29th August 2003 Archive
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Intel's signs R&D deal with China's Legend
Linking PCs to TVs via home LANs
Intel's Asia-Pacific investment spree continues unabated. Yesterday, the chip giant agreed to found an R&D centre for home networking and security technologies with China's largest PC maker, Legend. The facility will be part of Legend' Beijing HQ, said Intel China president Wee Theng Tan, according to a Reuters report. The …
Personal 29 Aug 2003, 08:58
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Samsung puts 256Mb GDDR2 chip into production
50% faster than GDDR
Samsung will soon begin mass production of its 256Mb graphics-oriented DDR II memory chip, the company said yesterday. The GDDR2 part uses a number of technical tricks to offer 50 per cent more memory performance than GDDR chips, including on-die termination, off-chip calibration and a reduced CAS latency. Samsung says the part …
Channel 29 Aug 2003, 09:20
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Nvidia NV38 debut to push back NV40?
Graphics card makers suggest as much
That graphics card manufacturers are going to be showing off products based on Nvidia's upcoming NV36 and NV38 processors late next month is a sign that they aren't going to release boards based on the next-generation NV40 part any time soon. So speculates Xbit Labs. It believes board makers will demo NV38 and NV36-based boards …
Channel 29 Aug 2003, 09:55
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Motorola launches Symbian smartphone
A920 for 3
Motorola yesterday unveiled its first Symbian-based handset, the A920. The new smartphone is destined for the UK and Italy for use exclusively on cellular operator 3's 3G network. The A920 features a 208 x 320 16-bit colour screen, integrated 640 x 480 digicam, MP3 playback (it also supports AAC, apparently) and even a GPS …
Mobile 29 Aug 2003, 10:36
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Motorola sells Symbian stake to Nokia, Psion
Update Still a licensee
Motorola may have launched its first Symbian handset yesterday, but its interest in the smartphone operating system company has clearly waned. Today, Nokia and Psion said they had begun the process of transferring Motorola's stake in Symbian to themselves. Symbian is a privately held company, owned by Psion, its co-founder with …
Mobile 29 Aug 2003, 11:25
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Tiscali registers broadband growth
Revs up
Tiscali has posted improved financial results for the first half of the year thanks to the uptake of broadband services throughout Europe. The Sardinia-based ISP signed up around 8000 new ADSL punters a week during the three months to the end of June - for a total of 110,000 broadband customers during the quarter - as it dug …
Telecoms 29 Aug 2003, 11:31
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BT unaffected by London power cut
Move on, no story here
BT reported today that its phone network was unaffected by last night's freak power cut in London. Two simultaneous faults at around 6.30pm last night crippled parts of the capital leaving tens of thousands of commuters stranded and leaving homes and businesses without power. Even though the outage lasted some 40 minutes, BT …
Data Networking 29 Aug 2003, 11:37
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BT's Chairman Bland signs up until 2007
'Overseen a huge period of change'
BT's chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, is to stay at the company until 2007, the monster telco confirmed today. The Southampton FC supporter and former BBC man has signed a new contract entitling him to an annual salary of £500,000 ($788,450), although this means that he will not be eligible to receive an annual bonus, the …
Mobile 29 Aug 2003, 11:39
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Symantec adds product activation
NAV follows XP in anti-piracy move
Symantec is embracing product activation technology with Norton AntiVirus 2004, to "protect users from pirated or counterfeit software". This is the first time the security software giant has introduced product activation. In due course it plans to introduce the technology across its entire consumer product line. Del Smith, …
Malware 29 Aug 2003, 12:17
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Feds close in on Blaster suspect
Virus author due to be arrested later today
The FBI are poised to arrest an unnamed 18 year-old today in connection with the release of a variant of the notorious Blaster worm. The teen has already been questioned by investigators and put under surveillance, The Seattle Times, citing two U.S. Justice Department sources, reports. He is expected to be arrested later today …
Malware 29 Aug 2003, 12:19
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Affordable 1GB PC2100 DDR modules arrive for PowerBooks
Prices still have a long way to fall
Owners of Apple's 12in PowerBook G4 will at last be able to bust the 640MB memory limit on their machines without breaking the bank. US Mac specialist Trans International today launched a 1GB PC2100 SO-DIMM compatible with the notebook. With the 128MB soldered on to the PowerBook's motherboard, users can now equip themselves …
Mac Channel 29 Aug 2003, 12:26
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Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling
W3C mulls implications
Microsoft may alter its dominant Internet Explorer Web browser following a ruling against it in a Chicago court earlier this month. That is according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an industry standards body, which said on its Web site that the Seattle giant had told the group that changes to the software may be in …
Software 29 Aug 2003, 12:47
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Openwave’s big hello to mobile data services
Phoneware
Mobile data services. How much bandwidth do they need? It depends, writes Rob Bamforth of Bloor Research. If the network can use the data intelligently, the data transmitted can be small and intelligence on the mobile device can be used to render it. That's the essence of the desktop computer web server and browser model, so it' …
Mobile 29 Aug 2003, 12:58
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IBM raises smoke alarm over 63,000 monitors
As you do
IBM and its Taiwanese supplier LiteOn Technology this week expanded a recall of 15-inch monitors which could catch fire. The risk affects tens of thousands of G51 and G51t computer monitors manufactured by LiteOn and sold by IBM, which were made more than five years ago (so how many are still in use?). The original recall, …
Personal 29 Aug 2003, 15:13
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Life support kicks in for server makers in Q2
IBM surges, Sun stunted
The worldwide server market is recovering but in the most modest of proportions. In the second quarter, server revenue rose 0.2 percent year-on-year to $10.6 billion, IDC said. This slight gain is significant in that it corrects a nine-quarter worldwide revenue decline. It is, however, hardly enough of an uptick to declare a …
Servers 29 Aug 2003, 15:20
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Making your presence felt in a video
Total pixelated
As more and more people become familiar with video conferencing as a way of avoiding travelling to meetings, we are also becoming increasingly aware of its shortcomings, writes Martin Langham of Bloor Research. Unless the connection is of a very high quality, we get a pixelated and jittery picture of the other participants who …
Software 29 Aug 2003, 15:23
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VeriSign: profiting from name dropping
Double bubble
VeriSign's new domain name service would essentially allow it to charge twice for many premium domain names, despite pending lawsuits and federal legislative action that seeks to prevent it. Competition for already registered domain names is fierce and some customers could inadvertently pay for the rights to a domain name that …
Music and Media 29 Aug 2003, 15:23
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US sponsors Anonymiser – if you live in Iran
Behind the Net curtains
A pact between the U.S. government and the electronic privacy company Anonymizer, Inc. is making the Internet a safer place for controversial websites and subversive opinions -- if you're Iranian. This month Anonymizer began providing Iranians with free access to a Web proxy service designed to circumvent their government's …
Security 29 Aug 2003, 15:30
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Sun supports Opteron workstation
One of its own?
Out of all the servers sitting in Sun Microsystems' Solaris x86 compatibility list one wee workstation stands out. It's a two processor system from Boxx Technologies, and it runs on Opterons. Sun has gone out of its way to certify servers from Dell, HP and IBM with its version of Solaris that run on Intel and AMD chips. These …
Servers 29 Aug 2003, 21:55
