18th April 2003 Archive
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.NOT now, please: vacuuming MS renames products
Systems company
It's only branding, but sometimes small details tells us a lot. Microsoft has completed the transition from .NET to .NOT by giving its server and office product families a fresh lick of paint and new names. In January, Microsoft announced it would downplay the brand. So the indiscriminate use of the .NET brand is no more. Last …
Software 18 Apr 2003, 01:42
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Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen
Security? What's that?
Workers are prepared to give away their passwords for a cheap pen, according to a somewhat unscientific - but still illuminating - survey published today. The second annual survey into office scruples, conducted by the people organising this month's InfoSecurity Europe 2003 conference, found that office workers have learnt very …
Security 18 Apr 2003, 08:24
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Namco woos Sega
Choose us
Japanese publisher Namco has publicly proposed a merger with rival Sega, calling on the former platform holder to reopen merger talks rather than proceeding with its currently planned merge with gambling machine manufacturer Sammy. According to the Japanese financial press, Namco has proposed a deal which would see the two …
Personal 18 Apr 2003, 08:39
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IT services head offshore
Passage to India
The battle lines have been drawn, with tier-one providers such as IBM Global Services, CSC, EDS and CGEY all gearing up to grow their own units in India. With price competition driving the move, many of these companies are being forced to build their offshore businesses or risk a reduced ability to win major projects. The …
Hardware 18 Apr 2003, 08:39
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Getting realistic in the war on hackers
Opinion Do the math
Give up on the notion that computer security can be improved by putting more people in prison, argues Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus columnist. The war on hackers is failing for the same reason the war on drugs failed: Most individuals can control themselves, but there is a substantial group of people for whom no legal penalties …
Security 18 Apr 2003, 09:02
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US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines
Your tax dollars at work
The research wing of the United States military, DARPA, has abruptly terminated funding for an OpenBSD project, leaving dozens of open source programmers in the lurch. DARPA funds hundreds of loopy research projects, some of which are sinister pork-barrel boondoggles, such as the Total Information Awareness panopticon project, …
Software 18 Apr 2003, 12:43
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Bored and confused by the PC Internet – world turns to phones
Techno-utopians reported anxious, fearful
A Pew Research report published yesterday makes sober reading for techno-utopians. It reveals that Internet usage in the US has stalled. Half of the population doesn't want the Internet and doesn't care less about what it might be missing. "Missing out on the most popular movement of the 1990s didn't seem to bother the unwired …
Music and Media 18 Apr 2003, 13:11
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Dell thumps HP
PC king in Q1
Dell has reclaimed its title as PC seller extraordinaire. The Texas-based PC shop knocked Hewlett-Packard out of the top spot for worldwide PC sales in the first quarter of 2003, IDC said. The two companies have jostled for the top spot since HP acquired Compaq last year. Overall, vendors shipped out 34.6 million PCs , which …
Business 18 Apr 2003, 18:55
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CNN kills Castro early
Human error, technological disgrace
Castro did make a wonderful Queen Consort, didn't he? Or maybe it was his role as the U.K.'s favorite grandmother that tickled your heart. Some of you might not recall these more tender moments from Fidel's past, when he served the British Royal Family. To help jog your memory, CNN this week dropped an early copy of its …
Bootnotes 18 Apr 2003, 19:27
