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  • Red Hat to certify ISV software

    Get stamped

    Red Hat is growing up. The Linux maker took another step toward looking like a real company this week, creating a software testing and qualification program for third-party software makers. Partners will have the honor of signing up to be "Red Hat Ready" and align themselves with Red Hat's good name. Once they've passed the …

    Hardware 2 Apr 2003, 08:04

  • You are the weakest link: hello

    ICANN meeting, Rio de Janeiro

    Here's an April Fool's joke for you: What entirely Internet-based organisation fails to use Web technology to keep people abreast of what it is up to? The answer is: ICANN. Of course, it's not very funny, but it is April and we're all fools. The most recent meeting of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in Rio …

    Music and Media 2 Apr 2003, 08:08

  • Brocade adds SAN security

    SilkWorm moves up-market

    Brocade has added a clutch of new firmware features to its Fibre Channel switches, including SAN security and scripting tools to automate repetitive tasks. Its director-class SilkWorm 12000 switch also gains high-availability features and FICON support for mainframe connectivity. The security features are built into a new …

    Storage 2 Apr 2003, 08:13

  • Telco price war breaks out

    BT announces 'radical' price cuts

    BT has fired the first shots in a telco price war aimed at defending its market share and beating off rivals such as Telewest, One.Tel and British Gas. Although the move was widely trailed, BT is making a stand against other fixed-line competitors by offering customers calls which, it claims, are up to 20 times cheaper than its …

    Data Networking 2 Apr 2003, 08:18

  • A small correction by Congressman Issa…

    He's not going to give up gracefully, is he?

    He's not going to give up gracefully, is he? Having been exposed in a factual inaccuracy - the GSM network isn't French, as he claimed - Congressman Darrell Issa has removed the allegation that it is. And then he's resorted to innuendo... Here's the original quote from his first draft lobbying letter, which reads: We have …

    Mobile 2 Apr 2003, 08:47

  • US hits Hynix with 57% import duty

    Response to illegal Korean gov't aid

    Hynix will have to pay a 57.37 per cent surcharge on any memory chips it imports into the US, the US Commerce Department said yesterday. The Commerce Department ruling follows an investigation into allegations that Hynix had received financial aid from the Korean government. Such assistance is illegal under World Trade …

    Channel 2 Apr 2003, 09:00

  • AMD ‘super’ SOI to boost chip speeds by 30%

    Silicon-on-insulator to get even better

    AMD boffins have extended silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip technology to create a transistor that can operate 30 per faster than the best of today's metal-oxide semiconductor transistors. The transistor uses what AMD calls 'fully depleted silicon-on-insulator' technology. SOI works by placing an insulating oxide between a …

    Channel 2 Apr 2003, 09:56

  • DVD Jon gets retrial date

    Hollywood persuades Norway to stage hearing sequel

    Norwegian teenager Jon Lech Johansen has been given a date when he must once again face DVD piracy charges. Johansen's attorney, Halvor Manshaus, told Reuters yesterday that Norway's Borgarting appeals court had scheduled a hearing beginning December 2. Eight days have been set aside to hear the case. The hearing is taking …

    Software 2 Apr 2003, 10:58

  • Sun touts Opteron over Itanic

    But why is Sun's support for the procesor so lukewarm?

    Sun continues to fete AMD's Opteron, even though it has yet to formally announce support for the 64-bit processor. John Loiacono, VP of Sun's operating platforms group, interviewed this week by eWeek, said that the server maker is evaluating AMD's offering, which is due to be launched later this month - the 22nd to be precise …

    Hardware 2 Apr 2003, 11:50

  • NAI buys IntruVert for $100m

    Real-time protection against threats

    Network Associates yesterday announced a deal to acquire intrusion protection company IntruVert Networks for $100 million in cash. IntruVert Networks is a privately held company that has created an architecture designed to offer real-time network intrusion detection and prevention systems for enterprise and government networks …

    Security 2 Apr 2003, 12:06

  • April 1 ADSL outage hits ISPs and users

    No April Fool

    Part of BT's ADSL network was knocked out last night causing disruption to thousands of Net users in the UK. According to BT Wholesale, some 30 ISPs, including AOL UK, Freeserve and Pipex, were hit following a sizeable outage in the Ilford, Essex area. BT reckons the problems were isolated to London and the South East and …

