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  • BTo touts DSL discounts for Small.biz

    Which is nice

    BT Openworld has cut the cost of its business broadband services. As of yesterday, companies currently using or signing up to Business packages - 500PLUS, Business 1000PLUS and Business 2000PLUS - will receive discounts of up to £240 per year. The deal applies to BT's low contention 20:1 products and covers Plug & Go, Engineer …

    Small Biz 2 Sep 2003, 08:46

  • Motorola: leaving its symbiotic relationship

    Moving on

    Motorola has opted to sell its shares in Symbian as it pursues an alternative handset path based on Linux and Java. The decision is surprising, given Symbian's improving prospects, but Motorola's faith has moved onto other platforms. Yet Samsung is also building devices for a range of operating systems and bought a stake in …

    Mobile 2 Sep 2003, 08:48

  • Palm October trio details emerge

    Zire 21, Tungsten E and T3

    More details have appeared about the three PDAs Palm is expected to ship next October. At the top of the list is the Tungsten T3, the successor to the recently released Tungsten T2, which is expected to replace the original T when the T3 ships next month. A report on Palm Infocenter claims the device will feature a 400MHz Intel …

    Mobile 2 Sep 2003, 09:33

  • Computacenter pays first dividend

    Interims up 31%

    Computacenter (CC) is paying its first dividend, to accompany a good set of interims. Europe’s biggest reseller is to dole out 2p per share in its inaugural pay-out. The company says that interim dividends will account in future for a third of the annual pay-out. According to CC the dividend shows its confidence in the cash …

    Channel 2 Sep 2003, 10:06

  • BT Yahoo! Broadband goes live

    Gunning for AOL

    BT and Yahoo! are to splurge more than £10 million over the next six months plugging their new broadband service. From today, punters signing up for BT's ISP ADSL service will be hooked up to BT Yahoo! Broadband instead of the now kicked-into-touch BT Openworld. At £29.99 a month, BT Yahoo! Broadband is the same price as the …

    Telecoms 2 Sep 2003, 10:09

  • Give up booze or your Net access – you decide

    Yeah, right

    What would you give up to keep your Internet connection? According to a NOP survey on behalf of BT Yahoo! Broadband, six in ten people would give up their favourite choccy bar, half would give up booze and four in ten would be happy to toss away their mobile phone. Oh, and one in ten Net users would even be prepared to dump a …

    Bootnotes 2 Sep 2003, 10:10

  • Hynix to ramp Pseudo SRAM development

    Wants 20 per cent of phone memory market

    Hynix wants to make further inroads into cellphone memory market, and will begin developing 64MB Pseudo SRAM and NAND Flash memory chips this year targeted specifically at that sector, the company said yesterday. Mobile handsets have, in the past, typically used Static RAM (SRAM) chips for memory. PSRAM is essentially DRAM …

    Channel 2 Sep 2003, 10:24

  • Checking out Virtual Machines

    Role playing

    Many organisations have undertaken significant work over the last eighteen months as part of server consolidation projects, writes Tony Lock of Bloor Research. All scales of systems have been the subject of such projects with Intel-based machines accounting for no small percentage of consolidation efforts. The raw horsepower of …

    Servers 2 Sep 2003, 10:41

  • ATI buys Asia-Pacific sales agent

    Getting closer to its customers

    ATI today acquired AMI, the company's Taiwan and China sales agent, for an undisclosed sum. AMI has been ATI's exclusive representative in the region since 1992. For ATI, the deal is about bringing the company closer to its Asia-Pacific partners - it will now effectively deal directly with its local customers rather than …

    Channel 2 Sep 2003, 10:45

  • Microsoft delays Longhorn. Again

    Bull not grabbed by the horns

    Microsoft looks to have delayed the release of Longhorn withdrawing a commitment to ship the next version of Windows in 2005. Longhorn was originally supposed to ship in 2004. In May, this year release was pushed back to 2005. This week Longhorn's availability has been delayed even further, with Microsoft execs declining to say …

    Software 2 Sep 2003, 10:55

  • VIA touts dual LAN port mobo

    All the way from hi-fi to routers

    VIA has begun shipping its latest mini-ITX motherboards, the EPIA CL series. In addition to the obligatory tiny form factor, the CL line offers two network ports. Designed to support VIA's x86-compatible Eden and C3 processors, the CL family is based on the company's CLE266 chipset, which incorporates a UniChrome 2D/3D graphics …

    Data Networking 2 Sep 2003, 11:00

  • UK business broadband take up doubles

    Fast enough?

