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  • Broadcom axes ServerWorks chief

    Rallies around Dickhut

    Like an abusive parent slapping an over-active child, Broadcom has dismissed the head of its ServerWorks subsidiary and made a public spectacle of the event. Duane Dickhut, former head of Broadcom's broadband processor business unit, will step in to lead ServerWorks and replace current chief Raju Vegesna. Such a move might have …

    Business 27 Mar 2003, 01:47

  • IBM overhauls Tivoli

    Mulls provisioning server

    Come April, IBM plans to release three revamped Tivoli software products that will include wider support for various storage hardware and improved system monitoring tools. Big Blue will roll out version 5.2 of the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and version 1.2 of both the Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager (TSANM) and Tivoli …

    Hardware 27 Mar 2003, 07:52

  • Northern Ireland signs up HP for €107m e-learning gig

    Big Deal

    Hewlett-Packard has won a massive e-government contract in Northern Ireland, worth more than €100 million. The five-year deal, with a two-year extension clause, will see HP provide and manage technology infrastructure for 1,200 schools and 350,000 students, as well as teachers and administrators. The massive technology roll …

    Hardware 27 Mar 2003, 08:12

  • SuSE boards Itanic

    Prays for brisk sales, steady ship

    SuSE Linux is to tie its fortunes to Intel's Itanium processor, prepping a 64-bit release of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for the chip. SuSE will ship the new OS at the end of next week and join HP-UX, Red Hat and Windows as the available options for Itanic 2. The company also plans to roll out product for AMD's x86-64 bit …

    Servers 27 Mar 2003, 08:25

  • AV vendors muscle in on anti-spam

    Pure plays at disadvantage

    The three major anti-virus software vendors are all building on their anti-spam offerings. Symantec, Trend Micro and Network Associates are all fighting for a share of the growing market. With these established players making moves, pure-play spam filter vendors will have a hard time gaining much market share without being …

    Security 27 Mar 2003, 08:29

  • FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance

    spying on VoIP users

    The US Justice Department and the FBI ask regulators for expanded technical capabilities to intercept Voice Over IP communications... and anything else that uses broadband, writes Kevin Poulsen of /SecurityFocus. The FBI and Justice Department are worried that Voice Over IP (VoIP) applications may become safe havens for …

    Security 27 Mar 2003, 08:32

  • NEC, SVA to expand LCD output with $710m plant

    Fifth-generation fab

    NEC and Chinese electronics group SVA yesterday said they will together invest an initial $710 million to construct a new fifth-generation LCD plant in China. The fab will produce 1.1 x 1.3m glass substrates from which a number of large LCD panels for PC monitors and TV screens can be cut. The plant will be located in Shanghai …

    Personal 27 Mar 2003, 09:25

  • Tundra ships first RapidIO interconnect silicon

    Hardware compatibility testing platform too

    Tundra has begun sampling the first commercially available RapidIO system interconnect silicon, in the form of a PCI-X bridge and a multi-port switch. Tundra also announced the first commercially available RapidIO hardware interoperability platform (HIP) mobo. The board will be manufactured by US-based IneoQuest Technologies. …

    Channel 27 Mar 2003, 09:48

  • LCDs took 30 per cent of PC monitor sales in Q4 2002

    Sales up as prices plumment

    Price cuts of up to 30 per cent drove LCD monitor shipments up to 9.9 million units during Q4 2002 - a 54 per cent increase on the same period in 2001 and 30 per cent up on the previous quarter, DisplaySearch research reveals. Cheaper displays led consumers to chuck out their bulky CRT monitors in favour of slimline LCD screens …

    Personal 27 Mar 2003, 10:08

  • Reg Kit Watch

    The latest hardware from ViewSonic, Sony and NEC UK

    Desktop ViewSonic has launched its first Windows XP Media Center Edition-based PC to support digital video recording. The NextVision M2000 Digital Media Center packs a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, a 160GB hard drive, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, and more I/O ports - including USB and 1394 - than you can shake a stick at. There's a six-in-one card …

    Personal 27 Mar 2003, 13:24

  • Iraq's mobile network – Qualcomm to follow the tanks?

