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24th October 2006 Archive

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  • Asus GeForce 8800 GTX-based board details leak

    Nvidia's 'G80' to sport GigaThread, Quantum Effects technologies

    The specifications of an upcoming Asus graphics card, the EN8800GTX, have been posted online to give a pretty good idea what Nvidia's upcoming GeForce 8800 GTX chip - aka 'G80' - will offer, including DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 support and Nvidia's Quantum Effects Technology. The EN8800GTX is a two-slot card that requires a …

    PC Builder 24 Oct 2006, 07:54

  • Intel follows AMD with CPU price cuts

    New models too

    Intel this weekend pruned its processor prices, making a series of cuts to its Celeron lines and a handful of other CPUs, according to its public price list, which was updated yesterday - the same day in which arch-rival AMD also tweaked what it charges for chips. Intel's Celeron D adjustments saw 8-22 per cent knocked off …

    PC Builder 24 Oct 2006, 08:26

  • ATI to launch Radeon X1650 XT next week?

    As AMD takeover goes through

    ATI will next week launch its 80nm RV560 chip as the Radeon X1650 XT, it has been claimed. By then, of course, the company will almost certainly be part of AMD and possibly no longer known by its original name. The 575MHz GPU - incidentally, the same speed Nvidia's upcoming GeForce 8800 GTX is alleged to have been set to - …

    PC Builder 24 Oct 2006, 09:33

  • SanDisk to secure online sales with USB Flash drives

    Crypto on your keychain

    SanDisk will next year bring secure computing to its USB Flash drives in a bid to persuade online banks, auction houses and retailers to use them to minimise unauthorised and fraudulent transactions. The technology is called TrustedSignins and essentially embeds a "high performance" encryption engine into the Flash drive. …

    Reg Hardware 24 Oct 2006, 09:57

  • Hacking contactless credit cards made easy

    Carson attack no laughing matter

    US security researchers have demonstrated how easy it might be for crooks to read sensitive personal information from RFID-based credit and debit cards. Tom Heydt-Benjamin and Kevin Fu, a University of Massachusetts professor from the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (RFID-CUSP), have shown how crooks might be able to …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 11:29

  • Google offers white label searches

    Pimp my Google!

    Google is offering a customisable version of its search engine for people to put on their own websites or blogs. The search giant has long offered a mini-version of itself for other sites to use, but the new version has more options. You can select what pages or websites the engine searches through or you can prioritise certain …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 11:47

  • I work for MS but even I struggle to get a hot-fix

    Redmond man in online support purgatory

    Obtaining a hot-fix from Microsoft is far from easy, even if you work for the software giant. That's what Microsoft Developer Solutions group manager Josh Ledgard discovered when he tried to obtain a software patch for Visual Studio 2005 to correct performance problems he was experiencing. The subsequent trail of woe - …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 14:00

  • Lik-Sang shuts shop, names PSP-purchasing senior Sony staffers

    Out with a bang?

    Hong Kong-based gaming hardware online retailer Lik-Sang.com has closed its doors, and it's firmly blaming Sony for its woes - even though many of the company's senior staffers have used its grey import service, the company alleged. No more orders will be taken from today, the retailer said. Existing orders will be cancelled …

    PC Builder 24 Oct 2006, 14:51

  • Microsoft plays ditch a distie

    Narrow target for broad-liners

    Microsoft is changing its UK channel structure and increasing the number of disties from six to 10. But it's not all good news - the three broad-line distributors Bell Microproducts, C2K and Ingram Micro - face an X-Factor style competition which will see one of them dropped. While all three keep their Microsoft contracts …

    IT Channel 24 Oct 2006, 15:15

  • SGI smacks ATI with graphics lawsuit

    And vows 'there's more to come'

    When SGI's boss Dennis McKenna vowed to get serious about the bankrupt company's IP portfolio this summer, he wasn't kidding. "We have a hell of a lot of IP left," he told The Register at the time. A day after it returned to NASDAQ (under a new stock ticker) SGI has filed suit against ATI claiming patent infringement. SGI …

    Enterprise 24 Oct 2006, 15:48

  • Vista kernel fix 'worse than useless'

    MS irks security researcher (part 411)

    Microsoft has modified Windows Vista to prevent a high-profile exploit demonstrated at security conferences this summer but the fix creates as many problems as it solves, according to the security researcher who identified the original problem. The bug, demonstrated by Joanna Rutkowska of security firm Coseinc, created a …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 15:57

  • RSA looks to dodge EMC's integration record

    ...with more acquisitions

    EMC's job cull, announced last week, was precipitated by a failure to fully exploit its lengthy acquisition roster. "A lot of lack in integration," was to blame for the cuts, Dennis Hoffman, VP of enterprise solutions for recent buy RSA said. The new security division of EMC will escape any cuts, but the firm has moved swiftly …

    Enterprise 24 Oct 2006, 16:09

  • Red Hat makes Xen GUI in Fedora Core 6

    Mac crowd massaged

    Red Hat has put Fedora Core 6 up for grabs. Xen fans and Mac fans have been asked to rejoice. Red Hat has been toying with Xen in past Fedora versions, but Core 6 brings with it a fancy new management tool. Those who loathe the command line can now fire up a GUI and control their Xen virtual servers from a convenient console. …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 18:19

  • Hurd: HP can do better

    OpenWorld IBM, Dell, Carly all get it

    Rivals and predecessors were in Hewlett-Packard Co boss Mark Hurd's crosshairs as he paced the stage during a Tuesday morning keynote at Oracle's OpenWorld. First, though, there was a little humble pie for breakfast. Hurd warmed up the crowd with pointed references to the spying scandal that blasted company executives across …

    Enterprise 24 Oct 2006, 18:24

  • Oracle threatens to make workers more expressive

    OpenWorld It's like Web 2.0, for the enterprise

    Oracle has become the latest big-ticket software vendor offering cube-farm dwellers improved social interaction through social networking. The database giant has unveiled Oracle WebCenter Suite, promising a portal-based mash-up of business applications like PeopleSoft with RSS feeds and wikis. WebCenter Suite will "break …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 21:20

  • Florida 'botmaster' charged with Akamai DDOS attack

    Internet bombardment

    A Florida man was in federal court today, accused of launching a DDOS attack on Akamai which brought much of the internet to its knees - for a few hours. John Bombard, 32, of Seminole is charged with hacking into two computer systems as part of a scheme to build a botnet of "zombie" PCs to attack Akamai. According to the FBI, …

    Software & Security 24 Oct 2006, 23:52

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