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  • Intel 865, 875 mobos incompatible with Prescott?

    So say mobo makers

    Prescott, Intel's successor to today's Pentium 4 family, will not be compatible with current motherboards, an unnamed mobo maker has claimed. The manufacturer told Anandtech that the first Prescotts - due in Q4 at around 3.4GHz, we'd add - will not be compatible with mobos based on Intel's 865 and 875 chipset families. Those …

    Personal 14 Jul 2003, 09:34

  • CBM 64 licence deal heralds emulator clamp down

    Update Commercial providers, watch out

    Dead for almost a decade, the Commodore brand name is about to be re-animated and with it one if the erstwhile home computer giant's best-known machines, the Am... sorry, the Commodore 64. Well, sort of. Tulip, the Dutch PC maker which acquired Commodore in 1997, has licensed the C64 brand to one Ironstone. The latter is hoping …

    Personal 14 Jul 2003, 10:30

  • EZ-D creator readies disposable DVDs

    Is Blockbuster history?

    A New York-based company has begun touting disposable DVDs that could radically change the way consumers acquire movies for domestic viewing. If Flexplay has its way, rental and retail DVDs will be offered on a new type of disc the company plans to launch next month. The disc, dubbed EZ-D, is built of special plastics that …

    Personal 14 Jul 2003, 11:26

  • Wi-Fi toting bloggers invade Parliament

    World+dog yawns

    Today is Bastille Day, a day of great significance to the French - and today, in London Town, webloggers will breach the walls of Britain's Parliament, and set up a Wi-Fi network! It's a landmark for blog-lobbyists: so like the rest of the media, we must indulge their vanity, if only for a moment. Today's infraction is …

    Wireless 14 Jul 2003, 11:35

  • Higher speed ADSL prices dropping

    Fast24 offers 1Mbps for £27.50

    Suffolk-based ISP Fast24 is reducing the price difference between standard 512Kbps, and faster 1Mbps and 2Mbps flavours of ADSL with its introduction of higher-speed broadband services next month. Fast24's RapidPlay 1 MBit ADSL is priced at £27.50 per month and its RapidPlay 2 MBit ADSL service at £37.49 per month (both prices …

    Telecoms 14 Jul 2003, 11:40

  • The future according to Larry Ellison

    As diplomatic as an Italian politician

    Never one to be shy and retiring, Larry Ellison is giving the impression that he is enjoying himself, Fran Howarth of Bloor Research writes. Well-known for his abrasiveness and for being someone who does not suffer fools gladly, Ellison stood up to answer questions at a recent briefing for financial analysts, during which he …

    Business 14 Jul 2003, 11:57

  • Intel launches 1MB L3 Xeon

    Slashes line's prices too

    Intel today extended its Xeon DP processor line with a new 3.06GHz version containing 1MB of on-die L3 cache - double that of the previous generation of the chip - as anticipated. The new Xeon lacks the Pentium 4's 800MHz effective bit rate frontside bus - the Xeon's FSB has an effective bit rate of 533MHz. But Intel claims the …

    Servers 14 Jul 2003, 12:00

  • The Persistence of Hoax

    Vmyths - good ride while it lasted

    Vmyths.com is fading into the sunset, while the virus hoaxes it steadfastly debunked seem to live on forever, writes SecurityFocus columnist George Smith. "I received the e-mail this morning from someone who got it from the governor's office," came the tired complaint. Somewhere in the world, government workers in high place …

    Malware 14 Jul 2003, 12:13

  • Planned Parenthood goes for anti-abortionist necks

    'Typosquatting' case goes straight to court

    The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is going for several notorious anti-abortionists necks and a famous cybersquatter in a case it has brought over nine domains it claims infringe its trademarks. The federation, which provides teenagers with sexual health information and runs abortion clinics across America, has …

    Music and Media 14 Jul 2003, 12:17

  • dabs.com profits double

    Sales up too

    dabs.com today announced pre-tax profits of £5.1m, doubling 2002's £2:5m, on sales advancing 30 per cent to £152m (2002: £117m) for the year to March 31, 2003. The company claims its operational efficiency was instrumental in "enabling it to maintain its high level of customer satisfaction whilst offering competitive pricing …

    Channel 14 Jul 2003, 12:49

  • Soyo unwraps Athlon XP 3200+ Dragon mobo

    Reg Kit Watch Plus: Tosh's double-speed DVD-R/RW drive and more

    Motherboard Mobo maker Soyo has added support for AMD's 400MHz frontside bus Athlon XP 3200+ to its Dragon line of boards. Based on VIA's KT600 chipset, the Dragon SY-KT600 Ultra also supports up to 3GB of DDR SDRAM through three DIMM sockets; Serial ATA hard drives which can be configured to run RAID levels 0 and 1; provides …

    Personal 14 Jul 2003, 13:15

  • Bertelsmann seeks dismissal of $17bn Napster suit

    In court Thursday

    Bertelsmann is going to court in New York on Thursday to seek the dismissal of a $17 billion lawsuit filed against it because it financed Napster. The German media giant is to argue that it has infringed no copyright in its role as a third-party funder of the defunct P2P file-trading software biz, according to Spiegel, which …

    Business 14 Jul 2003, 13:23

  • Mobile phone chucking to become Olympic sport?

