6th November 2006 Archive

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Distribution

• Webroot jumps into the channel Softek and Sphinx to flog anti-spyware

Market News

• 'Carousel fraud' bank's founder held for three more months Dutch investigations continue
• Schneider was approached by private-equity firms APC used to shield investment

PC Builder

• Nvidia recalls GeForce 8800 GTX boards ahead of launch Will ship this week as planned, company claims

Reseller

• Phoenix coughs £30.25m for Servo Rising into SMB services

Security

• 0-day bug shatters Windows Mother, it's happening again
• Blair bangs ID card drum PM in biometric hard sell
• Virus dances onto Mac OS X Macarena more embarrassment than threat

Servers/Storage

• Japanese boffins show off 512-core chip Maths co-processor on steroids
• VMWare plays Lab Manager Virtualisation slashes development times

Services

• DWP computers 'unreliable' 55 different telephone numbers
• Symantec buys Company-i Don't risk IT

Software

• Is your software free, open or litigated? Analysis The MS/Linux patent wars begin . . .
• Microsoft completes system code for Office 2007 At last: eventually, after a long wait, finally