28th March 2007 Archive

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MySpace sues Spamford Wallace

Gone Phishing

You've got to admire Sanford Wallace for his persistence. Despite a flurry of lawsuits over the years and his well-deserved status as one of the net's most loathed pariahs, the the self-proclaimed King of Spam is now being sued by MySpace, which alleges he phished user accounts and deceived users into visiting his websites. …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 00:03
AppForge 'goes titsup'

VSLive Rival offers helping hand to customers

Mystery surrounds the fate of AppForge, the mobile applications developer, with suggestions the company may have ceased trading. AppForge, whose partner list reads like a Who's Who in mobile platforms and devices, is thought to have gone out of business on March 15. Questions over AppForge's future surfaced today as partner …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 05:14
WStore wants to wow public sector

Recruits dedicated sales team

Online supplier of business IT equipment WStore has said it will build-up a sales team working exclusively for the public sector. WStore was awarded Catalist IT supplier status in 2006 covering software, supplies, and office accessories. It has been steadily building sales in the public sector ever since, with an estimated …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 06:02
Hospital laptop theft sparks concerns

Kids' details at large

A laptop containing data on 11,000 children between the ages of eight months and eight years old has been stolen from a Nottinghamshire hospital. Data contained on the laptop contained the names, addresses, and dates of birth of children from the Newark, Mansfield, and Ashfield areas, the BBC reports. The machine was one of …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 06:02
Accounting probe costs iSoft its co-founder

Heads roll at health provider

iSoft has sacked Steve Graham, the company's co-founder and commercial director. iSoft issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange which said: "The company is today announcing that Steve Graham has been removed as a director and has ceased to be an employee of iSoft." The company is currently being investigated by the …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 09:57
Installing desktop Linux

Comment Does it pass, or should I?

It's funny how you can find yourself transported back, when faced with a set of stimuli. Pick up an old book, listen to a piece of music, or put on a jacket, and sometimes a wealth of memories and feelings can come rushing back. It can be slightly disorienting and it's not always pleasant, but for me at least, it never ceases to …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 10:07
McCain 'comes out for gay marriage on MySpace'

Revenge prank pokes fun at presidential hopeful

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's MySpace page was commandeered on Tuesday to display a satirical message suggesting the Conservative was now in favour of gay marriage, particularly between "passionate females". The prank was orchestrated by Mike Davidson, chief exec of Newsvine, after he noticed that the Senator' …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 11:00
Yahoo! email! unlimited!

Keep! spam! forever!

Yahoo! customers will get unlimited email storage from this May. Punters already get 1GB but plunging costs of storage technology mean the company can now remove the upper limit. The company says most of its users don't get anywhere near the upper storage limits anyway. The offer is for personal, non-commercial use only - …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 11:42
Lotus gets a virtual IP PBX

System-i mini runs IP PBX as a virtual Linux machine

3Com and IBM have pulled together a converged set of IP telephony, email, messaging, and business apps, all running on IBM's System-i – the AS400, as it used to be called. The duo say it allows Lotus Sametime users to make voice calls by clicking on IM contacts, for example. "The significant bit is it's all on one platform …

PC Builder 28 Mar 2007, 13:22
Scammers target domain name owners

Warning over domain appraisal spam

Fraudsters are targeting domain owners in a new spam-based scam. Typically the sophisticated fraud, which is still under investigation, starts with an email message to domain owners offering to purchase a domain. Prospective marks are directed to a forum ostensibly set-up to discuss domain appraisal services. These …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 13:31
Dell woos Yahoo! and Amazon with cloud making service

The evolution begins

Dell's "evolution" apparently includes the growth of fins, scales, and a tail, because the vendor has started swimming upstream with a new custom server and storage design service aimed at the hungriest data center customers. The company has dubbed its latest effort the Dell Cloud Computing Solution, although constructing …

Enterprise 28 Mar 2007, 13:51
Computacenter keeps BT contract

Five-year deal

Computacenter is today celebrating a five-year contract to supply BT with desktop services around the world. The giant reseller will manage 112,000 BT desktop computers and related services. BT and Computacenter have worked together for 13 years. The new contract promises BT cost savings year on year. Part of the deal is …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 15:06
Phoenix flies higher with ICM bid

Fawkes waits and watches, City goes Potter

Phoenix IT has jacked up its offer for business continuity firm ICM from 415 pence to 441.5 pence, further fuelling the bidding war for the firm. The offer, comprising 342.5 pence and 0.6176 of a new Phoenix share for each ICM share, values ICM at £94.3m in total. Phoenix’s bid come a day after Fawkes, which is partly a …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 16:06
Dell in Vista RAID debacle

Not very Dimensional

Frustrated Microsoft Windows Vista Home PC users are pointing the finger at Dell for continuing to sell machines that foul up when configured with the RAID facility. The apparent issue with certain Intel RAID controllers and Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista - which got its long-awaited retail release on 30 January …

PC Builder 28 Mar 2007, 16:24
Spyware Doctor 5 bug reports are storm in a tea cup, PC Tools says

