14th November 2005 Archive
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Formula One motor teams 'courting' Intel cash
A Day at the Races, a Night at the Server Farm
Formula One racing teams McLaren Mercedes and BAR Honda are both attempting to persuade Intel to become a regular team sponsor, it has been claimed. According to an EETimes report, both have separately made approaches to the chip giant in a bid to win a portion of its marketing budget. Intel already has a connection with …
Bootnotes 14 Nov 2005, 04:02
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E-gov awareness campaign planned
Quick, hide...
The UK Government is planning to launch a national campaign to get more of us to communicate with local councils online. Having already blown £4bn of taxpayers' money on its "e-Government" initiative, ministers now want us to use it. Kicking off early next year the campaign will delight us with the "benefits of accessing …
Public Sector 14 Nov 2005, 04:02
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'Spyware' vendor bangs copyright shield
Sabre rattling
RetroCoder, developers of the SpyMon remote monitoring program, is brandishing copyright law in a bid to protect its software from being detected by anti-spyware or anti-virus products. SpyMon is marketed as a means for the paranoid to surreptitiously monitor the activities of their partners or kids online - behaviour that has …
Malware 14 Nov 2005, 09:44
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Pump-and-dump spam domains go silent after botnet closure
It's oh so quiet
Pump-and-dump spam domains have gone quiet since the closure of a major botnet operation earlier this month. The finding, by Alex Shipp of MessageLabs, suggests that a botnet (a network of compromised machines controlled by hackers) thought to be associated mainly with adware distribution was also used to distribute junk mail on …
Spam 14 Nov 2005, 09:50
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Sun admits to UltraSPARC T1
Name, but no rank or serial number
It may be a "systems" company, but Sun Microsystems isn't ready to talk systems where its Niagara-based line of servers are concerned. Instead, Sun today dribbled out a single detail around Niagara - now officially named the UltraSPARC T1 - saying that the processor has started to arrive in volume at 1.2GHz. This won't surprise …
Servers 14 Nov 2005, 09:58
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Sony Ericsson's noddy phones
Keeping things SE simple
Certified gadget obsessives Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny scour Gizmoville for the oddest digital goodies, Bayraider keeps tabs on the best and worst of eBay and Propellerhead answers your PC queries. Sony Ericsson’s noddy phones Well, there may have been plenty of rumours about a cut down version of the P990 smartphone, but …
Mobile 14 Nov 2005, 09:59
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Siemens cuts 3, 000 jobs
Ouch...
Siemens is cutting 3,000 jobs in its computer division after posting a big fall in profits. The jobs will go from outside Germany - the firm had already announced a reduction of 2,400 in the German headcount. Questions were raised about the timing of the announcement - a day after the company posted its financial results. …
Channel Register 14 Nov 2005, 10:06
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Linux Networx unleashes designer Opteron beast
SC05 Sleek, silver and huge
Linux Networx may well win the cluster fashion awards at this year's Supercomputing conference with its new LS Series systems. The cluster specialist has kicked off a new era with the announcement of the LS-1 and LS/X hardware. The LS-1 comes in two flavors - a half- and full-rack - and is aimed at customers who want a high- …
Servers 14 Nov 2005, 10:06
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Intel debuts virtualisation on the desktop
One Pentium 4, multiple operating systems
Intel has begun shipping the eagerly anticipated pair of Pentium CPUs equipped with its 'one processor, multiple operating systems' Virtualisation Technology (VT). As expected, the two P4s are numbered 662 and 672, and with the exception of VT match the specifications of the current 660 and 670 chips. The pair are clocked at 3. …
Virtualization 14 Nov 2005, 10:18
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Rebranded CA in strategy refocus
CA World Culls 'unwieldy' portfolio
Computer Associates has rebranded itself as CA in a move to further distance itself from a troubled recent history. The move - which which been mooted for some time - was accompanied by a pledge by the enterprise software developer to focus on four key market segments: systems management, security, storage and business service …
Software 14 Nov 2005, 10:21
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Kingmax touts 'thinnest' USB Flash drive
Not quite
Kingmax has release what it claims is the world's "lightest and thinnest" USB Flash drive, a 5g device that's just 2mm thick. The Super Stick drive's other vital statistics are 3.9 x 1.2cm, and it comes in capacities ranging from 256MB to 2GB. Kingmax claims the USB 2.0 device has read and write speeds of 20MBps. Kingmax …
Peripherals 14 Nov 2005, 10:27
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NHS's £6bn IT project in trouble, leaked email reveals
Quelle surprise
Leaked emails have revealed that Richard Granger, the head of Connecting for Health, the £6.2bn project to revamp the NHS' IT infrastructure, believes the project is in grave danger of being derailed. He blames senior civil servants in the Department of Health for the delays, saying that the electronic booking project no longer …
IT Director 14 Nov 2005, 10:41
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Intel 'Broadwater' chipset to ship 'Q2 06'
Four chipsets pipelined
