31st October 2003 Archive

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Intel Pentium 4 Extremely Expensive Edition to ship Monday

Systems too

Intel will finally ship its extremely expensive Pentium 4 Extreme Edition on Monday, more than a month after the games-oriented processor was announced. So says PC World, citing a source "familiar with Intel's plans". This 'deep throat' also claims a number of PC vendors will on Monday announce boxes based on the chip. The …

Channel 31 Oct 2003, 09:18
Apple upgrades AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi security

Adds WPA support

Apple has updated its AirPort WLAN client and base-station software to add support for the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security protocol. The new release, dubbed AirPort 3.2, only targets the company's 802.11g-based AirPort Extreme product range, not the earlier 802.11b implementation. The software includes a firmware upgrade …

Wireless 31 Oct 2003, 09:41
Q3 sales jump lifts VIA out of the red

Still losing money for year as a whole

VIA said this morning it had returned to profitability during its third fiscal quarter after posting a Q3 net income of just TWD 46 million ($1.36 million) on sales of TWD 5.47 billion ($162.19 million). For the previous quarter, the chipset maker posted a net loss of TWD 1.12 billion ($33.03 million). Q2 sales totalled TWD 4. …

Channel 31 Oct 2003, 10:15
Light at end of the tunnel switched back on for IT contractors

Perms in doldrums (mostly)

The UK IT jobs market is still suffering from the lingering economic slowdown, with advertised vacancies falling seven per cent quarter on quarter in the period of July to September 2003, according to a CWJobs study. However, the study from CWJobs suggests that the light at the end of the tunnel has at least been switched back …

Small Biz 31 Oct 2003, 10:20
SCO introduces ‘resume download’ feature

It's Linux, with strings attached

In a move likely to antagonize the free software community even further, the SCO Group is to resume distributing Linux, but only if you agree to a new "IP license" which implicitly supports SCO's intellectual property claims. Caldera, which changed its name to the SCO Group last year, had complied with the GPL since 1995, when …

Software 31 Oct 2003, 10:23
‘Social Hardware’ nears with Bluetooth iPod

It's what you do with friends

Bluetooth is coming to the iPod, in the shape of third-party add-ons. The first vendor to break cover, Extreme Tech's Jim Louderback has discovered, is XtremeMac, which is creating a Bluetooth streaming attachment that beams the iPod's audio to speakers: which could be headphones, a car hi-fi or a home entertainment center. …

Mobile 31 Oct 2003, 10:25
Cliff Stanford denies hacking Redbus

Demon founder under police investigation

Cliff Stanford, the multi-millionaire co-founder of Redbus Interhouse, is under police investigation following accusations that he hacked into the London-based hosting firm's email systems. Following a second police interview, Stanford yesterday issued a statement through his solicitor denying hacking into Redbus Interhouse's …

Security 31 Oct 2003, 13:26
WM-data and Novo: finishing off the competition

Switching horses

Stockholm based WM-data has offered to pay €200 million in cash and shares to acquire Finnish IT services group Novo, compared to SysOpen's €155 million offer. WM-data will offer €2.5 in cash and 1.5 new shares for each Novo share, or a total cash option of E5 per share up to a total of 10,000 shares, which values Novo at a …

Channel 31 Oct 2003, 13:29
Pensioner accused of AUS $5m Nigerian scam

'I am the Australian headquarters for those scams'

An Australian man has been charged with defrauding a Saudi prince and others of AUS $5 million in an Internet lottery scam. The Aussie papers are referring to this as a Nigerian or 419 scam and report that the accused, Nick Marinellis, 39, of Sydney told police: "I have 220 African brothers worldwide. I am the Australian …

Music and Media 31 Oct 2003, 14:04
Yahoo! takes! Overture! to! Europe!

Searchlight

Yahoo! is installing Overture as its new search advertising broker for its European properties. Which means that it is turfing out Espotting from most of its slots on Europe (Espotting contextualised results still appear on directories and in Scandinavia). Espotting said the move was unsurprising, considering that Yahoo! now …

Music and Media 31 Oct 2003, 14:44
The conspiracy against our in-boxes

Opinion Why trusted bulk email is an oxymoron

Powerful forces in the IT industry and government are coming together to redefine unsolicited bulk email from mainstream organisations as legitimate, irrespective of whether the sender wants to receive it. Ultimately this move could even result in lawsuits against anti-spam developers by the Direct Marketing Association and its …

Security 31 Oct 2003, 15:00
Israelis ship eight tera-ops optical processor

Let there be light

Israeli technology Lenslet has begun shipping what it claims is the world's first optical microprocessor. We should point out that we're not talking a Pentium or G5 here. Instead, the EnLight 256 is a DSP chip designed to perform a series of simple operations rather than provide a basis for general purpose processing. However …

Channel 31 Oct 2003, 15:54
IBM pounds server rivals in Q3

Sun seeing stars

IBM continues to thrive in a resurgent server market, outpacing all its major rivals in growth of units shipped. Preliminary third quarter numbers from Gartner show the server market swelling 20.8 percent year-on-year on 1.37 million units shipped. This marks the third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. One and two …

Servers 31 Oct 2003, 19:03
Japanese boffins advance quantum computing

CNOT milestone

A Japanese research team has for the first time successfully demonstrated one of the fundamental building blocks needed to construct a viable quantum computer. The team from NEC and the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research were able to establish a quantum logic gate (controlled NOT or CNOT) operation in a solid- …

Servers 31 Oct 2003, 19:06
HP e3000 users prompt reality check

Has the grief gone too far

Nietzsche once proclaimed, "The HP e3000 is dead." It was near the end of his life - the painful syphilis years. But even with horse fantasies and images of a young Clark Kent dancing in his head, the philosopher recognized the importance of HP's venerable server. While this never really happened, we feel it should have. It's …

Servers 31 Oct 2003, 20:43
China sees export potential in home grown 3G

Hello, world!

As the world's largest 3G market limbers up for the second phase of testing, there's something for all camps to cheer. But little-noticed comments earlier this year suggest that China sees export potential for its home grown 3G specification: and that potentially has huge ramifications for the global market. China has invested …

Mobile 31 Oct 2003, 23:20