9th April 2003 Archive
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Rivals spoil Sun's storage play
IBM, HP and BlueArc fight for the spotlight
Storage vendors were busy across the board this week with a flood of new products arriving on the scene. Sun Microsystems made one of the more major moves on Tuesday, releasing a pair of new midrange systems and its first product built specifically to manage multivendor gear. Sun's rivals, however, refused to be left out of …
Storage 9 Apr 2003, 07:12
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SiS trying to license Intel's 800MHz P4 FSB
But unwilling to discuss the two companies' relationship
SiS has said it is currently seeking a licence from Intel allowing it to produce chipsets compatible with the upcoming 800MHz quad-pumped Pentium 4 frontside bus. The announcement was made in a statement issued a day after Intel and VIA - SiS' chief rival - had agreed to settle their differences and end more than two years' of …
Channel 9 Apr 2003, 07:31
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QDI reveals VIA KT600 mobo
Chipset support 400MHz FSB Athlon XP
Mobo maker Legend QDI will ship a board based on VIA's as-yet-unannounced KT600 chipset, the company said today. The board, called the QDI K7V600, will ship in July. It will apparently be based on the KT600 chipset, including the VT8327 Southbridge chip. What separates the KT600 from the recently announced KT400A? Not much it …
Personal 9 Apr 2003, 08:20
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Reg Kit Watch
Hush reveals silent-PC pricing, and Sony launches its 23GB blue laser optical drive
Desktop Hush Technologies, maker of the Hush silent PC, which was launched last month, will begin shipping the machine on 14 April. Prices start at €645 for an entry-level system based on a VIA 933MHz C3 processor, VIA EPIA-M 9000 mobo featuring integrated VIA CastleRock graphics with 32MB RAM, 128MB DDR SDRAM, slimline (ie. …
Personal 9 Apr 2003, 08:33
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Texas Instruments licenses PowerVR for PDA, cellphone CPUs
Blast from the past
Texas Instruments has licensed Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX graphics core and plans to integrate the technology into its ARM-based OMAP processor family. TI aims OMAP at mobile devices - a key customer is Palm's Solutions Group, which uses the OMAP 1510 in its Tungsten-T PDA. OMAP's DSP cores currently provide basic …
Channel 9 Apr 2003, 09:45
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World's most stupid security measures named and shamed
Those competition results in full
Privacy International today announced the results of its competition to find the world's most pointless security measures. The competition, launched in February, attracted almost 5000 nominations from 35 countries. While airlines and airports dominated the competition, nominations arose from almost all areas of private and …
Security 9 Apr 2003, 09:51
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250 exchanges to get ADSL by Autumn
Look into my crystal ball
BT reckons that growing demand for broadband will enable the telco to convert a further 250 exchanges to ADSL by the end of September. The prediction is based on current levels of broadband interest in areas currently not served by ADSL. Since BT's demand-led scheme - which sets thresholds representing the level of demand …
Telecoms 9 Apr 2003, 10:35
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US mod chip retailer jailed and fined
Ridiculous
A US man found guilty of selling mod chips on his website in breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been sentenced to five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine. David Rocci, who sold the Enigmah mod chips for the Xbox from the site, Isonews.com (the domain was seized by the US Department of Justice last month, but …
Personal 9 Apr 2003, 10:54
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Intel, Nokia et al launch WiMax Forum
Promoting Wireless Broadband
Intel, Fujitsu and Proxim and a clutch of other tech companies have set up the WiMax Forum to support 802.16, a new standard designed to enable high-speed wireless Net connections over a 30-mile range. Members of the non-profit group include wireless giant Nokia, Airspan Networks, Alvarion Ltd, Aperto Networks, Ensemble …
Wireless 9 Apr 2003, 11:11
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Iraq, its domain and the ‘terrorist-funding’ owner
A tale of intrigue, confusion and Internet oddities
The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning. As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet …
Music and Media 9 Apr 2003, 11:55
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NTL's 128k service is/is not broadband – ASA
