21st December 2006 Archive

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Hardware

• Fender bender crooks swipe $190K in chips Old school blag
• No admin rights? No Wi-Fi, says D-Link Wireless networking is not for all

PC Builder

• AMD reportedly revising CPU performance ratings New numbering scheme for 'star' processors?
• Intel to drive down Core 2 Quad price in Q2 07? Anti-AMD action
• Sapphire preps 'quad-CrossFire capable' dual-GPU board Two ATI Radeon X1950 Pros on a single card, anyone?

Security

• Firefox update guards against critical flaws Patch issued, calamity averted
• PHP security under scrutiny PHP = pretty hard to protect?
• Spamty Claus is coming to town Inboxes to be spam-slammed over holiday season

Servers/Storage

• Japanese scientists cage light Breakthrough for quantum computing
• Seagate takes EVault $185m pressie for hard drive maker

Software

• Escape from Access DB The relational database that polarises programmers
• Financial firms back Microsoft Linux deal Joining in on the SUSE Q
• HP grabs Bitfone Mobile software coup
• Novell's Allison quits in protest Sambas away
• Open sourcing Second Life Comment Would a virtual economy survive?
• Time to denationalise the software monopolies Analysis From utility to commodity