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  • VIA South Bridge to bring Serial ATA, RAID to the masses

    Nothing to lose but your SCSI chains

    VIA has officially introduced its VT8237 South Bridge chip, despite talking about the part in most of its recent chipset announcements. The company said it is pitching the part straight at mainstream PCs. The VT8237 is the successor to the VT8235 and is pin compatible with that chip. Both South Bridges support VIA's full range …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 00:43

  • EMC puts a hit out on BMC's Patrol

    Done and dusted

    EMC made a nice expansion of its software line on Tuesday by taking ownership of BMC's Patrol Storage Manager product. It wasn't the warmest of welcomes for Patrol, as EMC said it plans to discontinue the product and move customers over to the EMC ControlCenter management product line. EMC and BMC have formed a partnership to …

    Storage 3 Jul 2003, 01:05

  • Notebooks outsell desktops (at home)

    Slim Jims

    For the first time ever, notebooks have seized a bigger piece of the retail market than desktop PCs, and flat screen monitors are outselling tube-based models. May sales figures released by New York-based NPD Group are indicative of an important upsurge in mobile computing, as consumers eschew computer systems that are anchored …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 08:55

  • BT runs small.biz BB price promo

    Consumer deal too

    BT is running broadband price promos for small business and consumer customers. The SME gig sees BT slash installation and activation prices by up to £260 until September 30. The full line up of deals is here. The consumer deal is one month's free line rental (worth £29.99 with BT OpenWorld and £28 with BT Broadband). The …

    Telecoms 3 Jul 2003, 09:17

  • Microsoft enters Identity Management market

    This time it's serious

    Microsoft threw its hat into the corporate access and identity management market yesterday with the release of a revamped version of its meta-directory product, Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003. MIIS is designed as a mean for enterprises to integrate information from multiple repositories for a single, complete …

    Security 3 Jul 2003, 09:23

  • Big Three Take on Collaboration Market

    When elephants dance...

    Growing customer interest in collaboration has obviously caught the attention of the big three software vendors - IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, writes Martin Langham of Bloor Research. Now, each of them are putting the full force of their product development and marketing might into establishing a presence in this increasingly …

    Hardware 3 Jul 2003, 09:30

  • Mitsubishi beats Cisco to market with WLAN phone

    OK, so it's by a gnat's whisker

    Accepted wisdom is that people will always need ordinary mobile phones "because voice over Internet isn't acceptable quality." IP Talk, in Japan, reckons this is nonsense: its new WiFi phone is designed for hotspots, uses voice-over-IP - and also offers Web browsing and email. IP Talk is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, and …

    Wireless 3 Jul 2003, 09:41

  • ATI upgrades P4 bus licence

    Supports 800MHz FSB - officially

    ATI has traded in its dusty old Pentium 4 bus licence in return for a shiny new version that includes the Intel processor's new frontside bus with an effective bit rate of 800MHz, the company said today. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed and which is described as an extension to ATI's existing P4 licence, allows …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 10:01

  • Mandrake supplying Linux on HP desktops

    About time

    The pre-installed OEM Linux desktop is about to become a reality under a deal announced by HP on Thursday. The product of this marriage will be the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower, available with Mandrake Linux 9.1 or that other OS, and targeting small to medium business (SMB) customers. The boxes will be available …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 10:14

  • Computacenter upbeat(ish) on H1

    Market's flat, but we're doing fine

    Computacenter yesterday issued an upbeat -ish trading statement for the first half of the year. Trading in the second quarter is described as subdued, with product sales falling back from Q1's modest pick up - so the market's not great. And Computacenter doesn't expect the market to pick up for the rest of the year. But the …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 11:19

  • Game Group like for likes down a smidge

    But that's good, OK?

    Game Group today reported like-for-like sales for the 21 weeks to 28 June 2003 were down 2.9 per cent, while overall sales were up 4.1 per cent. But the UK's biggest computer games retailer says it is doing better than expected and is continuing to win market share. In the same period last year, like-for-like sales were up 34 …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 11:30

  • Nintendo's Yamauchi speaks

    On PSP, the NES, industry mergers and more

    Former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi has given an interview with Nihon Keizai Shimbun, with the legendary industry veteran giving his views on a wide range of topics with his trademark bluntness. It's over a year since Yamauchi retired from Nintendo, and was replaced by current chairman Satoru Iwata, but the outspoken ex- …

    Personal 3 Jul 2003, 11:57

  • Open source company wants cash to open source

    Donations welcome

    A Russian open source developer says he needs money before he can release code written for the OpenOffice suite. Vladislav Kharchev, CEO of Stunnix,explains that an unnamed investor paid for four months' work before pulling out. "We feel the great importance of our modifications, and it would be a pain if they would be missing …

