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  • EMC to roll out Windows-based storage system

    Jumps in the SAK with Microsoft

    EMC Corp. has given in and decided to start shipping Windows-based network attached storage (NAS) systems alongside its own Celerra hardware. The NetWin 200 system will start shipping in the third quarter, starting at $50,000. Even with this price-tag, the box fits into the low end of EMC's NAS line. The higher end Celerra …

    Software 29 Apr 2003, 00:03

  • RIAA's Rosen ‘writing Iraq copyright laws’

    Pigopolists trade slop for oil

    Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, is helping draft copyright legislation for the New Iraq, according to investigative journalist Gregory Palast. "Who's really going to win this war? It looks like Madonna," Palast told Democracy Now radio. "Where before, they feared Saddam Hussein, …

    Media 29 Apr 2003, 01:20

  • Time to challenge airline paranoia on wireless

    Opinion Where are the bodies?

    There's no way an airline "cabin crew" member can be expected to know whether your PDA has a phone built into it, or whether your laptop computer has WiFi permanently on. Nor can they tell whether the wireless circuit is switched off. So, are we about to see a blanket ban on smartphones, and on notebook computers, in the air? …

    Broadband 29 Apr 2003, 07:43

  • Get your Face off My Pitch

    The Mighty Kahn 1: EA FIFA World Cup 2002 0

    A court in Hamburg has ruled that EA's FIFA World Cup 2002 title must be removed from sale in Germany because it features the name and likeness of German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn without permission. A decision on compensation for Kahn will now follow, and may cost Electronic Arts millions of euro. FIFA World Cup 2002 sold 180, …

    Personal 29 Apr 2003, 08:08

  • Linus Torvalds blesses DRM, and nothing happens

    Can we just talk about something else, please?

    Last week Linus Torvalds said share denial technology, or DRM (Digital Rights Management) is OK. He did so on a linux kernel mailing list and so anticipating the reaction, with the Subject line: Flame Linus to a crisp!, he wrote: "I'm going to just hunker down for some really impressive extended flaming, and my asbestos …

    Software 29 Apr 2003, 10:03

  • Court rejects malicious emailer's Papal bull

    Welsh Pope impersonator in a whole heap of trouble

    A man accused of sending malicious emails has landed himself in a whole further heap of trouble by invoking no less than His Holiness the Pope as a character witness, the Telegraph reports. Julian Evans, 28, of Monmouth, south Wales, found himself hauled before Merthyr Tydfil magistrates on a charge of sending abusive messages …

    Bootnotes 29 Apr 2003, 10:19

  • Orange gets new COO

    Top management speak

    Sanjiv Ahuja, 46, has been named as the new COO of Orange Group replacing co-founder, Graham Howe, who said earlier this year that he planned to step aside. Before this Sanjiv was president of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) after a stint as CEO of California-based Comstellar Technologies. He began his career at IBM …

    Business 29 Apr 2003, 10:20

  • BTo ‘levels playing field’ for Sat bandwidth hogs

    Pack it in will ya

    BT Openworld is getting heavy with its broadband satellite punters after bandwidth "hogs" ignored calls to ease up on the service. It claims that a small number of its 2,000 or so punters are using 40 per cent of the bandwidth available. So, from May 1 (Thursday) BT Openworld is introducing a "Fair Share Policy" which it …

    Small Biz 29 Apr 2003, 10:21

  • Comical Ali resurfaces

    Linux is a lie!

    You just can't keep a good man (or joke) down. Contrary to unconfirmed reports of his suicide, former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has resurfaced as a Microsoft spokesman. At least that's what the cheeky chaps behind TheInformationMinister.com would have us believe. Fans of Comical Ali's inventive line …

    Bootnotes 29 Apr 2003, 10:23

  • Ericsson to cut another 14,000 jobs

    Oh dear

    Swedish communications giant Ericsson revealed sweeping new job cuts on Tuesday after seeing its sales tumble 30 percent during the quarter. The company said it cut 3,700 people during the past quarter and that it would now accelerate this restructuring program. Another 9,000 jobs are set to go by the end of this year, …

    Business 29 Apr 2003, 10:34

  • On the IBM ThinkPad G40

    Nomadic with intent?

    You may have thought they mean roughly the same, but IBM's announcement of its new G-series ThinkPad amplifies where the differences may lay, and what this may mean as the unwired worlds of mobile and wireless network technologies converge. The new IBM ThinkPad G40s will incorporate dual band 802.11a/b on certain models, so …

    Personal 29 Apr 2003, 10:54

  • Education faces BB challenge

    Let's work together

    Getting schools and local educational authorities (LEAs) to embrace broadband remains a "challenge". So says Keith Todd, chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) which yesterday published a report into the opportunities and barriers to the use of broadband in education. The report follows a pledge last November by …

    Broadband 29 Apr 2003, 14:06

  • Infineon wants to leave Germany

    Trims staff while it thinks of where to go next

    Infineon Technologies will cut 900 jobs in the next few months, as the company mulls a possible exit from Germany. Europe's second biggest chipmaker today announced the layoffs and kicked off a larger scale cost-cutting program designed to save the company $551 million. This move comes as Infineon looks to move its headquarters …

    Business 29 Apr 2003, 16:41

  • UK.biz getting on top of serious security risks

    Accepting low-level vulns

    Corporate organisations are beginning to address major security flaws within their networks at the same time as failing to address medium or lower risk issues. Security testing firm NTA Monitor found a third of the 600 corporate networks it tested last year had ten or more security flaws. These companies are exposed to " …

    Security 29 Apr 2003, 18:13

  • Mobiles hail London cabs

    Makes waving redundant

    Mobile phone users in London should soon be able to hail the capital's black cabs simply by using their mobile phones. The location-based service comes from an outfit called Zingo, which, incidentally is owned by MBH, the company that makes London's taxis. Anyhow, Zingo uses mobile technology to put passengers directly in …

    Mobile 29 Apr 2003, 18:15

  • Steve Jobs blesses DRM, and nothing happens

    Sugared water

    Apple expanded its retail presence yesterday, right into the guts of your computer, in a move variously hailed as "revolutionary" (Wininformant), "unique" (The New York Times) and "we're impressed" (Forbes). Only the FT seemed to strike a more realistic note: "Apple music service plays by industry rules," and only today do the …

    Media 29 Apr 2003, 20:01

  • The Whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth

    Letters Hardware Engineers are from Venus, Software Engineers are from Mars

    Our examination of the language culture at Intel Why Intel doesn't write stuff down begat this correction, and some great responses from Register readers. Here' s one of great economy:- Hardware Engineers (sub-category semi-conductor) industry type: Capital Intensive ethos: "Measure Twice, Cut Once" motivation: "spins" are …

    Letters 29 Apr 2003, 22:39

  • HP to bring 64-bit Windows XP to Itanic

    Workstations in May

    Itanic releases have poured out of the HP and Microsoft vaults at a steady clip of late. Last week, the two companies joined to set a record on a transaction performance benchmark with a Madison-based Superdome server running Windows Server 2003. Just weeks before that, Microsoft said it had prepped 64-bit Windows XP for Itanic …

    Servers 29 Apr 2003, 23:45