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  • World faces ‘spiralling Internet piracy problem’

    Diddums

    The software industry is facing a "spiralling Internet piracy problem" that threatens to reverse a global trend that has seen the thieving of commercial software decline over the last eight years. In its latest annual study [pdf] the Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that software piracy has decreased 10 points (from 49 …

    Channel 4 Jun 2003, 08:37

  • .NET ‘more secure’ than WebSphere

    Says MS-funded study

    Security consultancy @stake has completed a comparative security analysis of Microsoft's .NET Framework and IBM's WebSphere development environment which concludes that Redmond's environment takes less effort to secure. Although touted as independent the analysis was funded by Microsoft, a point openly disclosed by @stake …

    Hardware 4 Jun 2003, 08:43

  • Financial sector opts for J2EE

    Websphere has commanding lead

    J2EE is emerging as the dominant environment for web-enabled application development. Just less than half of the European retail financial services institutions surveyed by Datamonitor are using J2EE as their primary environment for web-enabled application development. Interestingly, even though IBM and BEA are neck-to-neck in …

    Hardware 4 Jun 2003, 08:56

  • Turbo10.com: Getting back on its feet

    Google safe for a while yet

    As many of you clearly noticed, following Friday's rave review of new search engine Turbo10, in which we argued it was a contender to Google's crown, the site promptly gave up under the demand and disappeared for the whole weekend and most of Monday too. As difficult as scoring an own goal while shooting yourself in the foot …

    Music and Media 4 Jun 2003, 09:26

  • Cable & Wireless slashes 1,500 jobs

    'Far too many people'

    Cable & Wireless has announced 1,500 new job cuts after announcing lower than expected full-year revenue. The telecoms company said the cuts would be made over 18-24 months. But speaking on CNBC on Wednesday, Cable & Wireless Chairman Richard Lapthorne said that as many as 1,000 jobs could be cut before the end of this year. He …

    Business 4 Jun 2003, 09:33

  • Xbox 1.5 rumours gather speed in Japan

    Much smaller

    A number of Japanese magazines are reporting that Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to release a redesigned Xbox, dubbed "Xbox 1.5", which will come in a significantly smaller case than the original model. Weekly magazine WAM has reported that the new system will be launched alongside the MMORPG True Fantasy Live in Japan …

    Personal 4 Jun 2003, 09:35

  • Apple: Your smartphone's best friend

    Bluetooth boost

    It may only be a minor point upgrade, but Apple today cemented its position as the smartphone's best friend. While the mission is not complete, Apple is making good progress toward the threefold plan of getting a top notch Bluetooth stack, working with the phone vendors and most important of all, ensuring it all works through a …

    Mobile 4 Jun 2003, 09:42

  • Tesco and O2 in mobile deal

    Grocer turns telco

    Tesco is to punt its own-brand mobile phone service alongside tins of baked beans and jars of pickle. The monster supermarket chain is teaming up with O2 to create a new 50:50 joint venture - Tesco Mobile - which will flog Tesco-branded mobile services in its stores across the UK. Both companies plan to invest £8m in the JV …

    Mobile 4 Jun 2003, 10:33

  • Motorola adds dual-core G4 to PowerPC roadmap

    On-board DDR 2 memory controller too

    Motorola is preparing a next-generation two-core G4-class PowerPC processor, the company will this week tell attendees of its annual Smart Networks Developer Conference, held in Disneyland Paris. The chip, as yet unnamed - at least in public - will contain two PowerPC cores with AltiVec, Motorola's SIMD engine. It will also …

    Mac Channel 4 Jun 2003, 11:16

  • MCI to close Cambridge office

    Jobs on the line

    MCI - which recently changed its name from WorldCom - is to close its office in Cambridge. Workers were told of the closure yesterday during a conference call by new EMEA MD, Andrew MacLeod, who only started his job at the beginning of the week after serving time as COO at Cable and Wireless Global. According to sources, one …

