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  • Transmeta, Nvidia confirm ‘nForce for Efficeon’ tale

    C8000 chipset

    Nvidia will offer a chipset for Transmeta's upcoming Efficeon processor, both companies said yesterday. The announcement confirms rumours that first appeared on the web back in July. Like Nvidia's Opteron/Athlon 64-oriented nForce 3 Pro chipset, the Transmeta part is essentially a North Bridge/South Bridge combo. The Efficeon …

    Channel 17 Sep 2003, 05:52

  • Mobile phones disrupt teenagers' sleep

    Another thing for parents to get anxious about

    Mobile phones are having a major impact on the quality of sleep of a growing number of adolescents. Text messaging on mobile phones is affecting the quality of sleep of almost half of 16 year olds, a Belgian study published in the Journal of Sleep Research says. Many teenagers leave their mobile phone on while they are asleep …

    Mobile 17 Sep 2003, 08:17

  • Germany preps ‘second basket’ of copyright laws

    Munich Let's have a heated debate

    The right to make private copies from digital sources and the introduction of Digital Rights Management are the hot topics in Germany's reform of its copyright law. Just a few days after the first part of Germany's reformed copyright law was enacted, the German Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries yesterday announced at a …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 09:02

  • Easynet in new drive for public sector BB aggregation

    Tackling BB have-nots

    The Government's bid to bring broadband to areas of the UK currently not served by affordable high-speed Net access took a step forward today after Easynet announced its plans to tap into public sector demand for broadband by offering services through unbundled local exchanges. One of six operators chosen earlier this year by …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 09:13

  • Data Protection: come fly with me (but only if…)

    Renewed hostilities

    Oh dear, the necessity to combat terrorism is leading to renewed hostilities between the European Commission and the US Government (the office of the Homeland Security Secretary), over data on airline passengers, writes John MacGowan of Bloor Research. Since March 2003, Washington has ordered airlines flying in to the USA to …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 09:48

  • Global BB subscribers hit 62m

    Not 'major industry driver' though

    One in ten Net users in the world has a broadband connection, according to the latest report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It's figures showed that at the end of 2002, the number of broadband users had jumped 72 per cent to 62 million punters. Not surprisingly, broadband nation Korea leads the way in …

    Telecoms 17 Sep 2003, 10:21

  • Verisign DNS change broke my HP printer

    Letters Readers slam 'Verislime' over Net grab

    Reg readers have plenty of say about Verisign's controversial move to direct surfers who get lost on the Web to a search site run by the company. Our coverage provoked a large number of letters, almost all hostile, about Versign's audacious typo-squatting land grab. All your Web typos are belong to us Martin Ward is the first …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 10:44

  • Intel i855GME to pave way for ‘Centrino 2’ next year

    IDF Update Dothan, Sonoma, Alviso and Azalia details

    Intel today added a second chipset to its Centrino mobile platform even as it offered more details of the next-generation of Centrino, codenamed 'Sonoma', at Intel Developer Forum. Based around the 90nm 'Dothan' Pentium M chip, Sonoma includes the 'Alviso' chipset and Calexico 2 Wi-Fi adaptor. Dothan, demonstrated by Anand …

    Channel 17 Sep 2003, 16:21

  • Intel preps ‘Xbox in a phone’ XScale chip

    IDF 'Bulverde' borrows Pentium's MMX, SpeedStep

    Intel unveiled the next generation of XScale processor at its Developer Forum today, claiming the chip will enable 'Xbox in a phone' devices next year. The processor, codenamed 'Bulverde', will be the first XScale to incorporate the MMX multimedia instructions that debuted on the Pentium platform in the 1990s. It will bring " …

    Channel 17 Sep 2003, 16:53

  • ‘Cutting edge’ UK councils to get £14m

    'e-innovations' need only apply for grant

    The Government is to chuck £14 million over the next three years at local authorities to support "cutting edge" e-schemes - even though a third of councils admit they won't hit existing e-Gov target to get their services online by 2005. Although full details have yet to be announced, the £14 million "e-innovations fund" - which …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 17:20

  • Directory enquiries calls in free fall post 118 – BT

    Confused or just more savvy?

