1st June 2005 Archive

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Microsoft keeps mum on EC deal

Midnight deadline passes

Microsoft played its cards close to its chest on a possible antitrust deal with European regulators last night, as an EU midnight deadline came and went. A Microsoft spokesman told The Register at midnight, that Microsoft is working to comply with the EU's 2004 ruling but had nothing to "announce or comment on". European Union …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 07:47
Future features for Visual Studio 2005

Nice product - shame about the availability

Microsoft has brought forward features for its Visual Studio 2005 developer suite, originally planned for a later edition, helping refine the delayed suite. The next version of Microsoft's IDE will see “edit and continue” added for the Visual C# .NET language along with a set of new icons that provide general access to new …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 08:19
Borland shoots Peloton down roadmap

JBuilder goes Eclipse

Borland Software will roll out its first Java development tools based on Eclipse within the next year, answering growing competition from open source products. A version of Borland's core JBuilder suite, codenamed Peloton, is planned for the first half of 2006, Borland said Tuesday. Peloton is part of roadmap that will see an …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 08:31
Shift2Ingres takes Oracle migration prize

CA hails 'outstanding' offering

Computer Associates has announced the results of its $1m challenge for open source Ingres developments. In case you missed the initial announcement, the idea of the challenge was for independent developers to produce migration kits from other popular database environments to Ingres. In practice, the challenge was both a …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 09:59
HP fills NonStop gear full of Itaniums

PA-RISC fears the Reaper

HP this week confirmed that there's no turning back with its 'bet the company on Itanium' strategy as both its NonStop and PA-RISC server lines went in the direction of Intel's 64-bit chip. HP has outfitted its NonStop servers with Intel's third-generation Itanium processor code-named Itanium. The new chips replace the MIPS …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 11:12
Public beats private for IT pay rises

Fringe benefits not bad, either

Local authorities might not be able to match the salaries on offer to IT staff at private companies, but they are still managing to recruit more people, and retain quality workers, a survey has found. Fringe benefits are still a very important part of the package in the public sector - with the vast majority of authorities …

IT Channel 1 Jun 2005, 11:16
Itanium and Opteron fight for significance

Almost there

The new chips on the block - Itanium and Opteron - continue to make their presence felt in the server market, although still not on the level their producers would have hoped. Total sales of Itanium-based servers hit $472m in the first quarter, according to Gartner. Opteron server sales came in at $314m. Overall, $12.3bn worth …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 12:10
Notebook prices keep falling

Market grows as prices fall

Prices for notebook computers in Europe are still falling and in the first quarter of 2005 one in five laptops were sold for less than €800. Researchers from Context saw the market in the top eight European economies grow by 19.2 per cent. Jason Harcourt, senior analyst at Context, said: "We see prices continuing to fall, not …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 13:17
Azlan teams up with Nortel for SMB IP telephony push

Distie round up Also new franchises for Enta and Mitek

Nortel has awarded Azlan pan-European distribution rights for Nortel’s Business Communications Manager 50 (BCM 50), its new IP telephony box for smaller companies. BCM 50 is a voice-data combo capable of handling up to 76 users, and is a scaled-down version of Nortel IP telephony products aimed at corporates. Azlan promises …

IT Channel 1 Jun 2005, 14:05
Ingram Micro improves software offers

It's June, so it must be software month

Ingram Micro Europe is promising June will be software month at the disty. Ingram is encouraging dealers to make the most of software sales. It is laying on marketing campaigns, bundled deals and other promotions to increase software sales. The disty chose June because it is a traditionally busy month both for software sales …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 14:21
Sober worm tops May viral charts

Free World Cup offer is virus world's Crazy Frog

The new Sober-N worm, which poses as offers for free tickets for the 2006 World Cup, toppled Zafi-D as the most popular, sorry, prevalent virus on the internet last month. Zafi-D, showing the sort of chart topping success that record industry execs would give their right nostril for, spent five straight months in the top spot …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 14:36
m-commerce security risks exposed

Stacking the odds against safety

Vulnerabilities in mobile applications offer a way to attack otherwise secure web sites, according to independent security consultancy SecureTest. SecureTest has demonstrated how hackers can break into a mobile phone application, modify the code and use this as a tool to manipulate the website itself. The demo featured a …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2005, 14:45
Northern Ireland gets own VC fund

Ulster says YES

Invest Northern Ireland is putting £7.5m into a fund to help get early stage technology companies in Northern Ireland off the ground. Crescent Capital has raised £22.5m in total for the new fund, called Crescent Capital II, which will invest in local hi-tech companies. Other investors include Queen's University, University of …

IT Channel 1 Jun 2005, 15:31
IBM cuts software price on Opteron and OpenPower kit

Multicore embrace

IBM has put a Big Blue stamp on a new licensing policy that treats certain kinds of multicore processors as a single chip. The company this week officially notified customers of the licensing change. It had spoke of such plans last month, emphasizing that its x86 servers running on Opteron and Xeon chips would be affected. As …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 16:24
Nvidia preps GeForce 7800 GTX

Computex 2005 Next-gen part seen behind closed doors

Nvidia's upcoming G70 chip will be dubbed the GeForce 7800 GTX when it ships, sources close to a number of graphics card makers mentioned to The Register. Quite a few even had boards based on the part humming away and rendering 3DMark demos in machines kept behind closed doors. The latest alleged leaks suggest the part will …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 18:10
Tyan samples eight-way Opteron board

Computex 2005 'Graphics supercomputer'

Tyan has begun shipping what it claims is the first PCI Express motherboard for eight-way AMD-based servers, the company announced today. Quantities are limited, however. Only customer samples are available now, with full-scale production commencing in Q3, the company admitted. The following quarter it will ship a barebones …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2005, 18:20