19th January 2007 Archive

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Stuffed investors refuse IBM's chipper Q4

Belch over bite

A thunderous performance from IBM's software group could not save the company's fourth quarter - at least in the eyes of demanding investors. Shareholders today appeared to show their displeasure with IBM's fourth quarter results, even though revenue rose four per cent (adjusted for currency) to $26.3bn and net income rose to $ …

IT Channel 19 Jan 2007, 00:24
California pitches plea at accused HP probers

How does guilty and a handshake sound?

After publicly flogging former HP executives and investigators, California looks set to let off those charged in the company's spy scandal with nothing more than misdemeanors. Multiple reports cite sources involved in the case confirming that the California attorney general's office has offered all five people charged in the …

IT Channel 19 Jan 2007, 04:55
Five-day strike to hit Fujitsu

They don't like it up 'em

Members of the Amicus union have balloted for a five-day strike Fujitsu's Manchester office, which supports its government customers. The ballot was held following a "successful" two-day strike last week, when "hundreds" of members downed tools in protest at pay, recognition, relocation and redundancy arrangements, the union …

IT Channel 19 Jan 2007, 07:02
Phoenix IT confirms talks to buy ICM Computer

Up against a management buyout

Managed services group Phoenix IT has confirmed it is in talks with the board of ICM Computer about acquiring the firm. In a statement to investors on Friday, Phoenix said: "There can be no certainty that these discussions will lead to an offer being made by Phoenix for ICM." ICM said yesterday it had received an approach …

IT Channel 19 Jan 2007, 10:17
Spam on IP telephony

To Spit or not to Spit

Spam filters can easily be trained to give better than 90 per cent effectiveness with zero false positives, and for those who still suffer from a lot of spam in their inboxes, they are either not updating their spam databases often enough, or they just do not see the value of getting 90 per cent fewer email messages. There …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 10:28
AMD begins to ship ATI Radeon Uber Edition bundle

Fanboys' dream

AMD's ATI Radeon X1950 Uber Edition - a pair of overclocked graphics cards shipped in a lockable James Bond-style attaché case - have started to appear in appear in the wild. The "limited release" bundle comprises two X1950 XTX cards, and ATI "wide-area" mousemat and sticker, a "VIP customer care card", and a number …

PC Builder 19 Jan 2007, 11:32
AMD rolls out low-end Vista-friendly GPUs

Radeon X1050, anyone?

AMD has quietly rolled out the ATI Radeon X1050, an entry-level graphics chip intended for board makers to offer as a minimum-specification Windows Vista Aero Glass-friendly upgrade. The X1050 contains 16 pixel shaders in four pipelines and fed by a pair of vertex shaders. It's a PCI Express part, but the connection of a …

PC Builder 19 Jan 2007, 13:07
10GBase-T server NICs go on sale

All we need now is something to connect them to

The first 10Gig PCI-Express cards for the new 10GBase-T Ethernet standard are out, even though there's not yet any commercially-available switches to connect them to. Chelsio Communications said its two new server adapters feature a single dual-speed 10Gig port and the company's T3 hardware accelerator, which offloads the …

PC Builder 19 Jan 2007, 14:43
Inboxes battered by Trojan spam deluge

When the wind blows

Virus writers are taking advantage of the winter storms ravaging Northern Europe to launch a malware blitz of their own. The attack attempts to trick users into executing malicious files containing Trojan horse code, that pose as information about the inclement weather. The Trojans are being distributed in messages with …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 14:51
Phishers haul in money from Nordic bank

Trojan hijacks log-in details

Phishing gangs have managed to steal about €900,000 from accounts at Swedish bank Nordea since last autumn using a Trojan horse, according to Computer Sweden. Swedish police say they are still receiving reports of losses to the scam. At least 250 customers have been affected; the accounts of another 121 customers are under …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 14:58
Tesco USA to deploy 'world's biggest' solar roof

500,000 square foot sun trap

Los Angeles-based Solar Integrated Technologies today announced it had signed a deal with British supermarket chain Tesco to install the "world's biggest" roof-top solar panel set-up. The $13m contract will provide eco-friendly juice for Tesco USA's new distribution center in Riverside, California. According to Solar Integrated …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 15:01
Salesforce polishes developer shop window

Apex launch makes starting small smaller

Salesforce.com wants application developers. But instead of recruiting them in the traditional way it is making its on-demand platform available as a free service to aspiring Software as a Service (SaaS) developers. It even sees this as a developer "shop window" aimed at venture capitalists. The approach is straight forward: …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 15:15
Hacked to the TK Maxx

Retail chain warns of credit card security breach

TJX, the multi-national which operates the popular clothing store TK Maxx in the UK, is warning its customers that computer systems involved in processing credit card transactions have been broken into by hackers. The discount retailer discovered the intrusion, which remains under investigation, in mid-December. The breach …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 16:06
NY GPS thieves tracked and cuffed

'At the next junction, go straight to jail'

Three master criminals who stole 14 GPS units from cars in a New York garage hadn't considered the possibility of a satellite-guided police bust, Tom's Guide reports. In mitigation, we should note that the trio thought they were stealing mobile phones from the Town of Babylon Public Works in Lindenhurst when they lifted 14 …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 20:04
SCO faces new setback in IBM case

No nefarious destruction of evidence

Things have not been going well for SCO of late, and yesterday the provider of Unix products and services faced another body blow when a magistrate judge hearing its copyright case against IBM again ruled in favor of Big Blue, rejecting claims it had destroyed damning evidence. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells of the U.S. …

Software & Security 19 Jan 2007, 20:15