26th September 2003 Archive
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‘Push to talk’ poised for Europe launch
Walk the Talk
European mobile operators are following the example of their peers in the US as they ready the launch of new "walkie talkie" style services for 2004. According to Chris Haddock, director of European marketing for Ubiquity Software, handsets could hit the European market as early as this Christmas, incorporating normal GSM phone …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 07:47
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mmo2 takes Blackberry into SME market
Colour me Beautiful
Two months after RIM announced its colour Blackberry email-phone, the distributor which has sold most samples has finally taken it on board. Is this the breakthrough RIM has struggled to achieve? Blackberry means pocket email - almost exclusively. The trouble is, it only meant pocket email to members of large corporations. At …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 07:47
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Nintendo braves Chinese pirates with iQue player
Consoling
Nintendo is set to become the first of the current games platform holders to launch a games system in China, with a new console sporting strong anti-piracy systems set to arrive next month. The new platform, called the iQue Player (and dubbed the "Nintendo Compact" elsewhere, although we're not sure where that title came from …
Personal 26 Sep 2003, 08:28
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Manchester PC dealer refused credit licence
'Unfit trader'
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has refused to issue a consumer credit licence to Michael Oldham, a Manchester computer dealer who trades as Gladeside Computer Services, PC Service Centre and PC Posta Part. An OFT adjudicator ruled that Oldham had failed to declare a string of convictions "including numerous counts of burglary …
Channel 26 Sep 2003, 08:54
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Tundra buys PowerPC tech for $20m
Bridge building
Just days after a mis-timed press release forced Tundra to announce it hadn't purchased Motorola's PowerPC Host Bridge products but was simply in talks with the processor maker, the company has said the sale has gone through. Tundra will pay $20 million for the two-part product line, which its will rename the Tsi106 and Tsi107 …
Channel 26 Sep 2003, 09:35
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Nintendo preps wireless add-on for GBA
Motorola inside
Nintendo has turned to Motorola to help it add wireless networking to its GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Advance SP handheld consoles, the company said today. Motorola's contribution is the WLAN chipset that will sit inside plug-in network adaptors Nintendo plans to offer for both consoles during the first half of next year …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 09:39
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Nokia launches trendiest phone yet
Reg Kit Watch 7600 debuts, dahlings
Handset Nokia continues to try and find new mobile phone form factors that might supersede the classic rectangular shape, this time with the 7600 an almost square handset, with the number buttons placed on either side of the 16-bit colour, 128 x 160 screen: Weighing a mere 123g and measuring 8.7 x 7.8 x 1.86cm, the 7600 …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 10:29
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Stealth mode Amazon.com gets into search
It's Bezos vs. God
Amazon.com has sent a shot across Google's bows by setting up a search engine operation in Google's backyard. Rather than a general purpose search, Amazon.com is staffing up its its A9 subsidiary to produce a comparative shopping search engine, the Wall Street Journal reports. Yahoo! launched a shopping search site earlier this …
Music and Media 26 Sep 2003, 10:50
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PlusNet raises 2Mbps prices
In line with BT wholesale increases
Sheffield-based PlusNet has confirmed it is upping the price of its 2Mbps ADSL service in line with wholesale increases announced by BT earlier this month. The increase means that PlusNet's service, currently priced at £59.99 a month, will now cost £65.99 a month. Existing punters have been given 14 days' notice of the price …
Telecoms 26 Sep 2003, 10:52
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WiMax: weapon or threat as wired carriers lose to wireless?
Pressure on wired carriers
The trend for Americans to dump wired phones altogether and use only mobiles is accelerating, putting new pressure on carriers to come up with long-term survival strategies. Cellular is the biggest threat this year, and has overtaken wireline in terms of numbers of subscribers for the first time in 2003. But in the 2-5 year time …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 11:13
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UWB standards battle remains unresolved
What technology will 802.15.3a be based on?
