22nd January 2007 Archive

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Sun and Intel go crazy over Solaris on Xeon

Lonesome dove makes an old friend

Sun Microsystems once again has eyes for Intel, and this time it's serious. According to the street's word, Sun and Intel will announce a partnership Monday centered around Sun slotting Xeon chips into its servers and Intel backing Solaris x86. Such a relationship would mark Sun's most significant Intel embrace to date. It …

Enterprise 22 Jan 2007, 06:48
AMD cuts Athlon, Sempron prices

Seasonal adjustment

AMD has pruned the prices of a number of its desktop processors by up to 26.8 per cent, focusing the adjustment on its low-end Sempron CPUs and its Athlon 64 dual-core lines. The Athlon 64 X2 5200+ saw is price fall from $403 to $295, a drop of 26.8 per cent, but the other changes were much more modest, ranging from 10.4 per …

PC Builder 22 Jan 2007, 10:49
2007 - the year of...?

Comment An IT wish list

As we bid farewell to 2006 and begin to see the realities of 2007 (ie, no real change to the problems we had in 2006), I thought I would have a look at what could change 2007 into a more interesting year in the IT space. First, wouldn't it be great to get more IT and line of business people working together? For this to happen …

IT Channel 22 Jan 2007, 10:58
PCA expels two members

Not up to scratch

The Professional Computer Association (PCA) is throwing out two companies for failing to follow its code of practice. Vantage Computers, or Vantage Direct, of Westgate in Kent, has been kicked out for failing to respond to association complaints about customer service and failing to refund at least one customer's pre-payment. …

IT Channel 22 Jan 2007, 11:16
Intel ships low-end Core 2 Duo

FSB clocked to 800MHz

Intel appears to have quietly rolled out a low-end Core 2 Duo desktop processor, the E4300. The part, which supports no more than an 800MHz frontside bus clock and contains just 2MB of L2 cache, went on sale in Japan this weekend. The E4300 is clocked at 1.8GHz, according to a report on Japanese-language site Akiba PC Hotline …

PC Builder 22 Jan 2007, 11:22
BI and CPM markets to get cozy in 2007

Analysis When two become one

For years analysts have asked suppliers "so which market are you in - BI or CPM?" Suppliers were somewhat coy about the answer. BI and CPM were perceived as distinct and separate markets. BI was the high margin cash cow and CPM was the question mark in the portfolio. Suppliers did not want to risk cash flow from the large $ …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 11:24
Linux lobby pitches single standards camp

Penguin pool

Two vendor-backed Linux groups will join forces today to get more sway over the standards and direction taken by the open source OS. The Open Source Developer Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) will become a single entity called the Linux Foundation. The organisation will aim to accelerate take up of enterprise …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 12:49
US tops spam relaying and malware leagues of shame

Land of the free, home of the botnet

The US hosted more than one third of the websites containing malicious code identified during 2006. The country also relayed more spam than any other nation last year, according to a study by net security firm Sophos. Sophos's Security Threat Report 2007 reveals that the US hosts 34.2 per cent of malware sample detected last …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 13:14
IBM tries to turn your workspace into MySpace

Social networking for suits

IBM polished up another facet of its Lotus product suite today with a promise to turn every corporate network into a bubbling MySpace clone. The vendor kicks off its Lotusphere conference in Orlando with Lotus Connections at the top of the agenda. IBM describes the product, due later this year, as the industry’s first …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 15:26
BT's Home Hub runs on Linux

But is it violating GPL?

BT's wireless broadband router Home Hub may be in breach of the terms of Linux's General Public License, after it emerged the device runs on open source code. The telco was reported to gpl-violations.org on 5 January. Under the General Public License companies must publish the code they are using. In its simplest terms, the …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 16:06
2007: the year you go out of business?

Interest rates threaten SMBs

Fears have been voiced that last week's unexpectedly early interest rate rise will send more small and medium-sized businesses down the tubes this year. The doomsaying comes from online credit-checking firm E-bcm. The Bank of England's independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) bumped up the base rate by quarter of a per cent …

IT Channel 22 Jan 2007, 16:35
Chip dynamo loses ex-AMD execs

Exclusive Brass dulled at PA Semi

Flashy chip start-up PA Semi has started losing some of its top executives ahead of the release of its first product, The Register has learned. PA Semi's VP of engineering Jim Keller and customer engineering chief Wayne Meretsky left the chip maker late last year. According to our sources, the two former AMD executives have …

Enterprise 22 Jan 2007, 18:08
Sun deals Xeon server line to Intel for Solaris ad

The chip deal that isn't

Server buffs have spent years wondering when Sun and Intel would finally bury their hatchets in each other's back and form a partnership. Now the deal is done, but it wants for excitement, controversy . . . anything. The Sun/Intel question was interesting back when Sun dominated the server game on a SPARC-only stance. It …

Enterprise 22 Jan 2007, 19:25
Storm Trojan gang declare start of World War III

VXers hire editor bot

The virus writers behind last week's Storm Trojan outbreak showed off some neat tabloid headline-writing skills in a string of similar attacks over the weekend. The original attack tried to trick users into executing malicious files containing Trojan horse code, posing as information about the inclement weather. The malware …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 19:48
MySpace sues Spam King

You'll never guess what for...

MySpace.com has sued self-proclaimed spam king Scott Richter for allegedly using compromised user accounts to send millions unsolicited ads touting ringtones, polo shirts among other things. We were surprised - nay shocked - when we heard the identity of the defendant. We've heard neither hide nor hair from Mr. Richter since …

Software & Security 22 Jan 2007, 19:59
PSI sues IBM in mainframe emulator spat

Unfair, monopoly, anticompetitive, predatory, FUD, etcetera...etcetera

Platform Solutions Inc (PSI) the mainframe emulator maker, has come out fighting in its legal battle with IBM, alleging all manner of anti-trust abuses in a suit announced today. IBM last month filed a patent infringement suit against the Sunnyvale, Calif. upstart. It sought a "judicial declaration that its refusal to license …

Enterprise 22 Jan 2007, 22:38