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15th March 2007 Archive

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  • Red Hat to pack punch on Oracle clustering?

    Analysis More than just a Linux distro

    Red Hat's Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 event Wednesday was something of a formality, given how long it has kept the world waiting for an update. The real news today is in the services Red Hat plans around RHEL - particularly on virtualization - in response to increased competitive pressures from Oracle, Microsoft, Novell and Sun …

    Enterprise 15 Mar 2007, 00:36

  • Rare flaw sighted in OpenBSD kernel

    Thar she overflows

    Security researchers have discovered a critical flaw in the OpenBSD kernel. The rare vulnerability - only the second severe kernel bug in the history of the development of OpenBSD - involves a flaw in OpenBSD's IPv6 stack that potentially lends itself to remote exploitation by hackers. Fortunately, source code patches are …

    Software & Security 15 Mar 2007, 11:23

  • AMD steams into world chip maker top ten

    ATI purchase lifts chart position

    AMD stormed up the charts last year as a string of hits - and its decision to form a 'supergroup' with ATI - pushed it from number 15 in the league of most successful global semiconductor companies straight into eighth place. AMD chart position was driven by a 91.6 per cent increase in sales revenue between 2005 and 2006, new …

    IT Channel 15 Mar 2007, 12:34

  • Microsoft gives pirates thumbs up, and open source gets thumbs down

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    Channel Reg Weekly 15 Mar 2007, 13:03

  • MoD opens urban-warfare compo

    Design ambush-sniffing tech and win a barrel of pork

    The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) yesterday opened its "Grand Challenge", an inventors' competition designed "to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify, monitor, and report a comprehensive range of military threats in an urban environment". As if this wasn't difficult enough, "its use should …

    PC Builder 15 Mar 2007, 15:13

  • Mail widget bug stumps MS

    Live.com and Let Die

    Problems with the gadget functionality of Microsoft's mail applications have extended well into their third week. A mail widget component of Microsoft Live web services portfolio has been unavailable since 20 February, and there's little sign of an imminent fix. In a statement posted on the Live.com blog, Microsoft's …

    Software & Security 15 Mar 2007, 15:16

  • Fujitsu Siemens chief predicts the empty desktop

    CeBIT Is that a virtualised environment in your pocket?

    PC companies need to start planning their escape from the desktop, the CTO of Fujitsu Siemens Computers warned today. Joseph Reger told journalists at CeBIT that virtualised client PC environments which could be carried on small devices were likely to take a big bite out of traditional client PCs. Technologies are emerging …

    PC Builder 15 Mar 2007, 15:22

  • Blogger.com 'riddled' with malware

    RSS SOS

    Blogger.com, home of the weblog publishing system owned by Google, has been infiltrated by a number of phishing sites, security watchers report. In some cases, the Stration mass mailer is being used to drive traffic to these fraudulent sites. One such scam is a "storefront" for Pharmacy Express, which redirects from a Blogspot. …

    Software & Security 15 Mar 2007, 16:06

  • AOL flees TradeDoubler

    Shareholders snub offer

    AOL has walked away from TradeDoubler, after failing to get enough acceptances for its $900m all-cash offer for the Swedish company. In January, the Time Warner subsidiary sweet-talked Tradedoubler's board in to recommending the offer, which was worth around four times annual sales. We thought that this was an over-generous …

    IT Channel 15 Mar 2007, 18:30

  • IBM cuts up HP's cool blade claims

    Your air flow is, like, so unflowy

    With no one else to beat up in the blade server market, HP and IBM have decided to make a sport of bashing each other. Last week, HP highlighted a report from Sine Nomine Associates – your guess is as good as ours – that gave HP's blade servers a major power consumption edge over IBM's gear with larger configurations. It has …

    Enterprise 15 Mar 2007, 18:49

  • Man used S&M website to incite rape of former mistress

    Ordered to stand trial in fiendish plot

    A former hedge fund manager man has been ordered to stand trial in superior court for an alleged plot involving an S&M site that can only be described as diabolical. The father of two and former cub scout leader is accused of posing as his estranged mistress and asking that she be abducted and raped to satisfy her sexual- …

    The Register 15 Mar 2007, 21:05