14th March 2007 Archive

Browse by publication date, or search the site. Or try the full archive of all our sister sites.

Apple releases last pre-Leopard update for Mac OS X

Tiger hits 10.4.9

Apple has updated Mac OS X to version 10.4.9, offering patches for both Intel and PowerPC versions of the operating system, taking in its server and client forms. The company has also updated its iPhoto application, and beefed up the security of Mac OS X 10.3.9. The operating system updates apply fixes to a wide array of …

Reg Hardware 14 Mar 2007, 10:02
UK banks leaving customer info on the pavement

Told to clean up their act

The Information Commissioner has told 11 UK banks to stop dumping customers' statements in bins on the pavement outside branches. Consumer advocates complained to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) that identity thieves might be rifling through the rubbish bags for people's personal details. While a spokeswoman for …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 10:18
SanDisk intros internal Flash drive for laptops

Fast, quiet but expensive

SanDisk has begun offering a 32GB solid-state drive to notebook makers less than a week after it was claimed Apple's rumoured sub-notebook will only contain Flash storage. The launch also comes two months after SanDisk unveiled a similar drive based on the 1.8in form-factor favoured by manufacturers of personal media …

PC Builder 14 Mar 2007, 10:32
VIA launches 'most feature-rich' Nano-ITX mobo

Media PC-friendly

VIA will soon bring to the built-your-own PC community what it claims is its most feature-packed ultra-compact Nano-ITX motherboard yet: the 12 x 12cm EPIA NX. Designed to work with VIA's 1.5GHz C7 chip or its 1.2GHz Eden processor, the NX backs up the CPU with up to 1GB of 533MHz DDR 2 memory and VIA's own UniChrome Pro II …

PC Builder 14 Mar 2007, 10:52
Internet scams dominate UK card fraud losses

Displacement effect

Card fraud in the UK fell three per cent from £439.4m in 2005 to £428m last year, according to figures from payment association APACS released Wednesday. Overall, card fraud has dropped £80m from a record high of £504.8m in 2004. The decrease in overall fraud, attributed to the introduction of Chip and PIN transaction …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 12:08
South Korea to field gun-cam robots on DMZ

Stationary droids forced to sacrifice own lives for human overlords

Technological colossus South Korea is pressing ahead with efforts to join Israel and America in the white-hot field of killer robots. Korean sources have announced that Samsung, a company better known for its consumer goods, is manufacturing the SGR-A1 sentry unit for deployment on the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between South and …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 12:34
AXA grabs ink with business crime league table

Crime against individuals over-hyped, says exec

Insurance company Axa yesterday released an intriguing survey of business claims by region, which has been widely reported. According to the survey, the UK's arson capital is Glasgow, accounting for nearly 11 per cent of all small and medium enterprise (SME) arson claims, while Edinburgh reportedly leads the nation in malicious …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 14:24
Apple megapatch fixes multiple flaws

Fruity

Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating systems to plug multiple security holes. Bugs in third-party components have also been addressed by the security update. The availability of Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Security Update 2007-003 on Tuesday follows a month in which the security of the OS was put under the …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 14:35
EMC and FSC extend their engagement

CeBIT It's pretty clear which one is wearing the trousers

EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) have expanded and extended their 10 year old strategic alliance. The two will work together on advanced data centre architectures, while FSC will also provide services for the EMC midrange storage that it sells in Europe. "FSC is our largest partner in Europe, and our second largest …

Enterprise 14 Mar 2007, 15:10
Baseball legend slaps 'raging buy' on Intel

Its, er, wireless biz (at Marvell) will surge

Do you want to take stock picking advice from a baseball player? Mmm, probably not. So beware of Lenny Dykstra's raging buy on Intel. Since retiring from the big leagues, Dykstra has turned into an entrepreneur of sorts, owning car washes, real estate operations, and a variety of other smaller businesses. Dykstra also manages …

PC Builder 14 Mar 2007, 15:31
MS quietly releases Win 2003 SP2

Second update enjoys stealthy debut

Microsoft has released a major update to Windows Server 2003 to make the enterprise software package more stable and easier to manage. The low-key debut of Win 2003 SP2 on Monday, which took some sys admins by surprise, contrasts with the high profile launch of Win XP SP2 in August 2004. So stealthy was the release that it's …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 16:28
Microsoft plays Show me, Tellme

Buys speech recognition firms

Microsoft is amping up its voice recognition capability, with the acquisition of Tellme Networks, a 320-man firm based in Mountain View, Calif. Terms are undisclosed, but Microsoft is said to be paying more than $800m, making Tellme its biggest buy since 2002, Bloomberg reports. Tellme supplies voice-activated services for …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 17:47
Red Hat aims higher with RHEL 5

CeBIT With large enterprises in its sights, Red Hat talks platforms and partnerships

Red Hat today announced version 5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), its server operating system - but at the European launch in CeBIT the talk was not of all the technology inside, such as Xen virtualisation and JBoss middleware. Instead it was all about partnerships, packaging and support. In particular, Red Hat will now work …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 19:34
Microsoft goes a bundle with Lenovo PCs

The force feeding continues

Microsoft's flagging search engine is getting a boost, thanks to an agreement that will make Live.com the default service on PCs sold by Lenovo. The pact, which will also see machines outfitted with the Live toolbar, is the latest to be forged in an ongoing campaign to clutter new machines with software that users are often …

PC Builder 14 Mar 2007, 19:55
Adaptec unifies serial RAID

CeBIT Take two serial disk connects into the shower? Not me!

System builders no longer need to choose between Serial ATA and Serial Attached SCSI when it comes to RAID, claimed Adaptec as it announced a family of five unified serial RAID controllers which support both SATA for capacity and SAS for performance. The PCI-Express (PCIe) cards make use of the fact that SAS is backwards- …

Enterprise 14 Mar 2007, 20:33
GigaStor to hunt zero-day breaches

CeBIT Network Instruments runs history through an IDS

Your intrusion detection system (IDS) may have just downloaded a new security rule, but you have no way of knowing if your network has already been hit by the exploit in a zero-day attack, says Network Instruments. The company claims the latest update of its GigaStor network traffic recorder could help you find out, however, …

Software & Security 14 Mar 2007, 20:49
Charges dropped against former HP chairman

Charges to be dropped against three others

A California state judge has dropped all criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn and paved the way to clearing three others caught up in the spying scandal, which was initiated to discover the source of leaks to the media. In October, the four were charged with four felony counts each for …

IT Channel 14 Mar 2007, 22:30