Intel's follow-up to its 945 chipset family, the 965 series, will ship in Q2 2006. So claim unnamed sources cited by DigiTimes who claim to have seen the chip giant's roadmap. The 965 family, codenamed 'Broadwater', will divide into four lines, the sources claim: the P965 and G965 for consumer-oriented systems, and the Q963 …
Channel Register 14 Nov 2005, 10:45
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O2 ups revs and punters
Churn down
O2 - which has agreed to the acquired by Spain's Telefonica for £18bn - continues to attract new punters to its service, helping it post increased revenues for the six months to September. The UK-based cellco's total number of customers stood at 25.7m - up 17 per cent compared to last year - thanks in part to a 34 per cent jump …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 10:47
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World Summit blog: internet, freedom of speech and the UN
WSIS Tunis Asking the questions, giving the answers
The most controversial aspect of this whole world summit hasn't been the ensuing fight of who should run the internet but where it is being hosted: Tunisia. Stories about the clampdown on freedom of speech by the government in Tunisia have been the main focus of most stories up to now. It is nowhere near as bad as, say, China …
Music and Media 14 Nov 2005, 11:06
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So where are we up to with this internet governance thing?
WSIS Tunis World Summit on net control looms
The World Summit on the Information Society starts this Wednesday in Tunis. It will be three days in which the world's governments will decide for the very first time what should and can be done with this medium we call the internet. But three days before that, starting midday Sunday 12 November, will begin the discussions on …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 12:05
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Gartner warns business on Vista
Don't touch til 2008
Business users should stay away from Microsoft's upcoming Vista OS until 2008 at the earliest, say analysts Gartner. The researchers note that most of the security improvements offered by Vista, due in 2006, are already available as third party add-ons to Windows XP. The note, titled: "Ten reasons you should and shouldn't care …
Operating Systems 14 Nov 2005, 12:11
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Alleged techie killer Googled 'neck snap break'
Then murdered wife, prosecutors claim
A Mac specialist on trial for the murder of his wife allegedly carried out a Google search for "neck snap break" and "hold" before her death, prosecutors in Durham, North Carolina, claimed last week. Robert Petrick's is also alleged to have visited a website called "bloodfest666", downloaded a document entitled "22 ways to kill …
Music and Media 14 Nov 2005, 12:25
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Linux phones get standardised
Making apps for mobiles to get easier
Orange and PalmSource are among a group of companies working to standardise Linux so it can be used on a variety of mobile phones without the need to check applications will run effectively. Ten companies are backing the formation of a new standards group. The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LIPS) hopes to offer an alternative to …
Mobile 14 Nov 2005, 12:31
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BT 'gets angry' if criticised, says C&W boss
Do what? says BT
BT has been left scratching its head following comments made by Cable & Wireless (C&W) boss Francesco Caio last week at a telecoms conference in Edinburgh. Caio questioned whether the creation of BT's new separate network access outfit - Openreach - would deliver the kind of "equivalence of behaviour and cost" demanded by …
Telecoms 14 Nov 2005, 12:48
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Snocap settles on Warner Music deal
P2P tracker partners with all major labels
P2P content tracking company Snocap has added Warner Music Group to its list of recording companies whose song catalogues it is able to monitor. The deal completes Snocap's set of partnerships with the world's biggest labels. The company already has agreements in place with Sony BMG, EMI and Universal, not to mention many of …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 13:38
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Buffalo Link Theater wireless media player
Review Format-tastic
Buffalo probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when you think of DVD players, but the Link Theater is more than just a DVD player. Following in the footsteps of KiSS, Buffalo has created a DVD player that can play multiple video formats on multiple storage media. Gone are the days when consumers just needed MPEG 2 …
Reviews 14 Nov 2005, 13:49
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Britain's wind power could be best in Europe
And won't cost a bean
The government's target of generating 10 per cent of the UK's electricity from renewable resources could be met by wind alone, a study has found, with very little risk of either high or low winds significantly disrupting the power supply. Researchers at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute analysed more than 34 …
Science 14 Nov 2005, 13:54
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Vodafone signs Universal song selection
Catholic range of music, video downloads, ringtones
Vodafone has licensed Universal Music Group's music and video content catalogue, allowing the mobile phone network to offer songs as audio downloads, video downloads and streams, and ringtones. The "strategic alliance" doesn't encompass Universal's entire catalogue, at least not initially - only some 100,000 songs will be …
Mobile 14 Nov 2005, 13:55
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Newbury wired for cashless parking tickets
Have you paid and displayed?
