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  • SuSE and Dell buddy up

    Linux love

    SuSE and Dell plan to share the limelight next week at LinuxWorld with the two companies refining their shared support and certification agreements, The Register has learned. Dell, a longtime Red Hat backer and investor, will work with SuSE to certify its operating system with various hardware products, most notably servers, …

    Servers 16 Jan 2004, 00:08

  • Sun tunes up StarOffice Slurpee in Japan

    Big Gulp of productivity

    Sun Microsystems is taking StarOffice to the true heart of the Japanese consumer market - 7-Eleven. Next month, Sun's open source productivity suite will be sitting alongside Ho Ho's and Ding Dongs, as part of a large StarOffice rollout across Japan. Sun has teamed with distributor SourceNext to sell StarSuite - the Japanese …

    Software 16 Jan 2004, 05:10

  • IBM enhances Linux DB2

    From weeks to hours

    At next week’s LinuxWorld conference in New York, IBM will show off the upcoming 64-bit version of its DB2 database for Linux, enhancing clustering and scalability capabilities and providing a port to non-Intel boxes. Heading the list of improvements will be a Linux-based DB2 partition adviser for automating cluster management …

    Data Center 16 Jan 2004, 09:33

  • Quantum ups the stakes in disk based tape

    We're ready, who else?

    Quantum says that it is ready to ship its next disk-based backup system, the DX100, a step up from its existing DX30. Quantum, describes it as an enterprise class device, capable of backup and restore processes for large, multiple data centers running mission-critical CRM, ERP and database applications. The system has …

    Storage 16 Jan 2004, 09:33

  • Will pressure to speed up 802.11n wreck standards process?

    Pre-empting the pre-empters

    This week sees a major IEEE meeting in Vancouver, Canada, with high hopes that the standards body will accelerate progress on several of its key specifications. There is particular pressure to speed up the development of the 802.11n extension to Wi-Fi, which will support speeds of up to 108Mbps, since vendors are already pre- …

    Broadband 16 Jan 2004, 09:36

  • Vendor group aims to boost voice over Wi-Fi

    Touts fast handoff standard

    A group of suppliers led by SpectraLink is pushing the IEEE to set up a study group for a future voice over Wi-Fi standard. The companies were hopeful that their proposal would be adopted at the currently ongoing IEEE summit in Vancouver, Canada, though sources believe that is unlikely to happen. Unlike the current quality of …

    Broadband 16 Jan 2004, 09:36

  • SCO sort of thinks there are Linux IP violations, but isn't quite sure

    Can you help?

    Ever since The SCO Group announced it had found its intellectual property turning up in the Linux kernel, world+dog has been anxious to find out what the offending code might be. After a long explanation of why he handed his homework in late, SCO attorney Ryan Tibbitts explains what this is. Only, he doesn't sound quite sure. …

    Data Center 16 Jan 2004, 09:37

  • Cingular eyeing AT&T Wireless again

    Negotiations on again

    There is speculation that the long-delayed shake-out in the US wireless services sector could be starting, after reports that US mobile operator Cingular Wireless is again in negotiations with AT&T Wireless Services. Both companies have been talking to each other off and on since reports of a possible acquisition first surfaced …

    Mobile 16 Jan 2004, 09:43

  • Paedophile gets five-year net ban

    No Internet or mobile for jailed predator

    A predatory paedophile who had sex with a 14-year-old girl has been jailed for 18 months and banned from accessing the internet for five years. The judge condemned as "idiocy" the system whereby he could impose only a two-year maximum custodial sentence, noting that if the girl had been a year younger, Gary Geoffrey Thomas, 37 …

    Media 16 Jan 2004, 09:50

  • Stob: You have opted in

    Stob Oh yes you have

    (Previously: Notorious spamillionaire Sam "The Spam" Osborne has been giving poor Verity Stob the run-around.) Louis Theroux would never put up with this. It was time to get tough. I asked Osborne about the recent EU spam legislation. "Terrible. Terrible. A truly wretched thing." It was forcing him to close down his …

    Bootnotes 16 Jan 2004, 09:58

  • Intel and HP find oldest working PC

    Archaeology

    Dutch company PHI DATA yesterday received a prize from Intel, HP and Dutch IT weekly Computable for still owning and operating a vintage IBM 5160 (Intel 8088) computer from 1983. PHI Data uses the IBM to test matrix printers. It is now officialy the oldest obsolete-yet-active PC in the Low Countries. HP and Intel started the …

    Vintage 16 Jan 2004, 10:13

  • P2P file swapping back on the increase

    Not going away after all, then?

