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20th July 2005 Archive

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  • HP and Sony battle for domination of digital entertainment

    TechScape New battlefields, new enemies

    Our story begins like this: Sony’s product design and innovation credentials are unsurpassed. The Walkman changed our lives and how we listen to music. The Trinitron color TV became a status symbol in our living rooms, the Sony logo was omnipresent on our jogging suits and cars and the VAIO laptops went head-to-head with Apple’ …

    PC Builder 20 Jul 2005, 08:04

  • Oracle taken to task for time to fix vulnerabilities

    'Fell through the cracks'

    Claiming that Oracle has failed to fix six vulnerabilities despite having more than 650 days to issue a patch, researchers at security firm Red Database Security published details of the flaws on Tuesday. The flaws vary in severity with three of the six classified by the firm as high risk, potentially allowing a remote attacker …

    Software & Security 20 Jul 2005, 09:17

  • Freescale grows Q2 earnings on flat sales

    Stepping out of Motorola's shadow

    Freescale, the company still making G4-class PowerPC processors for Apple's notebook line-up, saw a big jump in income during its second fiscal quarter, despite an only marginal increase in sales, the firm said yesterday. Sales totalled $1.47bn, up 2.1 per cent from $1.44bn in Q1 FY2005 and up just under a single percentage …

    IT Channel 20 Jul 2005, 09:46

  • Home delivery is the deal-breaker in ecommerce

    Return to sender

    The biggest challenge to ecommerce is delivery, according to Britain's ecommerce trade body, which is launching a new trust mark scheme to encourage merchants and transporters to give consumers more options. The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) says very few e-tailers are getting it right. The consumers don't buy …

    IT Channel 20 Jul 2005, 09:51

  • Intel preps Pentium D core update

    EM64T, single-core operation bugs fixed?

    Intel is to upgrade the cores incorporated into its 'Smithfield' dual-core processors in October, The Register has learned. The chip maker will offer samples of the updated Pentium Extreme Edition 840 chip and the Pentium D 820, 830 and 840 processors on 5 August, Intel documents reveal, ahead of commercial product availability …

    PC Builder 20 Jul 2005, 10:08

  • Security deal for Northamber

    Unified Threat Management mmm...isn't it?

    God box maker Astaro has done a distribution deal with Northamber. God boxes are also known, less snappily, as unified threat management appliances. They're firewalls, VPNs, intrusion protection, anti-virus and spam filters and content checkers all in one. Astaro's channel manager Andre Scheffknecht said: "There has been great …

    IT Channel 20 Jul 2005, 14:14

  • Redundant EDSers threaten legal action

    Livingston closure causes 'near riot'

    Workers at EDS's Livingston facility have known for some months that they were losing their jobs but that didn't stop a "near riot" breaking out when they were told the terms and conditions of their redundancy. A source told El Reg that EDS staff received their redundancy quotations on Friday and feelings ran so high that …

    IT Channel 20 Jul 2005, 15:09

  • Onshore coders' salaries rise along with Offshore fears

    More pay for better work

    So much for US legislators' concerns about the damaging impact of outsourcing on domestic tech-workers' employment and pay prospects. IT workers are experiencing a minor uptick in their salaries as employers slowly realize that sending jobs to low-wage economies creates more difficulties than it solves. That's according to two …

    Software & Security 20 Jul 2005, 18:18

  • IBM preps big iron fiesta

    Raising the high-end

    IBM will try to breath life into its languishing mainframe business during an event next week, if its CFO and marketing material are to be believed. Big Blue's CFO Mark Loughridge used an earnings conference call this week to declare "the end of what has been a long (zSeries) product cycle" with new gear being displayed next …

    PC Builder 20 Jul 2005, 21:32

  • MS buys FrontBridge, buys into Finjan

    Serious about acquiring security

    Microsoft dug deeper into computer security on Wednesday, purchasing FrontBridge Technologies to help customers reach regulatory compliance, while also signing an investment and patent licensing deal with Finjan Software. The FrontBridge acquisition will see Microsoft deliver a set of services to enforce compliance through …

    Software & Security 20 Jul 2005, 23:06

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