Hopes that the technology for the IEEE's 802.15.3a standard for high-speed personal area networking would be chosen this week were dashed when the Task Group failed to settle the war between rival proposals from the Multi-band OFDM Alliance (led by Intel and Texas Instruments) and Motorola/XtremeSpectrum. At an IEEE meeting in …
Data Networking 26 Sep 2003, 11:20
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Big Issue unveils lifestyle list e-biz
Check
Homeless-help magazine the Big Issue is flogging "tick lists" online to help people get some order and clarity into their lives. The ecommerce venture - which will pump half of sales to help homelessness - has a series of downloadable lists which should help people "get over life's sticky moments, around tight corners or …
Music and Media 26 Sep 2003, 11:27
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Red Hat makes money, pledges full open architecture
Further open source adventures
Red Hat has at last shown that you can make a profit out of Linux - albeit not very much. For its second quarter, it reported a net income of $3.3 million. And it has taken a huge sideways step from just offering a Linux implementation, promising adventures among a whole host of new, open source, application areas. In …
Software 26 Sep 2003, 11:59
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IBM brings Instant Messaging to Lotus Notes
Tighter integration
IBM has changed the face of Lotus Notes and Domino, adding a new version 6.5 with built in Instant Messaging and better spam defenses, better compression, encrypted email, tighter integration with Java and CORBA, further integration with Websphere and a bundled Mozilla browser. The new version allows Notes and Domino …
Software 26 Sep 2003, 12:01
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Microsoft celebrates Longhorn ‘Gold Release’ early
I have seen the future - it's RTM
How do you keep a large team of developers on a big project motivated during the inevitable slippages? Easy: you just pretend the project is already complete. The next release of Windows is a full two years away, but Microsoft executives and key Longhorn developers will be partying hard this autumn to celebrate the 'gold' …
Software 26 Sep 2003, 12:08
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DoCoMo goes Symbian
For next-gen 3G tech
In an statement that's intended to show that it can deal with network operators as well as the handset guys, Symbian has announced a partnership with DoCoMo, the vertically integrated Japanese giant. The deal focuses on next-generation 3G (3GPP) technology that should reach the market in 2005. DoCoMo already ships two Symbian …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 13:01
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Logica to bring MMS to land lines
Fixed-line multimedia messaging
System integrator LogicaCMG is to bring Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to fixed lines. ASPs and content providers will be able to use the service to deliver rich multimedia content to the home. The first fixed line MMS service will be introduced later this year by ITENOS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Subscribers need …
Mobile 26 Sep 2003, 13:04
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Broadband vital to rural economy – e-envoy
Sheep-worrying stuff
The future of rural economies is under threat unless they get broadband. That's the considered opinion of UK e-envoy Andrew Pinder who believes that broadband is essential if rural areas are to thrive. Speaking to epolitix.com, Mr Pinder said: "Rural broadband is an issue, and it's going to be an increasing issue because rural …
Telecoms 26 Sep 2003, 14:15
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Microsoft: a threat to global IT and job security?
Monoculture and the culling of the hive
Security consulting company @Stake has drawn further attention to an unfavourable study on Microsoft's impact on global computer security by firing one of the authors. Dan Geer was CTO of @Stake until the publication of "CyberInsecurity: the Cost of Monopoly" then, pow, he wasn't. @Stake said that Geer hadn't had permission for …
Software 26 Sep 2003, 15:08
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European security appliance sales grow 13.5%
Shifting dynamics
The Western European security appliance market grew by 13.5 per cent, with factory revenues reaching $86.1 million last quarter, far outperforming other regions globally. That's according to a study by market watcher IDC which found that Western Europe now represent 25.8 per cent of worldwide security server appliance revenues …
Security 26 Sep 2003, 16:57
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Doctor Who to return to TV – official
No longer lost in the Vortex
Doctor Who is returning to the nation's TV screens in 2005, the BBC said today. Laid to rest in 1989 - though re-animated in 1996 in a rather naff, 'we don't get it' US TV movie, not considered by many fans to be part of the Who canon - the series still has legions of fans around the world. Lorraine Heggessey, Controller of …
Bootnotes 26 Sep 2003, 17:24
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German police smash massive child porn ring
Operation Mercy
German police have broken up one of the world's biggest child porn networks which linked around 26,500 suspected users of child abuse material in 166 countries across the world. Investigators said members of the ring were traced from email distribution lists seized last year from a man in the German city of Magdeburg. "One of …
Music and Media 26 Sep 2003, 19:11
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Battery and assault, Segway style
I can't stand up for powering down
Segway has issued a recall for all of its personal transporters because some riders fall off when the batteries start running out of power. In a statement on its website, the company says: "Under certain operating conditions, particularly when the batteries are near the end of charge, some Segway HTs may not deliver enough …
Personal 26 Sep 2003, 19:39
