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  • Lawsuits in Motion to pay $53m

    But can keep selling Raspberry in US

    Doomsday came a little closer this week for Research In Motion, as a court ruled that the company must pay aggravated damages of $53 million to NTP Inc., a patent holding company based in Virginia. A judge stayed an injunction against RIM that would have prevented it from selling the Blackberry device and services in the United …

    Mobile 6 Aug 2003, 07:54

  • IBM gets AS/400 running on PSone

    'Not particularly difficult'

    Hackers may have oiled the rails for Linux fans eager to run their favourite Penguin-fronted operating system on Xbox, but that's nothing compared to IBM's latest in-house project: running the OS/400 enterprise operating system on a humble PSone. It sounds unlikely, but according to Dr. Frank Soltis, iSeries chief scientist …

    Servers 6 Aug 2003, 08:22

  • Nvidia to fix 130nm yield flaws this month

    Not TSMC's fault

    Nvidia's problems achieving good yields on its 130nm chips are entirely of its own making and blame should not be laid at the door of its main foundry partner, TSMC. So says Pacific Crest Securities analyst Michael McConnell in a note the company's customers, according to a Semiconductor Business News story. McConnell also …

    Channel 6 Aug 2003, 08:46

  • Intel, Broadcom suspend hostilities

    Ask for patent suit to be dismissed without prejudice

    'Enough already!' That's the cry that appears to have come up from both camps in the long-running legal battle between Intel and Broadcom. The two companies last week filed to dismiss the suit brought against Intel by Broadcom without prejudice, Reuters has reported. Broadcom filed to sue Intel in November 2001, claiming the …

    Channel 6 Aug 2003, 09:04

  • BEA + HP +Accenture + Linux = IBM?

    Pluses and minuses

    BEA WebLogic 8.1 has just gone GA, writes Peter Abrahams of Bloor Research. This gave BEA the opportunity to have a customer ra-ra session on Monday this week. The main messages were: The 8.1 Beta customers have been successful Lots more (160+) ISV are joining the BEA bandwagon BEA is partnering with many Service Integrators …

    Hardware 6 Aug 2003, 09:13

  • Linux Continues to Continue

    Busy Week

    IBM and SuSE Linux have got security certification for Linux from the US Government, writes Robin Bloor of Bloor Research. Acquiring certification, under a Pentagon certification program entitled Common Criteria, is costly and time consuming, but IBM and SuSE put in the money and the time. The certification applies only to the …

    Software 6 Aug 2003, 09:29

  • AMD preparing Athlon 64 FX?

    But is it a low-end part or a DP chip?

    AMD's Athlon 64 - already the source of much speculation over the number of pins each packaged chip will features, 754, 939 and/or 940 - has become embroiled in rumours centring on the company's FX nomenclature. AMD will launch the Athlon 64 on 23 September, that much is known. But German web site Planet 3DNow is claiming it …

    Channel 6 Aug 2003, 09:55

  • Cisco Q4 profits up

    Flat sales

    Cisco racked up the profits in Q4, even though sales were flat. Net income for the three months to July 26, 2003 was up 27 per cent to $982 million (Q4: 2002 $772 million) on sales of $4.7bn (Q4 2002 $4.8bn). Net sales for fiscal 2003 were $18.9bn, the same as 2002. However net income for 2003 was a much healthier $3.6 billion …

    Data Networking 6 Aug 2003, 11:14

  • SBC to deploy 20K hotspots for Wi-Fi/3G network

    My network is bigger than yours

    SBC is build a huge WiFi broadband network in its corner of the US, spanning 20,000 hotspots in 6,000 venues. Called FreedomLink, the network will span more than 6,000 hotels, conference centres and airports in SBC's 13-state region. FredomLink will take three years to complete and encompasses SBC's own infrastructure and …

    Wireless 6 Aug 2003, 11:32

  • Open up servers, unbundle WMP, Europe tells MS

    There, we didn't all die before they did something, after all...

