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  • Enterprise surge boosts Red Hat's Q2

    Beats The Street

    Red Hat's enterprise operating system business carried it to a banner second quarter, as revenue surged. Red Hat pulled in $46.3m during the period - a 60 percent rise over the $29m posted in the same quarter last year. Net income jumped 225 percent year-over-year to $11.8m. This lead to $0.06 earnings per share - a figure that …

    Financial News 21 Sep 2004, 02:03

  • Radiant Networks flogged

    UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration

    The administrators of Radiant Networks Plc, the small UK mesh wireless networking pioneer which went bust last December, have sold the business. The new owner is LamTech Limited, a Cambridgeshire-based technology business and the R&D arm of Project SkyMinder Ltd. Financial details were not released. It's understood that LamTech …

    Wireless 21 Sep 2004, 08:42

  • Tape drives are fast enough, says Quantum

    Rules out LTO as it begins the hunt for DLT's fatter successor

    Quantum is to stop chasing extra performance for its tape drives and concentrate on capacity instead. Its latest roadmap proposes a native 10TB per cartridge by 2009, but could see it move away from the DLT platform too. "The role of tape is changing," says Henrik Hansen, Quantum's new European marketing boss. "It was 80 per …

    Storage 21 Sep 2004, 08:50

  • HP summarizes blade strategy with new marketing term

    Witness the BladeSystem

    Looking to revitalize its blade server line, HP has rolled out new services and software to complement the compact systems. HP today launched its BladeSystem - an overarching term meant to encompass the company's hardware, software and services. The BladeSystem monicker is simply a marketing boost for an already present set of …

    Servers 21 Sep 2004, 09:16

  • ISPA rejects calls to strip Bulldog of award

    Online petition

    Bulldog will not be stripped of its "Best Consumer Broadband ISP 2004" title, regardless of how many people sign an online petition complaining about the provider. So far, more than 260 have signed a petition calling for Bulldog to lose its award, after complaining that the ISP's broadband service is poor and customer service …

    Telecoms 21 Sep 2004, 09:58

  • Adobe beats the Street

    Solid results, good expectations..

    Adobe posted good results for the third quarter ended 3 September 2004, beating expectations, and predicts an even better fourth quarter. Revenue grew 27 per cent to $403.7m, up from $319m for the third quarter of 2003. This beats estimates of revenue between $380m and $400m. Net income for the period was $104.5m, compared to $ …

    Financial News 21 Sep 2004, 10:04

  • ATI unveils mid-range Radeon X700

    All-in-Wonder X600 Pro too

    ATI today launched its much-anticipated RV410 chip, to be sold as the Radeon X700, the company's mainstream part pitched against arch-rival Nvidia's GeForce 6600 series. ATI also unveiled its latest PCI Express multimedia offering, the All-in-Wonder X600 Pro. The X700 chip contains eight pixel processing pipelines fed by six …

    Channel 21 Sep 2004, 10:09

  • PalmOne pockets a profit

    But analysts want more

    PalmOne has pleased Wall Street with a set of results for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 ended 27 August 2004. The handheld and smart phone maker turned over $273m, up 62 per cent from the $169m in the same period a year ago. The firm made a profit or net income of $19.6m, compared to a loss of $16.9m a year ago. This …

    Financial News 21 Sep 2004, 10:14

  • NTL joins unbundling bandwagon

    LLU cheaper than cable laying

    NTL, the UK cable operator, is to spend up to £65m on installing its kit in BT exchanges to provide telecoms services direct to customers. It has its eye on up to 300 BT exchnages in a move that would mean it could provide its services to around 10m homes in the UK. The "last mile" investment is expected to take two years to …

    Telecoms 21 Sep 2004, 10:36

  • EFF asks US court to ditch vague patents

    Patently ambiguous

    Anti-software patent campaigners in the US have taken their fight to the courts. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge and the Consumers Union have joined forces to file a "friend of the court" brief with the US Court of Appeals asking for ambiguous patents to be declared invalid. The brief was filed in a …

    Developer 21 Sep 2004, 10:37

  • Get the lowdown on FreeBSD

    Site Offer 30% off this and other open source titles

    The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, does exactly what it says on the tin. It describes specifically the design and implementation of FreeBSD, which, like Linux, is an open-source system based on UNIX. Written from the unique perspective of a BSD system architect (McKusick), the book delivers the most …

    Site News 21 Sep 2004, 10:47

  • Google builds a browser

    Strange stirrings at advertising broker

    Google is spending some of the cash it raised from its IPO on headhunting staff to build a web browser. Staff have already been poached from Microsoft and Sun. Joshua Bloch, a senior Java developer at Sun, and four people from Microsoft's IE team have all joined the firm in the last few weeks, according to the New York Post. …

    Developer 21 Sep 2004, 10:56

  • Adobe beta tests Acrobat Reader 7.0

    Form filler

    Adobe has released a new beta version of its Acrobat Reader, the program to view the universal file format PDF. Acrobat Reader 7.0 - not publicly available yet - is likely to appear with a major update of the Acrobat document management software, dubbed "Acrobat X", by the end of the year. The 18MB program contains a couple of …

    Applications 21 Sep 2004, 11:23

  • Home Office stacking the decks in ID scheme pilot?

