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  • Microsoft faces phone annihilation

    5pc and falling?

    Poland's cultural ambassador to the Internet, "jpzr" is a gift who keeps on giving. Ever since Windows CE appeared in 1996, analysts have been predicting, and scribes have dutifully been transcribing, the inevitable encroachment of Microsoft into the phone business. Reporting that at times, has owed more to Marxist theleogy …

    Mobile 18 Mar 2003, 10:59

  • Email scammers target Nochex users

    Spam scam epidemic

    A bogus email doing the rounds this week tries to trick Nochex customers into giving up their account passwords and bank card details The email, which purports to come from the payment service, tries to convince punters that they need to send this data as part of a supposed security check. A quick glance at the headers reveals …

    Security 18 Mar 2003, 11:14

  • Oftel bids to reduce telecoms regulation

    Usual guff

    Oftel has published a rack of proposals that could lead to a widespread reduction in regulation in the UK's telecoms and Internet industry. The new proposals are due to replace existing regulations with measures based on EC Directives on electronic communications. Some of the key changes on the table include a reduction in …

    Media 18 Mar 2003, 11:17

  • RIAA chief invokes Martin Luther King in pigopoly defense

    P2P poisoning, ISP clampdown justified

    Departing RIAA chief Hilary Rosen yesterday invoked the name of slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King as she defended the music oligopolies' right to prevent people sharing music. She also vigorously defended poisoning peer to peer sharing networks with junk music - presumably not a situation that the civil rights …

    Media 18 Mar 2003, 11:25

  • Government redefines broadband

    Usage stats now worthless

    The UK Government has changed its definition of broadband. A critical comment piece in today's Telegraph reveals how the shift was "stealthily" introduced last week. On 11 March the Earl of Northesk asked Her Majesty's Government whether it had "arrived at a conclusive definition of broadband in respect of data transfer speeds …

    Broadband 18 Mar 2003, 12:47

  • Review Samsung X10 ‘thin and light’ notebook

    The jury is still out on whether Intel's Centrino mobile platform will revive the fortunes of the PC industry, but if Samsung's first Centrino-based notebook, the X10, is anything to go by, the 'thin and light' segment is certain to become more popular over the coming months. Quite apart from the Centrino chipset that forms its …

    Personal 18 Mar 2003, 13:44

  • BT to offer wholesale ‘midband’ service from the summer

    Full details TBA

    BT is set to roll-out a new wholesale "midband" Net access service from the summer which should be available in around 97 per cent of the UK. Full details of the 128Kbps service are due to be released in early April when BT will announce the full spec of the product plus pricing. The Register understands that while the service …

    Broadband 18 Mar 2003, 13:47

  • We'd love to go wireless but what about security?

    Risky business

    European businesses are keen to embrace wireless technologies, in all their flavours, but doubts about security are continuing to act as a brake on wider usage of wireless LANs. That's the main finding of a study by researcher Frost & Sullivan on attitudes towards the adoption of wireless technology in the enterprise and …

    Security 18 Mar 2003, 13:57

  • ATI licences Pentium M bus

    Seccond-source Centrino chipsets soon?

    ATI has licensed Intel's Pentium M bus, paving the way for the company to offer what are effectively Centrino-compatible chipsets. Neither company would reveal the terms of the deal, in particular whether ATI will have the right to use the Centrino brand name in association with products derived from the licence. If not, it …

    Channel 18 Mar 2003, 14:13

  • PC Watch reveals Intel Centrino roadmap

    Got it right before

    Intel's Pentium M chip, part of its Centrino mobile platform, will rise to 1.7GHz in June and 1.8GHz by the end of the year, according to a roadmap described by Japanese Web site PC Watch. Usually, we'd take these things with a pinch of salt, but PC Watch was the first to reveal the Pentium M's ancillary chipsets, Odem and …

    Channel 18 Mar 2003, 14:55

  • Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist

    Lone cracker theory

    A University of Texas student has been charged with hacking offences following a computer break-in at the university earlier this month that lead to the disclosure of 55,200 past and present University of Texas faculty members and students. Christopher Andrew Phillips, 20, who was charged last week with "unauthorised access to …

    Security 18 Mar 2003, 15:59

  • Text spammer fined £40k

    Spammers to face 'severe sanctions'

    A Gibraltar-based premium-rate spam text operator has been fined a total of £40,000 ($63,000) for breaching guidelines. Premium-rate phone service regulator ICSTIS ruled against Kast Investment Ltd in three separate instances dishing out fines totalling £40,000 after it received complaints about an unsolicited text telling UK …

    Small Biz 18 Mar 2003, 16:04

  • Dropping GameCube: Argos' turn?

    Catalogue shopping giant slashes Cube price

    Nintendo may be facing a fight for its life at UK retail, as the decision by the Dixons group to liquidate GameCube stocks is replicated by another leading retailer - high street and catalogue sales outlet Argos. In an effort to clear existing stock of the GameCube, Argos will be cutting the price of the system to an all-time …

    Personal 18 Mar 2003, 16:09

  • Apple slims down Xserve for clustering

    General Cluster

    Apple has introduced a version of its Xserve rackmount server aimed at customers seeking to build computing clusters. The Cluster Node Xserve is based on two 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processors, each with 256KB on-die L2 cache and 2MB of backside L3 cache, a base 256MB of 333MHz DDR SDRAM, a 60GB ATA-133 hard drive and gigabit …

    Mac Channel 18 Mar 2003, 22:07

  • Reg Kit Watch

    Clies, cluster Xserves and wearables

    PDA Sony has launched the Clie PEG-SJ33 in the UK. The PDA is based Palm OS 4.1 and is powered by a Dragonball Super VZ 66MHz. There's 16MB of memory, expandable using the SJ33's Memory Stick slot. The 320 x 320 16-bit colour LCD provides an ideal display for the PDA's bundle of games, still image and movie playback software …

    Personal 18 Mar 2003, 22:09

  • Tiscali UK downed by ‘external attack’

    Working to restore full service

    Tiscali UK was knocked out this afternoon after the ISP came under attack from Internet saboteurs. The company experienced a massive Denial of Service assault that downed the ISP's portal, Net access and email services. The full details behind the attack are not yet known. However, in a statement the company said: "Tiscali …

    Media 18 Mar 2003, 22:12