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10th October 2006 Archive

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  • Ray Noorda is dead

    Suffered Alzheimer's for many years

    Ray Noorda, the almost-founder of Novell, is dead at 82, following a long battle with Alzheimer's. Noorda joined Novell, Provo, Utah in 1983 when it had just 17 employees. He presided over enormous growth at the company, helped by Netware, its enormously successful network operating system. By the time he left in 1995, the …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 02:21

  • Intel EOLs Pentium D 805

    Low-end CPU marked for termination

    Intel has officially marked the Pentium D 805 processor for termination, company documents reveal. The chip giant will take no further orders for the part - either boxed product or tray-mounted batches - after 9 February 2007. The 805 was only introduced in July this year. It's the only Pentium D chip that operates on a …

    PC Builder 10 Oct 2006, 08:46

  • Info guardian to investigate call centre data leaks

    TV expose´ prompts ICO security probe

    The Information Commissioner is launching an investigation into outsourced data centres after a television programme exposed security breaches at Indian call centres. Channel 4's Dispatches was offered individuals' banking details for as little as £8 by criminal networks in India. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 08:52

  • Chaos Computer Club condemns e-voting machine

    Flaws detected

    The German Computer Chaos Club, Europe's largest hacker group, has called for a ban on the Nedap ES3B voting machine and similar computers after a Dutch citizens group found flaws in the dated e-voting machine. The computer is used in elections in the Netherlands, Germany and France, and marketed in the United States by Liberty …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 09:20

  • In praise of FPGAs

    Building an active data warehouse appliance

    All data warehouse appliances have a massively parallel architecture in which there are multiple nodes that put processing as close as possible to the disk drives. In Netezza's Performance Server these nodes are known as Snippet Processing Units (SPUs: pronounced, incidentally, to rhyme with Gnu rather than being a homonym for …

    Enterprise 10 Oct 2006, 09:30

  • IE7 to debut in October

    Ready or not?

    Microsoft has confirmed that IE7 will be released as an optional download later this month. The long-awaited next version of Microsoft's browser software will be pushed out as an automatic update a "few weeks" later, probably as part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday update cycle in either November or December. Firms not …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 10:31

  • AMD 65nm dual-core Turion laptop CPUs due Q2 2007?

    Smaller Mobile Semprons too

    AMD will take its main mobile microprocessor families into the 65nm era during Q2 2007, it has been claimed. The so-called 'Revision G' update will see the addition of 800MHz DDR 2 memory support to the CPUs' on-board memory controller. According to a DigiTimes report citing Taiwanese laptop-maker sources, the first 65nm …

    PC Builder 10 Oct 2006, 11:08

  • EVGA touts 'fastest' GeForce 7950 GT-based board yet

    HDCP support built in

    Graphics card maker EVGA has announced what it claims is the fastest board around that's based on Nvidia's GeForce 7950 GT-based product. It also incorporates support for the HDCP copy-protection system beloved of high-definition content providers. EVGA's e-GeForce 7950GT KO Superclocked card runs the GPU at 600MHz and the …

    PC Builder 10 Oct 2006, 11:47

  • Spamhaus fights US court domain threat

    Black hole for blacklist 'unlikely'

    Spamhaus is at risk of losing its domain because of court action by a firm it has labelled as a spammer. The threat comes after the anti-spam organisation refused to comply with a September ruling by a US court requiring it to pay $11.7m in compensation to e360 Insight, pull the organisation's listing, and post a notice stating …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 14:31

  • Swiss gov 'mulls' spyware to tap VoIP calls

    Paging Superintendent Trojan

    The Swiss government is "considering" the use of a spyware application called Superintendent Trojan to eavesdrop on IP telephony conversation, Heise Security reports. Swiss firm ERA IT Solutions said it hopes to supply the Superintendent Trojan only to government agencies, a policy it hopes will leave it off malware blacklists …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 14:35

  • SpikeSource - an OSS innovation?

