30th May 2003 Archive
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Browser wars suit ends with death knell for Netscape
Microsoft, AOL settle for $750m
A lawsuit intended to bring justice to Netscape has ended with a deal that sounds the death knell for the browser. Microsoft today agreed to settle a private antitrust suit brought by AOL Time Warner, paying the latter $750 million. The case was brought "to restore competition lost in the operating system market and in the Web …
Business 30 May 2003, 03:46
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Court confirms DMCA ‘good faith’ web site shut down rights
The least worst place
A U.S. court has extended the power of the DMCA even further with a ruling this week that backs up copyright holders' ability to shut down a Web site on "good faith." InternetMovies.com had asked the District Court for the District of Hawaii to require that copyright holders investigate infringing Web sites before shutting them …
Music and Media 30 May 2003, 07:49
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California Supremes hear DeCSS case
'Burglary tool'
California's Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a case that pits the motion picture industry against a man who distributed a DVD descrambling program through his website, until he was forced by a court order to remove it. Andrew Bunner, now 26, was one of hundreds of people who mirrored a copy of the open-source …
Music and Media 30 May 2003, 08:02
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Intel touts ‘real servers’ for Small.biz
Xeons for the World
Intel is setting up a channel programme to help system builders sell Xeon-powered servers more successfully to small and medium-sized businesses. The "real server" campaign will run worldwide with special attention paid to the big emerging markets - China, Russia, India, Brazil, and Mexico are named. Intel says the initiative …
Channel 30 May 2003, 08:27
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mmO2 launches Active mobile Net offering
Chasing more data-driven revenue
European cellular network provider mmO2 today launched Active, a mobile Internet offering. With Active, mmO2 is bidding to compete with market leader Vodafone, which launched its own mobile Net service, Live, late last year and has already attracted over one million users. Active also represents the telco's pitch to sell more …
Mobile 30 May 2003, 08:59
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UK.gov streams advice for Small.biz
Only Connect
The Small Business Service is the first government agency to introduce video streaming with its new website, www.connectbestpractice.com. The site feature 150 video case studies on everything from "leadership and accessing finance to health and safety and marketing". A big resource library is thrown in for good measure. The …
Small Biz 30 May 2003, 09:08
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GSM SIMplicity for WLAN sign-on
Ericsson twofer
We live in a world of complex technology. Especially the world of personal computers, and even worse when we take them out of the office and still want to connect them back to the network, writes Rob Bamforth, of Bloor Research. Mobile phone networks are much simpler by comparison. Switch on, use, get billed (or pay up front). …
Wireless 30 May 2003, 09:52
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Intel to boost Pentium M to 1.7GHz next week
Last speed bump before Dothan?
Intel will extend Its Pentium M family next week, taking the chip that forms the heart of the company's Centrino platform to 1.7GHz. The 1.7GHz Pentium M will debut this coming Sunday, Xbit Labs reports, alongside a 1.2GHz Low-Voltage version and a 1GHz Ultra-low Voltage part. The three processors will be priced at $637, $262 …
Channel 30 May 2003, 10:08
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Samsung and LG to push up LCD prices
Increases for 15in and 17in panels
Samsung and LG Philips are to raise the price of their 15in and 17in LCD screens by 3-5 per cent, the Korea Herald reports, citing "informed industry sources". The two Korean manufacturers together account for around 40 per cent of the LCD market. The move, apparently made in response to dwindling supply from smaller, Taiwanese …
Personal 30 May 2003, 10:44
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Lindows.com claims SCO immunity via Caldera deal
One from the archives?
