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IT news review - week ending July 28, 2000

IDG staff, Information Age

28/07/2000 17:10:45

IDC: Linux server OS growth to outpace marketDespite a 17 per cent increase in server operating system environment shipments worldwide, revenue in that market will increase by just over 1 per cent by 2004, according to a new study from International Data Corp (IDC). Lower-priced products -- notably the open-source Linux operating system environment -- are generally attributed by the market researcher for the discrepancy.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://arn.idg.com.au/arndb.nsf/tibco_stories/NT0000FB56Vietnam gets first Frame Relay serviceBusinesses in Vietnam will from next week be able to tap into international high-speed data connections, with the launching of the country's first Frame Relay service by ISP (Internet service provider) Vietnam Data Communications.

The service is being offered by VDC in partnership with Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the two companies said in a statement.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/nwtoday/NT0000697EMicrosoft argues for appeal in lower courtIn court papers filed yesterday, Microsoft urged the US Supreme Court not to hear its appeal in its antitrust case directly, arguing instead that the case should move to a lower court of appeals. In the filing, which had been expected, Microsoft pointed to what it called a litany of factual and procedural errors made during the course of its antitrust trial. The trial concluded in April, with US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordering a breakup of the company.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/C19B74AB5E42E2BBCA25692800777E1F!OpenDocumentThe e-lawyer of diminishing returnsE-commerce law is developing as rapidly as e-commerce itself, but the e-commerce legal "specialist" is soon to become an anachronism, proposes one partner at legal firm Clayton Utz.According to partner Steven Klimt, all lawyers will need to have anup-to-date understanding of e-commerce and technology in less than four years.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/58DB1F69BE94A163CA25692800763CE1!OpenDocumentANZ slips up then zips upThe ANZ bank is yet to inform customers of an embarrassing nationwide processing error that caused duplicate deposits and withdrawals to be recorded on customer accounts yesterday. According to an ANZ spokeswoman, the bank suffered from a "batch-processing error" on Tuesday, which left all ATM, Eftpos and credit card transactions conducted between 5:30am and 12:30pm that day susceptible to the duplication error.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/EDD9C90C5B8AA2ACCA256928002B94EF!OpenDocumentThirteen airlines plan internet marketAmerica West Holdings, FedEx and Northwest Airlines said on Monday they and 10 other airlines will form an internet marketplace linking carriers to sellers of related goods and services. The companies said they will launch Aeroxchange, the new airline industrybusiness-to-business e-commerce exchange, in the next few months. The exchange plans to offer aircraft technical parts and services as well as general business supplies to airlines on the web.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/267CD025897AAB1FCA2569270010B66C!OpenDocumentUnrequited Love Bug back againThe infamous "Love Bug" virus has made an unwelcome return, this time working its way through the address book of a NetRegistry employee. The internet domain name registrar was unable to estimate how many email addresses it inadvertently passed the virus on to, but a company spokesperson said it had not been sent to any Sydney email addresses.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/49457116F32F29BECA25692700109926!OpenDocumentAlston changes stream of consciousnessStreaming audio and video laws should not be restrictive and biased to the interests of other broadcasting technologies, Federal IT minister Richard Alston has said. In a recent statement issued, the minister said "the government has decided that internet audio and video streaming should not be regarded as a broadcasting service".

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/nwtoday/NT00006922Global PC shipments grew 18 percent in Q2Shipment growth of personal computers in Europe and the US was stagnate inthe second quarter compared to other regions, according to market researchfigures released this week.

Global PC shipment growth was 18 percent, according to Dataquest, a division of Gartner Group, and 14.5 percent according to International Data (IDC). Both market researchers released preliminary second-quarter shipment figures on Monday. Worldwide, PC makers shipped 30.1 million desktop and mobile PCs and PC servers in the quarter, said IDC, while Dataquest set the figure at 31.5 million.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/1186C0DD92130ED1CA25692600787C1B!OpenDocumentGovt pays PwC $2.5bn to manage its propertyThe Federal government has announced it will contract PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in a $2.5 billion Commonwealth non-defence property management agreement, which the government claims will generate $88 million for the local economy.

In his keynote speech at the Australian Outsourcing Summit, the federal minister for finance, John Fahey, said that PricewaterhouseCoopers Solutions Limited would manage the upgrading and maintenance of the Commonwealth's global chanceries and properties through a five-year, web-based technology initiative.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://computerworld.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/F438E056810226CFCA25692600780A95!OpenDocumentWireless data gains high-speed channelsAs the race for higher-capacity networks heats up, high-speed,data-optimised technologies are emerging as alternatives for wireless data access. In addition, companies such as Cisco Systems are working to strengthen the role of IP in third-generation (3G) networks in an effort to ensure data performance and speed.

Lucent Technologies last week formally announced the spin-off Flarion Technologies, which is developing a wireless data-access technology from Bell Labs. Flash Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a signal-processing scheme that has been optimized for mobile wireless environments. The technology is designed for transferring data at high speeds and low latencies over a distributed IP network, company officials said. Different versions of OFDM modulation are also used in fixed wireless technologies and broadcast television.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/nwtoday/NT0000690ATelstra buys out Keycorp in electronic payments dealTelstra will take over internet transaction solutions provider Keycorp in a $515 million equity-based deal to form an internet payment service provision business, the carrier has announced.

The alliance will see the companies deliver full-service electronic payment solutions to small and medium enterprises. Specifically, the business will target financial institutions and their merchant customers with IP-based e-commerce solutions.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/nwtoday/NT00006906