10th April 2007 Archive

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MS cursor patch fix pushes into Patch Tuesday litter

Lock and reload

Microsoft plans to release five patches on Tuesday as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. Redmond is also to release a fix to address application conflict problems with last week's "emergency" cursor security update. Four of the new patches, at least one of which is critical, affect Microsoft Windows. Users will …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 10:02
Intel rolls out faster gaming CPU

Earlier than expected

Intel has rolled out its fastest gamer-centric processor yet, the four-core Core 2 Extreme QX6800, three months earlier than anticipated. The most recent leaks had the 2.93GHz QX6800 down for a Q3 release, already ahead of the end-of-year arrival the 65nm chip been expected to make. Still, bringing the chip forward to Q2 - …

PC Builder 10 Apr 2007, 10:58
AMD preparing Turion challenger for next-gen Centrino?

Dual-core duel

AMD looks set to challenge Intel's upcoming 'Santa Rosa' Centrino launch with a faster dual-core notebook processor of its own, the Turion 64 X2 Tl-66, it has been claimed. The mobile part will be clocked to 2.3GHz - the current range leader, the TL-60, runs at 2GHz - and contain 512KB of L2 cache, Chinese-language site HKEPC …

PC Builder 10 Apr 2007, 11:24
Cracked HD-DVD and Blu-Ray app keys revoked

Disavowed

A next-generation DVD security group has responded to hack attacks that allow unfettered access to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD content by pulling the encryption keys of PC applications associated with the attack. The move makes it impossible to play newly released high-definition movies via versions of playback software, including …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 12:50
Washington goes to WTO over China counterfeiters

Beijing says piracy claims are junk

Beijing lashed out at the Bush administration today after Washington went whining to the WTO about China's record on combating piracy. The Americans have accused the Chinese of, on the one hand, failing to open up their markets to books, music, video and movies, and on the other hand of not doing enough to protect and enforce …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 13:45
NextWave buys IPWireless

But is the next wave TDD or WiMAX?

Mobile communications company NextWave Inc is to buy IP Wireless for $100m in cash and shares, paying another $114m over the next few years if revenue milestones are reached. The initial payment will be $25m in cash and $75m in stock. The remaining $114m will also be a combination of stock and cash, with $50m chunks due at …

PC Builder 10 Apr 2007, 13:54
Contractors suffer payday strife

Parasol left with Easter egg on face

Parasol IT hit a spot of bother late last week when its payment system left 100 contractors out of pocket over the Easter weekend. The firm takes care of pay administration for up to 7,000 freelance workers, including IT and engineering contractors in the UK. Parasol managing director Rob Crossland told The Reg that the firm …

IT Channel 10 Apr 2007, 14:59
Mozilla seeks security researchers to look at alpha code

A stitch in time

Mozilla Corporation wants to get the security community involved in ironing out possible bugs with the next version of Firefox at an earlier stage. Instead of pointing out security bugs once Firefox 3.0 gets released, Mozilla wants security vendors involved while the software in still a work in progress. Window Snyder, the " …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 15:51
Open sourcerers do battle for GPLv3

Perens weighs in

Open source luminary Bruce Perens has come out fighting in defence of the latest draft of GPLv3. The draft, which seeks to prevent patent protection deals like that struck late last year by Microsoft and Novell, has come under heavy fire from proprietary software advocates such as the ACT (Association for Competitive Technology …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 16:08
Iona buys LogicBlaze

Open source SOA thingymajig

Iona, the Irish software house, continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of LogicBlaze on Tuesday. LogicBlaze provides business integration solutions based on open source technologies. In a statement, Iona said its latest acquisition is based on the assumption that its future service oriented architecture (SOA) …

IT Channel 10 Apr 2007, 16:40
Sun CEO shows off Rock ahead of Fujitsu launch

Could an UltraSPARC chip arrive on time?

So, it's April 2007 and Sun Microsystems has just popped one of its 16-core Rock chips on CEO Jonathan Schwartz's desk. Schwartz posted pictures of the Rock silicon on his blog, bragging that "the chips are running billions of instructions already". Sun's customers must be encouraged by the Rock display, having suffered from …

Enterprise 10 Apr 2007, 19:00
Microsoft and Cisco eye Iceland for green server farms

Incredibly cheap

Both Cisco and Microsoft will investigate the possibility of establishing server farms in Iceland powered fully by renewable energy. According to the Icelandic daily Morgunbladid, the Reykjavík Energy Company (OR) is presently talking to both companies to see if server farms could be run by geothermal and hydroelectric power …

Enterprise 10 Apr 2007, 19:12
Trial in 419-related murder under way

Nigerian scam claims another life

Nigerian 419 scams have bilked untold billions of dollars from people who have more hope than sense. A trial underway in the US will detail how one scheme claimed the life of a Tennessee minister whose wife is accused of gunning him down after it came to light she fell victim to Nigerian-style swindlers. Mary Carol Winkler, …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 19:21
Debian 4.0 secures packages

The distro has landed

The Debian Project has finally released its long-awaited Linux update, featuring changes in security and systems management. Debian 4.0 delivers support for encrypted partitions out-of-the box and a package management system called Secure APT that verifies packages downloaded from mirror sites. There's also support for Linux …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 19:45
IBM's new server targets the 'i' in SMB

IT layoff solution revealed

IBM has released what it claims is an all-singing, all-dancing box designed for the industry's craze-du-jour, the SMB market. The company's angle is simplicity for the System i Express, the latest addition to the SMB System i server line. With infomercial flair at a press and analyst event in San Francisco today, IBM's System …

Enterprise 10 Apr 2007, 20:34
Salesforce.com plays content management card

Peeks in your drawers

Salesforce.com is turning to enterprise content management (ECM) with its latest partner purchase and software-as-service (SaaS) announcement. Having upset the world of customer relationship management (CRM) with on demand, Salesforce.com has bought AppExchange partner Koral and promised ECM founded on popular social …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 21:46
Seagate stock sinks after earnings stink

Profits prophesy pisses stock gods

Seagate shares took a hit today after the HDD manufacturer cut its third quarter revenue expectations. On a release posted on the company website late Friday, Seagate now predicts to report revenue of $2.8bn Q3 — lowered from a previous estimate of $2.9-$3bn. The company's stock dropped as much as 9 per cent in intraday …

Enterprise 10 Apr 2007, 22:28
WoW players learn value of Windows updates

'Vuln left me naked and penniless'

Subscribers playing World of Warcraft on Windows machines continue to find their accounts stolen more than eleven months after hackers first began targeting them using a Trojan attack, according to posts on the game's official website. The perpetrators are employing sophisticated techniques that involve hundreds of booby- …

Software & Security 10 Apr 2007, 22:55
Sun and Fujitsu to release 256-thread (M)onster

Exclusive 'M' is for mainframe

Longtime mainframe hater Sun Microsystems has borrowed big iron rhetoric to pitch its upcoming line of midrange and high-end servers built with Fujitsu. The Register can reveal in an exclusive that Sun next week plans to announce the M4000/M5000 midrange boxes and the M8000/M9000 high-end systems that will make up its “ …

Enterprise 10 Apr 2007, 23:01