17th March 2007 Archive

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AMD praying ‘Barcelona’ makes up for four-core mistake

Exclusive Been to Montreal?

Bruised by a resurgent Intel, AMD wishes it had tackled the four-core era with a different approach. The chipmaker stands behind the technical merits of pumping out a so-called native four-core chip with all four cores on the same piece of silicon. It, however, admits that Intel gained a major marketing edge by melding a pair …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Mar 2007, 00:05
Only 326 lines of code said to be at issue in SCO-IBM flap

'Mountain' turns out to be flat

The Mount Everest of evidence proving IBM's Linux contributions infringed SCO's intellectual-property rights amount to little more than a mole hill, according to a lawyer for Big Blue, who recently told a federal judge SCO has identified only 326 lines of offending code, compared with more than 700,000 lines of IBM's GPL'd code …

Operating Systems 17 Mar 2007, 01:14
Ofcom, dividends, and Sky stocks

Column You have the weekend to respond

It's now (almost) too late to submit your comment on what should be done with the "digital dividend" - which is to say, if you think Sky should have a monopoly on High Definition TV, then you'll be smiling. On the other hand, if you're a fan of FreeView, you might be alarmed. Ofcom had to have your protest in by March 20. OK …

Telecoms 17 Mar 2007, 07:02
A postcard from SunLIVE07

Time for the green revolution?

Sun's jamboree was held in the magnificent Methodist Central Hall in London to the sound of the Beatles' Revolution (Evolution, plus Innovation equals.... geddit?). The main theme was "going green" - now there's a surprise, but Sun actually has a good story here, to my mind. A 4 watt desktop device lasting some 20 years …

Developer 17 Mar 2007, 09:02
Dutch FOI disclosures reveal the odd business of evoting

Stranger than fiction

Freedom of information disclosures in the Netherlands have revealed details of a bizarre dispute between Dutch electoral authorities and the supplier of the software used to administrate the elections. Letters obtained by the "We don't trust voting computers foundation", reveal some startling comments by Jan Groenendaal, the …

Government 17 Mar 2007, 12:02
ICANN terminates RegisterFly with extreme prejudice

ICANN can can domain registrars

ICANN yesterday gave notice to terminate RegisterFly.com's right to handle domain transfers. The internet-oversight organisation has given RegisterFly 15 days notice to cease operating as an ICANN-accredited registrar. When the notice period expires on March 31, ICANN can approved the bulk transfer of domains to another ICANN …

Small Biz 17 Mar 2007, 17:37