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13th October 2006 Archive

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  • PalmSource name consigned to the Dustbin of History

    Access all areas

    As Palm basked in the glow of publicity surrounding its Treo 680 launch in New York today, its once co-joined software twin PalmSource slipped quietly from view. PalmSource, the brains behind the Palm OS running on 40 million mobile devices worldwide, is now to be called Access, after its new owner. And it gets a new logo too …

    IT Channel 13 Oct 2006, 02:40

  • D-Link calls for Brits to help find stolen routers

    7,000 go walkies

    D-Link yesterday called on the British public to help it find 7,200 wireless starter kits stolen en route to its European logistics company. It has released no details of the theft, but it says it has evidence that the goods are being sold on the open market. Says Tahira Perveen, D-Link's boss in the UK and Ireland: "This …

    PC Builder 13 Oct 2006, 06:02

  • Apple in code search profanity outrage

    NSFW 'Register the f**king window class'

    Our chums down at SecurityFocus recently warned that Google's new Code Search facility could allow developers' open source repositories to be "easily mined, allowing attackers to target programs that are likely to be flawed". A chilling warning, to be sure. However, we have just been made aware that code search engines could be …

    Software & Security 13 Oct 2006, 09:39

  • Sapphire out to shock with overclocked Toxic cards

    Radeon X1950 XTX on board

    Graphics card maker Sapphire today took the wraps off what it claims is the "fastest add-in board on the planet" - the water-cooled Toxic X1950XTX. It also unveiled a "limited edition" Toxix X1950 CrossFire Edition board. The X1950XTX's GPU is clocked by the bundled Automatic Performance Enhancer tool from the stock 650MHz to …

    PC Builder 13 Oct 2006, 09:57

  • Dell kills Overland storage tie-up

    Thanks for the hard work

    Dell has crushed the hopes and dreams of Overland Storage by nixing a reselling deal that had yet to get going. Overland announced its tie-up with Dell last November and hoped to ship the computer maker a pair of automated tape libraries. Dell, however, appeared frustrated with Overland's inability to ship the gear on time. As …

    Enterprise 13 Oct 2006, 10:04

  • Sun turns to EMC and HP for help selling storage

    Virtual tape good to go too

    Long troubled by the art of selling storage, Sun Microsystems has decided that buttering up rivals might help it move gear. The company this week celebrated a new partner program with the likes of EMC and HP and finally announced its heterogeneous tape management plans. The Sun StorageTek Ready program looks more fluff than …

    Enterprise 13 Oct 2006, 11:10

  • Siemens Business Services rejigged again

    It's like Trotsky's permanent revolution...

    Siemens Business Services (SBS) is reorganising and renaming itself again, as it bundles all its IT and software activities into one company. SBS becomes SIS - Siemens IT Solutions and Services - which will be made up of four groups: program and system engineering (PSE), Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL), development, …

    Software & Security 13 Oct 2006, 11:38

  • The Danes are coming...

    And they're looking for resellers

    Danware is opening a UK subsidiary under the name NetOp Tech Ltd and is looking to recruit resellers. The company makes remote controls, teaching software and security products. It has already opened an office in Reading, Berkshire and got eight staff on board. Mark Kibblewhite, an ex-Microsoft channel manager, joined as …

    IT Channel 13 Oct 2006, 12:04

  • US DoJ probes SRAM pricing cartel claim?

    Cypress, Samsung say they'll co-operate

    The US Department of Justice's antitrust division is to probe the SRAM market, it has emerged. Yesterday, Cypress Semiconductor announced it was co-operating with the enquiry, and would "make available employees, documents and all other relevant information" to DoJ investigators. And today Samsung was quoted by the South …

    IT Channel 13 Oct 2006, 12:37

  • MS to pull security teams under Windows umbrella

    After Vista

    Microsoft has moved its key security division into its Windows group as part of an ongoing reorganisation due to come into effect after the completion of development work on Windows Vista. Redmond's security, trustworthy computing, and engineering excellence teams will be amalgamated into a single trustworthy computing group …

    Software & Security 13 Oct 2006, 12:56

  • Microsoft tells EC it will ship Vista

    EC says: On your head be it

    Microsoft is going ahead with launching Vista in Europe and South Korea, in spite of fears the software could be delayed because of concerns from European and Korean competition regulators. Reuters reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes that it is going ahead with the worldwide …

    Software & Security 13 Oct 2006, 13:07

  • Oracle to provide clearer vulnerability ratings

    In at number one it's the latest Buffer Overflow...

    Oracle is to start ranking the severity of security bugs it fixes using an industry-standard scoring system starting with its next quarterly patch update, due on 17 October. The database giant will grade the threat posed by the bugs it fixes using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). It has also promised to give an …

    Software & Security 13 Oct 2006, 15:12

  • AMD waves the Maple Leaf for Canadian regulators

    O ATI, we stand on guard for thee

    The Canadian government has approved AMD's proposed takeover, of ATI, the home-grown graphics processor company. AMD may hail from California, but it played the Canadian card before the country's regulators. It says it will expand R&D expenditure and hire more R&D employees, compared with ATI's spend in previous years, and it …

    IT Channel 13 Oct 2006, 21:23

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