    The number of calls made to directory enquiries (DQ) services plummeted by almost half in the two weeks after the switchover to new 118 services, according to dominant telco BT. In what appears to be a complete mystery, BT found that the number of calls to all new 118 numbers is down by around 45 per cent compared to the number …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 17:24

  • New exploit heralds Blaster 2 attack

    Lock up your servers

    Security experts warned yesterday that crackers have succeeded in creating an exploit for the latest critical flaw with Microsoft?s RPC subsystem. The flaw, disclosed last week, is similar to the vulnerability notoriously exploited by the Blaster worm. Now that exploit source code is available, the fear is that it is only a …

    Security 17 Sep 2003, 17:27

  • BIND developer blocks Verisign Net grab move

    Road to Nowhere

    The developer of the technology used to direct surfers on the Web has announced it is developing a workaround designed to stop users who mistype URLs ending up at VeriSign's new search site. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit body that develops the ubiquitous BIND domain name server, is adapting its software so …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 17:31

  • Jayhawk flies in as next-but-one Xeon DP

    IDF Update Successor to unreleased Nocona

    Intel will follow the release of 'Nocona', its upcoming 90nm Xeon DP chip, with 'Jayhawk', the company admitted today. Just as the next Xeon MP, 'Potomac', is set to be followed by a dual-core version of the chip, codenamed 'Tulsa', so Jayhawk could be a dual-core implementation of Nocona. However, Intel didn't say as much, and …

    Channel 17 Sep 2003, 17:50

  • Sun ashamed of Solaris x86 past

    Sun NC03 We want to make amends

    Sun Microsystems is struggling to correct a big mistake - its lack of support for Solaris x86. Over the past year, Sun has been talking up Solaris x86 more and more. The OS has joined Linux as an option for Sun's growing line of servers using Intel and AMD chips. While once a bastard child within Sun, Solaris x86 has seen its …

    Hardware 17 Sep 2003, 18:13

  • Intel presses the ‘instant-on’ PC switch, again

    'Seconds' tick away over the decades...

    One of the salient differences between computer electronics devices and computers is that when you press theon-button on the former, they (usually) switch on and work, whereas the computer's on-button generally functions as some kind of Pavlovian signal for you to go and get your morning coffee. This however is set to change ( …

    Channel 17 Sep 2003, 18:27

  • PowerBook updates confirm Panther model code leak

    Those internal PB designations in full

    Developer documentation detailing Apple's new 15in and 17in PowerBook G4s confirms that the new models' introduction was indeed revealed deep within a pre-release version of Mac OS X 'Panther'. Apple provided developers with an early version of Panther at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last June. Soon after, it …

    Mac Channel 17 Sep 2003, 18:50

  • The Loon rides again with attack on Sun's comic value

    McNealy is no Letterman

    A Sun Microsystems conference would not be complete without the witty musings of Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich. Milunovich's reputation as "The Loon" precedes him. This is the man that backed research and development with unparalleled vigor during the dot-com boom only to turn his back on technology development a stock …

    Servers 17 Sep 2003, 22:56

  • Intel blasts proprietary Wi-Fi tweaks

    IDF Hindering adoption of the standard

    Intel Communications Group CTO Eric Mentzer today criticised so-called 'standards-plus' extensions to 802.11 specifications for hindering end users' adoption of WLAN technology. Mentzer's comments follow the launch earlier this week of Atheros' eXtended Range (XR) technology, which boosts the sensitivity of the company's fourth …

    Mobile 17 Sep 2003, 23:08

  • Intel Developer Forum

    Our IDF stories, in full

    Our complete coverage from this autumn's Forum in San Jose. Wireless and Mobile Intel announces death of copper Intel blasts proprietary Wi-Fi tweaks Intel preps 'Xbox in a phone' XScale chip Intel i855GME to pave way for 'Centrino 2' next year Goodbye, PC; hello, PS (Personal Server) Chips Jayhawk flies in as next-but- …

    Wireless 17 Sep 2003, 23:28

  • We’re stuck with ICANN: Official

    Historic moment in Internet's history

    Pessimists of the world unite! The US government has granted ICANN another three years to run the Internet in its own idiosyncratic manner. No-one seriously expected the overseeing organisation to be dumped when the contract ran out on 30 September but until now the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Commerce …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2003, 23:44