What a farce
NTL is fuming following a ruling by the advertising watchdog that the unqualified use of "broadband" to describe its 128k service was "likely to mislead" punters. The ruling against NTL, published today, was made even though the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) acknowledged that cableco's 128k service met industry …
Telecoms 9 Apr 2003, 11:56
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PR rules, OK? Google ducks promised news policy pledge
Can't tell, won't tell
The secretive search engine Google is blissfully unaware of the backlash it faces with its continuing debasement of the word "News". On Friday, the corporation confirmed that it included PR pollution in the data stream. Our weekend mailbag reflected a major loss of trust in the once apparently benign, and well loved search …
Music and Media 9 Apr 2003, 12:40
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MS preps Win64 betas for AMD 64
Names the date (kinda)
When Microsoft issued a press release today announcing its committment to support AMD's 64-bit Opteron and Athlon 64 CPUs, we had to check the date. Wasn't this announcement made, albeit by AMD and albeit confined to Opteron only, in April 2002? Err, yes, it was. So what's new today? Well, Microsoft says it should have Windows …
Servers 9 Apr 2003, 14:02
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Treasury extends IT capital allowance tax relief
For one year
The Treasury is to extend 100 per cent capital relief on information and communication technology infrastructure spending for small businesses by one year to March 31, 2004. At the same time more businesses will be entitled "to benefit from the 40 per cent plant and machinery and 100 per cent ICT allowances". Presumably this …
Small Biz 9 Apr 2003, 14:27
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How broad before you can call it broadband?
Industry split so what hope for the consumer?
Make no mistake, today's ruling by the advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), concerning the definition of 'broadband' could have big repercussions for the UK's Internet industry. The ruling highlights the confusion caused by a sector which has failed to come up with a consistent industry-wide …
Telecoms 9 Apr 2003, 15:05
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Synad demos low-cost dual-chip, dual-band chipset
Three chips bad, two chips good for 802.11a/b/g
British wireless networking chipset company Synad today unveiled its debut product: Mercury5G, a dual-band, dual-chip 802.11a/b/g offering. The chipset comprises the SYBB8200 modem/MAC and the SYRF8100 radio chip. Synad's radio technology, dubbed AgileRF, can directly hop from the 2.4GHz band to the 5GHz spectrum, courtesy of …
Wireless 9 Apr 2003, 15:43
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Western European IT market decline bottomed out – analyst
Shallow growth this year led by software and services
Computer hardware suppliers waiting for their European sales to pick up will have to wait a little longer, market researcher IDC reported today. Its latest research data suggests hardware sales in Western Europe will remain flat through 2003 and won't show "more positive trends" until 2004. Blame the war, says IDC, but it also …
Small Biz 9 Apr 2003, 16:10
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EasyInternet abandons CD burning court appeal
Pays damages, costs to BPI
The British Phonographic Institute (BPI) has confirmed a major victory in its legal battle with EasyInternet, with the Net cafe chain throwing in the towel. EasyInternet is to pay £210,000 in damages and costs to the UK record industry body for running unlicensed CD burning of music downloads in its stores. It is also to …
Music and Media 9 Apr 2003, 16:33
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Google turns News ‘bug’ into payola feature
Pay no attention to the robot behind the curtain!
Google's semantic redefinition of the word "News" could soon prove a lucrative bonus for the secretive search engine company. Why secretive? The company refuses to publish its News Policy - and it maintains the fiction that the selection and composition of stories on its "News section" was "determined by a computer". That's as …
Music and Media 9 Apr 2003, 21:45
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Solaris 10 to get Zoned
Exclusive Behind the Partition
It's still a ways off, but when Solaris 10 arrives, Sun Microsystems will ship the OS with a new type of partitioning technology called Solaris Zones. In many ways, the Solaris Zones - known internally by the Kevlar code-name - will be a hardened version of the Solaris Containers currently offered to users for keeping …
Software 9 Apr 2003, 22:06
