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17th October 2006 Archive

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  • US DoJ SRAM probe takes in Mitsubishi

    Renesas co-founder approached

    Mitsubishi has become the third company to confess it has been approached by the US Department of Justice regarding the anti-trust agency's investigation into the US SRAM market. The DoJ has itself yet to confirm it is looking into the SRAM business, or why. Mitsubishi didn't say much either, but it did admit the probe might …

    IT Channel 17 Oct 2006, 08:53

  • £1bn of OGC business up for grabs

    Integrated systems suppliers come on down

    The government is looking for suppliers of integrated systems to help with its efficiency and transformation programmes The Office of Government Commerce's (OGC) procurement agency has issued a tender for £1bn of ICT services. OGCbuying.solutions published its Integrated Solutions framework on 16 October 2006 in the Official …

    IT Channel 17 Oct 2006, 09:15

  • iSoft predicts fall in revenue and offers itself for sale

    NPfIT provider in intensive care

    Troubled health provider iSoft is up for sale and expects revenues to fall between 10 and 15 per cent for the year. iSoft is supposed to be playing a central role in the world's largest public sector IT project - Blair's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - to transform technology use in the NHS. The company is being …

    Software & Security 17 Oct 2006, 10:47

  • Sun touts boxed-up data centres

    It could have been a contender

    Sun has looked to the future and has, we assume, seen that it is metal, and box-shaped. The company has developed a data centre in-a-box (actually a 20-foot shipping container) that it says can be deployed virtually anywhere, provided there is water and electricity to plug it into. The idea is that companies will be able to …

    Enterprise 17 Oct 2006, 10:51

  • Nvidia rooted by Linux graphics bug

    Updated Binary blob malaise

    Security researchers have published an exploit that highlights a long-standing security bug in Nvidia graphic drivers for Linux. Nvidia Driver For Linux v8774 and v8762 are subject to a buffer overflow bug that creates a means for hackers to inject hostile code as root. The bug might be exploited locally or remotely, providing …

    Software & Security 17 Oct 2006, 11:54

  • Fayrewood flogs UMD

    Board approves...

    Distie Fayrewood is selling UMD, part of its Niche Distribution division, to Italian firm Esprinet for €79m. Fayrewood gets €53.5m in cash plus a €3m divi, which has already been paid. Esprinet is also taking on debts of €25.5m. The board decided the difficulty of finding an acquisition in order to create a pan-European …

    IT Channel 17 Oct 2006, 11:58

  • EMC's profit drops, along with the spirits of 1,250 staff

    Sales surge

    Despite strong third quarter storage and software sales, EMC plans to do away with 1,250 staff over the next year. EMC today disclosed the job cuts as it handed in third quarter results. Revenue surged 19 per cent during the period to $2.82bn. Even when excluding the help of recent acquisitions RSA and Network Intelligence, EMC …

    Enterprise 17 Oct 2006, 14:03

  • Samsung Flash drives win WHQL thumbs-up

    Windows compatible - official

    It's official - Samsung's Solid-State Disk (SSD) products are Windows compatible. Yes, the South Korean giant's three Flash-based hard drives - two 32GB models and a 16GB unit - have passed Microsoft's WHQL certification, the manufacturer said today. Samsung was quick to tout the units' benefits - read and write speeds of …

    PC Builder 17 Oct 2006, 14:17

  • Linux-on-Mac team to ship PS3 release

    Yellow Dog coming to Sony's next-gen console

    Terra Soft Solutions is to port its PowerPC-based Yellow Dog Linux distribution over to the PlayStation 3, the company claimed today. PS3 support will come courtesy of YDL 5.0, which is due to ship mid-November - as is the PS3. YDL has been around since the late 1990s, when it was aimed at PowerPC-based Macs as an alternative …

    Reg Hardware 17 Oct 2006, 15:47

  • Microsoft promises to give away key virtualization spec

    Even VMware is invited

    Hoping to up interest in its virtualization wares, Microsoft today freed up one of its key specifications used to manipulate virtual servers and applications. Redmond has pushed the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification under the umbrella of its Open Specification Promise (OSP). That means that Microsoft will …

    Enterprise 17 Oct 2006, 17:24

  • US Defense Department pays $440m for HP's 'special services'

    Spies like us

    Nothing says, "We're reading your every word and listening to your every phone call" better than a $440m deal between HP and the US Department of Defense. In desperate need of some good news, HP fed reporters a statement today detailing two data center wins with the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). One deal for HP- …

    The Register 17 Oct 2006, 17:41

  • Microsoft goes R&D crazy, gets caught in analyst headlights

    How much is that doggie in the Windows?

    Microsoft is spending $1.3bn more than previously announced to take on internet rivals Google and Yahoo!. Says who? Says chief executive Steve Ballmer, who reportedly said Microsoft's R&D spend would hit $7.5bn for the current fiscal year 2007. In May Microsoft said it would spend $6.2bn for FY'07, a budget that sent Wall …

    Software & Security 17 Oct 2006, 18:39

  • Intel beats Street by country mile

    Slumpety plummety

    Price cuts and inventory write-offs hit Intel's bottom line in Q3 with net income falling 35 per cent year on year to $1.3bn on revenues down 12 per cent. Still, the chip giant can afford to be a little cheerful - earlier gloom had led analysts to forecast net income of $1.02bn, excluding special items. Special items in Intel's …

    IT Channel 17 Oct 2006, 22:15

  • Software and taxes fuel IBM's big Q3

    I did it buy-way

    Money talks, but for IBM it's software - and the odd tax adjustment - that walks. IBM recorded a 46.5 per cent growth in net income to $2.22bn on revenue up 5.1 per cent to $22.6bn, and earnings per diluted share of $1.45, compared to $0.94, for the third quarter ended September 30. IBM beat analyst expectations of $22.08bn …

    IT Channel 17 Oct 2006, 23:25

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