10th March 2003 Archive
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Sun aims StarOffice PC bundles at Joe User
Beta imminent
Sun wants, and expects, to see StarOffice 6.1 "on the shelves of Fry's, CompuUSA and BestBuy" when the suite is released this Fall. StarOffice product manager Iyer Venkatesan confirmed to us on Friday that a beta would be released this week, with the final gold release slated for October. So far, the consumer market hasn't …
Software 10 Mar 2003, 09:42
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One printer, one virus, one disabled Iraqi air defence
You can't keep a good April Fool's down
Did U.S. infowar commandos smuggle a deadly computer virus into Iraq inside a printer? Of course not. So why does it keep getting reported, George Smith asks. A creepy enthusiasm for tales of weird weapons rises as war approaches. Denied substantive information by the Pentagon and grasping for eye-grabbing news, journalists and …
Security 10 Mar 2003, 10:06
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Brocade lines up partners
Intelligent Fabric
Earlier this year Brocade Communications Systems Inc. completed the acquisition of the assets of Rhapsody Networks, writes Tony Lock. Last week Brocade announced the first fruits that the new technology will bring as it released details of the initial tranche of software vendors that are writing to the platform. Last month …
Storage 10 Mar 2003, 10:06
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BT staff protest jobs-to-India move
You have nothing to lose but your lunch breaks
BT is facing a wave of protests today as the Communications Workers Union (CWU) steps up its campaign against the telco's bid to create new jobs in India. Demonstrations are planned at some 30 directory enquiries offices in the UK including Glasgow, Torquay, the Isle of Wight, Yeovil and Milton Keynes. Workers at the offices …
Business 10 Mar 2003, 11:18
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Deloitte Consulting fires up the whalesong and joss sticks
LogoWatch X marks the spot in complete loss of plot
It seems like only last July that we were rubbing our hands in glee as we reported that Deloitte Consulting rebrands as mineral water. Actually, it was last July, and at the time we rather unusually approved this rebrand as follows: "Despite the fact that it sounds like a brand of mineral water, we applaud the organisation's …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 11:21
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Blair up for Lifetime Menace gong
Big Brother Awards
Tony Blair figures high on the shortlist of nominees for UK's fifth annual Big Brother awards. The Prime Minister, nominated for his "active involvement in the government's attack on civil liberties", joins Home Secretary David Blunkett and Capita as the three candidates for the Lifetime Menace Award. The category is of five " …
Music and Media 10 Mar 2003, 12:03
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Scots BB over power lines trial goes commercial
£25-£30-ish a month
Scottish Hydro-Electric (SH-E) is to begin full-scale commercial trials in the summer of a broadband service provided directly over electricity power lines. Stonehaven in Scotland has been named as one location taking part in the trial. Another town in Hampshire has also been earmarked for the trial, although the company has …
Telecoms 10 Mar 2003, 12:08
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So, why join Orange?
Dunno. An O2 shirt maybe?
There are some eagle-eyed Reg readers out there, make no mistake. None more so than Brent L. Damms, who recently spotted something strange on the Orange website. If you're wondering why on earth you should choose Orange, perhaps it's because the mobile phone operator appears to be using a bloke dressed in a snappy numbered …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 12:13
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Sony unveils UK PS2 online gaming beta plans
Better late than never
Consumers in the UK will get their first taste of PlayStation 2 online gaming at the end of this month, as public trials for broadband users begin on March 31st with an online starter kit being made available to selected users. In order to be eligible to test the service, interested parties must register at the uk.playstation. …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 12:13
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Transmeta TM8000 to bring AGP, HT, DDR buses on die
Reveals feeds but not speeds
Transmeta has posted details of its next-generation Crusoe processor, the TM8000, codenamed Astro. The new chip features upgrades to Transmeta's LongRun power-saving technology and its Code Morphing x86 compatibility software, but that's only to be expected. More interesting is a revised architecture allows the TM8000 to …
Channel 10 Mar 2003, 12:51
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Braxton logo springs into the light
LogoWatch update Gotcha!
