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19th October 2006 Archive

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  • MacBooks, iPods power Apple's fourth quarter

    Intel effect due any day

    Apple has broken yet another quarterly sales record thanks to the power of Mac and customer demand for Intel-based MacBooks outstripping supply. Apple shipped 1.6m Macs in its Q4, besting its previous record of 1.3m in Q1 2000. For the three months to September 30, Mac sales rose 37 per cent to $2.21bn, and accounted for 58 per …

    IT Channel 19 Oct 2006, 00:04

  • ATI: all our GPUs will be 80nm by July 2007

    And then it'll release 65nm parts...

    ATI may have only just shipped its first 80nm graphics chip - the Radeon X1950 Pro, reviewed here - but it's already talking about the 45nm node. It's out to adopt such a process by 2008, a senior staffer has revealed. Speaking at the Taiwanese launch of the X1950 Pro earlier this week, Edward Chou, marketing chief at ATI's …

    PC Builder 19 Oct 2006, 09:21

  • HP knocks Dell off PC pedestal without trying

    Round Rock's shame

    HP has snatched the PC crown from Dell's barely coherent clutches. It has taken HP close to three years to once again lead the market in worldwide PC sales. Under CEO Carly Fiorina and post Compaq, the company largely gave up on the tit-for-tat struggle with Dell for the PC top spot that had been so important to it over the …

    PC Builder 19 Oct 2006, 09:27

  • Feds allege Samsung, Hynix execs fixed DRAM prices

    Hefty fines, jail terms if convicted

    Two Samsung executives and a senior Hynix employee have been formally charged with conspiring to fix DRAM prices worldwide between 1 April 2001 and 15 June 2002, US antitrust investigators with the Department of Justice announced yesterday. The three defendants are charged with violating the US Sherman Act. If convicted, they …

    IT Channel 19 Oct 2006, 09:56

  • IE7 unleashed

    ...as researchers identify first bug

    Microsoft's much-anticipated IE7 browser is finally available for download, 18 months after Bill Gates announced plans to deliver Redmond's first major upgrade to its browser software since the release of IE6 in August 2001. Key enhancements to IE 7 over IE 6 include anti-phishing features and improved ActiveX controls among …

    Software & Security 19 Oct 2006, 10:13

  • ModSecurity 2.0 hits the streets

    Interview Ivan Ristic explains what's hot about the new release

    ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall that runs as an Apache module, and version 2.0 offers many new features and improvements. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Ivan Ristic to discuss the new logging system, events tracking and correlation, filtering AJAX or AFLAX applications, and just-in-time patching for closed …

    Software & Security 19 Oct 2006, 10:22

  • Information disclosure bug blights IE7 release

    Plus ça change

    Security researchers have already discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in IE7 hours after the release (story here) of Microsoft's long-awaited browser software upgrade. The flaw stems from error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. Security notification firm Secunia reports that …

    Software & Security 19 Oct 2006, 10:25

  • Juniper's Q3 profit remains a mystery

    Prefers to discuss modest revenue hike

    Juniper Networks managed a ho-hum third quarter, as far as we can tell. The company continues to play hide-and-seek with profit figures, while it tries to sort out some accounting, er, issues. The networking company saw third quarter revenue rise a humble 5 per cent to $574m, which compares to $546m in the same period last year …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 10:29

  • Intel cans second-generation Centrino chips

    'Sonoma' demise signalled

    Intel has reportedly told customers they will no longer be able to buy 'Dothan' Pentium M processors come January 2007. These processors - and, indeed, other components of the 'Sonoma' generation of the company's Centrino platform - now have a December deadline for orders. Given we're already onto the second incarnation of ' …

    PC Builder 19 Oct 2006, 10:40

  • Intel to bring vPro tech to laptops with Centrino Pro?

