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  • Sendmail vuln. Patch now

    Clear and present danger

    A serious flaw in Sendmail creates a way for attackers to take over email servers, security tools firm ISS warned yesterday. Sendmail has a buffer overflow vulnerability, enabling attacks (using maliciously-constructed emails) of servers. Sendmail technology is the transport mechanism for most of the Net's email traffic. ISS …

    Security 4 Mar 2003, 09:30

  • Summer wait for revised Handspring

    $100 rebate

    The next generation of product from Handspring won't ship until late summer, but the company hinted to us on Friday that it would involve a major redesign. The Treo Communicator hasn't undergone a case overhaul since its launch in November 2001, although the internals - both hardware and software - have been improved in the 270 …

    Personal 4 Mar 2003, 09:33

  • BEA updates WebLogic Portal

    Leaps a version number

    Yesterday (3rd March) BEA announced version 8.1 of BEA WebLogic Portal, which is due to be generally available in mid-summer, writes Phil Howard. WebLogic Portal was first released about 18 months ago as version 4.0. This reflected the fact that much of the functionality in WebLogic Portal had previously been available within …

    Hardware 4 Mar 2003, 09:43

  • IBM Global Services: billion dollar deals

    French breakthrough

    IBM Global Services is to provide server, mainframe and storage systems and services to French insurance company AXA. France has proved a tricky market for foreign services providers, due partly to the strength of unions. This latest deal may prompt further French interest as it is structured to allow some of the jobs to stay in …

    Hardware 4 Mar 2003, 09:49

  • EMC and Hitachi kiss and tell

    Tearing up patent dispute

    EMC and Hitachi are kissing cousins again: they are to drop their legal action against each other and will swap APIs, the enterprise storage world's equivalent of exchanging precious bodily fluids. Hitachi has signed a pre-nuptial agreeing to make "balancing payments" to EMC - no figures are mentioned. In turn EMC is to drop …

    Storage 4 Mar 2003, 10:37

  • FIC leaks ATI R350 data

    Taste of own medicine

    Details of ATI's R350 graphics chip have been inadvertently made public days ahead of the company's official announcement at CeBit. Oops. ATI licensee First International Computer (FIC) yesterday emailed journalists a sneak preview of the products it plans to unveil at Spring Comdex, among them two cards based on the R350: the …

    Channel 4 Mar 2003, 10:42

  • Freeserve mulls dial-up usage limit

    Cutting costs

    Freeserve is mulling over following BT Openworld's lead and introduce usage caps for its flat-rate unmetered AnyTime service. Currently, Freeserve has no monthly limit for its all-you-can-eat unmetered service. But according to sources, all that could change with execs considering whether to introduce a cap similar to BT …

    Music and Media 4 Mar 2003, 10:49

  • Energis ‘anticipates’ Irish job losses

    Restructuring

    El Reg has had some interesting feedback from readers concerning yesterday's story that UK telecoms group, Energis, is to create more than 100 jobs thanks to increased sales. That's all well and good, said one insider in an email, but what of the 100 or so people that have recently been made redundant at Energis' Irish …

    Business 4 Mar 2003, 12:14

  • Psion flogs online store to Expansys

    Wireless specialist

    Psion is to sell its online store to Expansys, the self-dubbed Europe's "largest specialist retailer of wireless technology in Europe and North America". Expansys is paying £300K upfront and up to £200K on performance over the next couple of years. Psion in turn will promote the Expansys store on its web sites in the UK, USA, …

    Mobile 4 Mar 2003, 12:44

  • Dell offers $899 desknotes

    Desktop processors in notebook clothing

    Dell has updated its Inspiron notebook family with two low-end and mid-range models based on desktop processors aimed at users willing to sacrifice mobility for price and power. The Inspiron 1100 sports a 2GHz Intel Celeron - based on the original Pentium 4 core - while the Inspiron 5100 is powered by a second-generation …

    Personal 4 Mar 2003, 12:55

  • MS aims at Linux with $399 Server 2003, Web Edition

    Small, imperfectly formed, but cheap...