Well done to those readers who answered our call earlier today to track down the new Braxton logo which will act as the fresh face of Deloitte Consulting. Shame on those of you who suggested that even a few minutes would have revealed the whereabouts of this stunning piece of work. I reiterate what I said then - we were so …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 13:03
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Hutchison 3G UK taps shareholders for £1bn loan
What a difference a delay makes
Hutchison 3G is to start dishing out handsets in Italy on March 10 and in the UK on March 15. It says it will have 700,000 available within three months. Which means that the revenues will start coming in very soon. But how much revenue? Hutchison is gunning one million subscribers apiece in the UK and Italy by year's end, two …
Mobile 10 Mar 2003, 13:28
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Register Kit Watch
New Today's key hardware launches under one roof
Mobile Sharp US has extended its Actius notebook line to add not only multimedia muscle but enhanced mobility to the range. The company claims the Actius MM10 is the thinnest and lightest notebook on the US market today. The MM10 weight 2.1lbs and is half an inch thick. Its fanless operation is made possible by a 1GHz …
Personal 10 Mar 2003, 14:33
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419 scammers take US con artist for $750,000
Thick doesn't even begin to describe this one
A businessman in Winona, Minnesota, has been taken for a cool $750,000 by Nigerian 419 scam artists, the Winona Daily News reports. Nothing new there, you might think, but $250,000 of the cash did not actually belong to victim Carl Fratzke. Incredibly, Fratzke had pulled a scam of his own and defrauded seven friends to raise …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 15:07
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2 mch txting cud corz RSI
My hnds hurt
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has warned that too much texting could lead to injuries in later life. The warning comes as the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) shows that 1.65 billion texts were sent in the UK during January - and average of 53 million messages a day. Chiropractors are …
Mobile 10 Mar 2003, 15:08
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VIA chipset targets Athlon XP 3000+
10% faster than previous Apollos, apparently
VIA has unwrapped its latest Apollo chipset, the KT400A, which it claims is the fastest single-channel DDR chipset designed for AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ and more than ten per cent faster than previous Apollo offerings. The chipset comprises VIA's FastStream64 memory controller, developed to reduce memory latency without forcing …
Channel 10 Mar 2003, 15:10
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Lawyer cleared in Bloomberg extortion case
Awaiting deportation
Charges against a Kazakhstan lawyer imprisoned for more than two years on charges of extortion against Michael Bloomberg were dropped last weekend, after a judge ruled key evidence was inadmissible. Igor Yarimaka, 39, was arrested along with Oleg Zezov, for his alleged part in attempting to extort $200,000 from the founder of …
Security 10 Mar 2003, 15:14
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WLAN hot spots get hotter
Full steam ahead
Despite a slow start, the public wireless LAN hot spot market will show strong growth over the next four years. Business travellers' appetite for cheap and fast remote access to the Internet will see revenues blossom in both Europe and the USA, according to a report by telecoms consultancy Analysys, published today. According …
Wireless 10 Mar 2003, 16:41
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Network worm uses weak Windows passwords
Deloder spreads
Say hello to a network worm which attempts to compromise and spread through Windows machines with weak, default passwords. Called Deloder, the worm also tries to drop a backdoor component. And yes the worm is spreading through vulnerable machines - albeit modestly, according to Symantec. The worm spreads by scanning random IP …
Malware 10 Mar 2003, 16:48
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Telcos more upbeat about hiring – report
Other green shoots of recovery stuff
Telcos are more positive about recruiting staff than they have been since the end of 2001, according to a survey published by the IT industry group e-skills UK. Its latest quarterly review of the ICT labour market also found that as a whole, employment within the ICT industry is up slightly in Q4 2002, although there has been …
Business 10 Mar 2003, 16:49
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Henry Raddick returns with War statement
"It's what Grendel would have wanted"
Celebrity Amazon.com reviewer Henry Raddick has broken a six-month silence with a hawkish statement on the Iraq war. Raddick's absence from the site coincided with a domestic tragedy - the death of his beloved pug, he told The Register: "Grendel was carried off by an eagle which had escaped from a hawk conservancy," he told us …
Bootnotes 10 Mar 2003, 20:31
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Intel announces 3GHz+ Xeons
Dell, HP didn't wait
Intel has officially released the 3.06GHz Xeon processor despite shipping the chip to system vendors some time ago. Dell, for one, began offering Precision 450 and 650 workstations based on the part back in February. HP, too, in the xw6000 and xw8000 workstations. In addition to the 3.06GHz part, there's a 3.0GHz version. Both …
Servers 10 Mar 2003, 21:17
