21st August 2001 Archive

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• Mitnick joins Vegas hack investigation

  Victim of 'mob phreakers' gets new cybersleuth

  

  Security 21 03:38

• NTL ups cost of broadband wireless access

  The service isn't even live yet

  NTL has hiked the price of its yet-to-be-introduced wireless broadband service by almost a half.

  Broadband 21 10:18

• Hynix will get no help from Korean govt – Deputy PM

  You're on your own now

  The Korean government intends to leave Hynix to its own devices and will not interfere with the troubled memory maker, the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy, Jin Nyum, said this past weekend.

  Channel 21 10:19

• ExciteAtHome faces financial ruin

  Things don't look good

  ExciteAtHome could be on the verge of going titsup.com amid fears that it doesn't have enough cash to see it through to the end of the year.

  Broadband 21 10:20

• WinXP to RTM Friday – and go on sale September?

  If Ballmer says it's Friday, Thursday it is...

  Microsoft CEO and the-bleeding-obvious specialist Steve Ballmer has told a conference in Sao Paulo that he expects Windows XP to RTM by Friday. And so, unless something nasty turns up, it will be.

  Software 21 10:46

• Peter Gabriel opens music download service

  Rent up to 40 songs a month

  Musician Peter Gabriel yesterday launched a digital music distribution service with technology developed by his company OD2, with content from his Real World Records label and marketed under his World of Music and Dance (Womad) brand.

  Media 21 11:01

• Teenager finds virus, acclaimed world-saving genius

  The accidental hero

  Last week the UK press fell over itself to announce that an 18 year-old British computer studies student had saved the World.

  Security 21 11:01

• Virus poses as antivirus utility

  More social engineering tricks

  A worm which poses as a virus clean up utility has appeared.

  Security 21 11:09

• Nvidia to launch GeForce 3 MX on Friday?

  And GeForce 3 Ultra, Pro on Monday?

  Nvidia will be having a busy weekend, if information leaked to Web site M3D Zone proves accurate. The graphics company will launch the GeForce 3 MX on Friday, 24 August, followed by the GeForce 3 Ultra on Monday, 27 August.

  Channel 21 12:07

• FBI treats ‘Good Samaritan’ as public enemy

  Point out a security flaw and face a hacking felony

  A 'Good Samaritan' who alerted a firm about a serious security flaw on their Web site has become the subject of a criminal investigation.

  Security 21 12:11

• Daily Express hit by masked computer thieves

  Richard Desmond empire targeted

  The Daily Express has been hit by a masked gang who wrecked equipment before stealing a stack of computers.

  Business 21 12:14

• Taiwan DRAM makers to halt shipments if prices fall again

  Enough is enough

  Enough, say Taiwan's memory manufacturers, is enough - 128Mb SDRAM prices have fallen too far, and if they fall any further, we won't ship any more of them.

  Channel 21 12:16

• Vodafone CEO faces Mannesmann merger fraud probe

  German authorities not happy

  Chris Gent, CEO of Vodafone, and a number of high-ranking executives in Vodafone and Mannesmann (the German company bought out by Voadfone in November 1999) are under investigation by the German authorities for fraud.

  Business 21 12:27

• Customer waves superglue in Evesham store

  Chain Store

  An irate customer threatened to superglue himself to the counter in Evesham.com's London showroom today, in a "where's my refund" stunt.

  Channel 21 12:58

• Gartner Group susses out how computers are sold

  Breakthrough after 22 years of hard study

  Market research company the Gartner Group has finally figured out the way the computer industry works.

  Business 21 13:19

• 14m Brits access Net from home

  That's right, another survey

  Another day, another bloody Internet survey.

  Media 21 13:19

• Penguin embraces ebooks

  Momentum building

  Penguin has jumped into the ebook format with both feet. From September it is making a large range of titles from its back catalogue available over the Internet. They includes classics from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens etc. as well as guide books, reference books and business titles (even Bill Gates' Business @ the speed of thought).

  e-Business 21 13:41

• Ingram UK back in Cisco distribution biz

  Buys Sphinx Cisco operation

  Ingram Micro UK is back in the Cisco distribution business after buying the Cisco business of Sphinx CST.

  Channel 21 14:05

• Losses triple at InterX

  Down down, deeper and down

  UK software outfit InterX today reported widening losses.

