19th April 2007 Archive

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Hardware

• Apple plugs 25 security holes Patch despatch
• PC shipments are buoyant, says analyst Troubled waters for Dell, though

Market News

• AMD swings to $611m loss 800-pound gorilla Intel provides the vine
• Imation buys TDK's recording media biz And they can prove it: they've got the whole thing on tape
• Quad-core won't make it big until 2009 - reseacher IDF Intel agrees

PC Builder

• Lenovo sheds jobs to increase profit Do these 1,400 employees make me look fat?

Reseller

• US backs whistleblower suits against HP, Sun and Accenture Kickback Rodeo

Security

• Counter Strike firm in credit card hack claim Hacker, customers accuse Valve of coverup
• Data theft replaces malware as top security concern Reality check
• Embedded devices a cinch to pwn CanSecWest The weak link in the chain
• European e-crime portal scheme floated Lending Voice to cybercrime victims
• Phishing attack evades bank's two-factor authentication Man in the middle
• Scumbag malware authors exploit Virginia Tech tragedy Camera phone footage ruse leads to Trojan depository
• US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack An accident waiting to happen

Servers/Storage

• Survey: Storage users seek interoperability Want products more interoperablebleblerer

Services

• FSA lumps £81m appendage on Fujitsu 52 staff outsourced

Software

• Google bugles death of Froogle Do no punning
• Microsoft debuts Windows for the Poor $3 suite for students in developing countries
• Microsoft to fork out $180m to Iowa Anti-trust settlement
• Oracle scoops up AppForge assets Mobile apps go west
• Sun injects NetBeans into Ubuntu Spreading the word
• Thunderbird 2 is go Scrubbed up version takes flight
• Ubuntu launch marred by website woes Open then shut
• Which games console is most web 2.0-friendly? Surf's up for the Wii and the PS3