22nd August 2003 Archive
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IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play
Peace, love and Microsoft
IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount of lip service to one of free software's most needed products. Karen Smith, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM, has been telling a number of publications that no open source …
Software 22 Aug 2003, 02:31
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TSMC foundry market share dips
But IBM et al still have a very long way to go to catch it
Whichever way you cut the market, TSMC remained the world's biggest chip foundry during the first half of the year, well ahead of its nearest rival, UMC. Proof - if it were needed - comes from market watcher IC Insights, which this week published its league charts for pure-play foundries and for foundries that also do their own …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 09:03
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Novell decimates workers, goes into the red
One job in ten axed
Novell yesterday confirmed the loss of 600 jobs - amountin to ten per cent of its workforce - as it announced a damaging quarterly loss on flat sales. For its third fiscal quarter ending 31 July, Novell reported revenue of $283 million, compared to $282 million for Q3 2002 and $276 million for Q2 2003. Net loss for the quarter …
Data Networking 22 Aug 2003, 09:14
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Nvidia signs UMC as chip producer
Update Well, sort of...
Nvidia has taken on its third chip foundry partner. It's long-standing chip maker TSMC and recent signing IBM will now be joined by local arch-rival UMC Before anyone rushes to view the move as another poke in the eye for TSMC, the arrangement - confirmed by the company, according to a report in Taiwan's Economic News newspaper …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 09:20
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Woman burned by exploding cellphone
Cheap replacement battery blamed
A mobile phone has exploded in a woman's face while she was out shopping. The blast caused burns to her face and neck. The freak incident happened in Amsterdam earlier this week. According to local reports, the phone switched itself off when the 33-year-old women dropped the phone. When she switched it back on again, the phone …
Mobile 22 Aug 2003, 09:24
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Hi-tech crime a ‘significant’ threat, warn police
New tools, old crimes
The potential for losses through hi-tech crime to grow is rising as criminals become more technically competent, according to an annual assessment of serious and organised crime in the UK. The warning comes in a UK Threat Assessment report by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), published today, which takes stock …
Security 22 Aug 2003, 09:31
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AMD to ship Athlon 64s as Athlon XPs
Limited to 32-bit 'legacy' mode
AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 low-end variants, codenamed 'Paris' and 'Victoria', will not be offered as 64-bit processors but as 32-bit upgrades to the current Athlon XP line. So claims Xbit Labs, having glanced at the chip maker's latest roadmaps. Paris and Victoria emerged earlier this year, when they were revealed to be cut- …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 10:18
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IT jobs under threat from WTO deal
'Don't panic,' says contactors group
The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has urged IT contractors "not to panic" amid concerns that World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations to be held next month could result in the opening-up of the UK's employment market to cheaper overseas workers. Calls for calm come as it emerged that one of the offers being put …
Business 22 Aug 2003, 10:22
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Motorola launches first Linux smartphone
First to two 'secret weapons', too
Motorola yesterday launched its first Linux-based smartphone into the Far Eastern market. Announced last February, the A760 uses Linux as a core operating system, on top of which Java provides a multimedia application framework. Software that ships with the device includes a PDA-style personal information management suite, a …
Mobile 22 Aug 2003, 10:54
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Toshiba debuts smallest HDD MP3 player
Reg Kit Watch Cooler than iPod shock
MP3 Player Toshiba has launched what it claims is the thinnest, lightest and smallest hard drive-based portable music player yet to grace the market. And, looking at the pictures the company supplied, we have to say, probably the sexiest one too. The player, the Gigabeat G20 MEG200J is just 1.27cm thick, a smidge thinner than …
Personal 22 Aug 2003, 11:53
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192 switch-off not cheaper for punters
Oh well
Deregulation of the UK's directory enquiries (DQ) service has not led to cheaper services. Which means that the gaggle of new 118 operators - who take over on Sunday once BT's 192 service is finally switched off - need to offer a rack of bolted-on extras to attract punters if they are to survive in the long run. So says UK- …
Small Biz 22 Aug 2003, 12:56
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Judge dismisses Palm patent case win
Plaintiff to 'evaluate' other vendors' products for violation
The US Court of Appeal has sided with technology holding company E-Pass, and ruled that a patent held by E-Pass may indeed have been infringed by PDA makers Palm and HP, and by Microsoft after all. The ruling, reported by Brighthand, dismisses a 2002 District Court judgement that E-Pass' patent, which describes a credit card- …
Mobile 22 Aug 2003, 13:43
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Nvidia class action suit dismissed
Over and done with
A US District Court judge yesterday effectively dismissed the class action suit brought against Nvidia, the company said today. The suit was launched in March 2002 after the graphics chip maker announced a year last February that it planned to investigate "certain accounting matters" and the results statements it had made …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 15:42
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Intel ups Q3 revenue forecast
Chips on the rise, Flash flat
Intel Friday hiked its third quarter revenue forecast, pointing to better-than-expected PC processor sales for the move. The chipmaker is now looking for revenue to come in between $7.3 billion and $7.8 billion for the period ending September 27. This beats out a previous prediction of revenue between $6.9 billion and $7.5 …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 15:44
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Vodafone flogs off Japan Telecom for £1.4bn
Focusing on mobile
Vodafone today said it will sell of its Japanese fixed line business, Japan Telecom, for ¥261.3 billion (£1.4 billion) in a mix of cash and stock. The deal, carried out through Vodafone subsidiary Japan Telecom Holdings (JTH), in which the mobile phone company has a 66.7 per cent stake. JTH owns all of Japan Telecom. Vodafone …
Mobile 22 Aug 2003, 16:03
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Sobig-F timed for Trojan download tonight?
Twist in the tail
The prolific mass-mailing Sobig-F email worm, which has flooded computer users this week, could attempt to download a Trojan horse tonight, anti-virus companies are warning. The worm has been programmed to automatically direct infected PCs to a server controlled by the virus writer from which a malicious program could be …
Malware 22 Aug 2003, 16:17
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AMD's Opteron party squashed by AMD
Sanders left on his own
AMD is hanging its much-admired Chairman Jerry Sanders out to dry by turning its back on an Opteron sales prediction the exec made some four months ago. Aug. 22 was meant to be a special day in AMD's history. For it is on this very day that AMD was to stand up and say that in just four months Opteron was able to eclipse four …
Channel 22 Aug 2003, 20:11
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Anna K sends Amazon CEO into shock
Bras in stock
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos appeared to enter "sexpot shock" while joining tennis star Anna Kournikova for the Friday opening of the NASDAQ exchange. Mouth wide-open and almost cross-eyed, Bezos looked like a teenage boy making his first journey into the raunchy section of a movie store. Bezos and Anna were teaming up to promote …
Bootnotes 22 Aug 2003, 21:04
