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12th July 2003 Archive

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  • Radio royalties: the ticking timebomb under the RIAA

    Reg follows the fuse

    An obscure backroom deal that took place in Washington DC last Fall - unreported by the specialist music press, then dismissed as insignificant after extensive coverage here at The Register - could yet be the undoing of the Recording Industry Association of America. At stake is the RIAA's right to set punitive royalty terms for …

    Music and Media 12 Jul 2003, 00:48

  • Trojan serves porn off home PCs, not many dead

    AOLers chief victims

    A new Trojan is turning Windows PCs into porn and spam relays, possibly as a means of harvesting credit card details, researcher Richard M. Smith has discovered. At first it was suspected that the Trojan installs a Web server on the victim's machine from which the porn is served, but research by LURHQ indicates that it sets up …

    Anti-Virus 12 Jul 2003, 09:28

  • ‘Open and helpful community’ – of credit card thieves

    Honeynet shows carders are getting slick

    Credit card fraud "power users" with programming skills and no fear are making it easier for newbies to break into white collar crime, according to a report from the Honeynet Research Alliance this week. The report draws on data gathered earlier this year when a fraudster looking for a random host to put between himself and IRC …

    Security 12 Jul 2003, 10:34

  • Well, my PC thought it was funny

    Laughter recognition

    The office may start to sound like a fun place with the development by an Australian university of laughter-recognition software. SoundHunter was developed by computer scientists at Monash University in Melbourne to make it easier for employees to log on to computers in a network, New Scientist reports. The software recognises …

    Software 12 Jul 2003, 10:46

  • Of Infinium's Phantom

    Not vapourware, but not really a console either

    More information about the rather publicity-shy Phantom console has been unveiled, revealing that the system is indeed a Windows PC designed to download PC games securely over a broadband connection. A lengthy article on tech news site Newsforge suppliers considerable detail about the system and its business model. The latter …

    Personal 12 Jul 2003, 10:57

  • ‘Tread carefully as technology stocks rise from the ashes’

    Lessons learnt?

    'Tread carefully as technology stocks rise from the ashes' This quote from a recent Sunday Telegraph article makes two obvious but critical points, writes Bob McDowall of Bloor Research. Technology stocks are some of the major price gainers on the world stock exchanges in recent weeks; the second point questions the amount of …

    Business 12 Jul 2003, 11:11

  • Analyst fires shot into Itanic's hull

    HP users to pay high price

    A small analyst firm has issued a massive warning to HP customers considering a move off of PA-RISC-based servers and onto Intel's Itanic-powered systems, saying some users may be in for a painful migration. Clabby Analytics has burrowed down into the nitty-gritty aspects of a move to Intel's 64bit Itanium chip and concluded …

    Servers 12 Jul 2003, 20:36

  • BOFH and The Engineer

    Episode 13 Call out beyond sense of duty

    BOFH 2003: Episode 13 Picture if you will a computer room, late at night.. Late, late at night... Almost morning, in fact.... All lights - bar several system status indication lamps - are off..... Suddenly a lamp, previously glowing Blue, changes (hereafter) to Orange....... Seconds later an SNMP trap, delivered by the …

    BOFH 12 Jul 2003, 22:27