2nd May 2006 Archive

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Hardware

• Acer and Hitachi target Euro SMBs Big disks for small companies
• Acer extends 17in laptop line Aspire augmentation

Market News

• Treasury not changing work PC rules Considers duties on hysterical newspaper stories

News

• ATI buys Bitboys Golden child of desktop GPUs to become ATI handset R&D team

Security

• 'Smart' phishing attack targets BoI Next gen spam scams to get even smarter
• Ancient worm runs riot at Infosec Trade show gives lessons in insecurity
• Bounced spam messages hammer corporate networks A $5bn a year problem, claims self-serving survey
• Hackers control bot client over P2P Nugache
• Netsky-P tops virus charts - again Malware's Dark Side of the Moon
• UK retail security flap exposes 2,000 credit cards MasterCard launches probe

Software

• Amazon ditches Google for Microsoft A9 switches sides in the search wars
• Ballmer sends 'don't panic' email to staff Calm down dear, it's only a stock market
• Google accuses Microsoft on IE7 search Pot calls kettle mucky
• iSoft suffers NHS fever Warns on profits