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  • College girl's breasts get $4,500 lift

    A-cup Michel set to expand assets

    Those readers with a keen memory for such things will remember the recent case of mammarily-challenged college girl Michel. Poor old Michel launched a web appeal for a boob job and, A-cup in hand, threw herself on the tender mercies of the world's web community. Incredibly, Michel has now raised the $4.,500 required to give her …

    Bootnotes 17 Apr 2003, 08:21

  • Baan: SSA may take on the challenge

    Invensys shuts the Baan door

    Baan is among a batch of companies that Invensys has put up for sale. Invensys now wants to focus on production management after a dismal financial performance in weakening trading conditions. While Baan is likely to sell for a fairly low price in the current market, Invensys will finally be able to concentrate its attentions …

    Hardware 17 Apr 2003, 08:26

  • On joining up physical security and cyber-security

    Electronic bouncers

    A group of US technology firms have formed an alliance to develop better integration between physical and cyber security systems. The stated aim of the Open Security Exchange (OSE), , is to develop best practices and vendor-neutral specifications to enable the straightforward integration of physical and cyber security systems. …

    Security 17 Apr 2003, 08:36

  • Voda peers into dark tunnels

    Stealing a march

    Vodafone has started talks with Network Rail, the non-profit making UK Network rail provider, about extending its mobile phone coverage into railway tunnels, writes Bob McDowell, of Bloor Research. The objective is to improve the coverage and service to the lucrative, high spending business market. Is this a good time to be …

    Mobile 17 Apr 2003, 08:52

  • Apple sees flat second quarter sales

    But back in the black

    Apple last night announced it made a profit of $14 million ($0.04 a share) on sales of $1.475 billion during its second quarter, ended 29 May of its current fiscal year. Those figures mark declines of 65 per cent and one per cent, respectively, over the same period last year. Sequentially, they mark a return to profitability - …

    Mac Channel 17 Apr 2003, 09:08

  • AMD loss narrows on sales rise

    Slow road to recovery

    AMD's first quarter of its current fiscal year yielded sales of $715 million, down 21 per cent on the year-ago quarter and up four per cent on Q4 2002's $686 million. First quarter 2003 sales were enough to reduce but not eliminate the company's losing streak. AMD lost $146 million during the quarter, rather less than the $855 …

    Channel 17 Apr 2003, 09:34

  • Samsung debuts surround sound MP3 player

    Reg Kit Watch Plus D-Link drives domestic videoconferencing with i2eye

    MP3 Player Samsung has unveiled what it claims is the first MP3 player to offer surround sound playback. The Yepp the YP-55 sports SRS Labs' WOW surround sound simulator, which takes processes stereo channels to give the sound a more immersive, 3D feel. The YP-55 also features SRS Labs' Trubass low-frequency enhancement …

    Personal 17 Apr 2003, 10:40

  • Grampian police trial facial biometrics

    If the face fits, you're nicked

    Grampian Police are to use a biometric facial recognition systems to help identify and process suspects more rapidly. The system is supplied by Steria and integrates Imagis' ID-2000 face recognition technology to confirm the identities of suspects by cross-checking against photographic records. ID-2000 is designed to identify …

    Security 17 Apr 2003, 14:23

  • EC talks up Tech for the disabled

    Action Plan

    The European Commission has committed itself to improve access to mobile communications and interactive TV to the disabled. There isn't any commitment to finance these laudable aims, but a speech this week by Erkki Liikanen, political head of IT policy at the EC strikes many of the right notes. eEurope Action Plan The …

    Personal 17 Apr 2003, 14:33

  • Leave your Cisco WiFi mobile phone at the door

    Talk time

    Cisco has demonstrated a mobile phone that uses 802.11 wireless ethernet for use on "campus networks", which means enterprises with WiFi access. It's more of a walkie-talkie replacement than what we recognize as a real mobile phone, but the importance of this convergence moshpit should not be underestimated. It isn't the first …