    Microsoft must open up on its server interfaces and either unbundle Media Player from Windows or ship competing players with the product, the European Commission said today in a 'last warning' to the company. According to the Commission, "Microsoft's [antitrust] abuses are still ongoing," and the company is being given one final …

    Software 6 Aug 2003, 11:34

  • SBC plans 20,000-hotspot WLAN plan

    Integration with cellular

    US telco SBC today pledged to roll out 20,00 Wi-Fi hot-spots by the end of 2006 to fill the Internet connectivity gap between the home and the office. It also intends to expand that coverage with the provision of cellular mobile data services, the company said today. SBC's plan, dubbed FreedomLink, calls for a broad …

    Business 6 Aug 2003, 11:52

  • ‘Golden Age of Free Music’ vs ‘Copying is Stealing’

    You hum it, I'll rip it

    The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has launched an advertising campaign using the slogan "copying is stealing" to convey to the public the message that digital copying (eg. over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks) is as serious and criminal as stealing a CD from a record shop or a DVD from a video shop. This article …

    Music and Media 6 Aug 2003, 11:54

  • Memory sticks are the latest security risk

    Up to a point

    Memory sticks have been branded as the latest security risk by security firm SecureWave, whose intrusion prevention technology can be used to control the use of the popular devices in corporate environments. The alleged risk here is that "many organisations run the risk of viruses and unauthorised software entering the network …

    Security 6 Aug 2003, 12:39

  • AMD buys Nat Semi Geode chip

    x86 for PDAs, anyone?

    AMD is buying National Semiconductor's Geode x86-compatible microprocessor and system-on-a-chip platform. NatSemi began hawking Geode back in February, primarily as a cost-cutting measure, though in part, we suspect, because the company's grand dreams of a future where we all use information appliances rather than PCs failed to …

    Channel 6 Aug 2003, 13:52

  • WinXP Media Center PCs come to Europe

    Roll call

    Microsoft has signed up 30-ish PC builders to flog entertainment-centric PCs based on WinXP Media Center Edition in Europe for the first time. The company already has a roster of 20 OEMs selling Media Center PCs in US, Canada and Korea. So what is a entertainment-centric PC? Essentially you get to watch TV and DVDs, check out …

    Channel 6 Aug 2003, 14:01

  • StorageTek bulks up tape, trims disk

    Capacity doubled

    Flexing its muscle in both tape and disk, StorageTek this week made a pair of moves to round out its storage line-up. In its core tape business, StorageTek has rolled out the latest member of its T9X40 tape drive family - the T9840C. The new drive has double the capacity of previous products at 40GB per cartridge (uncompressed …

    Storage 6 Aug 2003, 15:15

  • Microsoft updates Xbox TV support chip

    Reducing MS' loss per console

    Microsoft is to update its Xbox consoles with a new, cheaper TV output system. Focus Enhancements' FS454 chip is now shipping to Microsoft for incorporation into future consoles. The chip has taken a while to get here. Microsoft commissioned the part in May 2001, and the part was finally finished according to the …

    Personal 6 Aug 2003, 16:07

  • Letters Innovation Blue: What new logo?

    Innovation Blue is the Colour a Konica Minolta LogoWatch special What new logo? All they have done is add the word 'Konica' to the start of their old logo. Ian Thomas Not really a new logotype. Minolta came up with the inexplicable blue circle twenty-odd years ago sometimes using it to replace the central "O" in Minolta. …

    Letters 6 Aug 2003, 16:32

  • HP puts Intel's finest into blade servers

    Some like it hot

    HP has built out its blade server portfolio to cover the entire speed spectrum from low power systems to barn burning Xeon-powered kit. HP has come out with a new ProLiant BL10e server that fits the original definition of a blade as a power friendly system that be packed tightly together with other blades in a rack. The servers …

    Servers 6 Aug 2003, 17:06

  • Legal action threatened against domain slammer

    DRoE angers Dutch hosting firms

    The Dutch hosting provider Deinternetman and its American partner Register.com (no relation to El Reg), ponder legal action against Domain Registry of Europe (DRoE) for sending their customers letters urging them to renew their domain contracts. The two companies believe it is a deliberate attempt to deceive domain name owners …

    Music and Media 6 Aug 2003, 17:56

  • Lightning knocks out Halifax IT system

    Hanging on the telephone

    A lightning storm in Belfast last night knocked out the IT systems of one of Halifax Bank's main UK call centres, creating problems for the bank in fielding customer queries well into this morning. Halifax customer service reps told Reg reader Alan McWatters this morning that "due to a lightening Strike in Belfast last night …

    Business 6 Aug 2003, 18:23

  • US Navy buys Linux on Apple kit

    Biggest ever Xserve sale

    Apple Computer has scored its biggest ever sale of Xserve servers - thanks to Linux. Terra Soft Solutions has announced that Lockheed Martin will buy 260 Xserve servers running its Yellow Dog Linux, with the eventual destination being the US Navy's submarines. On board clusters of the Apple rack server will be used for real- …

    Mac Channel 6 Aug 2003, 21:57