    Congress rep denounces 'French' GSM

    And in a flash, the war on terror started to morph into the war for CDMA. North Korea, watch out - there's a jumping-off point right next door. US wireless company Qualcomm has often been described as the civilian wing of the military-industrial complex, so perhaps the only thing that should surprise us is how speedily its …

    Mobile 27 Mar 2003, 13:34

  • UK.gov seeks input on anti-spam law

    Opt-in

    The UK government began consultations on strengthening laws to prohibit spamming today. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-led consultation will focus on how to write measures outlined in the European Union's Electronic Communication Data Protection Directive into British law. The consultation marks the first step in …

    Security 27 Mar 2003, 14:16

  • ISPs left in limbo over ADSL price cut hints

    Lack of clarity leads to confusion

    BT has been accused of leaving ISPs in limbo the future of wholesale prices for broadband. There's speculation that price cuts could be on the way following a meeting earlier this week in which BT Wholesale met ISPs to discuss future plans for ADSL services in the UK. One insider told The Register that BT had said that pricing …

    Telecoms 27 Mar 2003, 14:19

  • Stampede for places onTelewest 2Mb trial

    Cableco mulls expansion

    Telewest is considering an increase in the number of people it will take on its 2Mb broadband trial after all 1,500 places were snapped up in just a few hours. The cableco informed its punters last night how they could sign up for the trial. Within an hour 500 people had signed up. Shortly after, the registration site was …

    Telecoms 27 Mar 2003, 14:22

  • North America is WLANtastic

    31m users by 2007

    The number of frequent WLAN users in North America may grow from 4.2 million in 2003 to more than 31 million in 2007. According to a Gartner study there could be more than 100,000 wireless LAN 'hot spots' within the next five years. Building out this infrastructure will take investment. It will also take time for consumers to …

    Wireless 27 Mar 2003, 14:35

  • Macworld Expo renamed Create as Apple touts WWDC

    Analysis Time to ship more desirable Macs, not fight over show locations

    Macworld Expo organiser IDG World Expo has announced that this summer's show won't carry its traditional name, but be re-titled Create - just as our colleagues over at Think Secret revealed earlier this week. The move - jointly announced with Apple - comes at the end of a long-running wrangle between the two companies over the …

    Mac Channel 27 Mar 2003, 15:19

  • Telewest claims 300,000 broadband punters…

    ...but makes a £2.2 billion loss

    Telewest has almost 300,000 broadband customers, it boasted today. Publishing its full year results, the cableco said that it had 297,000 broadband users, with 31,000 of those signed up to its 1Mbps service. No doubt Telewest is keen to plug this good news story and the fact that it is to begin trials of a new 2Mbps broadband …

    Telecoms 27 Mar 2003, 15:23

  • Toshiba PlayStation-on-a-chip company closes

    Farewell, Artile

    Toshiba has closed down its US processor subsidiary, EE Times has reported. The company, Artile Microsystems, was formed two years ago to offer system-on-a-chip devices derived from the PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine CPU, itself jointly developed by Toshiba and Sony. Artile's gameplan was to partner with manufacturers of …

    Channel 27 Mar 2003, 15:37

  • Al Jazeera's web site – DDoSed or unplugged?

    Whatever - it's the coming back that might be trickier

    The launch of Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera's new Web site on Monday drew immediate hack attacks, but this has been swiftly followed up by the disappearance of the site's DNS records. These now point to mydomain.com nameservers, but this company's site is also currently inaccessible; as you might expect, under the …

    Music and Media 27 Mar 2003, 16:20

  • NT4.0 too flawed to fix – official

    Insecure by design

    There's a nasty rider with Microsoft's latest security problem for NT users. Although a denial of service risk exists in an "important" security vulnerability, publicised yesterday affecting NT 4.0, Redmond tells users not to expect a patch for that operating system anytime soon. Windows 2000 and XP users do have access to a …

    Security 27 Mar 2003, 17:48

  • FAST protocol supercharges networks

    California dreaming

    Boffins at California Institute of Technology are looking at ways of refining Internet protocols to achieve greatly increased transmission rates. By using FAST (Fast Active queue-management Scalable TCP), rather than the ubiquitous TCP/IP protocol, scientists have trebled the rate at which data can be sent over the Internet, …

    Data Networking 27 Mar 2003, 18:07