    Telecoms 2 Apr 2003, 12:10

  • Reg Kit Watch

    Update ATI ships Radeon 9800 Pro; HP launches new lasers, cuts prices

    Graphics ATI will ship it latest TV-on-a-PC card, the TV Wonder Pro, in the Spring, the company said today. The $69 TV tuner card joins the $49 TV Wonder VE. Both provide a 125-channel TV tuner - stereo in the Pro's case - digital VCR functionality, GemStar GuidePlus schedule support, and can be used to provide picture-in- …

    Personal 2 Apr 2003, 12:54

  • ATI to ship Radeon 9600 early

    Pulled back from late May to April

    ATI has brought forward the release of its Radeon 9600 chip. The part will now ship "later this month", the company said today - well ahead of the original late May target that it was talking about in the run-up to the chip's launch. The 9600 is essentially a 0.13 micron die-shrink of the 0.15 micron 9500, with updated …

    Channel 2 Apr 2003, 13:16

  • BT to cut wholesale ADSL prices

    But end user prices may rise

    BT is expected to announce shortly a cut in the monthly wholesale charge for its ADSL service. The announcement - which could come as early as tomorrow, according to sources - could see prices for a single ADSL user cut by between £1.50 and £2 to around £13 month. But since this is a wholesale agreement it would be left up to …

    Telecoms 2 Apr 2003, 13:34

  • HP doubles recycled PC rebates

    Still charges for service, though

    Not to be outdone by Dell's recent revamp of its PC recycling programme, HP has said it will double the incentive it offers to consumers for handing in their old, unwanted computers. Like Dell, HP charges punters for the privilege of sending back their old kit. Dell has a $15 blanket fee; HP charges between $13 and $34, …

    Personal 2 Apr 2003, 14:05

  • BOFHs boasts bigger pay-packets despite declining budgets

    Consid'rably richer thun yow are

    Corporations may be spending a little less on IT these days, but they're paying their BOFHs higher salaries, a survey conducted by the Meta Group reveals. Last year, around 40 per cent of IT managers interviewed by Meta for its annual IT Staffing and Compensation Guide, said salaries consume between 25 and 50 per cent of their …

    Business 2 Apr 2003, 14:23

  • BT ‘second best’, says Telewest

    War of words

    Telewest claims BT is still "second best" despite today's announcement that the UK's dominant telco is to cut the cost of some of its phone calls. In what could prove to be the beginning of a war of words following BT's "radical" pricing announcement this morning, David Hobday, deputy MD of Telewest Broadband, said: "This is …

    Music and Media 2 Apr 2003, 14:25

  • IT managers trust Microsoft on security…

    Up to a point

    OK, so our headline isn't exactly an accurate summation of a Forrester briefing document on security which received widespread coverage this week. But then again other articles on the report aren't exactly on the money either. IT managers don't trust MS scream the headlines, repeating Forrester's bullet point summation but not …

    Security 2 Apr 2003, 15:07

  • Eircom introduces ‘low-cost’ broadband

    I-stream Starter

    Eircom has formally introduced a cheaper broadband product, which the government and lobby groups have warmly welcomed. Called "I-stream Starter", the new broadband Internet product from Eircom will sell for EUR45 per month (ex VAT), and a self-install version will be available that cuts the installation price of ADSL by 50 …

    Telecoms 2 Apr 2003, 15:10

  • Dell promotes Linux clusters… again

    Oracle's 9iRAC given a home

    Dell continues to forge stronger ties with Oracle with the introduction of some pre-packaged clusters pitched as replacements to multiprocessor Unix systems. Dell and Oracle have been making joint cluster announcements together for some time now, so the push to ship bundles of Dell servers and storage systems with Oracle …

    Servers 2 Apr 2003, 19:37

  • The Register RSS Feed

    Site News Better late than never

    The Register has a new RSS feed which scrapes up the last 10 headlines. And it works! Here is the URL: http://theregister.co.uk/feeds/latest.rdf. The feed is only of any real use to robots, software specifically written to parse RSS feeds (then display it in a way useful for humans). So yes, the URL is meant to display XML …

    The Company 2 Apr 2003, 22:45