    As you were, then. Hot on the heels of tentative claims of victory over file-swappers by the music industry, the number of dangerous, music downloading criminals started climbing again in the US. Illegal music downloader numbers had been falling for six months, according to NPD Group, but a survey by the outfit reports that they …

    Media 16 Jan 2004, 13:54

  • Spanish police bust MS software piracy ring

    14 fall into the Net

    Spanish police have arrested 14 people for dealing in pirated Microsoft software, recovering counterfeit goods that could have netted $1.52 million in illicit sales. More than 3,000 packaged operating systems CDs - complete with forged Win XP Professional authentication certificates - were recovered in a swoop on pirates in San …

    Software 16 Jan 2004, 13:56

  • BT appeals ‘dirty tricks’ banning order

    'Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight...'

    BT has lodged a formal appeal against a ruling ordering the monster telco to stop using "dirty tricks" to persuade customers from switching phone providers. In November, telecoms regulator Oftel upheld a complaint from Thus and Broadsystem Ventures Ltd preventing BT from using information about the transfer of customers to …

    Media 16 Jan 2004, 13:58

  • MS Win98 support reprieve was move to block Linux, says Gartner

    Linux tempts those who can't afford XP

    Microsoft's extension of the support period for the Windows 98 product family earlier this week was a move intended largely to discourage the adoption of Linux in emerging markets, according to Gartner. The research outfit concludes that the move comes too late for it to be relevant to enterprise migration plans, but that extra …

    Software 16 Jan 2004, 16:27

  • Crypto plan to anonymise P2P, thwart RIAA

    Catch me if you can

    Leading P2P activists have reacted to the prospect of the extension of a legal crackdown on file swappers in the UK with plans to build greater anonymity into their networks. The developers of popular P2P app Blubster, which boasts an estimated four million users, plan to incorporate encryption technology and other techniques …

    Media 16 Jan 2004, 16:36

  • IBM's Storage Tank spotted in Ohio

    On the loose at last

    The motorcycle riding Frankensteins in IBM's storage tank lab have managed to bring their precious file system to life in an Ohio data center, as part of a major storage deal with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), IBM announced today. IBM released Storage Tank - now known as the TotalStorage SAN File System - near the end of …

    Storage 16 Jan 2004, 17:14

  • Dude, your Opteron NAS system is huge

    But is 9 petabytes big enough?

    Storage Computer Corp. has delivered one of the first software products to date aimed at storing and backing up data running on large clusters of Opteron servers. Storage Computer has released CyberNAS 64/Cluster - a product targeted at helping customers in the high performance computing market store their data on network …

    Storage 16 Jan 2004, 22:04

  • Nokia to release Perl for smartphones

    Larry Wall's barmy army rejoices

    Nokia will make an internal version of the Perl scripting language for Series 60 smartphones available to its developer community, Lee Epting, Nokia's VP of Developer Relations, tells us. Nokia acknowledges a demand for more developer options as Nokia's Symbian-based Series 60 platform reaches mass market volumes. Right now …

    Mobile 16 Jan 2004, 22:43

  • Letters SCO surrenders claims to System V?

    Re: SCO sort of thinks there are Linux IP violations, but isn't quite sure The headline for this article should have been "SCO admits there is no Unix System V code in Linux." IBM asked SCO to identify all code in Linux that SCO has rights to (interrogatory no. 12). This should include System V secret and copyrighted code. The …

    Software 16 Jan 2004, 22:58

  • Adaptec looks to India for storage future

    Offshore networking

    Storage networking firm Adaptec will plunk down a $25 million investment in India over the next four years, as it sets up chip design and testing labs. Starting next year, Adaptec will put $5 million to $10 million toward expanding its research and development efforts in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Most of the work will be done in …

    Storage 16 Jan 2004, 23:27