    Software 3 Jul 2003, 11:59

  • Defacement contest likely to target Web hosting firms

    Lock up your server farms

    A defacement challenge scheduled for Sunday is likely to target Web hosting companies rather than individual Web sites. Defacement archive site Zone-H reasons that crackers will target Web sites they have already rooted because of the limited time set aside for the challenge. The 'rules' of the challenge state that there will …

    Security 3 Jul 2003, 12:15

  • EU software patents: the readers speak

    Your thoughts and rebukes on this defining issue

    On Monday, we wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the upcoming vote in the European Parliament over whether to extend patent law to computer software. We got some interesting responses. And, considering the underlying theme of the article was that open-source advocates had damaged their own case by behaving petulantly and failing to …

    Software 3 Jul 2003, 13:13

  • ‘Sherlock Holmes’ thinks lateral for murder cops

    Elementary, my dear constable

    "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes Scottish software developers have developed a program to help police consider all the possibilities in the investigation of suspicious deaths. 'Sherlock Holmes' is designed to highlight less obvious …

    Software 3 Jul 2003, 14:08

  • AMD hiring staff for IBM East Fishkill plant

    65nm joint venture ramps up

    Suggestions that IBM and AMD are getting very cosy indeed have resurfaced over at Silicon Strategies,. It cites industry sources who claim AMD's process engineering groups are being re-located from AMD's Sunnyvale campus in California to IBM's chip HQ in East Fishkill, New York. The site also reiterates the rumours - which we …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 14:14

  • Intel ‘Tejas’, 'Grantsdale' snaps spotted on web

    Chipset schematics too

    Intel's 'Tejas' processor isn't due to ship until the second half of 2004, but the chip maker is already producing reference boards and chip sockets for the part. And you can see pictures of them over at Hexus, which has also come up with a schematic for 'Grantsdale', the chipset that will support not only Tejas but Prescott, …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 14:24

  • Star Destroyer case mod brings PC under Imperial heel

    'Where are those plans you intercepted?'

    Watch out, Han Solo, the Empire is preparing to strike back. After we reported yesterday on case modder Russ Caslis' attempt to wrap a model Millennium Falcon around a PC, we've now learned that Australian case modifyer Bluesmurf is building his computer into an Imperial Star Destroyer. According to the fellow's web site, the …

    Personal 3 Jul 2003, 14:43

  • Toshiba e740 PDA owners demand OS upgrade

    Update But Windows Media 2003 may not help

    Toshiba's decision to offer Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PCs as an upgrade to current owners of its e750 PDA has infuriated owners of the previous generation of the product, the e740. Toshiba has said it will not make such an update available to e740 owners. Toshiba has "no plans to issue an upgrade for the e740 to Pocket PC …

    Mobile 3 Jul 2003, 15:24

  • Computacenter engineers downcast

    Cost controls = redundos

    Computacenter yesterday lauded cost management controls in a trading statement to analysts. Its upbeatish assessment will please shareholders but less so the 26 top grade engineers based in the UK customer engineering division who are being cost-controlled out of the company. The reseller issued a call for voluntary …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 15:38

  • Infineon cranks up integrated circuit to 110GHz

    It's a record breaker

    Infineon has taken what it claims is the world record for the highest clocked integrated circuit with a chip that operates at 110GHz - more than 34 times faster than the top-clocked Pentium 4. The record was broken in the company's labs in Munich. Infineon got the chip running between ten and 30 per cent faster than rival …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 15:39

  • Customs arrest 39 in £120m VAT sting

    Operation Euripus

    Customs and Excise officers investigating an alleged £120 million mobile phone VAT fraud yesterday arrested 39 people in a series of raids throughout the UK and in Spain. Operation 'Euripus' was launched early yesterday morning with the assistance of police from Staffordshire and other police forces throughout the county. …

    Channel 3 Jul 2003, 15:42

  • Google bombed by missing WMDs

    Reg reader scores hit with UN team

    A Register reader's web page that satirizes the USA's inability to find a casus belli for the invasion of Iraq has tickled the UN's weapons inspection team. Type "Weapons of Mass Destruction" into Google's main search and hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button. The page, created as a prank by a Birmingham pharmacologist to amuse his …

    Bootnotes 3 Jul 2003, 16:00

  • Japanese giants form a Symbian for home Linux

    CELF life

    Asian consumer electronics companies have formed a consortium to speed the adoption of Linux in consumer electronics devices. The CE Linux Forum (CELF) has been seeded with $16,000 from Sony and Matsushita, which markets goods under the Panasonic brand. Samsung, Sharp, Philips, NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi are amongst the founding …

    Software 3 Jul 2003, 18:44

  • Airbag 'black box' nails killer driver

    Car gives evidence

    Evidence from a car airbag's event data recorder(EDR) played a vital part in sending a drunk driver who killed two girls to prison for 30 years. Edwin Matos, 47, was drunk and speeding in a suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida when his Matos' 2002 Pontiac Grand Am ploughed into a car driven by a teenage girl who pulled out of a …

    Security 3 Jul 2003, 18:48