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  • US power brown-out causes Net, phone chaos

    Chain reaction

    A severe power outage affecting the north eastern United States, Canada and the mid-west has left many web sites either down or experiencing DNS problems, and knocked out sections of the cellphone networks. Flights to and from eleven airports, including New York, Toronto and Ottowa, were halted, while New York's public …

    Media 15 Aug 2003, 08:18

  • GNER to spend £1m on Wi-Fi trains

    Locomotive Area Network

    GNER rail company in the UK has partnered with mobile solutions firm Icomera to provide Wi-Fi on its trains running between Scotland and London. Great North East Railway (GNER) is investing £1 million ($1.6 million) on rolling out broadband Internet access on its fleet of high-speed trains, which it hopes will up its appeal …

    Broadband 15 Aug 2003, 08:19

  • Multi-mix digital music format launched

    MP3 on steroids

    The Hungarians gave us Rubik's Cube, and now they are going to entice us with DI Music. DI Music is a new digital file format invented by Hungarian musician Sándor Mester, aka MS3. Call it MP3 on steroids, if you will. The idea is that throughout the recording process, musicians can explore an entire range of artistic …

    Media 15 Aug 2003, 08:25

  • DRAM sales to rise 35% this quarter

    And capex up 8% this year

    DRAM sales will be 35 per cent higher in Q3 than Q2, market watcher Gartner Dataquest has forecast. Memory sales traditionally rise in the third quarter - the 'back to school' season - but there are indications that the increase will be higher than usual, driven by growing demand for DDR SDRAM, largely due to the adoption of …

    Channel 15 Aug 2003, 08:46

  • Watch out for wilting servers, warns UK web host

    Even as heatwave comes to an end

    Web hosting operation Redbus Interhouse has warned companies to "worry about servers as much as employees" as the UK continues to enjoy the summer weather. In a statement dished out late yesterday afternoon, the colocation outfit warned that servers - as well as people - suffer when it's hot and that a sweltering server could …

    Servers 15 Aug 2003, 09:14

  • Athlon 64 supply to be limited until 2004 – report

    Not turning on the tap until 64-bit WinXP ships?

    AMD Athlon 64 processors are going to be hard to come by in the months following the chips launch on 23 September. So claim unnamed Taiwanese mobo-maker sources cited by a DigiTimes story on chipsets today. Said sources claim the chip will be made available in limited quantities but should enter volume production early next …

    Channel 15 Aug 2003, 09:39

  • MS fixes WinNT patch RAS knock-out glitch

    Cure was worse than the disease

    As if hard pressed Windows sysadmins didn't have enough problems dealing with the effects of the Blaster worm, Microsoft has warned that an unrelated security fix it supplied to NT 4 users last month was faulty. The security patch, issued in July and designed to guard against a potential DoS risk, causes Remote Access Services …

    Security 15 Aug 2003, 09:58

  • Chinese launch wristphone

    Well, more a phone-on-your-wrist, actually

    The excitement about the new CEC Chinese wrist-phone seems to be based on the idea that it's a 'first' which, of course, it isn't. The IXI-Mobile design which Seiko announced earlier this year was not only first, but rather smarter. All of the known wristphones post a similar problem, however: "How do you use that thing?" …

    Mobile 15 Aug 2003, 09:59

  • Intel nibbles at AMD mobile market share

    Gorilla up, Chimp down

    Intel's Centrino notebook platform pitch appears to be paying off - at least in its ability to grab market share from arch-rival AMD. According to the latest figures from market watcher IDC, Intel grew is mobile market share by almost three per cent during the second quarter. Not a huge gain, but nevertheless almost all of it …

    Channel 15 Aug 2003, 10:34

  • BT.com is a FTSE 100 web laggard – official

    Our survey says...

    BT's web site is one of the worst-performing among the UK's top one hundred companies, according to a report due to be published on Monday. SiteMorse carried out tests assessing the number of errors, speed and accessibility of corporate sites belonging to the all companies in the FTSE 100. BT - which was ranked 94 overall - …

    Media 15 Aug 2003, 10:54

  • Spam fuels boom in secure content market

    But watch out for false positives

    Junk mail is an increasing problem but the search for an effective cure remains fraught with difficulties. That's the message we take from a slew of recent surveys on the subject. Market watcher IDC predicts that anti-spam products will be a key driver for the secure content management (SCM) software market which it expects to …

    Security 15 Aug 2003, 13:36

  • Woman kidnapped in £0.5m IT theft

    Surrey Police investigate

    IT companies are being urged to review their physical security after the financial director of a computer distributor was kidnapped and forced to help burglars steal computer equipment worth more then £500,000. The kidnap of the 30-year-old woman and subsequent robbery, which are reminiscent of attacks normally carried out …

    Business 15 Aug 2003, 14:56

  • MCI ‘on track’ to exit Chapter 11

    Revenues, income rising

    Embattled MCI claims it is "on track" to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Filing its monthly operating report for June with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, MCI reported that revenues had increased to $2.075 billion compared with $2.034 billion in May. Operating income in June was $ …

    Business 15 Aug 2003, 14:58

  • Firms should beware e-business ‘black hole’

    Outsource instead, suggests outsourcing firm

    Firms which choose to run and manage their e-business systems and infrastructure in house are throwing resources down an IT "black hole", according to new research out today. E-business specialist PSINet Europe found a staggering 115 million person hours of working time would be wasted across Europe dealing with an activity …

    Small Biz 15 Aug 2003, 15:11

  • Online ad spending on the up

    BT is big on banners

    Online advertising spending is increasing, according to the latest stats from media intelligence outfit Thomson Intermedia. Spending in the second quarter rose eight per cent compared to the first three months of the year. And in a sign that things could be improving, Thomson Intermedia found online ad spending from the IT …

    Media 15 Aug 2003, 16:11

  • Amazon faces tribunal over ‘trade union’ sacking

    Dotcom under the spotlight

    A former employee of Amazon.co.uk has appeared before an employment tribunal in Bedford claiming that he was dismissed for wanting to join a trade union. Alex Ferguson claims he was sacked three days after bosses found out he was thinking of joining a trade union. Amazon.co.uk "strongly refutes" Mr Ferguson's claim, insisting …

    Business 15 Aug 2003, 16:19

  • Veritas preps file system for 9i RAC and HP-UX

    Giving HP some love

    Veritas is working to prove its has as much love for HP as it does for Sun Microsystems with the release of a file system for Oracle 9i RAC running on HP-UX. The product is called the Veritas Database Edition/Advanced Cluster for Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC). It's not the most exciting name, but it does the trick. …

    Data Center 15 Aug 2003, 17:16