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  • Google sued by Planet Goo

    When colored balls clash

    Google Inc, the search engine whose brand is synonymous with colorful, childlike marketing, has been sued by a real children's site for trademark infringement. Stelor Productions, which has owned the googles.com domain since 1997 says that the lawsuit comes after six years of trying to negotiate with the Mountain View based tech …

    Financial News 8 Jul 2004, 07:02

  • Rumours of Tape's death exaggerated

    It's a backup thing. We wouldn't understand

    Despite long running rumours of the death of tape, solutions of various formats are employed, almost universally, somewhere in the routine, but vitally important, task of the backup or archiving of data. Tape systems continue to evolve; while their position in the data protection chain may be altering, tape technology still has …

    Storage 8 Jul 2004, 08:32

  • Hynix creditors rethink China DRAM plant plan

    Keener now STMicro may come on board

    Hynix's creditor banks are rethinking their rejection of the memory maker's plan to build a DRAM plant in China, now that there's a chance that STMicroelectronics will come in on the deal. The Korea Development Bank (KDB), is looking at the scheme once again having voted against it last April, South Korean newspaper JoonAng …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 08:50

  • Intel to add NX security to Pentium 4 in Q4

    E-0 stepping to support WinXP SP2 feature

    Intel will add support for Microsoft's No Execute (NX) security technology to its P4 CPUs in Q4, reports suggest. Taiwanese motherboard maker sources cited by DigiTimes claim the chip giant will introduce support for NX from the end of Q3. A BIOS update will be all that's required to enable support at the mobo level, they add …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 09:24

  • PlusNet takes AIM at stock market

    Updated Flotation device

    PlusNet, the Sheffield, UK ISP, is joining AIM, London's junior stock market on 14 July. It is flogging 13,910,219 ordinary shares at 90p per share to institutions to raise £12.5m gross and it will have a market capitalisation of £25.1m. The ISP gets to keep £2.2m (gross of expenses) for itself. The rest goes to Insight …

    Financial News 8 Jul 2004, 09:26

  • Yahoo! profits double

    Shares! slide!

    Yahoo! had a storming quarter in Q2, but Wall Street was not impressed. The company forecasts sales of $2.46bn to $2.54bn for 2004, a little above the $2.41bn - $2.52bn it predicted three months ago. But analysts think the dotcom giant should be doing even better, and the company was hammered in after-hours trading. Last night …

    Financial News 8 Jul 2004, 09:42

  • Police keelhaul world's thickest DVD pirate

    'Psst, officer, wanna buy some movies?'

    An Essex man has secured the title of the world's thickest DVD pirate after walking into a Chelmsford Trading Standards office and offering his illicit wares to the gobsmacked staff. The master criminal apparently didn't notice the sign above the door before making his pitch. Trading Standards' officers very naturally expressed …

    Bootnotes 8 Jul 2004, 09:44

  • Intel forecast to cut P4 price by up to 34%

    22 August is Celeron D day

    Intel will trim its Pentium 4 and Celeron D prices on 22 August, Taiwanese mobo maker sources have claimed, ahead of the anticipated launch of the 3.8GHz Pentium 4 570. The 570 turned up on Intel roadmaps reported last April. While an exact launch date isn't known, the part's positioning in the middle of Q3 points to August. …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 09:51

  • Sony ships lifelike colour X-brite LCD panels

    Reg Kit Watch Closest LCDs to a CRT yet?

    Sony UK has brought its rather good X-brite Vaio notebook displays to the standalone monitor market in the form of the 17in SDM-HS74P and 19in SDM-HS94P screens. In the UK, the technology is dubbed 'X-black' rather than 'X-brite', but it's the same system. It yields enhanced image contrast, high brightness, very rich and vivid …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 10:44

  • Orange flogs Danish ops to TeliaSonera

    Sound the retreat!

    Orange is selling its Danish subsidiary to TeliaSonera for €600m ($742m)cash less net debt. The Nordic telecoms group will combine Orange Denmark with its own slightly smaller Danish mobile network. But with 1.1m subscribers, the enlarged group stills lie in third place behind market leaders TDC and Sonofon. TeliaSonera aims to …

    Mobile 8 Jul 2004, 11:19

  • Show me the way to go 127.0.0.1

    Cash'n'Carrion Geddit? Then get the t-shirt

    Those wags at TechnoDepot have been at it again and have come up with a new t-shirt bearing the witty Show me the way to go 127.0.0.1 As the blurb says: "There's no place like it! It’s wherever I lay my hat." If you're none the wiser, then it's time to stop reading and get back to work. If, however, you're thinking to …

    Site News 8 Jul 2004, 11:20

  • France lifts MS Imagine Cup

    The Microsoft Games

    A team of students from France has won the 2004 Microsoft Imagine Cup, and $25,000 in cash after a weekend of intense competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Aymeric Gaurat Apelli, Guillaume Belmas, Francois Beaussier, and Vincent Vergonjeanne from EPITA University developed the winning application: SmartCenter.NET, a home automation …