    Although business broadband take-up has doubled over the last year most UK firms - some 60 per cent - are still struggling along without high-speed internet access, according to research released today. The British Chambers of Commerce's Business Broadband survey, which polled 4,000 UK businesses across all sectors and company …

    Small Biz 2 Sep 2003, 11:09

  • PinkRoccade: heavy debts and other problems

    Hard times

    Shares in Dutch IT outsourcing and services firm PinkRoccade tumbled 6 per cent following its first-half results. The company's cash position has improved since last year, but it is still facing difficult market conditions and is showing signs of buckling under heavy debts. During the second quarter ended June 30, Netherlands- …

    Business 2 Sep 2003, 11:20

  • Back-up for blackouts

    London Calling

    The UK’s small businesses are being warned to take heed of last week’s London power cut by ensuring their computer systems are backed up. Last Thursday’s blackout, while nowhere near on the scale of recent power failures in New York and Canade, left many businesses in the south east without power for more than 30 minutes, …

    Small Biz 2 Sep 2003, 11:26

  • Mac OS X Panther ‘fast approaching’ release – Apple

    First candidate nearly here

    Mac OS X 10.3, codenamed 'Panther', is on the verge of reaching its first major milestone, Apple has told developers. The company yesterday said the operating system was "fast approaching first candidate release", according to a Think Secret report. The claim was made as Apple made the latest beta test build available to …

    Mac Channel 2 Sep 2003, 11:33

  • Doh! Man steals GPS tracking device

    Come and find me

    A 40 year-old Wisconsin man has put in a strong bid for the dumbest criminal of the year after he allegedly stole a GPS tracking device used to monitor criminals on probation. AP reports that the $2,500 device, which has a built in GPS satellite receiver, was temporarily placed outside a home by a woman serving home detention …

    Security 2 Sep 2003, 12:04

  • CDs and DVDs are ‘doomed’

    Download this

    CDs and DVDs are doomed - so say those soothsayers at Forrester, who reckon that the "end of physical media is nearing". Forrester reckons that a third of all music sales will be made by downloads in the next five years. It also predicts that almost 15 per cent of films will be viewed by "on-demand" services such as cable TV …

    Personal 2 Sep 2003, 13:11

  • The name is Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan

    And it's mine, all mine, I tell you

    Pierce Brosnan, the kempt Irish actor best-known for playing James Bond, has won the domain piercebrosnan.com in a dispute with a notorious celebrity name hoarder. The World Intellectual Property Organisation ruled that Jeffrey Burgar had registered the domain name in bad faith and was using it to make money. These are two big …

    Music and Media 2 Sep 2003, 14:05

  • The Reg relaunches Jobsearch

    Site News Teaming up with Jobsite

    Today The Register is relaunching our jobs service in tandem with partner Jobsite (known until this week as GoJobsite). Register Jobsearch gives you access to the full range of job hunting services that you’ve come to expect – CV posting, a massive database of jobs, daily jobs by email, and extensive career advice. And it’s all …

    Site News 2 Sep 2003, 14:26

  • BOFH and the Bad Junket

    Episode 11 Pens won't cut it

    BOFH 2003: Episode 11 So The PFY is back from a short junket he went on to learn about some technology or the other that no-one's heard of, no-one cares about, and no-one can afford to use. "How'd that Microsoft thing go?" I ask, as he enters the office with a full contingent of bloodshot eyes. "Microsoft? No, I was at that …

    BOFH 2 Sep 2003, 14:54

  • EU delays software patents vote

    Pausing for thought

    The European Parliament has postponed a vote on the software patents directive following protests by computer scientists and economists. A demo outside the Parliament in Brussels, attended by an estimated 400 last week, and an online protest involving more than 2,000 websites temporarily blacking out their front pages has put …

    Software 2 Sep 2003, 15:06

  • PS3 will play PS2, PSone games. Official

    Emulation station

    Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will feature backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PSone, ensuring continued support for older software formats in the new hardware. Speaking to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Kutaragi-san attributed some of the success of the PS2 to the …

    Personal 2 Sep 2003, 15:15

  • After filesharing: P2P telephony

    Hello. Is it me you're looking for?

    The people who brought you KaZaA have released a software product called Skype, which uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect to other users. Not to share files or music this time, but to talk and chat with your friends. OK, so it’s not a revolutionary idea. Most internet telephony products, like Net2Phone, are based on …

    Data Networking 2 Sep 2003, 15:36

  • AT&T hits MCI with racketeering charges

    The great Canadian Gateway Project

    AT&T has upped its attack against MCI/WorldCom, filing suit against the company for an alleged long distance call rerouting scheme. AT&T has spiced up the charges against MCI with a bit of mob lingo. Its lawsuit claims MCI violated provisions of the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. Both MCI …

    Business 2 Sep 2003, 17:19