Car drivers in West Berkshire are now able to pay for their pay-and-display parking tickets using a mobile phone. The new service is up and running in Newbury, Pangbourne, Theale and Hungerford and is billed as being as more convenient for drivers. Once people have registered with the new mPARK system - developed by electronic …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 14:01
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World Summit blog: Heat, taxis and cous-cous
WSIS Tunis A strange first day
Tunis is relatively mild this time of year for a North African country. Although if you've just come from Britain, the sudden jump of 10-15 degrees wouldn't let you think so. But heat was very much the order of the day as the Kram conference centre was forced to open its doors early in order to accomodate ongoing discussions ( …
Music and Media 14 Nov 2005, 14:31
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Finland to license commercial mobile TV service
Telly on the go
Finland has become the first European country to issue a licence for a commercial TV service for mobile phones, the Finnish News Agency reports. The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications announced on Monday that it will start accepting applications for a licence. The service will be based on DVB-H (digital video …
Mobile 14 Nov 2005, 15:25
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AOL tunes in to video on demand
Not for the UK though
AOL has unveiled details of a new broadband TV service that will see the giant ISP raid the archives of sister company Warner Bros. The new "In2TV" service is due to be launched early in 2006 enabling broadband users to stream full-length episodes of programmes including Kung Fu, Spenser: For Hire, The New Adventures of Batman, …
Telecoms 14 Nov 2005, 15:49
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Smut-blurring software ruins quality net porn
PixAlert fights inappropriate material
Irish smut-busting outfit PixAlert has develeoped technology which it claims "completely prevents pornographic images being displayed and viewed on computer screens" by somehow blocking "illegal or inappropriate images as they are rendered". This impressive feat is achieved through "high-speed image analysis software" which can …
Bootnotes 14 Nov 2005, 15:57
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Google to bring online rental to books
And Amazon sells by the page
Google has approached at least one publishing house with a view to setting up an online book rental service, according to reports. Originally reported in the Wall Street Journal, the story goes that Google plans to offer access to an online version of a book for one week for ten per cent of the market price. Downloading or …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 16:07
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Microsoft seeks allies in EU antitrust fight
Government, business, friend of a friend...
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in a bid to get the US government and US businesses to support it in its anti-trust battle with the European Union. According to a leaked memo, seen by the Financial Times newspaper, Microsoft has asked several businesses, including one big pharmaceuticals company, to lobby government …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 16:10
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Meet the man who will save the internet
WSIS Tunis That's Masood Khan, Pakistan ambassador
It’s been four years since the issue of how the internet should be run, and by whom, became an official United Nations topic. And yet despite hundreds of hours of talks, three preparatory meetings and a world summit, there is only one thing that the world’s governments can agree on: Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador. If a …
Music and Media 14 Nov 2005, 16:59
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Cisco goes port crazy with Infiniband gear
SC05 Linking servers by the thousand
Cisco Systems continues to make good on its Topspin acquisition. Come December, it will start shipping the 144-port and 288-port giants that once sat at the high-end of Topspin's Infiniband switch line. In addition, Cisco will wrap these products with some updated management software and cabling options. Cisco announced the new …
Data Networking 14 Nov 2005, 17:02
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Xbox 360 old-game support needs hard drive - MS
Emulator will cope with 212 titles initially
Microsoft has posted a list of 212 Xbox games that are backward-compatible with the Xbox 360 - but only next-generation consoles with a hard drive. The list, which you can view here, contains all the best-known Xbox titles. Games not present on the list will not run on the 360. Unlike other console makers, Microsoft has chosen …
Consoles 14 Nov 2005, 19:10
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IBM tops supercomputer list again
SC05 Itanic sinking, HP and Opteron rising
The new list of the world's fastest supercomputers has arrived with few surprises. IBM servers and Intel chips still stand behind the majority of the systems. Itanium keeps losing spots, while Opteron gains momentum; and HP gains strongly while Sun Microsystems struggles to claim a handful of systems. IBM's BlueGene/L system at …
Servers 14 Nov 2005, 21:11
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Juniper gets Funky
In brief Network bouncer buy opens doors
Juniper Networks has acquired network access security firm Funk Software in a cash transaction valued at approximately $122m. The deal, which is expected to close in December 2005, gives Juniper a policy enforcement technology to compete with Cisco's existing Network Admission Control (NAC) programme for curtailing the spread of …
Financial News 14 Nov 2005, 22:23
