5th January 2007 Archive

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Distribution

• Computer 2000 fills board of directors New Year appointments

Hardware

• Intel adds 'Wolfdale', 'Yorkfield' to desktop roadmap 45nm 'Penryn'-based parts due late 2007/early 2008

News

• Hitachi hails 'industry first' 1TB desktop hard drive Travelstar 7K1000 to ship this quarter

PC Builder

• AMD readies ATI Radeon X1950 GT? Cut-down X1950 Pro in the works, moles claim

Security

• Google blacklist sheds light on phishing tactics Social engineering still the mainstay of scams
• Hacked Chip and PIN terminal plays Tetris Game over
• IE 'unsafe' for 284 days last year Nine months gestation for 0-day exploits
• Phishing fraudsters get flashy Counter-strike

Servers/Storage

• Bandwidth bottlenecks are Flushed Away Aardman broadens its transatlantic links.
• On-the-fly disk defragmenter claims a first Automatic clean-up tool uses only spare cycles, says Diskeeper

Services

• Northgate wins lucrative public sector contract Hosting Hillingdon's financial systems

Software

• Lack of cash claims email pioneer Pegasus has wings clipped