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13th May 2005 Archive

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  • Microsoft streamlines licensing

    Pay the same, just know why you're paying

    Microsoft is making its notoriously complex system of licensing easier to understand. But it is stopping short of changes that could cut software costs. On July 1, the company will introduce changes which should make pricing terms easier for customers to fathom. They are specifically designed to ease the administrative burden …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 08:55

  • Intel may get boost from robust Taiwan PC market

    Notebooks galore

    This story has expired from The Register's archive. You can now find it at its original location on the Forbes.com website: http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/05/12/0512automarketscan14.html?partner=theregister.

    PC Builder 13 May 2005, 09:34

  • Nvidia posts record revenues

    Highest profits for three years, too

    Nvidia last night posted a record quarterly revenue and the highest net income the company has seen in three years. For the three months to 1 May 2005 - or Q1 FY2006 - Nvidia notched up $583.3m in sales, three per cent up on the previous quarter and 23.6 per cent up on Q1 FY2005. Net income came to $64.4m (36 cents a share), …

    IT Channel 13 May 2005, 10:21

  • Judge imposes US Renesas chip sales ban

    Translogic patent infringed, court rules

    Renesas, Hitachi's spun-off chip business, can no longer sell its SH-3 and SH-4 processor families in the US, a District Court judge has ruled. Some 18 CPUs are covered by the ban, which also prevents Renesas from even importing the products onto US soil. The judgement, granted at the behest of Translogic Technology, follows …

    IT Channel 13 May 2005, 10:23

  • Nvidia G70 to appear at E3

    Inside a PS3 or on its own?

    Nvidia's next-generation graphics chip, 'G70', will almost certainly make an appearance at Computex in June, not least because it will have already been shown off at the E3 show, which takes place next week. So said Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during the company's Q1 FY2006 results conference last night. "We do …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 10:34

  • EII - it's all go out there

    Enterprise information integration news

    Hot on the heels of IBM announcing that it was acquiring Ascential, thus (potentially) uniting its data federation platform WebSphere Information Integrator with Ascential's ETL and EAI capabilities, which was followed by Informatica announcing a partnership with Composite Software, we now have a slew of fresh news. …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 10:36

  • Firefox loses its shine

    Spate of vulns raises security questions

    The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web browser has made security a major part of its marketing, but a spate of vulnerabilities found over the last nine months had sullied that message. In the latest incident, a 16-year-old security researcher - who asked only to be identified by his first name, Paul - found three vulnerabilities …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 10:37

  • MS punts all-in-one security and backup service

    OneCare to rule them all

    Microsoft is to deliver an all-in-one PC health check service targeted at consumers. Windows OneCare will offer performance tuning, PC maintenance, backup and security functions via a consumer subscription service. Key capabilities and features of Windows OneCare will include: providing automatically updated anti-virus, anti- …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 11:35

  • Intel: next-gen dual-cores not NetBurst

    Going back to Pentium III, sort of

    Intel has confirmed its second-generation dual-core desktop, notebook and server processors will not be based on the Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture, but something more akin to the Pentium III. We knew this already, of course, but it's nice to see Intel going public at long last. The revelation comes from the chip giant's …

    PC Builder 13 May 2005, 11:50

  • MS unfazed by OSS schools report

    Anomalous primaries

    The long-awaited report on the use of open source software (OSS) in schools was published today by Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education. As expected, the report concludes that OSS can offer a "cost effective alternative" to proprietary solutions. But it also cautions that an OSS implementation needs careful …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 13:22

  • Google puts the brake on Web Accelerator

    Cache from chaos

    Google has disabled downloads of its Web Accelerator software less than a week after introducing the service. The suspension follows reports that the software was caching sensitive content, such as user control panels to online forums. The beta application, a free browser plug-in that for use with IE 5.5 and above or Firefox 1. …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 13:49

  • MS unwraps Xbox 360

    Shipping around the world next holiday season

    Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 last night, as anticipated. The unit, which most console fans have already seen thanks to recent photography leaks, contains a three-core IBM PowerPC processors, clocked at 3.2GHz and capable of handling six threads simultaneously. Each core has an AltiVec vector engine for handling multimedia …

    PC Builder 13 May 2005, 14:55

  • Ballmer and McNealy interoperate on ID

    IBM becomes the new Microsoft

    Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy have announced specifications for single sign-in between Java and .NET web service, while admitting to teething problems in their companies' landmark legal and technology agreement. The old foes - hosting a joint conference to update press on progress in their year-old relationship - even found …

    Software & Security 13 May 2005, 23:00