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  • Sun overhauls low-end servers

    Jalapeno comes to life

    Sun's "Enchilada" server has been written about many times at El Reg, but now the two processor system has arrived. Sort of. Starting May 20, the V210 and V240 servers - as they are now to be known - will go on sale. These servers are of particular note because they mark the appearance of the much-hyped, much-delayed …

    Servers 8 Apr 2003, 06:43

  • Intel and VIA are friends again

    Peace in Our Time

    Hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth of lawyers in five countries on three continents as Intel and VIA decided to stop suing each other over who owns what. The two companies have battled since September 2001 over the rights of VIA to use Intel-patents in P4 chipsets and mobos. VIA has in turn sued Intel over alleged patent …

    Channel 8 Apr 2003, 07:13

  • Nvidia to debut NV35 at E3?

    Show site says its got something new

    Thanks to Reg readers for pointing out this page on the E3 expo web site. Scroll down the page to Nvidia's entry and you'll see it sports a 'First Looks' logo. According to the site, that means "this exhibitor plans on debuting one or more products at their E3booth". A sign, we wonder, that the company plans to announce its …

    Channel 8 Apr 2003, 07:40

  • QDI springs Springdale mobo

    Due mid-April when Intel will also ship

    Mobo maker Legend QDI has announced a board based on Intel's Springdale chipset. The P4I865G will ship, says QDI, around the middle of this month, "at the same time Intel launches its new chipset". Intel is expected to launch Prescott, the CPU supporting the 800MHz FSB, at the same time. The QDI Springdale board supports the …

    Personal 8 Apr 2003, 08:25

  • Roam from wireless LAN to phone network, on a single bill?

    We want it

    Normally, "strategic relationships" aren't worth much of a look; but a deal done between Transat and Gemplus could open up a new universal roaming system from phone to WLAN and back again, as users move around cities. As announced, the agreement is merely "to extend secure WLAN access to enterprise and home markets" - by using …

    Broadband 8 Apr 2003, 08:32

  • How to turn your iBook into an iMac (sort of)

    Reg Kit Watch And Toshiba updates its UK PDA line

    Mobile Want an Apple iMac, but having to use an iBook instead? Want your bring your PC laptop into the Anglepoise Generation™? Then you need Lapvantage's Dome notebook stand. Apparently. As you can see from the piccy, the Dome is an iMac-esque hemispherical base with a clear perspex flat panel for your notebook where the …

    Personal 8 Apr 2003, 08:47

  • Windows CE to outship PCs in five years – researcher

    All tomorrow's smartphones

    In five years' time, more Windows CE devices will be shipping than Windows PCs. So reckons PC and PDA market researcher eTForecasts. So while 2002 saw 126 million PC shipments worldwide and nine million WinCE device shipments, come 2008 and 190-200 million PCs will ship compared to 200-220 million WinCE devices, according to …

    Software 8 Apr 2003, 09:32

  • South Korea asks US to kill Hynix 57% import tariff

    Offers limits on prices and size of DRAM exports

    The South Korean government has sought the suspension of the punitive import tariffs the US Department of Commerce last week imposed on Hynix memory products. Semiconductors are South Korea's biggest export, and the government doesn't want the duty to harm either sales or confidence in the country's exporters. Chips generated $ …

    Channel 8 Apr 2003, 09:56

  • Corp Windows 2003 Server WPA key escapes

    Wide open ahead of the rollout again...

    Microsoft has suffered another one of those embarrassing corporate Windows Product Activation key leaks, for Windows Server 2003 this time, almost three weeks ahead of the product's scheduled release. According to discussion at Neowin, this key is for three versions of 2003 Server, i.e. Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter …

    Software 8 Apr 2003, 11:04

  • FAST recovers $14,000 for independent software developer

    Taking care of David as well as Goliath

    Piracy watchdogs at the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) are hailing their success as recovering $14,000 on behalf of independent software developer, Thomas Kelty, from a larger firm who attempted to rip him off. Kelty, who specialises in technology for medical devices, contacted FAST in November 2002 on discovering the …

    Software 8 Apr 2003, 12:40

  • e-Pharmacy sites offer risky prescription

    The bitterest pill

    A brace of studies released yesterday has raised concerns about the safety of buying drugs online. Almost half of e-pharmacies fail to give adequate information about drugs and medicines, according to Aussie magazine Quality and Safety in Health Care. It examined 104 Internet pharmacies , and diagnosed the failure of 41 sites …

    Media 8 Apr 2003, 12:59

  • MS Media Player tech gets InterVideo Linux port

    Linux DVD players with MS DRM ahoy...

    The business-devouring GPL drew closer to Fort Redmond this week, with the news that InterVideo has been licensed to port the company's Windows Media Technologies to Linux. Which means if Microsoft's highly-imaginative past claims about open source are true (which they're not), the dreaded cancer will munch its way first through …

    Software 8 Apr 2003, 13:57

  • Affinity Internet Holdings goes titsup

    Unravelling fast

    Affinity Internet Holdings today went into administration. We understand that a massive hole has been discovered in the accounts of Affinity Internet Ltd, the virtual ISP business sold to CleverView Investments last month. Here in full is AIH's statement released to the London Stock Exchange. "Affinity Internet Holdings plc (' …

    Media 8 Apr 2003, 14:16

  • NTT DoCoMo to trial mPayments

    By credit card

    NTT DoCoMo is to trial a credit card linked mobile payment service in June. However, it may be found that the new payment system fails to present a strong enough business case. Conversely, there seems to be much more room for success in the micro-payments market. Yet even that niche will prove difficult to crack. Japanese telco …

    Mobile 8 Apr 2003, 14:17

  • War hits beleaguered networking sector

    Confidence reaches rock bottom

    Economic uncertainty due to the war in Iraq is piling fresh misery on the already beleaguered networking equipment companies and their channel partners in the US, and more particularly, in Europe. A survey published by channel analysts Global Touch, tells a story of a sector marking down sales expectations and squinting into …

    Data Networking 8 Apr 2003, 14:57

  • Sun revamps midrange storage

    Tries to conquer storage market, again

    Like an innocent child running into a wall, Sun Microsystems has released new midrange storage products to make yet another attempt at gaining share in the storage market. It's always fun to hear Sun executives talk about storage. The company has tried again and again to make headway against the likes of EMC, IBM and HP. But …

    Storage 8 Apr 2003, 15:40

  • UK workers should get IT skills ‘passports’

    Where do you want to go?

    Workers in the UK could be given "skills passports" that would log their IT training and expertise. It's just one of the ideas put forward by industry group e-skills UK to help improve the skill level of workers in the UK and narrow the much talked-about IT skills gap. E-skills UK - which today received formal Government …

    Small Biz 8 Apr 2003, 15:42

  • AOL Time Warner takes grip of net radio

    And starts squeezing

    An off-guard comment by an attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) - revealed here for the first time - shows how sanguine the lobby group is about the destruction of diversity in the nascent Net radio scene. It's often overlooked - perhaps because it's hidden in plain sight - that AOL Time Warner owns …

    Media 8 Apr 2003, 23:10