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  • Nvidia posts graphics code tweaking tool

    Could yield to 35 per cent more frames per second

    Nvidia has updated its suite of programming tools for graphics-intensive applications running under 32- and 64-bit incarnations of Windows and Linux. The tools target OpenGL and Direct3D apps that will render 3D imagery on the company's GPUs. The suite, dubbed NVPerfKit 2.1, helps developers analyse their graphics code. …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 07:02

  • Intel to 'spend $300m' to push Centrino Pro

    Windows Vista tie-in part of the plan?

    Intel will spend a whopping $300m to promote its upcoming Centrino Pro enterprise-oriented notebook platform, it has been claimed by sources from Taiwan's laptop manufacturer community. Intel will piggyback the launch on Windows Vista, they added. So DigiTimes reports. As we noted yesterday Centrino Pro is believed to mark …

    PC Builder 20 Oct 2006, 07:02

  • Bigger, longer, uncut: Oracle OpenWorld

    Ellison holds hands with Sir Elton John

    After two years' buying other people's companies and merging Oracle World and Oracle Apps World, it can safely be said Oracle's annual call to Mecca has outgrown itself. Next week's Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) 2006 will be a ringing testament to Oracle's enduring power and will also demonstrate just how much a growing tide pool of …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 10:02

  • Organised crime fails to stop skiddies

    Comment Disorganised web to blame

    About a year ago, I attended a top-level roundtable meeting of malware experts, where we discussed organised crime on the internet, and came to the conclusion that, in one sense, it might be a good thing for users. That sense was trivial, of course, compared with the problems of extortion and "protection" rackets. But it looked …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 10:41

  • MS and researchers split hairs over first IE7 flaw

    Bun fight over bug report

    A dispute has broken out over reports of the first security vulnerability in IE7 since its release earlier this week. Microsoft claims the vulnerability stems from a flaw in Outlook Express, but security researchers say that since the bug can be exploited via IE7 it is really an IE7 vulnerability. The dispute kicked off on …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 11:05

  • Microsoft assumes temporal dominion

    Email addicts threatened by time theft

    Next week could see chaos as Microsoft assumes control of the fourth dimension, robbing UK businesses of a whole hour of work. A problem with Microsoft Exchange Server means programmes such as Outlook will turn the clocks back a week early, plunging Britain's Blackberry-weilding suits into a thundering whirlpool of temporal …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 11:08

  • Sun in a box and IE7 out of the box

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    Vodafone walks own path The trouble with the technology business is that no sooner is there a bandwagon then everyone is on it. So it's nice to see a company ignore what the rest of the industry is doing and walk its own path. While every mobile phone company is keen to sell us broadband services, cable telly, video messaging …

    IT Channel 20 Oct 2006, 12:14

  • N Korea cancels further nuke tests

    Chinese pressure apparently successful

    It appears Chinese pressure on North Korea not to carry out further nuclear tests has succeeded, the BBC reports. The Pyongyang regime reportedly detonated a small device on 9 October, much to the chagrin of just about everyone, but notably the United States. Accordingly, Chinese president Hu Jintao dispatched envoy Tang …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 12:50

  • Proprietary coders complain about OS study

    Leaked letter causes a stir

    Proprietary software makers have complained to the European Commission that they have not been given enough time to review a report on the economic role of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), and accuse the commission of being "intolerant to opposing comments" regarding the research. In a letter seen by The Register Hugo …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 12:54

  • McAfee hoping MS will live up to 'hollow' promises

    Microsoft unimpressed

    The latest in the never-ending ding-dong between Microsoft and Vista-twitchy security vendors was another snipe from McAfee yesterday, swiftly followed by the inevitable backbitching from Redmond today. McAfee quickly came out to rubbish yesterday's reiterated promises from Redmond that it would hand over code crucial to …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 14:43

  • US court denies request to suspend Spamhaus domain

    Spam roadblock remains in place

    A US judge has denied a request to order internet registrars to suspend Spamhaus's domain, easing concerns that the spam blocking service might be interrupted. Judge Charles Kocoras turned down a motion from e360 Insight, a firm that sued Spamhaus after the anti-spam organisation blacklisted its domains over alleged spamming, …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 15:44

  • Is archiving the answer to compliance?

    Storage Expo Lots of managers think it might be, apparently

    Disaster recovery is more important than regulatory compliance and organisations are using archiving to answer both needs, according to a survey of business managers and IT staff. The survey found that interest in regulatory compliance is falling, not rising, according to Tony Cotterill, the boss of BridgeHead Software, which …

    Enterprise 20 Oct 2006, 15:48

  • Beer fingerprints to go UK-wide

    Yeovil, an example for us all

    The government is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities. Funding is being offered to councils that want to have their pubs keep a regional black list of known trouble makers. The fingerprint network installed in February by South Somerset District Council in Yeovil …

    Software & Security 20 Oct 2006, 17:45

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