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  • EMC hits software stride in Q3

    All as planned

    EMC delivered on some promises in the third quarter, showing gains across all major segments of its business. EMC generated $1.51 billion in revenue for the period, which is a 20 percent increase over the $1.26 billion posted in Q3 last year. The company reported $159 million in net income this quarter versus just $21 million …

    Storage 17 Oct 2003, 02:12

  • Pepsi, Apple team to lure kids to DRM

    100 million song giveaway

    Pepsi is teaming with Apple Computer to give away 100 million songs on its iTunes Music Store. Apple launched Windows version of the store yesterday, and the Pepsi deal was one of several promotions designed to raise awareness of the hitherto Mac-only product. Lucky cola drinkers will be able to redeem a winning can or bottle …

    Music and Media 17 Oct 2003, 07:33

  • SCO blinks – bill us when you can

    SGI attorneys halt the invoices

    SCO is to suspend 'indefinitely' its demand that SGI pay it UNIX™ royalties. Perhaps more importantly for Linux users, it's not going to bill end users either. Businesses who run Linux don't have to worry about an invoice from SCO, or at least not yet. The Utah-based company had said it was looking for $699 up to $4,999 for …

    Business 17 Oct 2003, 08:10

  • FoTW: Did your dog write this?

    Flame of the Week Please explain your acronyms

    Re: Intel's Grove blames unitease on TWHRUPBS From: Major E. "Weber II To: <andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk> Did your dog write this article? What is the point of publishing this gobbledy-gook? I've looked over the original transcript and there were useful, quotable parts that could have made an interesting article. You …

    Letters 17 Oct 2003, 08:59

  • Backup? What backup!

    Disaster waiting to happen

    Thousands of UK small firms are teetering on the brink of disaster because they are ignoring simple backup procedures needed to safeguard their critical business data, a survey released yesterday has claimed. According to the online poll, which was conducted by Microsoft, over a quarter of small companies cannot be bothered to …

    Small Biz 17 Oct 2003, 09:30

  • AMD loss shrinks in Q3

    Up on Q2, year-ago Q3

    AMD's loss narrowed during its third quarter on the back of much-improved sales during the three months to 28 September. The chip maker lost $31 million (nine cents a share) on sales of $954 million. Sales were up 88 per cent on the $508 million it reported this time last year and up 48 per cent on the previous quarter. …

    Channel 17 Oct 2003, 10:18

  • Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner (that BT wages get me down)

    'Daylight robbery'

    More than 120 workers gathered outside BT's HQ yesterday lunchtime to campaign for an increase in their London Weighting Allowance. The placard-waving crowd included two demonstrators dressed as highwaymen. One demonstrator described BT's refusal to increase London Weighting - an allowance first introduced 30 years ago to …

    Business 17 Oct 2003, 10:33

  • Emergency fixes for blog-clogged Google

    Letters Get your Trackback virus protection here

    It's hard to say what needs patching more urgently, right now: Microsoft Windows or Google. But at least Microsoft makes its fixes conspicuously available. Google's notorious culture of secrecy forbids it from offering even the most innocent explanations. Fortunately, Register readers have come to the rescue. On Sunday Google …

    Letters 17 Oct 2003, 10:34

  • Teen hacker is not guilty

    Sensational verdict

    Aaron Caffrey, the teenager hacker accused of crippling the Port of Houston's web-based systems, was found not guilty today. The jury took just three hours to reach their verdict. Prosecution and defence agreed that a DDOS attack had begun from Caffrey's home PC. But Caffrey claimed the evidence against him was planted on his …

    Security 17 Oct 2003, 11:59

  • BT's trigger-less 400 exchanges – ‘cynical’

    Fishing for subsidies

    BT's decision not to give trigger levels to more than 400 exchanges has been described as "cynical" by a leading UK broadband pressure group. Broadband4Britain (B4B) reckons the move is a ploy by BT to try and win public money to help support its roll-out of broadband. B4B spokesman Andy Williams told The Register: "I think …

    Telecoms 17 Oct 2003, 12:02

  • eBay piles up the cash

    Barnstorming quarter

    eBay has had a barnstorming Q3 with net income up 69 per cent year on year to $103.3 million on sales up 84 per cent to £530.9 million, The US e-tailer-cum-fraudster's paradise reports strong sales overseas, especially in Germany, the UK and South Korea. And it's gung-ho about prospects for the holiday season - you can even buy …