    Business-friendly 'Santa Rosa' strand

    We've seen Centrino and, more recently, Centrino Duo, but will you now please welcome Centrino Pro, said to be the go-to-market brand for upcoming business-oriented laptops incorporating Intel's vPro technologies. So claim industry sources cited by Chinese-language website HKEPC, at any rate. Intel announced vPro earlier this …

    PC Builder 19 Oct 2006, 11:12

  • Silver Peak climbs to new record

    Storage Expo It's ice-axes at dawn for WAN acceleration rivals

    Silver Peak claims it's retaken the high ground in WAN optimisation by adding a model which it says is capable of processing up to 500Mbit/s with all its acceleration features turned on. Previously, its range topped out at 155Mbit/s. The NX-8500, which costs around £70,000, uses the same software as Silver Peak's other boxes …

    PC Builder 19 Oct 2006, 11:17

  • Storage Expo: who's excited?

    Blog ZZ Top on snowboards

    At times, the show floor at Storage Expo looks beardier than the biennial Taliban ZZ Top fan club dinner and no dancing. We've come to terms with it though: this is the fugly end of IT, rampant hirsutism is to be expected. The show is the UK's only dedicated storage event. And it shows: every vendor is represented one way or …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 11:32

  • Microsoft promises more info for security firms

    Battle by briefing continues

    Microsoft has promised McAfee and Symantec that it will provide more API information during online briefings later today. Both firms rejected Microsoft's earlier offer of interoperability information as insufficient. Microsoft says Vista takes its security more seriously than previous releases and blocks access to the Windows …

    Software & Security 19 Oct 2006, 12:06

  • Hard drives get even harder

    Storage Expo Baydel flashes it, Texas Mem Sys RAMs it home

    If your applications are slow even on Fibre Channel hard disks, Baydel reckons it has the answer - a 3.5-inch 4Gbit Fibre Channel drive full of Flash memory. The devices are called Maracite and run up to 146GB each. Baydel's also offering four of them in a 1U rackmount chassis called FlashStor, so you can have half a terabyte …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 13:01

  • No, not that Boston

    Storage Expo Fat iSCSI, Flashy NAS, and it's British too. Kind of...

    Sometimes at shows like this - especially with the US vendors mostly saving up for SNW in Orlando in a fortnight's time - it's the smaller British companies that have the interesting gear. Take for example Boston, a disti and system builder - not from Lincolnshire or Massachussetts as one might expect, but from the wilds of …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 13:53

  • Brits keep it simple in Somerset

    Storage Expo Tape libraries with no fuss

    If you reckon storage is getting way too complicated and layered, you're not alone. It's the rationale behind M5 Data, a Somerset-based start-up which claims its upcoming Richmond tape libraries will provide high density and scalability, with no added fuss. "Other library players are trying to add value - disk caches and so on …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 14:46

  • Opera hit by buffer overflow glitch

    Big links crash browser

    Opera users are being urged to upgrade to a new version of the browser following the discovery of a potentially serious security bug. The flaw means that vulnerable versions of the browsers will crash when visiting maliciously constructed web sites containing overly long (more than 256 bytes) URLs. Successful exploitation of …

    Software & Security 19 Oct 2006, 16:17

  • Hitachi pays out in patent dispute with employee

    Optical disillusion

    A Japanese inventor has won a patent dispute with his employer which will net him 163 million yen (£733,000) in compensation for his research on optical disks. The Supreme Court in Japan made the ruling, backing the decision of a lower court. The money to be paid by Hitachi to Seiji Yonezawa is a share of overseas royalties on …

    Enterprise 19 Oct 2006, 18:03

  • Fiorina plays ingenue in media show trial

    Je ne regrette rien... well, maybe just one thing

    Carly Fiorina has pleaded naïvety in handling fame as Hewlett-Packard Co's boss, but justified her actions saying she was revitalizing HP's flagging brand - not promoting herself. Fiorina, named Fortune Magazine's most powerful woman in business for six successive years, claimed Thursday she'd been unprepared for the media …

    IT Channel 19 Oct 2006, 23:16

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