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5th October 2006 Archive

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  • HP's head swells as inkjet speed increases

    And shoots out more lasers

    HP is to launch a super-fast inkjet colour printer for the business market in the Spring. The company has also extended and upgraded its current product lines with six new printers. The planned super-fast printers use a technology HP calls Edgeline to push full-colour printouts through at the rate of 70 or more per minute, …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 00:02

  • DataCore plays a SANmelody for smaller SANs

    Even small servers can be virtual iSCSI storage

    DataCore says a new entry level version of its SANmelody iSCSI storage software can turn a basic x86 server into a virtualised IP-based SAN, with features such as automated thin-provisioning and reuse of spare disk capacity. The software, called SANmelody Virtual Infrastructure Foundation, costs just £500 and can be used with …

    Enterprise 5 Oct 2006, 07:24

  • Widespread growth likely in global ICT sector

    OECD report predicts heady times ahead

    Heady days of 20 and 30 per cent growth in the 1990s remains unlikely, but the worldwide ICT sector is expected to grow a vigorous six per cent in 2006, according to a new report. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's biennial Information Technology Outlook report predicts the highest growth areas will be …

    IT Channel 5 Oct 2006, 08:18

  • Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy

    Firefox attack a 'stand up comedy routine'

    Two presenters razzed developers of the open source Mozilla browser this weekend at the ToorCon hacking convention in San Diego with claims that the browser's Javascript implementation is flawed, but the lecture appears to have been more stand-up comedy routine than substantiative research. The two researchers - college …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 08:42

  • BT + HP + PepsiCo = $$$

    Fizzy revenue stream

    The alliance between BT and HP, which was fanfared earlier this year with a huge inhouse press seminar in Venice, was supposed (at the time) to be simply a way of selling IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) to desperate mobile telcos - so it's quite a surprise to find a big contract announced with Pepsico. Normally, a contract …

    IT Channel 5 Oct 2006, 09:13

  • Bill and Ballmer's bonuses shrink

    Poor billionaires

    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer saw their salaries go up slightly, but watched their bonuses shrink by $50,000 in 2006. The top two at Microsoft got paid $616,667 in salary and received a $350,000 bonus - down from $400,000 in 2005. Ballmer also got some $9,482 for "all other compensation" - while Bill Gates got $2,112. A proxy …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 09:27

  • Nvidia stock jumps on Intel takeover rumour

    Wall Street eyes deal as AMD-ATI merger nears completion

    If your arch-rival buys one of two highly competitive graphics chip companies, what else can you do but acquire the other GPU maker? That's exactly what it was yesterday claimed Intel would do: snap up Nvidia after AMD's move to acquire ATI. The Wall Street rumour put $2.32 on Nvidia's share price and saw stock trades double …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 09:45

  • Vendor unveils USB Serial-ATA dongle

    Hook big, fast drives up to your USB port

    Japanese storage specialist Novac has figured out an easy way to connect eSATA drives to PCs without a suitable port: a USB-connected adaptor dongle. The manufacturer even suggests hooking up four 3.5in SATA drives to the NV-US2020, as the dongle's dubbed, via a hub. That would make for one heck of a USB Flash drive. The …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 10:07

  • AMD to conjure a constellation of K8L desktop chips

    Twinkle, twinkle, little star

    AMD's stellar codename sequence for its upcoming K8L desktop processor family continues with 'Antares', 'Arcturus' and 'Spica', reports coming out of Taiwan allege. These chips will join 'Altair', which we reported on earlier this week, in AMD's constellation of next-generation 65nm processors. According to a Chinese-language …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 10:27

  • MS builds tougher piracy protection into Vista

    Redmond's latest plan to scuttle pirates unveiled

    Microsoft has announced plans to tighten up anti-piracy features in its forthcoming operating systems Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn". Redmond's upcoming Software Protection Platform is designed to make software piracy harder while making software licensing less of a chore. The technology, which is also designed to …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 10:40

  • Nvidia to make quantum leap with GeForce 8800?