    Developer 8 Jul 2004, 11:26

  • LA plans cybercafe teen curfew

    Gang violence and homicides prompt clampdown

    Los Angeles is to impose a curfew on kids into cybercafes because the venues have become a popular hangout for truants and the focus of serious youth violence in the city. Cybercafes (or PC baangs) with more than five machines will need a police license must install video cameras for security under regulations put forward in Los …

    Music and Media 8 Jul 2004, 11:48

  • How the world is learning to love ICANN

    As ICANN learns to play fair with redelegations

    In case you aren't aware, how the Internet is run and will be run for future generations will be decided in the next 26 months. When a three-year "memorandum of understanding" (MoU) between the US government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ends on 30 September 2006, who gets to oversee this …

    Music and Media 8 Jul 2004, 12:13

  • Learn English with Apple - at a price

    More e-commerce madness

    If you're looking to brush up your language skills, then look no further than the Apple Store UK. For just £24.01, you could soon be benefiting from "Talk Now French", or why not check out "World Talk German" for just £29. If, however, you'd like to improve your English, then be warned that this comes just a little more …

    Bootnotes 8 Jul 2004, 12:14

  • Linksys touts Wi-Fi signal boost upgrade

    Replace your aerial - legally

    Linksys has begun selling replacement antennae for its 801.11b and 802.11g base-stations in a bid to boost wireless network coverage. The company is offering paired and single high-gain aerials aimed at its twin- and single-antenna access point products. All of them are designed to increase the strength of broadcast signals and …

    Wireless 8 Jul 2004, 13:00

  • Judge waves through MS $1.1bn California settlement

    Fair, reasonable and adequate compensation

    Microsoft has secured court approval for the $1.1bn settlement of the California class action, alleging overcharging and abuse of state anti-trust laws. California Superior Court Judge Paul Alvarado said the offer was “fair, reasonable and adequate compensation”. So far, 600,000 Californians have lined up to claim their …

    Applications 8 Jul 2004, 13:01

  • Elitegroup preps 'transition' Socket T mobos

    Move to Grantsdale without ditching your old RAM, graphics card

    Elitegroup (ECS) will begin shipping a pair of AGP-to-PCI Express transition motherboards this coming August, the Taiwanese mobo maker said today. Aimed at users and system builders who want to take advantage of Intel's latest processor and chipset technology, but who also want to bring as much as they can over from older …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 13:18

  • Male teleworkers do it all over the place

    It was five years ago today... 8 July 1999

    Ah, the joys of teleworking: released from the burdensome commute to work; unshackled from the desk; and free to roam the wide savannah of mobility. But for those still making the daily trudge to the office, what has actually changed in the last few years?: Male teleworkers do it all over the place By Lucy Sherriff Published …

    IT Director 8 Jul 2004, 13:28

  • E-voting security: getting it right

    Not cheap, but easier than we think

    As we noted in our previous story - E-voting security: looking good on paper? - the much-celebrated voter verifiable paper trail is useless as a security measure for Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) election systems, and actually introduces far more problems than it solves. What to fix The chief problems encountered with the …

    Public Sector 8 Jul 2004, 13:47

  • DrinkorDie suspect back in Oz jail

    Legal reversal in extradition fight

    The alleged ringleader of a gang of Internet copyright pirates was back in jail last night after US authorities won the latest round in their battle to extradite him from Australia on multi-million dollar software piracy charges. Hew Raymond Griffiths, 41, of Bateau Bay, New South Wales, returned to Silverwater jail after judge …

    Applications 8 Jul 2004, 13:53

  • Big names dominated UK channel in May

    Battle of the brands

    Top-brand vendors increased their share of shipments made through the UK's reseller channel during May at the expense of second-tier players, market watcher Context has revealed. Together HP, Toshiba, Acer, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Sony, Dell and Apple shipped 72.6 per cent of the desktops, notebooks and servers sold through the …

    Channel 8 Jul 2004, 14:40

  • Cisco gobbles up Parc Technologies

    $9m for UK university spin-off

    Cisco has agreed to pay $9m for Parc Technologies, a small UK business spun out of Imperial College London's (IC) search algorithm research centre. Cisco expects the acquisition to close in the first financial quarter of 2005. The company was founded in 1999 to exploit the technologies researchers were developing at IC. The …

    Data Networking 8 Jul 2004, 15:11

  • China agrees to drop chip tax rebates

    WTO intervention avoided

    China has bowed to US pressure and agreed to remove a semiconductor sales tax regime said to favour local chip makers over their foreign rivals. Today, China imposes a 17 per cent tax on the sale of all semiconductor products. However, domestic vendors are able to request an 11 per cent rebate, rising to 14 per cent if the …

    Financial News 8 Jul 2004, 16:33

  • Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace

    Analysis It slices, it dices, it spins, it whirls

    Try to imagine a geeky version of famed salesman Ron Popeil. Keep Popeil's exuberance, keep his pitchman savvy and keep his verbal overflow. Then erase his age, sturdy frame and Ronco Food Dehydrator and replace all this with a young, lanky kernel engineer hawking something called DTrace, and you have Bryan Cantrill. Cantrill …

    Servers 8 Jul 2004, 21:25