24th June 2003 Archive

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• Intel's Madison to come in four flavors

  It's all in the cache

  Intel has added another Itanium processor to its roadmap, and it's not Tangelwood. Later this year, Intel plans to bring out a new version of Itanic designed to meet the budgets and workload demands of customers interested in high performance computing. The processor will be an offshoot of the Madison family - the third …

  Servers 24 Jun 2003, 09:04

• Orange joins anti-Voda alliance

  Talking the Talk

  Today is Strategy Day for Orange, with the France Telecom-owned mobile operator telling the world its plans to make money. Some of the ideas have been trailed already in last Sunday's papers - we already knew that Orange was joining T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles and TIM in an alliance. This will deliver an "enhanced customer …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 09:51

• Oftel orders BT to cut Voda charges

  Peter and Paul

  Oftel today confirmed that BT must cut charges to Vodafone for linking parts of its mobile network. To date, BT has charged Vodafone at retail prices. But under new European legislation it will have to set so-called "cost-oriented" tariffs. But what will those be? We guess that BT's notion of how much the connections cost will …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 10:18

• UK to ban drivers using handhelds

  Hands Up, you're nicked

  British motorists are to be banned from using handheld mobile phones when driving. From December 1 they will be fined £30, rising to up to £1,000, if the case comes to court. When the government finds parliamentary time, it will enact legislation to add in penalty points too. Drivers who flout the lay will automatically get …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 11:09

• Friends Reunited gives third reference

  Watch your step

  Increasing numbers of employers are using personal message websites such as Friends Reunited as a "third reference" to check on the attitude and suitability of job applicants. According to London recruitment firm Media Contacts, several candidates have missed out on positions due to the nature of their comments on the wildly …

  Small Biz 24 Jun 2003, 11:20

• e-Envoy's Office loses bearings with Project True North

  I don't wanna talk about it

  A major project by the e-Envoy's Office to set up central data centres to host the UK's most critical eGovernment systems is understood to be in serious difficulties. The procurement, known as "Project True North" has suffered delays, missed key implementation targets and is now several months behind schedule. Perhaps …

  Hardware 24 Jun 2003, 11:35

• MS worker ‘ran’ $17m software racket

  62 counts of fraud

  A Microsoft worker has been charged with stealing $17 million of software from Microsoft's internal store in the second case of its type in recent months. Richard Gregg, 43, and a Windows program co-ordinator, has pleaded not guilty to 62 counts of mail and computer fraud, The Seattle Times reports. Each mail fraud charge can …

  Channel 24 Jun 2003, 12:03

• DNS creator considers the Internet's next 20 years

  Interview Dr Paul Mockapetris speaks

  It was 20 years ago to the day yesterday that the first test of the DNS system was carried out by its inventor Dr Paul Mockapetris and Internet founding father Jon Postel. It did rather well. To the extent that it still underpins every single website and every single email sent every day. It seems only fitting then that we have …

  Music and Media 24 Jun 2003, 12:29

• Toshiba updates ‘desktop replacement’ notebook line

  Reg Kit Watch Plus: hard drives, and Dell printers and monitors galore

  Notebooks Toshiba has introduced three new notebooks, the Satellite A20-S207, A25-S207 and A25-S307, all aimed at customers looking to replace desktop PCs with something more portable. The S207s are based on a 2.66GHz Pentium 4 processor, the S307 on the 2.8GHz version of the chip. Every machine offers a base 512MB of SDRAM, …

  Personal 24 Jun 2003, 13:23

• Netpayments cuts staff and goes virtual

  Banks making it hard to survive, says MD

  UK online payment services firm Netpayments has been forced to lay off more than half its workers. Seven out of 11 employees lost their jobs at the start of this month after Netpayments' revenues fell below expectation. Company founder and managing director Mike Foster told us the cuts were made as part of a restructuring …

  Small Biz 24 Jun 2003, 13:46

• Kazaa unveils P2P software upgrade

  Version 2.5 touts more 'licensed content'

  Kazaa owner Sharman Networks has launched a new version of its peer-to-peer file sharing software, release 2.5. The new version expands the number of licensed content channels on offer - Sharman seems very keen to stress its role as purveyor of official content, these days - and incorporates Sharman partner Altnet's Peer Points …

  Music and Media 24 Jun 2003, 13:53

• AMD cuts Q2 sales forecast by $100m

  SARS to blame

  AMD has admitted that its Q2 sales will be $100 million - almost 14 per cent - down on its previous forecast. The chip maker will post sales of around $615 million and not $715 million as it suggested when it announced its Q1 results in April. The reason? SARS knocked PC and handset sales in China and other Far Eastern markets …

