Stories by Peter Sayer

Tetris tops Parisian night on the tiles

If you hear reports of giant, glowing blocks falling from the top of the French National Library in Paris this week, don't be alarmed: it's just Berlin's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) at play.

Yahoo reevaluates its mail filters

Yahoo Inc. has cleaned up filters used to protect users of its Web-based e-mail service from malicious scripts embedded in HTML-format messages, and in so doing has put an end to one of the strangest of Internet neologisms.

Report: Microsoft plans security chip for next Windows

Microsoft wants to change the fundamental architecture of the PC, adding security hardware to a future release of its Windows operating system, the company acknowledged Monday, after a media report and an analyst briefed by the company said as much....

Audiogalaxy caves in to RIAA, will filter songs

Audiogalaxy Inc., the company behind the Audiogalaxy.com peer-to-peer music file sharing service, is to pay music publishers "a substantial sum" and filter out copyright songs from its service as a result of an out-of-court settlement reached with re...

Intel cuts Celeron prices by up to 13 percent

Intel Corp. cut prices of its desktop Celeron microprocessors by up to 13 percent Sunday. Pricing for mobile Celerons and other Intel microprocessors remained unchanged.

HP sacked worker after info leak

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has terminated the employment of a worker who admitted leaking two company memos to the media in violation of company policy, according to an internal e-mail passed to journalists.

U.S. Robotics doubles speed of 802.11b wireless LAN

U.S. Robotics Corp. (USR) has boosted the speed of its latest range of wireless LAN products for small businesses to 22M bps (bits per second), while retaining compatibility with existing 2.4GHz systems built to the IEEE 802.11b standard, the Schaumb...

Particle accelerator database tops 500T bytes

So you think you've got database scalability problems? Staff at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) are grappling with a database holding over 500T bytes of data, and growing at more than 500G bytes every day.

3GSM - HP to unveil wireless-enabled Jornada

Hewlett-Packard is to release a wireless-enabled addition to its Jornada range of PDAs (personal digital assistants) at the GSM World Congress in Cannes on February 19.

Software lets IT managers monitor instant messaging

Software from FaceTime Communications Inc. allows IT managers to log what employees are saying over Internet instant messaging services, and to control who has access to such services.

Dipo plans an unforgettable gadget

If you're the slightly dippy type that often forgets your keys, passport, phone or laptop computer, then a French company that exhibited on the fringes of Comdex will soon have just the thing for you: the Individual Detector of Object Loss.

Clever fake of WTO Web site harvests e-mail addresses

Search engines are directing visitors to a subtle parody of the Web site of the World Trade Organization (WTO) instead of the real thing -- and the WTO is powerless to stop it, the Geneva-based body warned Wednesday in an e-mail to members of its mai...

Yahoo meets expectations, dives into red in Q3

Yahoo Inc. dived deep into the red in its third quarter, but met analysts' expectations for pro forma earnings per share of US$0.01.

US ATTACK: Apple Expo show in Paris cancelled

The European showcase for all things Apple has fallen victim to last week's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Apple Expo, which was to have taken place in Paris Sept. 26-30, is cancelled.

AMD cranks up speed on Athlon, Duron chips

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has cranked up the speed of its flagship Athlon processor to 1.4GHz, and of its budget Duron processor to 950MHz, the company announced Wednesday.