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  • LA sues travel sites for hotel tax chicanery

    Internet math is bad math

    The city of Los Angeles has sued a group of internet travel sites for allegedly skimping on hotel room taxes. Priceline.com, InterActiveCorp's Expedia, Cendant's Orbitz and Sabre's Travelocity.com were all named as the travel services in question in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The travel sites currently pay …

    Music and Media 4 Jan 2005, 07:37

  • AMD unveils portable video player chip

    Integrated video engine to offer DVD quality on a handheld

    AMD has unveiled its latest Alchemy MIPS-based embedded processor, the Au1200, pitching the part at digital video consumer electronics kit. In particular, the chip maker is interested in getting the product into portable media players in anticipation of big demand for such items come Christmas 2005. Indeed, AMD also announced …

    Mobile 4 Jan 2005, 09:51

  • Global chip sales edged up in November 04

    Just about...

    World chip sales rose sequentially in November 2004, with 1.2 per cent more product sold than the industry managed in the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said this week. November's total sales come to $19.02bn, up from $18.8bn the previous month and 18 per cent up on November 2003's $16.12bn yield …

    Channel Register 4 Jan 2005, 10:06

  • Police grab 60,000 AMD CPUs

    Chips said to be duds, re-marked for sale

    Taiwanese police have seized some 60,000 allegedly dud AMD processors believed to have been made ready for sale as fully functioning product. However, over 1m re-marked chips may already have entered European and Asian sales channels. According to local news reports, the chips were taken from the premises of a company named as …

    PCs 4 Jan 2005, 10:25

  • Intel Smithfield chipsets said to support SATA 2

    Grantsdale updated in the meantime

    Intel's next-generation Pentium 4 desktop chipsets, 'Glenwood' and 'Lakeport', will support Serial ATA 2, 667MHz DDR 2 and a 1066MHz frontside bus clock frequency, according to Taiwanese motherboard-maker sources of DigiTimes. Glenwood and Lakeport are the successors to today's 925- and 915-series chipsets, and are believed to …

    System Builder 4 Jan 2005, 10:53

  • HSBC systems cock-up blights holiday sales

    Hack attack ruled out

    Technical problems left HSBC's UK customers unable to withdraw cash from ATMs or use the bank's online facilities yesterday. Customers were also unable to use HSBC cards to pay for purchases in shops from around midday yesterday because of the same fault. The bank blames an "internal systems problem" - rather than hostile …

    Hardware 4 Jan 2005, 11:20

  • Samsung Q30 ultra-portable notebook

    Review Very thin, very light - but totally desirable?

    Last year I reviewed Sony's Vaio X505 notebook and was stunned at just how wafer-thin and light it was. Although I've looked at a number of ultra-portable notebooks since then, I've yet to see anything as slim, light or sexy as the Sony - until now. There are few technology products that I'd describe as beautiful, but the …

    Reviews 4 Jan 2005, 11:39

  • BT engineers head for Indonesia

    Volunteer to help rebuild comms links

    Seven BT engineers have volunteered to help rebuild communications in disaster-hit Indonesia following the devastating Boxing Day tsunami. The engineers, specialists in satellite, radio communications and under-sea cables, are due to fly out today to help workers at Telekom Indonesia. The seven engineers agreed to help restore …

    Telecoms 4 Jan 2005, 13:44

  • Mum defends tsunami 'wave rat'

    Tsunamirelief.com auction outrage

    A Canadian student who tried to flog the domain name "tsunamirelief.com" for $50,000 on eBay was only trying to raise relief funds, his mother claims. Josh Kaplan, 20, was accused of trying to cash in on the disaster and dubbed a "wave rat" by the New York Post yesterday. The domain was initially registered by freelance …

    Music and Media 4 Jan 2005, 13:47

  • Apple ships Xsan 64-bit cluster file system

    Upgrades Xserve to dual 2.3GHz CPUs, too

    Apple today got some of its less consumer-friendly New Year announcements out of the way ahead of next week's Macworld Expo keynote and its more mainstream focus. The Mac maker has not only upgraded its Xserve line of G5-class 1U servers, but finally said it has begun shipping Xsan, a 64-bit storage area network and cluster …

    Storage 4 Jan 2005, 14:36

  • Stelios eyes Europe for easyMobile service

    Germany, Greece and the Netherlands get the look

    EasyMobile - the yet-to-be-launched discount mobile phone outfit headed by serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou - could be prepared to launch its service in Europe, according to the Financial Times. EasyMobile, which is run by Danish telecoms outfit, TDC, based on a wholesale service from T-Mobile under the Easy brand, is …

    Mobile 4 Jan 2005, 15:17

  • Nortel given more time to file updated fiscals

    Risks NYSE delisting if it doesn't

    Nortel Networks has been granted an additional three months to file restated financial figures. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has extended a deadline for Nortel to file its 2003 annual report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to 31 March 2005. Any failure to meet this revised deadline will trigger the start of …

    Financial News 4 Jan 2005, 15:22

  • Napster trades on Nasdaq

    Arrivederci, Roxio

    Napster has begun its life as an independent company, following the completion of the sale of former parent Roxio's software operation. Roxio's stock began trading under the NAPS ident yesterday as the company dropped its old name the better to reflect its sole focus on digital media. And with the software side of the business …

    Music and Media 4 Jan 2005, 15:57

  • Bids made for Tiscali France

    To flog or not to flog

    The financial future of Europe's third biggest ISP is once again in the spotlight following reports that it's looking to flog its French business. According to reports from France, Tiscali - which has 7.7m active subscribers in Europe - has been trotting around potential buyers seeing if they would be interested in snapping up …

    Telecoms 4 Jan 2005, 16:26

  • Cough up $27m, appeals court orders disgraced Cisco exec

    The Great Stock and Roll Swindle

    A disgraced former Cisco exec has failed in his bid from behind bars to reduce the amount he will have to repay for swindling his former employers. A federal appeals court last week upheld most of the $27.4m restitution order against Robert Gordon imposed when he was jailed for five and a half years in 2003 for masterminding an …

    Bootnotes 4 Jan 2005, 19:56

  • Judge blocks Microsoft from banking Utah software piracy winnings

    MBC gets a new day in court

    An appeals court has temporarily rescued a small Utah software distributor from the legal clutches of Microsoft by throwing out an earlier decision that confirmed software piracy charges. A judge for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that too much doubt surrounds Microsoft's case against MBC Enterprises for the court to …

    Channel Register 4 Jan 2005, 21:07