  Channel 24 Jun 2003, 13:56

• Mblox merges with Mobilesys

  Two-headed SMS monster

  Two SMS service providers from opposite sides of the Atlantic have merged, backed by $8m in new funding The UK business is call mBlox while the American firm is called Mobilesys. They both do the same thing, using the same technology more or less (jointly developed as separate entities), but on different continents. So it's a …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 14:35

• IBM revs Unix workstation

  Stepping on Sun's Enchilada

  IBM has prepped a new Unix workstation that runs on one of the fastest Power4+ processors around. The new IntelliStation Power 275 workstation ships with up to two 1.45GHz Power4+ processors. Like most Unix workstations, the product is targeted at handling 3D CAD/CAM and other visualization applications well. The system can …

  Servers 24 Jun 2003, 14:40

• Sony Ericsson withdraws from US CDMA sector

  Cost-cutting

  Sony Ericsson is retiring from selling CDMA mobile phones in North America. It says it remains committed to flogging CDMA phones in Japan, one of its heartlands, and it will continue to develop CDMA machine-to-machine modules. But it is otherwise retrenching around GSM, UMTS and EDGE mobile platforms. In another cost-cutting …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 14:55

• VIA ‘to sell off’ mobo division

  EPIA now more important than P4, though

  VIA is to pull out of the motherboard business now that its legal dispute with Intel is over, unnamed sources cited in DigiTimes claim. And it will sell its motherboard division, VIA Platform Solutions Division (VPSD), to FIC, the sources also say. If the claims are accurate, we can't say we're surprised. VIA got into the mobo …

  Channel 24 Jun 2003, 15:03

• Baseball legend goes up for sale on the Net

  Jail visits are better bargain

  Former U.S. baseball great Jose Canseco has put himself up for sale on the Internet - one afternoon at a time. Canseco has set up one of the most compelling shopping carts on the Web. Any youngster with $2,500 to spare can rent Canseco for an afternoon and frolic with the former All-Star and home run champ at his Florida pad. …

  Bootnotes 24 Jun 2003, 15:11

• Managed security sales grow like Topsy

  SMEs look to outsourced sheriffs

  Europe's managed IT security market will grow to €4.6 billion in 2008, according to Forrester Research. Demand for IT security services is increasing because enterprises are finding it harder to find the skills internally to cope with an increasingly volatile IT security environment. The problem is particularly acute for …

  Security 24 Jun 2003, 15:14

• Nvidia ships mobile workstation chip

  Quadro FX Go 700

  Nvidia has launched its latest mobile workstation graphics chip, the Quadro FX Go 700, the first part in its class to offer full shader programmability, the company claims. The 700 is an extension of Nvidia's GeForce FX Go line, adding features of more use to CAD/CAM workers and content creators than to the company's gamer …

  Channel 24 Jun 2003, 15:20

• Apple accused of cheating over G5 benchmarks

  SPEC vs SPEC

  Benchmark results cited by Apple at the launch of its Power Mac G5 desktops yesterday have already come under fire for seeming to not only tweak the Mac test system to improve its performance beyond anything an ordinary user might experience, but crippling rival systems to deliver below-par average user performance. The tests …

  Mac Channel 24 Jun 2003, 15:54

• Joe Public blames banks for credit card fraud

  Will chip and PIN bolster public confidence?

  Over half of all consumers (54%) feel that banks and building societies aren't doing enough to protect them from credit and debit card fraud, according to the results of a survey published today. Although the survey (conducted last month) didn't quiz members of the public on the Chip and PIN programme, a serious omission in our …

  Security 24 Jun 2003, 19:25

• HP wants to service your storage… bad

  Have SAN, will travel

  Hewlett-Packard has identified five spots in the storage market where its army of services personnel can be of assistance. Customers can now order up HP help for the following services: Data Replication Solution; Disaster Tolerant Management; Storage Optimisation Assessment; Data Sanitisation; and Storage Area Management …

  Storage 24 Jun 2003, 19:25

• Palm's loss narrows on flat sales

  Out with the old, in with the new

  Palm's revenue slipped a fraction in the fourth quarter, as a lackluster handheld market continued to affect the company. Palm generated $225.8 million in revenue for the fourth quarter ended May 31. This marks a 3 percent decline from the $233 million reported in the same quarter a year ago. The handheld device and software …

  Mobile 24 Jun 2003, 21:14

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