    Style and aesthetic beauty

    If you've ever been tempted to sling your old mobile, the Eastern Europeans are more than several steps ahead of you. To be precise, they're 57 metres ahead of you. This is the current record in the phone throwing competitions that litter the sporting calendar in Eastern Europe and the Nordics. Handset chucking will form a key …

    Mobile 14 Jul 2003, 13:28

  • SGI upgrades kit big and small

    ATI meets Onyx

    SGI has released a pair of beastly systems to shore up its stronghold in the graphics market and has turned to mainstream graphics card maker ATI to help lower the costs of its kit. The new star in the SGI line-up is the Onyx4 Ultimate Vision system. The server stretches from a starting price of $45,000 with two R16000A …

    Hardware 14 Jul 2003, 13:31

  • AMD, Fuji unveil Spansion

    JV now up and running with silly product name

    AMD and Fujitsu have christened their Flash memory joint venture's product branding. Yes, from today Flash memory purchased from AMD or Fujitsu will be branded Spansion. We can't say exactly why it sounds silly - but it does. It's obviously short for 'expansion', and is intended to convey the fact that the companies' products …

    Channel 14 Jul 2003, 13:32

  • Yahoo! buys! Overture!

    Land grab

    Yahoo! is to buy Overture, the paid-for-search pioneer, for $1.63bn in cash and shares. This is net of Overture's cash balance, which will be adjusted downwards to pay for two recent acquisitions. Yahoo! is to expand its paid-for search presence using Overture as well as offering services such as small business hosting to …

    Business 14 Jul 2003, 14:22

  • Final countdown for Rockall charity assault

    Charity appeal update Seven days to go

    You know how it is - one minute you're in a pub having a couple of beers and saying "Why don't we go to Rockall for charity?", the next you're boarding a 40-ft yacht for the 300-mile trip to Britain's remotest islet in aid of Mental Health Media. Yup, in less than a week myself and the intrepid Rockall Ho! team will be leaving …

    Bootnotes 14 Jul 2003, 14:23

  • Dell Axim users peeved at PPC 2003 performance

    Slower than PocketPC 2002

    Dell has come under fire from owners of its Axim x5 PDA for its performance when running Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. Some users claim the machine is significantly slower than running the previous version, Pocket PC 2002. Just the demands of Microsoft bloatware, you might say. But no, reports from users of Pocket PCs from …

    Mobile 14 Jul 2003, 14:30

  • MyZones firms up co-op wireless launch

    Share your neighbour's broadband

    A package of new EU telecoms legislation coming into effect on July 25 will allow broadband users to share their broadband connection and costs with their neighbours. The new regulatory legislation will supersede certain of the licensing requirements prescribed in the 1984 Telecommunications Act. The current regulatory regime …

    Wireless 14 Jul 2003, 15:24

  • Sun's Orion beta chock full of code

    Mad Hatter to be managed

    Sun Microsystems has put up a beta site for Project Orion and managed to trickle out a few interesting tidbits in the process. Project Orion is Sun's big bet to increase the pick up of its infrastructure software portfolio by shipping loads of apps with Solaris at a low cost. The best indications thus far have the entire Orion …

    Hardware 14 Jul 2003, 16:36

  • Watch a movie clip – spam everyone you know

    Now that's what I call Viral 57

    A new viral marketing stunt for a music clip site poses almost as great a risk as a real virus, according to security experts. An email which invites users to visit a website to view comedy video clips, such as one of Bill Gates being hit with a custard pie by Belgian anarchists, is doing the rounds. AV vendor Sophos has …

    Security 14 Jul 2003, 20:36

  • Ex-PwC staff fear more cuts

    Coffee, tea rations axed

    An IBM bitch board has been taken over by grumbling ex-PwC workers who fear another round of layoffs may be announced when Big Blue reports earnings this week. IBM has already laid off thousands since it completed the acquisition of PwC Consulting, but a number of employees can see the axe coming again. Former PwC staff fear …

    Business 14 Jul 2003, 20:48

  • NATO hunts missing WMDs in Hong Kong

    Military intelligence

    The hunt for elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction has shifted to Hong Kong. You'll recall the popular prank page created by a British pharmacist and Register fan Anthony Cox. His spoof tops the Google search results for "weapons of mass destruction", and so hitting the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button takes you straight to the page. …

    Bootnotes 14 Jul 2003, 20:56

  • CA probes networks

    Software Vegas style

    At long last, Computer Associates has launched a piece of technology that looks sexy. Code-named 'Sonar', the new software probes electronic traffic as it spreads through corporate networks. That data is then used to map IT assets visually to business processes. Not only does it intercept and understand network traffic in 1,500 …

    Data Networking 14 Jul 2003, 21:05