  Business 21 14:21

• AOL UK escapes £1.8m in tax in 22 days

  Le Freeswerve continues its attack

  Freeserve has stepped up its campaign against rival AOL UK and the tax loophole that exempts the US-based ISP from paying VAT.

  Media 21 14:37

• Cisco drones admit $8m stock swindle

  Would you have bought a flash car and watch - or laid low?

  Two former Cisco employees have admitted defrauding the company of $8 million in stock.

  Business 21 14:40

• Big Biz spends Big Bucks on Win2000 upgrades

  Other desktop costs slashed

  Cost-cutting is top of the agenda for the next quarter, according to the latest study of US CIOs by Morgan Stanley.

  Software 21 14:56

• Canon LPB 810

  Monochrome laser printer

  

  Personal 21 15:08

• Globalnet spurns Italians

  Make Your Mind Up time

  Globalnet Financial.com is selling itself to New Media Spark after all.

  e-Business 21 15:11

• Tool dumbs down wireless hacking

  War driving for s'kiddiots

  A hacking tool which can recover the encryption keys used to "protect" data sent over wireless networks has been released on the Internet.

  Security 21 15:12

• L1NUX number plate for sale

  Or is that L7NUX - sneaky

  You've Max Powered your motor - given her full body skirts, splitter, ICE system, tinted windows, chipped the engine, dropped the suspension, got some gold effect alloys, bucket seats, had a respray and removed the silencer - so what else could you want?

  Bootnotes 21 15:35

• ICANN approves widespread new domain cybersquatting

  But only if you own the registry

  ICANN has officially approved widespread corporate cybersquatting for new domain name registry operators.

  Media 21 15:43

• AOL CD protest takes off

  Only 999,975 to go

  Eco-conscious Net users want to collect one million unwanted AOL software CDs - and then dump them at the Internet giant's US HQ in protest at what they call "needless pollution".

  Media 21 15:44

• Is prosecuting hackers worth the bother?

  When Sysadmins and Feds collide

  When you've been hacked, it's wise to evaluate the damage done before calling in the Feds, San Diego Supercomputer Center Security Manager Tom Perrine explained during the tenth annual USENIX Security Symposium in Washington last week, during a talk entitled "Cops are from Mars, Sysadmins are from Pluto: Dealing with Law Enforcement."

  Security 21 16:33

• The Demise of the Industry Standard

  Victim of Politics and Greed

  Few of us can recite the key details of the Industry Standard's 2001 redesign. Even fewer of us remember the 56-page launch issue published 40 months ago. We will remember the Industry Standard newsweekly as a victim of politics and greed, and nothing less than the Bible of an economy to be forever changed by the Internet.

  e-Business 21 16:36

• MS anti-piracy crew jumps on Basingstoke grey dealers

  Resellers say it's bullying

  Microsoft has pounced on two British PC resellers for allegedly selling counterfeit software. The resellers have called it bullying tactics and denied the charges.

  Channel 21 16:45

• Professor tears ICANN domain dispute policy to pieces

  Could there have been a different conclusion?

  Professor Michael Geist from the University of Ottawa has added to the cacophony of criticism against ICANN over its domain dispute resolution policies (UDRP). He has published a paper on the subject entitled Fair.com? An examination of systemic unfairness in the ICANN UDRP.

  Media 21 17:01

• Linux to surpass Unix ‘within five years’ – Caldera

  Here's how

  Something funny happened on the way to the Forum. The lady who has sustained journalists with a fine expresso at SCO's annual get-together from the Cowell Room at UCSC was missing, along with many familiar faces from Fora passim. We only hope our absent SCO friends haven't ended up under the foundations of the new Students Union building on campus.

  Software 21 18:17

• PCs for Kids demands free MS OSes

  Not so Sweet Charity

  The charity behind a Microsoft software licensing argument in Australia, PCs for Kids, seems determined to continue with its fight by seeking publicity and hoping the Beast of Redmond will back down.

  Business 21 18:32

• McAfee declares war on Zombies

  Bish bosh DDos attacks

  McAfee, the antivirus division of Network Associates, has teamed up with other security firms to protect the Internet from Zombie agents and the like.

  Security 21 18:39

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