    Wireless 17 Apr 2003, 14:34

  • 419 scammers move into the French air disaster market

    L'argent de mon père est dans la compagnie de sécurité

    Continuing our ongoing reportage of new 419 scams, we're pleased to announce that Nigerian advance fee fraudsters have moved into the foreign language and air disaster markets. Mais oui, mes braves: here's a familiar story from the Ivory Coast: Coulibaly Lassina Abidjan, Cote D'ivoire. Je suis COULIBALY LASSINA,le fils du …

    Bootnotes 17 Apr 2003, 14:36

  • Networks drag Nokia sales

    Cautious outlook

    Andrew McLindon: Mobile phone maker Nokia said hardship in its networks unit resulted in lower first quarter sales, with second quarter results not expected to be any better. Nokia said on Thursday that pro-forma net sales in the first quarter of 2003 were down 3 percent on the same quarter a year ago to EUR6.77 billion. Nokia …

    Business 17 Apr 2003, 14:44

  • Use a honeypot, go to prison?

    Some legal issues here

    Using a honeypot to detect and monitor computer intruders might put you on the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by the next hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney warned Wednesday. "There are some legal issues here, and they are not necessarily trivial, and they're …

    Security 17 Apr 2003, 14:48

  • Sproqit serves real-time PC access to PDA owners

    Never need HotSync again - or a high-end device, for that matter...

    Mobile data devices, such as PDAs and smartphones, may now be fully part of the wireless world, but they still suffer from a major drawback: the information they provide often isn't real-time data. Remote synchronisation allows you to back-up your data while you're out of the office, but it won't let you pick up and edit that …

    Personal 17 Apr 2003, 15:17

  • Office 2k reg. bug in code used to block registrations

    Oh the irony

    The source of the Office 2000 SR-1 Registration Wizard bug striking corporate PC users around the world appears to have been identified as glitch in code incorporated in the software to prevent requests for product registration after 15 April 2003. Instead, the bug displays the Registration Wizard, forcing users to continually …

    Software 17 Apr 2003, 16:02

  • Should You Hire a Hacker?

    Mitnick, he say yes

    Should corporations hire known hackers with criminal records to test and secure their networks? The question, posed to four panelists at the RSA Security Conference held at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco, on April 14, pitted hacker Kevin Mitnick against Christopher Painter, who prosecuted Mitnick in 1995. Mitnick argued …

    Security 17 Apr 2003, 20:07

  • VMware opens UK office

    Second front

    Partitioning software maker VMware has set up a small shop in the UK to head overseas operations in EMEA. A modest team of 5 employees have their offices in Camberley and report into Mark Stradling, vice president of EMEA. VMware plans to expand the size of the staff at a quick clip, according to a company spokeswoman. The …

    Hardware 17 Apr 2003, 22:22

  • MS legal threat derails Foxpro on Linux demo

    You run our stuff where we say

    Microsoft has enraged the developer community after a Redmond executive last week threatened a software developer to prevent him from demonstrating a Microsoft application running on Linux. Whil Hentzen, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was to have presented a seminar showing how to run Microsoft's Visual FoxPro on Linux at the Bay …

    Software 17 Apr 2003, 22:23

  • Letter File swapping students – quit toking, start voting

    Re: Liberation abroad, repression at home - a student's tale Repression in Ohio? This corner of the USA need not belong to the puritans, as this letter eloquently explains. The following is advice for that student. If campus repression is this big a problem for students at OSU/Columbus, organize, register locally and vote in …

    Letters 17 Apr 2003, 22:36

  • HP cements the Bastille

    Simple security for HP-UX

    Hewlett-Packard has released Version 2.0 of the Bastille security tool and a new Install-Time Security product for its HP-UX operating system. HP has applied the open source work done on Bastille Linux to its own OS to help improve the security settings on HP-UX 11i. With the software, users can answer a series of questions …

    Software 17 Apr 2003, 23:07