Lindows.com has jumped into the SCO legal maelstrom by claiming immunity from it. In an announcement yesterday the company cited a 2001 "business agreement" with Caldera which gave Lindows.com "technology for certain product initiatives" in return for "certain considerations from Lindows.com". You can just feel those …
Software 30 May 2003, 11:24
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NEC UK beats Intel to launch 1.7GHz Pentium M
Unannounced CPU announced in new notebook
NEC UK has thoughtfully pre-announced Intel's upcoming 1.7GHz Pentium M processor, but revealing the new chip - due to launch next week - will power its Versa P600 laptop. The P600 will, to quote the NEC UK release, "integrate an Intel Pentium M processor running at speeds of up to 1.7GHz". It's based on Intel's 855GM chipset …
Personal 30 May 2003, 12:23
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Most bloggers ‘are teenage girls’ – survey
Of all ages
Over to Poland, where some hard statistics have emerged to help answer the question "are most bloggers teenage girls, or simply middle-aged men who write like teenage girls?" The answer would appear to be the former. 62 per cent of Polish blogs are written by women and a staggering three quarters are written by teenagers or …
Music and Media 30 May 2003, 12:44
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Nokia N-Gage games phone now available in UK
Well, one of 'em
Nokia's N-Gage cellphone-cum-handheld games console isn't due to ship until early next October, but if you've £600 to spare and happen to be in London's Tottenham Court Road, you can pick up one up. Strolling past second-hand kit emporium Computer eXchange (CeX) yesterday, what did we spot in the shop window but one Nokia N- …
Mobile 30 May 2003, 12:48
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US cyber crime losses tumble
Just as many attacks, though
US financial losses from cyber crime in 2002 were down 56 per cent on 2001, according to the Computer Security Institute's (CSI) eighth annual Computer Crime and Security Survey. Overall financial losses from 530 survey respondents to the survey this year totalled $202 million, significantly down from 503 respondents reporting …
Security 30 May 2003, 12:51
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Americans love texting (true)
OK. Tolerate it
American mobile phone users are beginning to take to SMS, but IM may be the future for wireless messaging in the US. IDC's latest figures show that by 2007, there will be as many as 75 million SMS users in America, and revenue from the service to mobile operators will rise to about $1.9 billion in that year. The growth ahead …
Mobile 30 May 2003, 13:07
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Windows broken by Intel Centrino
Can't handle certain VPN clients
When it launched its Centrino mobile platform, Intel said it was targeting corporate customers. The trouble is, corporates like to use Virtual Private Network (VPN) software to allow remote workers to access the company LAN, and it has emerged that Centrino isn't very VPN-friendly. A number of widely used VPN clients have been …
Hardware 30 May 2003, 13:19
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The Register signs up for Bricolage
Site News Time for a new CMS
A few months ago we mentioned in passing that we were evaluating a new content management system to replace our in-house bodge-job. More than 30 companies contacted us with a view to pitching. Thanks guys, but we have made our CMS decision. Step forward Bricolage. It's powerful, it's flexible, it's a perfect fit for the content …
Site News 30 May 2003, 13:26
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Asus crosses Intel with PAT compatibility claim
Is its mobo's chipset an i865 or an i875?
Asus is on course to clash with Intel over whether its Springdale-based mobo, the P4P800 offers features provided by Intel's Canterwood chipset. Launched in April, Canterwood, aka the i875, offers what Intel calls Performance Enhancement Technology (PAT). Essentially, that means the chipset uses more aggressive memory timings …
Personal 30 May 2003, 15:02
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When is e-money not e-money? When it stays on your mobile phone
Prepay phones get their premium rates cut off
For years now, the mobile phone industry has been trying to get us to think of our phones as electronic wallets. Now, just as that is starting to happen, an EU Directive from last year is about to put the kibosh on it, at least for prepay users. It all hinges on the definition of e-money. In UK law, it is 'monetary value stored …
Mobile 30 May 2003, 16:52
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Fizzer blasts Klez-H off top spot in viral charts
We have a new winner
The newly emerged Fizzer worm has displaced Klez as the most common viral menace on the Internet over the last month. Managed services firm Messagelabs blocked Fizzer 497,846 times in May, relegating Klez-H (293,028 interceptions) to fourth place in the firm's monthly viral charts. MessageLabs reports that one in 145 emails it …
Malware 30 May 2003, 16:53
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Make way for the contender to Google's crown
Turbo10 really is that good
You're not going to believe this, but a new search engine has just appeared and, well, it may be better than Google. Obviously, that sounds slightly ridiculous but after having spent a day devising weird and wonderful searches and comparisons, not only has it stood up to the test but it's so good that you realise how much of an …
Music and Media 30 May 2003, 17:06
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Server market slumps in Q1
IBM and Dell make gains
IBM and Dell continue to weather the storm looming over the server market, posting strong gains in the first quarter of 2003, according to IDC. Overall, worldwide server revenue dropped 3.6 percent to $10.5 billion compared to the same quarter a year ago. Low-end systems - under $25,000 - did provide a bright spot for the …
Servers 30 May 2003, 18:07