    Unified shaders to work on game physic too, it's suggested

    Nvidia will initially launch two graphics boards based on its next-generation 'G80' GPU when the graphics chip maker brings the product to market in the middle of November, it has been claimed. The boards may also be the first to tout a new physics processing system. According to a DailyTech report, the GeForce 8800 GTX will …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 10:50

  • Crystal balls with HP

    HP looks to utility, aggregation and legacies

    Following on from the formal launch earlier this month of the latest version of its Integrity Servers equipped with dual-core Montecito processors, HP put on a users' bash in London to drum up business from both existing and new customers. This provided the chance to ponder future trends for the company with Don Jenkins, VP of …

    Enterprise 5 Oct 2006, 11:41

  • Microsoft will police licenses through SMS

    That's Systems Management Server to you

    Microsoft is beefing up policing for Windows licensing after going back to the drawing board on its asset management strategy. Upcoming editions of Systems Management Server (SMS) will introduce metadata and workflow tools and capabilities for management of software licenses in a three-phase plan. Starting with an SMS 2003 R2 …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 12:06

  • AMD said to have approved foundry's 65nm fab

    Chartered Semiconductor's process validated, sources claim

    Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor looks set to continue its foundry partnership with AMD into the 65nm era, if industry-insider claims that the chip maker has validated Chartered's 65nm production facility. AMD signed Chartered to produce 90nm CPUs almost two years ago, in November 2004. In July this year, AMD said …

    PC Builder 5 Oct 2006, 12:52

  • A compromise in European patenting debate?

    Unexpected move

    A week ahead of the European Parliament's vote on the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), the three major groups of MEPs that had been opposing the EPLA have unexpectedly reached a compromise agreement that means they will instead vote for the proposal. Anti-software patent campaigner Florian Mueller described the …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 12:56

  • Tesco self-scan tills 'open to card fraud'

    Lets thieves help themselves

    Security shortcomings involving Tesco self-service tills make it easier for crooks to pay for groceries using stolen credit or debit cards, according to UK consumer group Which?. At around 200 of the supermarket’s stores, shoppers can scan their shopping themselves before paying for groceries using cards. The problem is that …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 13:02

  • AOpen touts 'speed-limit breaking' 18x DVD writer

    But Sony broke it first

    AOpen today announced its first DVD burner capable of writing DVD±R media at 18x speed. It will also read and write DVD-RAMs at 12x. A sort of 18, 12 overture perhaps? Oh well. According to AOpen, it's "a new limit of optical disk drive". Maybe, but Sony got there first with its AWG170A, launched in August this year. Just …

    Reg Hardware 5 Oct 2006, 13:14

  • Indian data theft 'exposed'

    Britain gripped by fear of keyboard-wielding foreigners

    A man in India offered to sell the front man of a Channel 4 sting operation the credit card details of 200,000 people, the programme Dispatches will reveal tonight. The programme makers were inspired by a sting operation mounted on an Indian call centre last year by The Sun newspaper, in which a man allegedly sold the bank …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 15:08

  • Rigby sets stage for SCH dynasty

    Eldest son takes major role

    Specialist Computer Holdings (SCH) boss Sir Peter Rigby has put his eldest son James in charge of the British business, fueling speculation that he is being lined up for the top job when his dad retires. The UK arm turns over €1.3bn and employs 3,000 people, according to the FT. James Rigby told the paper that part of his …

    IT Channel 5 Oct 2006, 15:18

  • Arnie terminates RFID bill

    It'll be back, vows sponsor

    Legislative proposals to regulate government use of RFID technology in California have been vetoed by state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Identity Information Protection Act of 2006 (SB 768), which would have introduced privacy laws to safeguard personal data stored on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 15:20

  • HP's 'ethics' chief emerges as spy scandal star

    We did it my way

    On September 6 - Carly Fiorina's birthday - investigators involved in the HP spy scandal could hear the butcher's footsteps. Quite a few people would be sacrificed because of the public relations mess, and those closest to the probe would likely be cut across the neck first. "We are being hung out to dry, the politics, smokes …

    IT Channel 5 Oct 2006, 18:12

  • Play chess on your nearest e-voting machine

    Dutch go Irish

    IT professionals in the Netherlands have demonstrated that the type of e-voting machines chosen by the Irish government for election counts can be secretly hacked. Using documentation obtained from the Irish Department of the Environment, Dutch IT experts from anti e-voting group, "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" (We don't …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 19:01

  • Microsoft blesses Datacenter users with limitless OS copies

    Go virtual, go nuts

    Microsoft, of all companies, continues to lead the way with free and loose licensing terms around server virtualization software and multi-core processors. As of Oct 1, Windows Server Datacenter Edition operating system customers will have the right to run "an unlimted number of virtualized Windows Server instances." This …

    Enterprise 5 Oct 2006, 20:27

  • SOA software guy from Sun walks up to The Reg and says ...

    My punchline is better than theirs

    Rich Green, Sun Microsystems' new software chief, thinks his rivals are "hung up" on service oriented architectures (SOA), and are failing to grasp the bigger picture. In an interview with The Register, Green said that Oracle, IBM, SAP and others are using SOAs to integrate existing components. But the long-term goal should …

    Software & Security 5 Oct 2006, 21:10

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