    Business 17 Oct 2003, 13:15

  • Nokia held back by falling prices

    But longer term outlook strong

    Falling handset prices and the weak dollar hit Nokia's results, leading to a 5% decline in third quarter sales, although net income climbed 35% year-on-year and the company remained strong in market share and margins. The company reported net income of €823m, up 35% from a year ago when profit was curbed by a €306m charge …

    Mobile 17 Oct 2003, 13:18

  • Vodafone, DoCoMo will not launch 3G ‘until it works’

    Which is nice. Or maybe not

    In the debate over the future for 3G, we seemed in mid-2003 to have reached a consensus: 3G was rolling out at last, especially the CDMA2000 variants; it was less attractive to users and operators than had been hoped, and was moving slowly, but it would definitely become a major force within a couple more years. Now 3 has …

    Mobile 17 Oct 2003, 13:23

  • BEA tools up for apps security

    Hot market

    BEA has released the first fruits of its acquisition of CrossLogix in February with the launch of WebLogic Enterprise Security for managing application security policy. The product revolves around CrossLogix' centralized authentication policy manager and takes BEA into the increasingly hot market of application level protection …

    Hardware 17 Oct 2003, 13:28

  • Siebel bags brace of firms

    Infill time

    Siebel may have had a hesitant start in the hosted applications market, but it is now moving forward aggressively with two acquisitions and a partnership with Sun. The company has acquired services-based software house UpShot for up to $70m in cash and the assets of business applications house Motiva for about $3m. The former …

    Hardware 17 Oct 2003, 13:31

  • BT's Freeview deal ‘cobbled together’

    Handbags

    Telewest has rubbished BT's claim that it's challenging cable operators by announcing a new digital TV deal. In what is fairly tame knockabout stuff for a Friday afternoon, Telewest says that BT "has cobbled together its telephone service with a Freeview TV box and pay-as-you-go internet access via the TV". A Telewest exec …

    Telecoms 17 Oct 2003, 13:31

  • iTunes comes to Windows

    Ripper

    Apple today released a Windows version of iTunes onto its website. In a pitch on its home page - titled Hell Freezes Over - Apple describes its new baby as "the best Windows app ever". iTunes has proved exceedingly popular with North American Mac afficionados, who have bought gazillions of music downloads since the launch …

    Mac Channel 17 Oct 2003, 13:59

  • VoodooPC preps Athlon 64 gamers' notebook

    Reg Kit Watch Plus: Sony goes all-in-one

    Notebook Gamer-friendly notebook maker VoodooPC has introduced an AMD Athlon 64-based machine to its line of Envy Pentium-based portables. The Envy m:855 is built around a VIA K8T800 chipset. Its graphics sub-system is driven by an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 chip with 64MB of video RAM, hooked up to a 15in screen. Since all of …

    Personal 17 Oct 2003, 14:10

  • Caffrey acquittal a setback for cybercrime prosecutions

    Just say you're not in control of your own PC

    The acquittal of the teenage defendant in a high profile cybercrime case today is a setback for police that will have profound implications to the future of criminal prosecutions for computer crime in the UK, according to legal and security experts involved in the case. Aaron Caffrey, 19, was cleared after a jury unanimously …

    Security 17 Oct 2003, 15:56

  • IBM speeds up low-end server line

    Intel and Unix boxes upgraded

    Infused by stellar recent performance, IBM's server group has conducted a mass upgrade of kit across both Intel-based and Power 4-based server lines. In the second quarter, IBM managed to gain share from fierce Unix rival Sun Microsystems and keep Intel competitor HP at bay. Big Blue continues to use an aggressive pricing …

    Servers 17 Oct 2003, 19:04

  • Software engineers – the ultimate brain scientists?

    Guest Opinion Part I: Everything you know about AI is probably wrong

    Bill Softky is a scientist at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, founded by Jeff Hawkins. He has worked as a software architect, visualization designer, and educator. Can software engineers hope to create a digital brain? Not before understanding how the brain works, and that's one of the biggest mysteries left in science. …

    Software 17 Oct 2003, 19:11