9th May 2003 Archive

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• Google to fix blog noise problem

  -noblog

  Google is to create a search tool specifically for weblogs, most likely giving material generated by the self-publishing tools its own tab. CEO Eric Schmidt made the announcement on Monday, at the JP Morgan Technology and Telecom conference. 'Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, known as "blogs,"' …

  Music and Media 9 May 2003, 02:12

• Stelios faces his domain Waterloo

  Easy domain crusade ends

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou has backed down in his Napoleonic crusade against owners of "easy" domains, telling legitimate print-selling business Easyart.com that he is too busy suing other people to bother it - just weeks before court action was due to start. However, while the self-titled man of the people has threatened to renew …

  Music and Media 9 May 2003, 08:48

• Ram Raiders bin stolen HDDs

  Literally

  They planned their heist to perfection. First, there were two getaway cars and a flatbed lorry to steal. Then, over several days, bolts were weakened on a panel the metal fence surrounding the target company's premises. This was to provide an alternative escape route, just in case the police turned up. The precaution was …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 08:50

• MMS to boom – Nokia

  Excited Punters

  Three-quarters of UK survey participants are "excited" by MMS, providing an indication that MMS will repeat its success in Japan throughout the world. The findings are contained in a new report that was compiled by HPI Research Group and sponsored by Nokia Networks. The research surveyed various focus groups, but also surveyed …

  Mobile 9 May 2003, 08:54

• Portuguese oil co. touts latest MS SmartPhone

  Unusual bedfellows

  It is almost certainly the first time anybody other than a phone company has launched a mobile phone: GALP and Microsoft have done a deal to provide an AEG-built Windows-powered (PocketPC) device to GALP partners and customers. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer himself will be in Lisbon today to announce the deal. "This marks the first …

  Mobile 9 May 2003, 09:02

• Services take centre stage, as software licences slip

  Perma-shift?

  Taking a look at some of the recent earnings announcements for enterprise applications vendors, you could be forgiven for thinking that the days of selling software licences were sliding to an end, writes Fran Howarth, of Bloor Research. Almost all of the gorillas of the enterprise application space - Siebel, SAP, Oracle and …

  Hardware 9 May 2003, 09:22

• ‘Banned’ Xbox hacking book selling fast

  'Every book will be boxed by my own two hands.'

  Hacker-engineer Andrew "Bunnie" Huang says he's already pre-sold between 400 and 500 copies of his self-published tell-all "Hacking the Xbox: an Introduction to Reverse Engineering," weeks before its scheduled May 27th publication date, despite -- or perhaps because of -- looming suspicions by some that the book skirts the edges …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 09:36

• Nvidia admits GeForce FX 5800 ‘not successful’

  Sales, income well down too

  Nvidia last night announced disappointing results for the first quarter of its current fiscal year, 2004. The chip maker admitted its NV30 chip - aka the GeForce FX 5800 - was "not a successful product", and confirmed that it would launch its replacement, the NV35, next week. The suggests Nvidia will indeed announce NV35 at the …

  Channel 9 May 2003, 10:15

• ATI ships Radeon 9600 Pro

  Reg Kit Watch Plus SiS launches its 800MHz FSB chipset

  Graphics ATI has begun shipping its Radeon 9600 Pro graphics chip and card, earlier than originally planned but a little later than the part's re-scheduled ship date. On 2 April, ATI marketing chief Rick Bergman said the company's Radeon 9600 products would ship "later this month". ATI missed that by a week or so, but what's …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 10:42

• DoCoMo wristphone sells out in 20 mins

  Wristomo going, going, gone-o

  NTT DoCoMo's Wristomo I-mode wristphone sold out within 20 minutes of going on sale, the company said yesterday. Wristomo was made available to the Japanese public on Wednesday at 10am local time. By 10.20am, all 1000 devices that made up the wristphone's first production run, had been sold. Each phone costs ¥37,000 ($316). It …

  Mobile 9 May 2003, 11:07

• OpenForum Europe rejects Perens charges

  We are not and have never been an OSS rep

  This week, Linux evangelist Bruce Perens criticised OpenForum Europe for supporting software patents in the European Community. Graham Taylor, Director OpenForum Europe, has penned this open letter in response. As you will be aware OpenForum Europe was recently a signatory to a letter organized by EICTA in support of the …

  Software 9 May 2003, 11:26

• Tiscali UK caps users

  Is capping the new black?

  Tiscali UK is capping its unmetered Anytime service to 150-hours a month. Snag is, the Italian ISP forgot to tell anyone about it. The first punters knew of the cap was when some of them received an email saying: "We notice that you have had extremely high usage (over 150 hours a month) on your AnyTime package every month for …

  Telecoms 9 May 2003, 11:30

• Broadband: it's not all about speed, you know

  Telcos urged to focus on service quality

  Broadband providers should concentrate on delivering high service quality rather than chasing ever-greater speeds. So says a report from Point topic, which argues that raising sustained service levels is essential if punters are to adopt new applications. Motives, means and applications maintains that a high data rate is of no …

  Telecoms 9 May 2003, 11:57

• Toshiba to demo low-cost blue-laser optical disc

  Bionic DVD

  Toshiba is developing a blue-laser optical disc based on today's DVD production process. The upshot: much higher capacities of optical storage at a much lower cost than other blue-laser technologies. According to Toshiba, the new disc requires only minor changes to an existing DVD production line and the equipment it's based on …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 13:02

• Blogger forces Irish domain registry into sunlight

  Good. But when will prices come down?

  Irish blogger and Internet consultant Antoin O'Lachtnain has succeeded in his bid to force the secretive company running Ireland's .ie domain into the open. Following a lengthy battle with IE Domain Registry Ltd (IEDR) and the University College Dublin (the original owner of the registry) using the Freedom of Information Act, …

  Music and Media 9 May 2003, 13:46

• Museum calls on industry to help celebrate IT heritage

  Donate your time, cash or old kit

  The UK's Museum of Computing, a not-for-profit organisation with links to the Science Museum and the Bletchley Park Trust, the British Computer Society and the University of Bath, is seeking help from IT companies around the world to draw up its ongoing exhibition programme. Founded in 2000, the Museum of Computing is the only …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 14:47

• Microsoft publishes US Xbox Live prices

  Taster for Europe?

  Microsoft has revealed some of its pricing plans for the US Xbox Live service, hopefully giving some indication of what it's lined up for European consumers. Renewals will start at $49.99 for a year's subscription, or $5.99 for a month; subs can be topped up either online or with top up cards bought from various stores. The …

  Personal 9 May 2003, 15:22

• Cops seize dorm PCs in college raid

  We've got you by the power cord

  Ohio State cops have made the latest raid on techie college students, seizing computer equipment from three freshman and one sophomore. Officers charged into the students' dormitory rooms earlier this month in a search for evidence linking them to a file-trading network run on the OSU network, The Lantern reports. Search …

  Music and Media 9 May 2003, 22:38

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