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6th October 2006 Archive

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  • Northamber watches profit and revs fall

    Ouch...

    Distie Northamber has had to cut its dividend after falling sales and margins hit profits. The company complained that tough trading combined with pressure on prices pushed profits down to £430,000 from £2.61m last year. Revenue was down too, despite higher volume. Northamber sold £204.4m worth of kit compared to £236.3m in …

    IT Channel 6 Oct 2006, 08:48

  • ATI targets next-gen Athlon 64 FX with four-GPU chipset?

    Roadmap ATI leak neatly coincides with AMD's

    ATI will target AMD's Socket AM2+ interconnect with its RD790 chipset - a part with the abiility to host four graphics cards, allegedly leaked company roadmap slides reveal. Socket AM2+ is expected to debut in Q3 2007 so support the HyperTransport 3.0 bus AMD's K8L 65nm dual- and quad-core processors. The ATI slides, posted …

    PC Builder 6 Oct 2006, 10:39

  • Busy Patch Tuesday looms

    11 updates, some critical

    October's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's monthly security update, will see the release of 11 security updates, some of which are critical. Six of the bulletins deal with flaws in Windows (at least one, and possibly more, one of which is critical), four deal with flaws in Microsoft Office (again with at least one critical update). …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 2006, 10:45

  • ATI next-gen chips said to back Vista Flash cache tech

    SB700 ready for ReadyDrive?

    The next generation of ATI's South Bridge core logic technology will support Flash memory as a fast-loading, power-conserving hard drive data cache, if allegedly leaked company roadmap slides are to be believed. ATI's current South Bridge, SB600, debuted in May this year, though it didn't show up in chipsets until a little …

    PC Builder 6 Oct 2006, 11:01

  • ATI RD580 set to star in AMD's '4x4'?

    Alleged roadmap points to three-GPU, two-CPU update

    ATI's ageing AMD-oriented RD580 discrete chipset will soon be upgraded to support three graphics cards and two CPUs, it has been claimed. The part will join the upcoming RS690 to lead ATI's sales drive during H1 2007. According to a roadmap presentation made public by Spanish-language website ChileHardware, RD580 will …

    PC Builder 6 Oct 2006, 11:31

  • Worm automates Google AdSense fraud

    Click-fraud menace spreads using IM

    Virus writers have crafted a malware threat that serves up expensive Google AdSense web pages related to mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Industry workers affected by the disease have launched a series of lawsuits, a factor that means "ambulance chasing" lawyers pay through the nose to get a mention …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 2006, 15:53

  • D-Link powers up for 10Gig

    It's cheerful, but is it cheap?

    D-Link reckons its latest 24-port stackable Gigabit Ethernet switch should be just the ticket for small and medium-sized businesses looking to their next-generation network. "The main things are it's Layer 2, all Gigabit, all PoE (Power-over-Ethernet) and it has modular slots on the back for 10Gig backbones," said product …

    PC Builder 6 Oct 2006, 21:33

  • Alcatel pushes 10Gig aggregation

    Baby version of big core switches

    Alcatel reckons it's time that 10Gig Ethernet reached the wiring closet, and has extended its Omniswitch 9000 series with a low-end five-slot chassis able to support up to 24 10Gig ports, 96 1Gig ports, or a combination thereof. Like other 9000 series switches, the new 9600 offers features such as wire-rate IPv4/IPv6 processing …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 2006, 21:39

  • T-Mobile USA splashes the 3G cash

    $2.7bn here, $4.2bn there - it starts adding up

    T-Mobile USA, America's smallest cellco, is to splashing $2.7bn on a 3G network build-out. Until last month, the German-owned firm was constrained by a severe shortage of wireless spectrum - meaning crap reception in many areas and more network busy signals than its rivals. That was solved last month with the conclusion of the …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 2006, 23:05

  • Microsoft lets slip Windows Vista RC2

    The final, final test build

    Microsoft today made available a new test build for Windows Vista, the mythical desktop operating system of legend. It's called RC2, or Release Candidate 2 (build number 5744), and it really is only for diehard Vista testaholics. And the stupid. The download page comes with a warning in bold type: Please note: This build may …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 2006, 23:34

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