Jumps into bed with Google

Anti-spyware vendor PC Tools is downplaying reports on its forums from users who found bugs in the latest version of its software, Spyware Doctor 5.0. Problems including conflicts with anti-virus packages, slow ups with IE7 and Opera, system freezes and more feature in a list of 41 issues with Spyware Doctor 5.0. Most of …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 18:27
Intel 45nm CPUs to clock above 3GHz

More 'Penryn' beans spilled

Intel will use its move to a 45nm chip production process primarily to increase performance rather than boost battery life or reduce energy consumption, the company admitted today. Upcoming Core 2 and Xeon processors based on Intel's 45nm 'Penryn' architecture are due to go into production later this year. The chip maker …

PC Builder 28 Mar 2007, 19:02
Intel Hyper-threading to return with 45nm 'Nehalem'

Memory controller, GPU to be added too

Intel's next major processor architecture, the 45nm 'Nehalem', will see the re-introduction of the chip maker's Hyper-threading simultaneous multi-threading technology, the company confirmed today. Nehalem chips will also feature an integrated memory controller and a graphics core. Nehalem is due to go into initial production …

PC Builder 28 Mar 2007, 19:02
Intel to complete AMD impression in 2008

'Nehalem' has 8 cores, 16 threads and CSI

Intel's long, strange journey toward mimicking AMD's processors will end in 2008 with a brand new chip architecture called "Nehalem," the company confirmed today. Intel's fresh chips will have up to eight cores and a number of other bits and pieces found today's in server, desktop and notebook chips from AMD. The "Nehalem" …

Enterprise 28 Mar 2007, 19:28
Circuit City fires 3,500 'overpaid' staff

Cheap but not cheerful

Circuit City is firing 3,400 store workers because it thinks it's paying them too much. To rub salt into the wound, it is offering the retail fat cats some severance and the chance to apply for their old jobs - at lower wages. But only 10 weeks after they have been fired. This company is all heart. According to Circuit City, …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 20:38
Acer draws sting from HP's patent fury

We're looking into it, OK?

Acer came out with the blandest of responses to the patent lawsuit hurled its way by HP yesterday. To summarise: it respects intellectual property and is looking into HP's claims. The Taiwanese PC maker today supplied the market with a snapshot of last year's financial performance. Revenues advanced 16 per cent to $11.32bn (NT$ …

IT Channel 28 Mar 2007, 21:31
Vista launch: a 'resounding' success?

Millions and squillions

Microsoft has released its first sales figures for its new operating system Vista - and has declared the launch a resounding success. More than 20 million units of the new OS have been shipped since its launch, more than double the number Windows XP managed to sell in its first month. Microsoft is keeping tight-lipped on the …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 21:34
HP unveils AMD small-business servers

Special bonus: worm poop mentioned

Hewlett-Packard has added an AMD-based system to their entry-level server product line. The sheet was yanked off the server along with entry-level switches at an HP "Art of Small Business" event at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. In the MoMA theater, HP touted business owners who use HP computers such as Orange …

Enterprise 28 Mar 2007, 22:09
So who sent you that spam? HP or Oracle?

Exclusive Fortune 1000s host bots in the perimeter

When it comes to bot-infested PCs that spew spam, most of us assume the owners are newbie users too naive or careless to follow basic security measures. Think again. There's a good chance that the penis enlargement email that just landed in your inbox is from a network maintained by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard or some other Fortune …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 22:45
Adobe gets Creative with its Suites

Macromedia tools are Borged at last

Adobe has brought together its own apps and those it acquired with Macromedia in Creative Suite 3, a toolkit which it said will suit designers and developers working in all facets of print, web, mobile, interactive, film, and video production. "This release reflects the powerful integration between Adobe and Macromedia, and …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 23:30
Microsoft and EMC go both ways with new tool

Redmond gets some Smarts

Microsoft and EMC plan to fuse EMC's Smarts diagnostics software with Windows System Center Operations Manager as part of a licensing and technology collaboration, the companies said this week. EMC Smarts is a network monitoring and mapping tool that pinpoints and prioritizes service problems. While its new B.F.F., Windows …

Enterprise 28 Mar 2007, 23:34
Cisco borgs SpansLogic

Cisco hungry. Cisco eat company

Cisco has reached an agreement to acquire stealth start-up SpansLogic Inc. SpansLogic produces processors that improve packet processing speeds across a network. Cisco plans on embedding SpanLogic's tech into future network switches. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Cisco will get the keys to the 14-employee …

PC Builder 28 Mar 2007, 23:57
SAP wunderkind Agassi abandons code for clean energy

Hits pageant circuit

Shai Agassi - the man once expected to take over SAP - has left the software maker. Agassi's resignation will take effect at the end of this week and open the door for the SAP executive member to chase after his dreams in the alternative energy market. It has long looked like SAP was grooming Agassi for the CEO post. Such …

Software & Security 28 Mar 2007, 23:59