1st April 2005 Archive

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'White Bud' guerilla targets one iPod at a time

Save a life - and stop crime

When we suggested that iPods need Health Warnings recently, little did we know that concerned citizens have already taken action. So let's hear from Euan Lindsay, who has targeted fellow students at Glasgow University. Campuses are becoming hotbeds of iPodism, with students wandering around like farts in a trance. Enough's …

PC Builder 1 Apr 2005, 00:14
Deficient Veritas delays year-end fiscal report

This feels so familiar

Veritas has delayed the filing of its year-end financial forms with a US regulator after discovering "controls over financial reporting" that were not up to snuff. Veritas hopes to hand in the 10-K filing for 2004 to the US Securities and Exchange Commission by April 11. It had previously looked to meet an already extended …

PC Builder 1 Apr 2005, 06:27
US regulators take action over ID theft

Daddy was a bank phisher

US banking tegulators, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and so-called "thrift institution" regulators, have instructed banks to develop procedures to promptly advise federal officials and customers of suspected cases of identity theft. This growing type of fraud costs consumers millions, even billions of pounds - the true …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 07:15
Red Hat Q4 sales soar

Profit kicker

Red Hat is to buy back more shares after reporting a record fourth quarter. The Linux distro pulled in revenues of $57.5m for the three months to 28 February 2005, 56 per cent up on last year, and net income of $11.8m, 200 per cent up on Q4 04. Enterprise subscription revenue was $45.4m, 92 per cent higher year on year. …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 08:13
Intel heeds Japanese antitrust probe warning

But denies accusations

Intel has agreed to abide by the recommendations of Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), the chip giant said yesterday, though it maintains that the accusations of anti-competitive behaviour levelled against it are false. It also accused the JFTC of "misrepresenting" its business practices and failing "to take into account the …

IT Channel 1 Apr 2005, 09:02
Samba, Soccer and Open Source

Comment Brazil's cheap PC initiative

Since the election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil has gradually become a beachhead for Open Source, and consequently a thorn in Microsoft's side. Soon after his election, President da Silva appointed Sergio Amadeu, an academic and Open Source enthusiast, to head Brazil's National Information Technology Institute …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 09:06
Another approach to federated query

On Callixa and data agents

The vast majority of vendors supplying federated or EII (enterprise information integration) platforms employ the same paradigm. This can basically be described as a view or virtual schema builder at the front end, with an optimiser and a cache in the platform. Now, there is not much disagreement about the front-end but there …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 09:12
AMD to bring forward dual-core Opteron debut?

Two-core chips coming as server chip turns two...

AMD may be about to bring forward the launch of its dual-core Opteron server processors by a quarter. So suggest sources from among Taiwan's server manufacturing community, but there's circumstantial evidence to support the claim, too. According to a DigiTimes report, which cites the aforementioned Taiwanese sources, the dual- …

PC Builder 1 Apr 2005, 10:15
MS takes rod to phishers

117 John Doe lawsuits against scammers

Microsoft has upped the ante in its campaign against phishers by filing 117 so-called "John Doe" lawsuits. Microsoft attorney Aaron Kornblum issued a statement saying: "We must work together to stop these con artists from misusing the Internet as a tool for fraud," Reuters reports. The software giant said it was filing the …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 11:10
Hardware is secure (false)

Voodoo security lambasted

Hardware devices are far from a panacea for information security problems but users are continuing to place too much faith in marketing claims to the contrary, the Black Hat conference was told this week. Technology has moved on but hardware devices are far from totally secure. "Most, if not all, hardware solutions are open to …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 14:39
Privacy 'Dark Ages' force activist rethink

Resistance isn’t futile

Privacy activists need to change tactics to adapt to changing public attitudes, a leading campaigner said Thursday. Simon Davies, a director of Privacy International, said campaigners need to win the argument by force of evidence rather than assuming that people naturally guard their privacy against government encroachment, an …

Software & Security 1 Apr 2005, 14:59