19th September 2003 Archive

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Cisco under threat in VoIP stronghold

Competition grows

Cisco virtually created the voice over IP (VoIP) market and has identified the technology, and its wireless extension, voice over WLAN, as one of its six key areas for reveue and earnings growth, as its core backbone business starts to slow. But the company is facing intensifying competition from smaller players as VoIP …

Data Networking 19 Sep 2003, 07:44
Grasso has the last laugh as he exits the NYSE

Give the money back, Dick

All told it took about four weeks for NYSE CEO Richard Grasso's insane pay package to become public and then lead to his exit from the Big Board. In that short period of time, Grasso has been linked with such accounting atrocities as Enron and WorldCom not because he did anything wrong but because of his greed. Ironically, …

Business 19 Sep 2003, 07:46
Net censorship hits ‘all time high’

Rise of the corporate censor

Internet restrictions, government secrecy and communications surveillance have reached an unprecedented level across the world. A year-long study of Internet censorship in more than 50 countries found that a sharp escalation in control of the Internet since September 2001 may have outstripped the traditional ability of the …

Music and Media 19 Sep 2003, 07:51
Nasty worm poses as MS security update

Updated Swen: old trick, new packaging

Windows users were yesterday warned of the appearance of a worm that poses as a security update from Microsoft but actually causes all manner of mischief on infected PCs. Swen-A (AKA Gibe-F) is a mass-mailing worm that also attempts to spread through file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA and IRC, and over local area network …

Malware 19 Sep 2003, 08:56
Peoplesoft support promises – good for customers

...Slap in Oracle's face

PeopleSoft continues to put nails in the coffin of the Oracle bid for the company, and this week has committed to extended support for both its own applications and for those acquired from JD Edwards, for an extra two years. The standard contract for a release of Peoplesoft has been four years of upgrades and updates, but now …

Software 19 Sep 2003, 09:59
Verisign's SiteFinder finds privacy hullabaloo

Making Overtures

Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday began directing mistyped dot-com and dot-net e-mail and Web addresses to a pay-for-play search site operated by the company, writes SecurityFocus' Deborah Ratcliff. On Wednesday, Boston-based Internet security and privacy consultant …

Music and Media 19 Sep 2003, 10:00
The Reg opens Research Store

Stats, Studies, Newsletters, etc.

Today The Register Research Store opens for business. It's packed full of stats, studies, newsletters and opinions, courtesy of some of the best research houses around. We're kicking off with specialist Wireless newsletters, CRM reports, Business Intelligence briefings, financial industry reports and much, much more. The store …

Site News 19 Sep 2003, 10:14
PDA implicated in Gilligan WMD dossier probe

Notes bona fide, or fiddled?

The Hutton inquiry into the death of UK MoD scientist David Kelly yesterday saw BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan in some difficulty with a PDA. The notes it contained of his fateful interview with Kelly consisted of not one copy, but two, one including the name "Campbell" and one without. We do not propose to spend time on arguing …

Music and Media 19 Sep 2003, 11:15
Software guru wants New Accounting

I'm a VB programmer, and I need TLC

Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic, has some humane and eminently sensible thoughts about software usability. If more developers read and absorbed the advice in his book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum, computers would be far less annoying to the user. But Cooper on software economics is a different proposition. After …

Software 19 Sep 2003, 12:55
DSL growth outstrips demand for cable

Boom

Take-up of DSL is outstripping demand for cable broadband services, according to research from Point Topic. Its latest tot-up of global demand for high speed Internet services puts the total number of broadband lines in the world at 77 million at the end of June - up 24 per cent from 62 million lines at the end of December. …

Telecoms 19 Sep 2003, 12:57
Fiorina quits Cisco board

Chambers draws $1 salary (with $85m share options)

HP chief exec Carly Fiorina is to ditch her directorship of Cisco later this year, according to a regulatory filing by the networking giant. Fiorina has decided not to stand for re-election as a Cisco non-executive director and will part ways with the networking giant after its November 11 annual meeting. Both companies say …

Business 19 Sep 2003, 12:59
Telewest Business to axe 120 jobs

Major shake-up

Telewest Business is to axe 15 per cent of its workforce - around 120 jobs - over the next nine months. The cableco declined to say exactly where the jobs would be lost except to say that the cuts would be made across the whole of Telewest's business division. Although headcount is due to fall, no offices are to be closed as …

Business 19 Sep 2003, 14:50
Verisign backlash gathers force

All your Web typos aren't belong to us

The backlash against Verisign's controversial decision to direct users who get lost on the Web to a search engine site run by the company is gaining momentum. Net users have set up an online petition to protest the move, which critics say is an abuse of Verisign's role as steward of the .com and .net top level domains and a …

Music and Media 19 Sep 2003, 15:14
eBay to Feds: come and get what you want

'Our Privacy Policy has been enhanced to remove your Privacy'

Israeli daily Haaretz has unearthed highly embarrassing, and disturbing comments by an eBay executive. To an audience of law enforcement officials, eBay's Joseph Sullivan boasts that his company's privacy policy is meaningless. "We don't make you show a subpoena, except in exceptional cases," Sullivan told a closed-door session …

Music and Media 19 Sep 2003, 19:25