29th August 2006 Archive

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Hardware

• Wi-Fi Alliance to certify 802.11n ahead of IEEE standard Compatible. Maybe.

PC Builder

• Corsair to cool high-speed DDR 2 DIMMs with clip-on fan Heat dissipation
• Diode dearth still hindering blue-laser drive shipments? Roll-out to be pushed back to Q4
• Samsung ships 'first' 80nm 1Gb DDR 2 chip Smaller chip for higher-capacity DIMMs

Security

• AOL software labelled as 'badware' Health inspectors find fault with client code
• Botnet herder jailed over hospital attack Hacker gets three years for adware assault

Servers/Storage

• IBM sends Power5+ downstream With four cores
• Intel completes 'Operation Catch-up' with Tulsa release Sort of

Software

• Florida pirate banged up for six years 'To the brig with ye'
• Google bundles software apps Turns up the heat on MS
• Microsoft Canada spills Vista pricing OS to join price tags one day
• Microsoft extends legacy products support Forward looking statement
• Patent rulings could destroy open source software Activists denounce US courts' 'suggestion test'