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  • Fed: Cyberterror fears missed real threat

    Effort was 'misdirected'

    LAS VEGAS--When airliners crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, the nature of the attack took America's defenders by surprise. They were expecting hackers. "We were very shocked in the federal government that the attack didn't come from cyberspace," said Marcus Sachs, cyber program …

    Security 1 Aug 2003, 06:58

  • RIAA challenged by ISP

    Excessive punishment

    The excessive use of force in the RIAA's jihad against music swappers has led to a call for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to be re-examined. While Republican Senator Norm Coleman doesn't doubt that sharing music is "theft", he says the RIAA's methods are inappropriate. "In this country we don't cut off people's hands …

    Music and Media 1 Aug 2003, 07:02

  • How do you tell fake memory from the real deal?

    Welsh distie calls for better guidance from vendors

    Welsh components distie Redstar Marketing is calling for clearer guidance from manufacturers on how to spot fake memory after inadvertently distributing a batch of counterfeit goods. Redstar only became aware that a batch of memory it bought in early June was fake after some of it reached customers. Since then Redstar has been …

    Channel 1 Aug 2003, 07:04

  • Sun turns to Tech Data to answer mid-market prayers

    Xeon servers need homes

    Sun Microsystems has made a much needed charge on the mid-market via a an expanded partnership with big-time distributor Tech Data. Tech Data has been hawking Sun's pretty, purple Cobalt appliances for some time but will now add a host of low-end gear into the mix. The news systems up for sale include Sun's soon to be retired …

    Channel 1 Aug 2003, 07:05

  • Transmeta deepens China presence with nested JVs

    Little fleas have lesser fleas...

    Transmeta has formed a joint venture to promote its Midori Linux distro to manufacturers of mobile and embedded devices targeting the Chinese market. That JV has, in turn, spawned two further JVs. The chip company will partner with Culturecom Holdings and eForce Holdings to create Beijing Chinese 2000 Technology and Beijing …

    Channel 1 Aug 2003, 08:39

  • Intel's MIPI invite arrives in mail

    Still considering whether to RSVP

    Intel is thinking about joining the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) alliance after all, the company has said. A spokesman for the chip giant told Silicon Strategies that it had been invited to join Texas Instruments, Nokia, ARM and STMicro, and that it was currently "evaluating" the invitation. The implication is …

    Channel 1 Aug 2003, 09:45

  • US bars MCI Worldcom from new federal contracts

    Too little, too late

    Shareholder activists have won a victory in their campaign to ban MCI Worldcom from supplying the US government. But they say it's too little, too late. A US agency, the General Services Administration, has barred MCI from bidding for new federal contracts, ruling that the telco giant "had not adequately addressed its material …

    Data Networking 1 Aug 2003, 09:47

  • Nvidia DirectX 9 market lead chipped away by ATI

    State of play

    Nvidia commands a 64 per cent share of the desktop graphics chip market, but only 60 per cent of the DirectX 9-compatible chip business. So says Xbit Labs, citing Mercury Research figures for Q1 and Q2 of this year. Nvidia's leadership in the desktop space is now well established, but it's interesting that the company's share …

    Channel 1 Aug 2003, 09:51

  • US court rules Telsim owners guilty of fraud

    Orders Uzans to pay $4.3bn, issues arrest warrant

    The latest fight in the ongoing war between Motorola and Telsim ended yesterday when a US judge ordered the Turkish mobile phone operator's owners to cough up $4.3 billion. The judgment comes less than a week after Telsim said a Geneva-based court said its adversary was not able to prove that Telsim's owners, the Uzan family, …

    Mobile 1 Aug 2003, 10:51

  • Mobile phone handset sales picking up

    Cameraphones, smartphones attract consumers

    Sales of mobile phones are on the rise again, with global handset sales leaping 19.2 per cent year on year during Q2 and rising 6.7 per cent on the previous quarter, according to the latest figures from market research agency IDC. More than 118.3 million handsets shipped around the world last quarter, despite the troubled …

    Mobile 1 Aug 2003, 12:48

  • Blame game starts as Wi-Fi Bubble pops

    At least someone is doing Due Diligence

    A splendid and visceral story by Karen Lowry Miller in the current issue of Newsweek entitled 'The Wi-Fi Bubble' shines an unforgiving light on the public hot-spot mania - and the hypesters responsible for it. The article doesn't make for uplifting reading, but it is a welcome counter to the juvenilia that accompanies the gushy …

    Wireless 1 Aug 2003, 13:06

  • Open Groupware.org completes Office productivity software set

    'MS Exchange replacement'

    The Open Groupware.org (OGo) project, a sister organisation to OpenOffice.org, has announced the formation of an international development community and an initial release of Open Source groupware server software, writes Martin Langham of Bloor Research. After the arrival of Open Source content management software, (see "Open …

    Software 1 Aug 2003, 13:16

  • On F5 and uRoam

    Sigh of relief

    When F5 Networks secured the acquisition of uRoam (for what looks to be a bargain at $25 million), there must have been a big sigh of relief all round its Seattle office, John McIntosh of Bloor Research writes. F5 Networks is a leader in Application Traffic Management, possibly best known for their Big-IP product. Its aim is to …

    Security 1 Aug 2003, 13:23

  • MS flaw highlights e-security laziness

    Dept of Homeland Security warning

    In an unprecedented move, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued a second warning over a Windows flaw that leaves computers vulnerable to attack. The newly formed US federal government department said in its warning that a critical flaw in certain versions of the Windows operating system, if left unpatched, could …

    Security 1 Aug 2003, 13:39

  • Sun and SuSE admit they like each other

    Public stance

    All of the hinting and whispers can cease now that Sun Microsystems and SuSE have entered into a public tech-swapping pact. Sun has agreed to sell, ship and support SuSE Linux Entperise Server 8 on its Intel and AMD-based servers. SuSE will return the favor by becoming a Java source licensee and by distributing Sun's JVM (Java …

    Hardware 1 Aug 2003, 16:54

  • Nintendo warns importers over Advance Wars 2

    Back Off

    Nintendo of Europe continues to warn retailers of potential legal action over the importing of Game Boy Advance titles, with the firm now targeting those selling US versions of Advance Wars 2. Earlier this year, the company issued legal threats to a number of retailers who were selling import versions of Pokemon Ruby and …

    Personal 1 Aug 2003, 19:21

  • Dell's support not very supportive

    Letters Fix it yourself

    re: Dell denies Opera users support Dell's struggles to support the Opera browser have irked users the world over. Consensus opinion places the blame on Dell's Web designers and support team. Despite repeated requests from its user base to fix support problems, Dell apparently fails to see the urgency of the issues. Sadly, The …

    Letters 1 Aug 2003, 19:49

  • Onyx: new business model

    Low cost, low risk

    Onyx Software's second-quarter earnings report has reaffirmed the company's position as one of the struggling band of tier two CRM vendors. It also provided some insight into the development of its new business model, which could make all the difference to its ability to survive independently. For the quarter, Onyx Software …

    Hardware 1 Aug 2003, 20:13

  • Did Loyola University Chicago lose its innocence to the RIAA?

    Lawyer calls for some privacy

    A U.S. law professor has exposed the feeble backbone of Loyola University Chicago - an institution that handed its students' names over to the pigopolist mob's subpoena machine without so much as a grumble. The precedent set by the university's nonchalance toward privacy bodes poorly for students should the RIAA (Recording …

    Music and Media 1 Aug 2003, 21:48