26th June 2003 Archive

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U.S. House approves $30 billion security blanket

Did you hear something?

The U.S House of Representatives has cast its vote in favor of sending $29.4 billion to the Homeland Security Department, and some Democrats don't think this is enough. The House bill passed with overwhelming support - 425 votes in favor and just 2 against. The lawmakers want the funds to cover a variety of efforts in 2004, …

Software 26 Jun 2003, 09:10
Flat-rate Internet comes to Ireland

About time

UTV Internet is the first telecoms firm in Ireland to officially launch its flat-rate Internet product, as the race to scoop up customers gets underway. The company is to launch on Friday two new flat-rate Internet products: UTVip Lite, which will cost €9.99 per month and will allow users to dial-up to the Net at anytime for up …

Music and Media 26 Jun 2003, 09:13
AT&T lets phone fraud victims off the hook

'Yes-Yes' voicemail subversion

AT&T said Wednesday that it would forgive all of the outstanding long distance charges that the company had been trying to collect from victims of the notorious "Yes-Yes" voicemail subversion fraud. The announcement follows months of fierce criticism of AT&T by consumer advocates, and the filing of two class-action lawsuits …

Security 26 Jun 2003, 09:19
SuSE wins HP server gig

Big Deal

HP is to start offering Intel Proliant servers pre-installed with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8. It will also offer the operating system with Itanium 2 servers and it has named SuSE as a preferred supplier. The two companies have been working together for five years, so what's new? For starters there will be a single point of …

Servers 26 Jun 2003, 09:58
Yahoo! variant! of! Microsoft! support! worm! spreading! rapidly!

Update Who will rid us of these turbulent worms?

Stop us if you've heard this before, but there's another prolific email worm loose on the Internet today. Sobig-E differs from its predecessors, the Sobig-B (aka 'support@microsoft.com') and Sobig-C (aka 'bill@microsoft.com') worms, by spreading itself in the form of a ZIP file. This time around infectious emails sent out by …

Malware 26 Jun 2003, 10:58
‘PCI Express for embedded’ spec. nears completion

What the Arapahoe 3GIO group did next

Advanced Switching, an extension of the PCI Express interconnection standard for communications systems, has come out of the shadows, prompting a raft of support from hardware, software and silicon vendors. Among them, Intel today said it plans to support AS in networking and communications-oriented chips and chipsets during …

Hardware 26 Jun 2003, 11:25
SanDisk to sue Infineon over patent infringement allegations

Who owns Flash?

SanDisk has launched legal action against Infineon after the German chipmaker alleged its Flash memory technology infringes an Infineon patent. The complaint, filed with the US District Court for Northern California, asks the court to rule that SanDisk hasn't infringed the patent, number 5,726,601, and that the patent is also …

Channel 26 Jun 2003, 11:54
Peeping Tom uses hi-tech camera to look up skirts

Ooh, er, Missus

A Californian man has been arrested after allegedly building a miniature camera into his shoe so that he could peer up women's dresses. James Rich, 56, was collared by cops at a classic car show in Palo Alto, California last Sunday when "someone noticed that he had little interest in cars and a particular focus on skirted women …

Bootnotes 26 Jun 2003, 12:03
Legal costs widen RIM Q2 loss

From $7k to $8m

Lawsuits in Motion - sorry, Research in Motion - saw the cost of its litigation boost its first quarter loss from a mere $700,000 to $8.2 million, the company reported yesterday. This time last year, it lost $10.7 million on revenues of $71.6 million. Q1 2003 revenues reached $104.5 million, an increase of 31.5 per cent. Its 11 …

Personal 26 Jun 2003, 12:48
Intel to move Centrino to 802.11a/b next month

No 802.11g until end of year

Intel will upgrade the WLAN component of its Centrino mobile platform to support dual-band connections next month. Volume shipments of the Wireless Pro 802.11a/b modules will begin in July. Support for the recently ratified 802.11g standard won't happen until the end of the year, said Eric Jao, Intel Comms Group Asia Pacific …

Mobile 26 Jun 2003, 14:14
The RIAA boycott is on

Letters Take your music and shove it

Re: Line'em up! RIAA to sue thousands The call for a boycott against the music labels has struck a chord with Register readers. Letters have poured in following the RIAA's disclosure that it planned to round up and sue thousands of our friends and children. The complaints hit on the RIAA's hubris in going after its most active …

Letters 26 Jun 2003, 17:47
Aussies back Open Source attack

We demand free code

Australian open source advocates are gearing up a two-pronged attack against proprietary software, and their actions have caught Microsoft's attention. Legislators in South Australia have proposed a bill that would require government offices to use open source software "where practicable," Australian IT reports. The State …

Software 26 Jun 2003, 18:03
Judges deny Sun's must-carry Java bid

Microsoft off the hook for now

A three judge panel has ruled that Microsoft is not required to ship Java with its PC operating system, but the decision hardly seems to matter anymore. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday overturned a previous ruling that would force Microsoft to carry Sun Microsystems' JVM with the Windows OS and Internet Explorer …

Software 26 Jun 2003, 20:34
Sun hopes to cash in on wireless with Pixo

Let's sell some content

Sun Microsystems backed up some of its J2ME hype on Thursday, announcing plans to acquire software maker Pixo. Pixo makes Java-based server software for managing content delivery to mobile devices. It sells the Mobile Download Server (MDS) product to operators who are looking for a way to manage a variety of wireless content …

Mobile 26 Jun 2003, 22:47