18th April 2007 Archive

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Hitachi woos mid-sized Americans with new blade

560 cores, 110 volts

Hitachi's North American arm has (insert knife-themed verb here) a fresh blade box meant for mid-sized businesses. Those of you with medium builds can say "hello" to the BladeSymphony 320 – a 6U high chassis that holds 10 two-socket servers. Should those sockets be filled with Intel's quad-core Xeon chip, then you're talking …

Enterprise 18 Apr 2007, 00:05
IBM fires on some cylinders in Q1

Software and services good

IBM fired on some cylinders in Q1, growing revenues seven per cent to $22bn and net income eight per cent to $1.8bn. A good performance in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and a very good performance in Asia-Pac compensated for flat revenues in the Americas. Services - outsourcing and the like - and software did well, …

IT Channel 18 Apr 2007, 00:53
Chip giant pledges integrated graphics boost

IDF Render mender

Intel's mobile integrated graphics technology is just going to keep on getting better, the chip giant effused today, pledging its next-but-one built-in GPU will deliver a 25 per cent improvement over the one inside the upcoming 965GM chipset. Beyond that, future chipsets will boost IGP performance by 50 per cent, Intel's …

Reg Hardware 18 Apr 2007, 03:52
Woven threatens to make 10Gig E cheap and stable

Fibre Channel? Infiniband? Forget it

Networking start-up Woven Systems has reminded us that great ideas can come in small, cost-conscious packages. The 26-person firm has developed a 10-Gbit/s Ethernet switch that outperforms Fibre Channel, while undercutting the price of rival Ethernet hardware. Woven expects its switch, due out in the third quarter, will find a …

PC Builder 18 Apr 2007, 04:58
C2000 projects high hopes for AV biz

Targets SMEs and education

Computer 2000, which recently ramped up its audiovisual business, has confirmed that more deals with manufacturers can be expected over the coming weeks. C2000, the UK arm of technology distributing giant Tech Data, has already signed European deals with two AV accessory manufacturers (Ergotron and Vogels) over the past few …

IT Channel 18 Apr 2007, 08:02
US Navy malware infection risked submarine prang

Disgruntled contractor donned black hat after losing business

An American contractor holding top-level security clearance has been convicted of sabotaging critical US Navy computers used for submarine traffic control. Richard F Sylvestre, from Massachusetts, installed malware on a computer network at the Italian HQ of the US 6th Fleet, America's standing taskforce in the Mediterranean …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 09:46
HP ProCurve gets the NAC

The enforcer at the edge

HP ProCurve has dived into NAC (network access control), announcing an endpoint security appliance and Network Immunity - software that ties into a threat-detection appliance on one side and the network switches on the other, and uses 802.1X port control to lock out miscreants and network threats as they are detected. The two …

PC Builder 18 Apr 2007, 09:49
Data chief does a Bronson over Grange Hill firm's CV exposé

You boy!

The independent body responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act has expressed concern about Lime Pictures' monumental technical cock-up which exposed thousands of individuals' personal details on its website. A spokesperson at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) told The Register: "It is a matter of concern if a …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 12:02
Midlands police cuff war driving duo

Cardboard camouflage ruse fails Wi-Fi 'thief'

Two people have been arrested and cautioned by UK police in the midlands this month after they were caught "war driving", in a rare example of prosecutions of this kind in the UK. Last Saturday a man in Redditch, Worcestershire, was arrested while using a laptop in a parked car after attracting the suspicion of neighbours. …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 13:08
Workplace smut runs rampant

Security policies honoured in the breach

Audits of workplace PCs by security firm PixAlert discovered that more than a quarter (25.8 per cent) of the 10,000 PCs scanned contained pornography or other inappropriate images. Authorised scans of around 125 corporate and public sector networks by PixAlert over the last nine months also found 12.4 per cent of 12,000 email …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 13:10
Barclays deploys PINsentry to fight fraud

Chip-and-PIN marches into the home

Barclays has announced plans to send out handheld chip and PIN card readers to their online banking customers in a bid to combat online fraud. The bank is to provide chip-and-PIN 'PINsentry' card readers to half a million customers in the UK, starting later this year. Barclays online customers will be required to use the …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 14:42
Study: Users pay for Microsoft patent woes

'Patent tax' of $21.50 each

Each copy of Windows cost users an additional $21.50 "patent tax" to cover Microsoft litigation bills, the Software Freedom Law Center claims. The SFLC, which provides legal representation and services to promote free and open source software, said customers are the ones splitting the bill for Microsoft's ceaseless patent- …

Software & Security 18 Apr 2007, 21:28