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  • Tech writer axed for thinking

    SF Chronicle dumps Norr

    The San Francisco Chronicle today sacked technology reporter Henry Norr in an apparent response to his protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq. The paper suspended Norr after he took a sick day and then joined in the large scale protests here last month. A paper spokesman declined to comment on the reasons for the …

    Business 25 Apr 2003, 02:55

  • Bruce Lindsay on Codd's relational legacy

    How they made it work

    Thanks to IBM's Bruce Lindsay for some more thoughts on the value of Tedd Codd's relational work. Bruce worked on System/R with Gray and Chamberlin, whose words about his legacy you can find here. Codd died last Friday. "Ted's idea was tremendously important," he says, and explains how. Unlike some inventions, such as the …

    Hardware 25 Apr 2003, 03:54

  • Palm mobilises for invasion of China

    Offers liberation from tyranny and Pocket PC

    Palm is mobilising its forces to pursue a strategy of regime change in the Chinese PDA market in a bid to take command of the largest handheld arena in Asia Pacific. Its initial challenge is the logistics of the campaign. SARS notwithstanding, the PDA maker has established a forward distribution centre in Hong Kong. Local …

    Personal 25 Apr 2003, 08:20

  • Momentum builds for E3 launch of Nvidia NV35

    Looking more likely

    Evidence continues to accumulate that Nvidia will launch its NV35 chip at the E3 games industry show next month. As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Nvidia is down on the E3 list of exhibitors who will be announcing new product. Nvidia's entry on the exhibitor list sports a 'First Looks' logo, which means "this exhibitor …

    Channel 25 Apr 2003, 08:47

  • Ballmer ushers in Windows 2003 Server

    We're serious this time. I mean it

    There were few surprises at the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server launch held in San Francisco today, as a svelte Steve Ballmer walked the crowd through the bells and whistles in his company's latest operating system. Ballmer gave the standard pitch for a new version of a Windows server product, touting its reliability, new …

    Software 25 Apr 2003, 09:16

  • Verizon loses RIAA piracy case

    Makes one last attempt for privacy

    Verizon has vowed to continue its fight to refuse to reveal the identity of one of its punters accused of pirating music, claming the matter could have a "chilling effect" on Internet users. Its continued stand for online privacy comes as a US judge upheld an earlier decision forcing Verizon to hand over the information. …

    Music and Media 25 Apr 2003, 10:47

  • AOL signs on to Symbian

    You've got EPOC

    AOL Time Warner has joined the Symbian partner program, which it says will help it contribute its content catalog, along with AOL and ICQ messaging, and T9 text input, to Symbian-based phones. "We can more easily and effectively deploy a broad range of media and entertainment content to Symbian licensees who manufacture over 75 …

    Music and Media 25 Apr 2003, 10:51

  • William Gibson ‘gives up blogging’

    But here's Esther!

    The second-greatest living American writer [*] with a weblog, William Gibson, is departing the "blogosphere". This we learn from journalist Karlin Lillington, who interviewed him recently for the Irish Times. He will no longer be "terraforming" his "memes" to the "hypermesh". Gibson told Lillington that the daily confessional …

    Music and Media 25 Apr 2003, 13:33

  • London's Soho to get blanket 802.11 cover for voice, data

    Stitch this, Vodafone, T-Mobile, BT etc.

    London's City of Westminster Council is to bring 802.11b wireless networking to the streets of Soho. The scheme, dubbed the Westminster 4G project, will initially provide Wi-Fi connectivity for council operatives and remote systems. But in a direct challenge to ISPs and the UK's wired and mobile telcos, the Conservative-led …

    Mobile 25 Apr 2003, 13:35

  • Cisco switch password flaw could give access

    Nasty, but straightforward to fix

    Cisco yesterday urged users of a particular version of its core router operating system to upgrade following the discovery of a potential serious password vulnerability. Anyone who can obtain command line access to an affected switch can bypass password authentication and change network configurations without needing to know …

    Security 25 Apr 2003, 13:35

  • Amazon narrows Q1 loss

    Ups revenue etc

    Amazon claims its strategy of cutting costs and offering lower prices for its books, CDs and other stuff is beginning to pay off. Publishing its Q1 results for the first three months of the year the monster etailer reported that sales had jumped 28 per cent to $1.08bn, up from $847m in the same quarter last year. While …

    Music and Media 25 Apr 2003, 13:36

  • Brightview out of administration

    That's it really

    Brightview Ltd - the independent outfit that owns ISPs including callnet, ic24, madasafish and Totalise - is no longer in administration. It was bought by its original investors less than a week after being placed in administration following a dispute among shareholders. In a brief statement the company said: "The original …

    Business 25 Apr 2003, 17:07

  • Demo gremlins fail to derail Win 2003 juggernaut

    UK blast off

    The traditional demo gremlins once again made an appearance at Microsoft's launch of Windows Server 2003 in London yesterday. Things were going swimmingly until Microsoft staffers tried to show how the addition of Automated Deployment Services with Windows Server 2003 made it far quicker to deploy an operating system image on …

    Software 25 Apr 2003, 17:08

  • Roll up! IBM is giving away hardware

    ASU spills the beans

    An Arizona State University representative committed one of the ultimate blunders in the delicate world of customer win announcements and did so at the expense of IBM. IBM offered ASU a whopping 65 percent discount for a large computing system planned to be one of the 100 most powerful in the world, reports The Arizona Republic …

    Servers 25 Apr 2003, 19:44

  • Writing history with Microsoft's Office lock-in

    No XML please, we're arbitrary

    Sometimes, very small decisions can have a very big impact on how people work in the future. So join us, on a journey into the future: a story that begins with a little fudge. In a little noticed move, Microsoft has slid on its commitment to produce open standard file formats for its Office products. By maintaining a …

    Software 25 Apr 2003, 22:13