Easynet is targeting business users with its LLU products and has so far unbundled 81 exchanges in the UK. In 2003 it's looking to unbundle at least a further …

    Broadband 26 Feb 2003, 10:21

  • California High Court refuses to interject in Sex.com case

    Exclusive Huge boost for owner Kremen

    The High Court of California yesterday refused to be dragged into the ongoing legal battle between the owner of Sex.com, Gary Kremen, and domain registration giant Verisign. It had been asked by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the legal issue of whether a domain can legally be deemed as property. It …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 10:59

  • Terra Lycos in €2bn loss

    Easily done

    Terra Lycos lost a whopping €2bn last year as the global Internet group wiped off €1.4bn in the value of the company's assets. Terra Lycos - which operates in 42 countries including the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America and includes operations such as the Lycos portal, RagingBull.com, Tripod.com and Wired.com - said it "used …

    Business 26 Feb 2003, 11:45

  • Three-wheeler in drive for ADSL

    Revved up campaign

    Teenagers Alan and Marko Fleming have jumped on the broadband (band)wagon - literally - in a bid to bring ADSL to their hometown of Cupar in Fife. They've decorated their three-wheeled 50cc Piaggio Ape (pronounced "apee") with details of how people can register their interest in ADSL and are driving the vehicle round the town …

    Broadband 26 Feb 2003, 13:17

  • Linux, DB2, and HP-UX treats at 30 per cent off

    More discounted tomes from IT-Minds

    This week's top treat from the Reg associate IT-minds.com literary cookie jar is DB2 Universal Database V8 for Linux, Unix, and Windows Database Administration Certification Guide. Straight from IBM, this is the only book to offer complete, start-to-finish coverage of DB2 Universal Database V8 administration and development for …

    Site News 26 Feb 2003, 13:18

  • Letters Existentialist errors, Lent, and other gripes

    Bill Longman, who describes himself as "Just Another MIS Manager", knows how to get into The Register's postbag:- Andrew [*], The Register is so FANTASTIC I am going to call my next child Reginald. She'll just have to deal with it. Thanks, Bill. Mr JW William has a reminder for us:- Subject: All humanity in the West I …

    Letters 26 Feb 2003, 21:17

  • Letters "OK – I smell a bit" – but leave us BoFHs alone!

    Our story SME's sniff at smelly techies brought this impassioned letter to our Tim, which we reproduce in full. I just read your piece and as one of the "smelly techies" I just had to write a you a foaming rant, if just to set the record straight. So these people don't like the fact I like to wear loose fitting, comfortable …

    Letters 26 Feb 2003, 21:28

  • AOL intros US-only music service

    'No time line' for rest of world

    AOL's two million punters in the UK should ignore today's announcement from the US concerning the Internet giant's decision to offer a subscription music download service. That's because it's not available outside the US. A spokeswoman for AOL Inc told us that there was "no time line" for a similar service to be introduced …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 21:33

  • Low-tech solution beats London's hi-tech congestion charge

    Honk honk

    Unscrupulous motorists are thieving the identities of other cars to beat London's £200m hi-tech congestion charge scheme. Some 800 cameras patrolling at 400 points around the nation's capital snap the registration plates of vehicles entering central London. The numbers are crosschecked against a massive database to find out who …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 21:34

  • Cryptome Hacked

    X Files conspiracy moment

    Cryptome.org was hacked yesterday (February 25) and all files on the site deleted. A message on the site says the files will be restored later today. This replaces a brag posted by the very destructive hacker: hacked by bighawk of hackweiser (bighawk@kryptology.org) (the message is posted at this blog. It's got to be the US …

    Security 26 Feb 2003, 22:30

  • You got Flowers! Email scam targets AOL users

    Put it on the e-compost heap

    Andrew Goodwill, who runs Early Warning, a scheme to warn UK retailers of credit card fraudsters, has uncovered a new email scam targeting AOL users. It's a weird one, which appears to be set up simply for harvesting AOL account details through false pretences. What for? Identity fraud maybe? The scam appears to have been in …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 22:46

  • DoJ seizes ISOnews site over Xbox mod chip sales

    Turns into govt.prop machine

    The US Department of Justice has seized the ISOnews web site, which was a kind of bible for the discerning software copier, and is turning it into a repository of anti-piracy propaganda. The site's remarkable switch of role stems from the sale of Xbox mod chips, in violation of the DMCA. David Rocci, 22, of Blacksburg, Va, …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 23:09

  • US given direct access to data on EU airlines' computers

    European Commission's heroic defence of citizenry's personal data, continued...

    The recent EU-US deal giving US Customs access to personal data on all European citizens flying to the US is far more drastic than originally seemed to be the case. Rather than 'merely' having airlines send the data within 15 minutes of the departure of all flights, the deal means that the US authorities will be accessing it on …

    Media 26 Feb 2003, 23:27