    Questionable questions

    Call us suspicious-minded, but we feel sure that at some point in the very near future the UK Home Office will announce that the biometric identity system pilot scheme currently running has been a success, and that the response from participants has been positive. This might seem a remarkable achievement, under the circumstances …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2004, 11:40

  • Guardian takes a bath on Workthing

    Hotgroup buys jobs site

    Guardian Media Group has sold its recruitment website Workthing for £6m to the hotgroup PLC. GMG's PeopleBank Technology unit which provides recruitment technology for workthing and other sites, is included in the deal. GMG spent a rumoured £30m on the site which never turned a profit. Hotgroup has already bought four sites …

    Financial News 21 Sep 2004, 12:10

  • Hospital suspends ten staff for 'net abuse'

    Time bandits?

    Ten members of staff at a UK hospital have been suspended amid allegations that they used the net for shopping and holidays instead of working. University Hospital of North Staffordshire suspended the staff after it detected lots of online activity when staff should have been working, reports the BBC. Although staff are …

    IT Director 21 Sep 2004, 12:13

  • WLANs go feral in corporate undergrowth

    DIY Wi-Fi causes security headache

    Frustrated employees are taking IT into their own hands by installing DIY Wi-Fi access points (APs) in their offices while their IT departments don’t even notice, according to Gartner. A rogue access point can leave an organisation’s network wide open and once on the network, an unauthorised user could go undetected. Speaking …

    Wireless 21 Sep 2004, 12:38

  • Methane on Mars: aliens - or farts in a jacuzzi?

    Little (smelly) green men?

    New analyses of the Martian atmosphere hints at the possibility of life, deep below the planet's surface, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Scientists looking at the distribution of both water vapour and methane in the atmosphere found that concentrations of the two gases overlap, implying a common underground …

    Science 21 Sep 2004, 12:58

  • Boeing and IBM team up for defence

    That's defence meaning war

    Big Blue is teaming up with Boeing to go after the defence and security market in the US. The two will work together on winning military and intelligence contracts. No financial terms were released but the deal will run for ten years. It is non-exclusive - IBM may work with other defence contractors. The two firms estimate the …

    Hardware 21 Sep 2004, 13:15

  • Merger creates world's biggest IT security services firm

    TruSecure, Betrusted and Ubizen team up

    IT security firms TruSecure and Betrusted are to merge in order to create the "biggest security services company in the world". Ubizen, Betrusted's mostly owned subsidiary, is also folding into the new company, which is to be called Cybertrust. Subject to regulatory approval the agreement is expected to finalise within the next …

    Enterprise Security 21 Sep 2004, 13:19

  • Windows is the 'biggest beta test in history' - Gartner

    Less is more

    Spending more on security doesn't necessarily make you more secure, Gartner warned yesterday. The analyst firm forecasts that information security spending will drop from an average six-to-nine per cent of IT budgets to between four and five per cent as organisations improve security management and efficiency. Victor Wheatman, …

    Applications 21 Sep 2004, 15:03

  • Poor netiquette and jobs for net vandals

    Letters What is the world coming to?

    Unsurprisingly, the big talking point this week is the news that the Sasser skiddie has gone and got himself a job. In the IT security business. Yes, indeed. You can probably guess what the opinion of the majority was on this one: Stunning. This a**ehole causes untold amounts of damage and inconvenience and gets offered a job …

    Letters 21 Sep 2004, 15:13

  • HELLO...I'M ON A PLANE...YES...A PLANE!!

    Bad news for regular fliers

    Planes will no longer be a haven from irritating ringtones with the arrival of cheaper ways to allow mobile phones to be used on aircraft. Arinc and Telenor are demonstrating technology this week which will allow people to use their phones while planes are flying. The company claims technical problems have been solved but …

    Mobile 21 Sep 2004, 15:15

  • Spooky Reg powers zap MS Linux hit man's gig

    It just came apart in our heads

    The Register has many strange and wonderful powers, but even we are ever so slightly surprised to learn we can make Microsoft functions disappear without thinking about them, or even knowing of their existence. A mere mention, apparently, makes the Dark Lord DOSferatu* shrink back and wither, as if caught in the pure light of …

    Software 21 Sep 2004, 15:54

  • IBM and HP take shots at Sun

    Who is the Wall Street king?

    Never shy about disrupting a rival's product launch, IBM and HP took their swipes at Sun Microsystems just as the vendor kicked off an event on Wall Street. IBM has sealed a deal that will bring Random Walk Computing's WOLF (Web Order Logic Framework) product over to its Power-based Unix and Linux servers. Random Walk has also …

    Servers 21 Sep 2004, 15:55

  • RSA cosies up to AOL as VeriSign enters token market

    Static passwords left behind

    The hardware authentication market is hotting up with VeriSign entering the market. Also announced today is a deal between market leader RSA Security and AOL that extends the technology for the first time.to consumer internet access. America Online users are to be offered a second level of account protection via the optional …

    ID 21 Sep 2004, 17:18

  • Sun does dancing bear act for Wall Street

    Embrace our importance

    Sun Microsystems went to Wall Street today, hoping to convince prized financial services customers that it still matters, has speedy kit on the way and offers unique pricing. The story of Sun's one-time Wall Street glory days is pretty well over-played at this point. The firms flocked to Sun's UltraSPARC-based servers, and …

    Hardware 21 Sep 2004, 17:49

  • Cisco, NetApp and EMC focus in on storage software

    Storage Decisions Lords of the code

    Being the competent vendors that they are, Cisco, Network Appliance and EMC all made good use of the Storage Decisions conference being held here this week and rolled out new gear. Cisco rounded out its still young MDS 9000 family of Fibre Channel switches with the addition of two new products. The Cisco MDS 9216i fabric switch …

    Storage 21 Sep 2004, 23:27