6th April 2007 Archive
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Autonomy drops ACID test for copyrighted media
'Tagging is like car parks in the wilderness'
Autonomy has criticized Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 obsession with tagging to classify data, while launching its own software to help media companies scan web sites for pirated content. The enterprise search specialist has launched its Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection (ACID) software, which it claimed is capable of …
Applications 6 Apr 2007, 00:05
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Companies propose Ethernet/SAN love-in
New standards promise hot network-on-network action
A gaggle of top networking and storage vendors have submitted a new standards proposal that will allow Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet networks. The proposal was submitted to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) today. Among those backing the standards are Brocade, EMC, Cisco, IBM, Intel …
Storage 6 Apr 2007, 00:24
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Spreadsheet security? What spreadsheet security!
Comment ExSafe
I have written before, and will say again, that Microsoft Excel does not have security. It does actually have some security features but most users don't know about them and, if they do, they are frequently not implemented. In any case, as Microsoft has explicitly stated, the security features in Excel are not actually there to …
Applications 6 Apr 2007, 08:02
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An alternative to going to camp. Previewing VMWare's Fusion
Apple's re-invigorated assault on the home network market has been partly thanks to its migration to Intel processors. With that move complete comes the opportunity to run Microsoft Windows on hardware that’s very close to that of a so-called "Wintel" PC. Following the work of some enterprising hackers, Apple released a beta …
PCs & Chips 6 Apr 2007, 08:02
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Samsung YP-T9 MP3 player
Review Come in, iPod - your time is up
Apple must really be feeling the heat by now. While the innovative design and user interface of the iPod will go down in history, they can also split public opinion like a Mac vs PC argument or an open source versus proprietary software flame war. You know, the sort of heated discussions you hear in pubs... and at trade shows …
Reg Hardware 6 Apr 2007, 09:08
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Reg called more balanced than Wired
Letter Bite your tongue!
Our recent story on government data mining in Singapore drew a letter form Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, which is involved in the project. Says Dave: I have just been passed your article in The Register on Singapore's RAHS project, which is slightly more balanced that the Wired article, …
Letters 6 Apr 2007, 12:02
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BOFH: What do you mean the system's being audited?
Episode 12 Thrown to the wolves
"So if we go to your website and build this software, download and deploy it through a group policy over our domain - the machines will all report on the OS, software and version information that they have installed?" the PFY asks. "Yes," Sonya, our friendly root-of-all-evil sales rep says, with the Boss nodding happily in …
BOFH 6 Apr 2007, 12:02
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Don't forget the ‘C’ in Objective-C
Part One Runtime efficiency issues in Mac Cocoa programming
Nowadays, it’s all too easy to take today’s fast processors for granted. At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I get the impression that a lot of developers do just that. This devil-may-care attitude is not, in my opinion, the result of complacency but far more likely due to inexperience or even – dare I say it? – ignorance …
Developer 6 Apr 2007, 13:02
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Plenty of Sun users to skip Fujitsu march
Ready to be Rocked instead
A large chunk of Sun Microsystems customers may skip right over the upcoming SPARC experiment with Fujitsu, according to server chief John Fowler. In the coming months, Sun will launch a line of SPARC64-based servers in conjunction with Fujitsu. These servers will replace boxes based on Sun's own UltraSPARV IV+ chips and help …
Servers 6 Apr 2007, 14:48
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Too many users fending for themselves on BI
Reg Reader Workshop Reg Workshop roundup
Recent feedback gathered through reader surveys and workshops tells us that the need for direct information access by end users is increasing. Around one in five organisations already view business intelligence as something that is relevant to a broad audience rather than just a select few senior managers, analysts and other …
Business 6 Apr 2007, 15:15
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Court bars Vonage from signing up new customers
'Cutting off oxygen as opposed to a bullet in the head'
Vonage is not allowed to sign up new customers while it appeals a court ruling that it infringed three Verizon patents. This is the price the VoiP telephony provider must pay for gaining some breathing space in its appeal against an injunction from using technology "owned" by Verizon. Vonage asked the trial judge to reconsider …
VoIP 6 Apr 2007, 16:54
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Verisign wastes no time jacking up domain prices
Sweetheart deal with ICANN ready to pay dividends
Verisign yesterday announced in a press release that it will raise its registry fees for .com and/or .net domain names by seven per cent to $6.42 on October 15, 2007, as provided for in a controversial contract inked last March between the company and ICANN. Although domain registration fees for the industry as a whole are on …
Law 6 Apr 2007, 17:13
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Acer up, Dell down in laptop sales
Acer overtakes Toshiba
Acer has long let it be known that it is gunning for Lenovo's third place in the global PC market. In Q4 last year, it picked off an easier target, overtaking Toshiba to become the world's third best selling notebook PC maker. Toshiba's sales fell slightly in the quarter, which would have been nice for Acer, but the rise in …
PCs & Chips 6 Apr 2007, 18:41
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NetAppX rebrandsX TopioX
Data Protection Suite now ReplicatorX
NetApp is repackaging Topio's borged flagship data replication software into something a little more Flash Gordon. Topio's Data Protection Suite has now become NetApp ReplicatorX. Beware, defenders of earth! Data Protection Suite-cum-ReplicatorX lets customers continuously replicate block data from any storage system to any …
Storage 6 Apr 2007, 21:25
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ANI takers for Asus website virus?
Taiwan's Typhoid Mary
Asus.com.tw, the website of Taiwanese motherboard maker Asustek, has been spraying visitors with the .ANI virus, security software makers confirmed today. Which is not nice. At first sight, it looks like the Asus site was hacked. "The virus is contained with an iframe added, which leads to the recent ANI exploit," Kaspersky …
Malware 6 Apr 2007, 22:18
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Our patents are bigger than yours, Nokia tells Qualcomm
Analysis But here's some money, anyway
This week Nokia puts $20m of patent royalties into the pot for Qualcomm for the coming quarter, in the hope of mitigating any damages that might be awarded against it in a patent dispute with Qualcomm over UMTS patents. It triggered this payment to Qualcomm just hours after the US wireless intellectual property giant filed yet …
Wireless 6 Apr 2007, 22:47
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Microsoft shows its hand to stay in the mobile web war
Analysis Shallow waters for Deepfish
Microsoft had its hand forced this week into unveiling just a little of its arsenal in the war to win the browser battle on the mobile phone. Microsoft clearly won the PC browser war by giving away and bundling its Internet Explorer, and then by creating a rich, open platform which along with the Visual Studio tools allowed …
Wireless 6 Apr 2007, 22:48
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(Agence) France(-Press) surrenders to Google
French kissing in the USA
News agency Agence France-Presse entered a ménage à deux today with Google en lieu of a $17.5m lawsuit over its news stories appearing on Google News. Google will pay to use AFP content that drives online traffic to AFP affiliates. Financial details of the dénouement were not disclosed. The contretemps began in March, 2005 …
Law 6 Apr 2007, 23:04