    There will be no price increases (as such) when Microsoft ships its next server OS, Windows Server 2003, on April 24th, but there will be a new budget-priced version of the product aimed squarely at the web server market. Server 2003 Web Edition comes without client access licences, with a 2gig limit on memory, 2-way SMP, and is …

    Servers 4 Mar 2003, 13:25

  • ATI confirms Nintendo gig (we think)

    Light on detail

    ATI today issued a short press release even shorter on detail proclaiming that it has "entered into a technology development agreement with Nintendo". In the next breath it says the same thing again, only with the words in a different order. "Under the agreement, ATI and Nintendo are developing technologies for use in Nintendo …

    Personal 4 Mar 2003, 13:33

  • Lexmark slapped with anti-trust suit

    Cartridge remanufacture monopoly claim

    Lexmark is facing a potential damages payout of over $100 million if an anti-trust suit filed this past Friday by Static Control Components (SCC) goes against it. The suit claims Lexmark is guilty of restricting commerce, and engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices. In essence, alleges SCC, "Lexmark has unlawfully …

    Hardware 4 Mar 2003, 13:33

  • Calling time on mobile crime

    Operation Immobilise mobilised

    The mobile phone industry and police have teamed up in an initiative designed to clamp down on mobile phone crime. With all UK mobile phone networks now sharing information on a single database, once reported stolen or lost, mobile phones are blocked across all UK networks making them useless even if the SIM card has been …

    Mobile 4 Mar 2003, 14:25

  • 14 more exchanges to get ADSL

    Two cheers

    Fourteen more exchanges have passed their trigger levels and are being readied for their conversion to ADSL. So far, 172 exchanges have hit their threshold as part of a demand-led scheme to upgrade exchanges to broadband. Of these, 25 exchanges have gone live (the latest are Alton and Worle) with work ongoing to upgrade another …

    Telecoms 4 Mar 2003, 14:25

  • Tiscali UK mulls roll-out of Sat service

    Trial ends, evaluation starts

    Tiscali UK has decided to delay the commercial roll-out of a broadband-via-satellite service until it has finished evaluating the results of a year-long trial. The pilot project - which involved 90 people - ended last week. At the moment the ISP is mulling over the results before pressing ahead. ISP director Steve Horley said …

    Telecoms 4 Mar 2003, 15:18

  • Google promises relevant ads!

    Now there's a departure...

    Google today unwrapped an new advertising programme with a twist - the ads are relevant! In Googlespeak, these are "content-targeted ads" - nothing new about that, is there? But Google has, as it did before with news and link rankings, automated the process. The Google ad server "gauges user response in the form of click- …

    Music and Media 4 Mar 2003, 16:31

  • IBM recalls 117,000 dusty old monitors

    Fire risk

    IBM has demanded the return of up to 117,000 monitors because they might catch fire. It's taken IBM some time to admit there's a problem. The displays - the G51CRT and G51t Touch Screen CRT - were made more than five-and-a-half years ago. The last one was sold in December 1998. The units were manufactured for IBM in Malaysia …

    Hardware 4 Mar 2003, 17:16

  • Apple v MS lawsuit to walk again in Lindows.com trial

    Applause as Robertson levers open the coffin...

    Home of the chutzpah Lindows.com has been handed a spectacular victory by Seattle District Court in its trademark battle with Microsoft. No, it hasn't won, it hasn't achieved an honourable settlement whereby it can keep the name, or just continue business under another name - it's been allowed to introduce Microsoft documents …

    Software 4 Mar 2003, 17:40

  • Apple gears up to sell music online

    Not innovation, necessity

    Apple is to launch an online music service, perhaps as early as next month, sources cited by the LA Times have claimed. According to the sources, a new version of Apple's iTunes jukebox software will download tracks from the service which simplifies buying, almost certainlt using the 1-Click technology Apple has already …

    Mac Channel 4 Mar 2003, 18:19

  • SonyEricsson unveils T68i, T300 successors

    Mass market refresh

    SonyEricsson might be winning the plaudits for its pioneering P800 smartphone, but it still depends on its bread and butter range to bring in the revenue. Today it revealed the successors to the mainstays of its phone range. The T68i is replaced by the T610, which has an integrated camera, and which you can see here. It has a …

    Mobile 4 Mar 2003, 21:05