13th October 2003 Archive

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SunnComm shrinks from DMCA threat

Shifting blame

Realizing it had little to gain through legal action, SunnComm has backed down from threatening to sue a Princeton student who broke the company's CD copy protection technology simply by holding down the Shift key. SunnComm issued a statement long on denouncing researcher Alex Halderman's critique of the MediaMax CD3 technology …

Music and Media 13 Oct 2003, 03:28
Horizon pays cash for sake of Clarity

Tweaking terms

Horizon Technology is to pay cash for an additional stake in its Clarity Technology subsidiary, instead of issuing new shares. Irish-based Horizon, which owns almost 92 per cent of Clarity, is exercising its option to pay cash for an 8.3 per cent stake in the company that it purchased in July 2003. Horizon has also already …

Channel 13 Oct 2003, 08:35
Intel upgrades Xeon

Faster cache

Intel upgraded its Xeon processor to speed up access to on-chip cache memory, in order to improve performance for intensive applications such as streaming media, modelling and search engines. The new chip, called Prestonia, will probably be the last iteration of Xeon this year. It runs at 3.20GHz, up from 3.06GHz, and contains …

Servers 13 Oct 2003, 09:37
Dell backs away from smartphone plans

Leaves market to Nokia

Dell has backed away from its smartphone plans, outlined last summer, and ruled out any attack on the handset market, despite its overall ambition of becoming a consumer electronics major. Chief operating officer Kevin Rollins said this week that the presence of Nokia would make handsets a difficult market to break into and …

Servers 13 Oct 2003, 09:52
This is how Dell will become a $60bn company

Where America leads...

Dell CFO Kevin Rollins gave a strategy overview Wednesday night (October 8) saying that the company was on track to become a $60bn company by the end of 2006 and telling the world just where it would get its growth from. Much of the presentation was given over to market share issues with Dell claiming that it has a market share …

Servers 13 Oct 2003, 09:56
VoiP lobby wins first US legal victory

The Long March to 4G

As wireless and wired voice over IP become increasingly important in corporate communications strategies, the issue of whether IP telephony operators should be regulated in the same way as conventional carries becomes more critical. There is also an urgent need for a regulatory framework that will be appropriate to a fourth …

Wireless 13 Oct 2003, 10:11
Microsoft, Voda tout Web Standards for mobiles

Come and join us

Microsoft and Vodafone are to frame and promote mobile web service standards based around XML. The companies are prepping a technical roadmap and are seeking "industry engagement" for their PC to mobile web convergence play. The roadmap will, they say, address the likes of "GSM-based security services with the Web services …

Mobile 13 Oct 2003, 10:22
Egg to pull out of France – report

No comment

Speculation that Egg is about to pull out of France has been described as "old news", according to a spokesman at the UK online bank. The Mail on Sunday reported that Egg is to announce its decision to withdraw from France when it publishes Q3 results later this month. According to the Sunday paper there just hasn't been …

Business 13 Oct 2003, 10:28
UK ID card scheme likely to be ‘debacle’, says Jack Straw

Previous threat to freedom savages current one

UK home secretary David Blunkett's on-off ID card scheme may now be off for the foreseeable future, following the leak of highly critical letters from foreign secretary Jack Straw and the Treasury over the weekend. Straw, Blunkett's predecessor at the Home Office, warns of a "large-scale debacle," while the Treasury letter …

Music and Media 13 Oct 2003, 10:34
Sun hits back at HP's migration offers

"PR campaign with little substance"

Sun has hit back at Hewlett-Packard's 'Linux Lifeline' migration offer for Sun customers. Sun said the plan, which offers $25,000 worth of free porting services to users moving off Solaris to HP Linux, was a "PR campaign with little substance, no real money and no value proposition". The company did not come up with any …

Servers 13 Oct 2003, 10:38
Intel Tejas delayed until 2005

Prescott shuffles back too

Intel's 'Tejas' processor, the successor to the as-yet-unreleased 'Prescott', will now not be released until 2005 rather than late next year. However, the 130nm Northwood core Pentium 4 won't last as long as previously planned. So claims Japanese site PC Watch on the back of recent Intel roadmaps it has seen. The shift is a …

Channel 13 Oct 2003, 11:13
Now MS trails 2006 for Windows Longhorn

Leaves a nice big gap for something we prepared later?

Microsoft has put back the release of Longhorn until 2006, says Mary-Jo Foley of Microsoftwatch, basing her reasoning on presentations at last week's Microsoft worldwide partner conference, where company execs "casually slipped into their presentations that Longhorn is three years away from debut." The reasoning is impeccable. …

Software 13 Oct 2003, 11:46
The $30bn broadband economy – OECD

Govts need to do more

Governments need to do more if countries are to benefit from the broadband revolution. So says the OECD's (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), which has published a report detailing the different ways Governments can help the development …

Telecoms 13 Oct 2003, 12:25
Acer revs Ferrari branded notebook

Reg Kit Watch Plus: new laptops from Toshiba, Fujitsu

Notebooks Acer yesterday celebrated Ferrari's Grand Prix World Championship victory with a bright red special edition notebook bearing the famous prancing pony logo and dubbed the Ferrari 3000. Acer is one of the Ferrari racing team's official suppliers. AMD is one of the team's sponsors - check out the tiny logo on the tail …

Personal 13 Oct 2003, 12:57
Argos re-stocks GameCube after price cut

Key catalogue seller back on board

Major UK catalogue and Sigh Street retailer Argos has re-introduced Nintendo's GameCube to its range several months after dropping it, with newspaper advertisements promoting the console at its new price point. Argos had initially dropped the GameCube earlier this year after deciding that sales of the console were not high …

Personal 13 Oct 2003, 13:09
3 has too few handsets to meet million user target

Still not enough phones for UK's 3G service

Their phone calls now are the cheapest you can get; people are queueing up to buy video handsets - and yet Hutchison 3G is going to miss its year-end target of a million subscribers by miles. Yesterday's Sunday Times predicts that the company "has run out of the NEC handsets that have accounted for the bulk of sales so far and …

Mobile 13 Oct 2003, 13:19
Report slams London Mayor's car charge zone contract

Systems don't seem to be entirely working after all...

Capita, the contractor responsible for the congestion-charging system that has previously been categorised by Mayor Ken Livingstone as an outstanding success, has been fined £1 million by Transport for London for poor customer services. Mayor Ken has subsequently rowed back a little, describing Capita's performance as " …

Software 13 Oct 2003, 13:32
Telstra unveils Aussie online music store

Only one label signed though...

Australian telco Telstra is to open the continent's first online music service sometime before Christmas. With a nod towards Apple's iTunes Music Store, Telstra plans to offer both single-track and album downloads. However, with only Warner Music signed up, the service's range of songs is likely to be limited. A Telstra …

Music and Media 13 Oct 2003, 13:37
The Cloud drifts into Europe with Wi-Fi deals

Teams up with Boingo too

Pub-based Wi-Fi provider The Cloud today said it has inked a number of roaming deals to allow the seamless movement of its users onto other providers' networks, and vice versa. It also sketched out its plan to expand its network of hotspots beyond the UK's shores and onto continental Europe. Chief among the third-party …

Wireless 13 Oct 2003, 15:47
IBM's Storage Tank arrives missing half its ammunition

Did we say heterogeneous? We meant IBM

There are certain moments in the IT industry that require reflection in order to gauge their true significance, and IBM's delivery of Storage Tank is one such moment. To call the creation of Storage Tank a journey does not do the technology justice. Those taking part in a journey tend to feel some sort of pleasure. Be it a …

Storage 13 Oct 2003, 17:44