    Data Networking 4 Jun 2003, 11:30

  • AT&T pitches public WiFi at Big Biz

    Road warriors, we're coming ATT ya

    The Register's Wireless LAN Channel AT&T is rolling out WiFi hotspots across the hotel lobbies and airport lounges of America and is pitching the service very much at road warriors and their big business employers. The telco says that it will deliver secure access from its public WiFi network to corporate intranets in 2003. …

    Wireless 4 Jun 2003, 11:58

  • Defcom goes titsup

    Testing times for testing company

    London-based information security consultancy Defcom has been placed in administrative receivership. A representative of the company confirmed that administrative receivers had been appointed to run its business but declined to answer our subsequent questions over the phone. He said the company needed to receive questions by …

    Security 4 Jun 2003, 12:01

  • Palm bails out Handspring with merger deal

    Palm founders rejoin old firm

    Palm is to acquire Handspring, the company set up when its two founders, Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, decided to go it alone in 1998 following Palm's acquisition by 3Com. The deal, announced today, follows final approval of Palm's board for the plan to spin off PalmSource. So as Palm waves goodbye to its operating system …

    Mobile 4 Jun 2003, 12:23

  • Motorola starts to talk up PowerPC 7457

    New G4 CPU nearing lift-off

    Motorola's latest G4-class PowerPC processor, the MPC7457, will feature prominently at this week's Smart Networks Developer Conference (SNDF), being held at Disneyland Paris. The 7457, codenamed 'Apollo 7', was announced last February, and began sampling in March. In February, Motorola said the part would ship in volume in Q4 …

    Mac Channel 4 Jun 2003, 12:30

  • Sybase pumps $25m into Wi-Fi bubble

    R&D thang

    The Register's Wireless LAN Channel Sybase is to speed up the development of enterprise apps over Wi-Fi in a $25m push. The database firm is setting up some Wi-Fi competency centres, appointing the University of Waterloo as its first. And it is to spend some of the $25m on a global marketing campaign conducted through its …

    Wireless 4 Jun 2003, 12:31

  • Atheros ships first final-spec 802.11g chip

    Rolls out third-gen Wi-Fi silicon

    The Register's Wireless LAN Channel WLAN chip maker Atheros today became the first to market with 802.11g product based on the final draft - version 8.2 - of the standard when it announced it has begun shipping its third-generation, AR5002 family of client and base-station Wi-Fi silicon. The AR5002 line provides dual-band 2. …

    Wireless 4 Jun 2003, 12:41

  • WiFi goes home

    Broadband users are driving the WLAN market, says Linksys

    The Register's Wireless LAN Channel The UK is now taking around half a million Wi-Fi devices a year, with most of them going into the residential market, says Linksys marketing director Mike Wagner. "The home market is driving wireless now, it's growing 70% year on year while the business market is flat," he says. "It will …

    Wireless 4 Jun 2003, 12:42

  • EDS wins $350m Barclays gig

    Desktop outsourcing

    EDS is to look after desktop IT services for Barclays plc. The outsourcing deal, worth $350 million over seven years, is described as one "of the largest ever in UK retail banking sector". EDS says it will provide 41,700 desktop seats across the Barclays group and will enable its customer to lower operating costs. And that's it …

    Hardware 4 Jun 2003, 13:23

  • UK still LLU laggard – Oftel

    So's Sweden...

    The UK continues to be a Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) laggard, according to the latest research from Oftel. While take-up of DSL services over unbundled local loops are starting to be provided to end users - particularly business users - take-up is currently low in the UK and Sweden. In Germany and the US, however, take-up is …

    Telecoms 4 Jun 2003, 16:07

  • First Win 2003 patch is really for IE

    Critical fix becomes moderate problem

    The first security patch that needs to be applied to Windows 2003 Server validates, rather than tarnishes, the design by default approach taken in developing Microsoft's flagship server OS. Microsoft took the highly unusual step of ringing around journalists this afternoon to put this positive spin on the announcement of a …

    Software 4 Jun 2003, 23:52