    Open source software is growing up....

    Does SpikeSource represent the next stage in the evolution of open source software as a serious business tool? It hopes so, and it has some significant names to call on: Kim Polese, its CEO and co-founder, once co-founder of Marimba; Ray Lane, co-founder of SpikeSource and former president of Oracle; Bill Joy, SpikeSource …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 14:55

  • Gartner predicts biggest change in PCs for a generation

    Well, for 20 years....

    Analysts at Gartner are predicting the next few months will see the biggest technology changes to PCs for 20 years. Because of this they say decisions made now will have an impact on operations for a decade. The changes are in hardware, software, and in how technology is managed, the company has been telling delegates at its …

    Enterprise 10 Oct 2006, 15:27

  • CfH eyes NPfIT supplier catalogue

    Somewhere to go when things go wrong

    Connecting for Health (CfH) is to create a catalogue of suppliers for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Intellect, the UK trade association for IT suppliers, said it welcomed the move to set up a catalogue which will enable CfH to draw on extra capacity to help deliver the £6bn programme. However, he warned the use of a …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 15:34

  • Force10 spreads the 10Gig goodness

    But is nice technology enough to beat Cisco?

    10Gig Ethernet specialist Force10 Networks has introduced two 1/10Gig switches as it attempts to break out of its data centre ghetto into the wider business world. Force10's non-blocking Gig and 10Gig core switch/router technology has won it a number of high profile accounts, including CERN and several internet exchanges, but …

    Enterprise 10 Oct 2006, 15:37

  • Vista-inspired Windows Mobile 6 spied on web

    'Crossbow' screenshots leaked

    Some nice-looking screenshots of Microsoft's next version of Windows Mobile - codenamed 'Crossbow' - have popped up on the web to show the upcoming operating system's swankier graphics. The images come courtesy of MSMobileNews, which has a selection of shots on offer. Meanwhile, the similarly names MSMobiles has a smaller pic …

    reghardware 10 Oct 2006, 15:42

  • Alcatel fingers Eye-box

    Eye-eye for SMB servers

    Alcatel has fingered specialist distributor Eye-box Centre to flog its small and medium-sized business servers. The various bits of kit cater for firms with 25 to 300 employees. Eye-box will hawk the boxes direct, as well as farming the task out to resellers, which Alcatel says will benefit from reduced lead times under the new …

    Enterprise 10 Oct 2006, 16:11

  • MS revokes 'adware' distributor's community award

    Disavowed

    Microsoft has pulled a developer award to a programmer linked to adware distribution one week after granting the accolade. Cyril Paciullo, the developer of Messenger Plus and Messenger Plus Live, lost his Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) endorsement after critics pointed out that the software had been used to distribute an ad …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 16:31

  • One Petabyte in a single volume

    Now that's what I call an archive!

    Isilon has updated its OneFS distributed file system, and added snapshot and load balancing software. OneFS can now manage one Petabyte of capacity, Isilon claims, where the previous version topped out at 250TB. OneFS is part of Isilon's IQ software suite for clustered storage. The new version, OneFS 4.5, allows up to 1PB of …

    Enterprise 10 Oct 2006, 21:33

  • Ballmer sees PC future in web services world

    Rottweiler with bone

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today delivered a defense of PC-based computing in the face of a growing trend to deliver software as a service over the internet. He says the market is changing to a point where applications will run as easily as websites, but software will continue to rely on local processing power - a fact that …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 22:26

  • PeopleSoft whistleblower lands $17.3m jackpot

    Former employee exposed price gouging

    A whistleblower who exposed price gouging of federal customers by his former employer, Peoplesoft, will get $17.3m for his troubles. This is James A Hicks's share of the $98.5m returned to the US government today by Oracle, Peoplesoft's owner, to settle allegations of sharp practice. The case was filed under the False Claims …

    Software & Security 10 Oct 2006, 23:17

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