27th April 2007 Archive

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AMD and Intel take potshots in dueling court complaints

Oh no you didn't!

AMD's anti-trust trial against Intel hasn't even started yet, and the companies are already pinching, scratching and pulling hair. When we last left off, Intel was in the process of piecing together millions of emails the company had lost which AMD claims are relevant to the lawsuit. On Tuesday, Intel filed a report with the …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 00:17
$1bn lawsuit takes novel approach in fighting spam

Harvesters of sorrow targeted

A group opposed to spam is taking a novel approach to fighting the scourge by using a mountain of data and a $1bn lawsuit to go after email harvesters who make possible all those penis-enlargement solicitations in the first place. The complaint, filed by Project Honey Pot on behalf of tens of thousands of members in more than …

Software & Security 27 Apr 2007, 00:30
Rackable's margins enter witness protection program

Rivals hold MS, Yahoo, Amazon and Q1 profits hostage

Rackable Systems' start-up glory days have officially ended courtesy of some shockable first quarter results. The little server maker that could - didn't. Rackable's first quarter revenue tumbled 15 per cent year-on-year to $72m. The company also swapped out last year's $6m profit for a $10m loss. And, in the most ominous …

Enterprise 27 Apr 2007, 01:53
Payroll specialist fails to pay staff

Mission critical, you say?

Payroll specialist Northgate has failed to pay its staff. An apology email was sent to all staff worldwide, which said: Many staff will already be aware that salary payments have not been credited to bank accounts today. A review has been commissioned to understand how the error occurred and why it was not identified as part …

IT Channel 27 Apr 2007, 06:02
Dell finally switches on PC network in Glasgow schools

177 schools left without computers for weeks

Dell has finished a managed education service piped to schools in Glasgow a mere four weeks after it was due. The PC firm's tardiness left children in 177 primary schools without computers for nearly two weeks. According to a spokeswoman at Glasgow City Council, schools were expecting to be using their shiny new Dell …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 08:37
US Army to fund Stanford-led supercomputing team

Plastic tanks, trouser-launched flying spy bots

The US Army is to fund a five-year, $105m supercomputing initiative led by Stanford University. The Army High-Performance Computing Research Center will also include teams of engineers and scientists at Morgan State University in Maryland, New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, the University of Texas at El Paso and NASA. …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 09:06
Sage chairman leaves after seven months

Horn-Smith gives himself the chop

The chairman of UK-based accountancy software group Sage has quit, citing irreconcilable differences with the board. Sir Julian Horn-Smith joined the firm from Vodafone in September, where he had risen to Deputy Chief Executive over 20 years at the operator. This morning he told the Stock Exchange his tenure at Sage would be …

Software & Security 27 Apr 2007, 13:01
IBM touts complete IPTV systems

You want it really, you know you do...

IBM aims to kick some life back into the sputtering market for IPTV by making it easier for European ISPs - desperate as they are to differentiate themselves from their rivals - to buy and build Internet video services. The company claims that service providers are keen to add TV, but don't have time or expertise to do it …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 14:00
Man demonstrates extreme geekiness, reviews 105 PSUs

Magnum opus

How do you tell a real hardware geek from a crowd of dilettantes? The genuine article will be found reading a review of over a hundred PC power supply units. As for the true hardware geek, he's the guy that wrote it... Step forward then, Belgian Stephane Charpentier, who's just published an evaluation of 105 PSUs (in French …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 14:36
IBM servers get 10 Gig boost

TCP offloaders aim to sharpen BladeCenter

10 Gig Ethernet specialists Chelsio and NetXen are targeting IBM servers - and in particular IBM's BladeCenter systems - for network acceleration and virtualisation. Both companies sell triple-function cards able to off-load TCP/IP networking, iSCSI storage and RDMA clustering traffic. IBM will now offer the NetXen 10 Gig SR …

Enterprise 27 Apr 2007, 16:55
Acer acquisition will be bigger than a breadbox, smaller than Gateway

Oh, you tease ...

Acer still won't say which PC vendor it plans to acquire, but it will give us a few hints. When chief executive JT Wang said last month that Acer was looking at acquiring a company as a part of its plan to overtake Lenovo, professional speculators first bet on Gateway computers. The news sent Gateway shares up 18 per cent from …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 18:25
HP: 'IT, as we know it, is over'

Analysis Ships same new products to prove it

HP this week put an end to information technology. You're now meant to slot all things IT under the Business Technology (BT) umbrella. HP's declaration does little for The Register's slogan. Thanks a lot. So what's all this BT fuss about? Well, you wouldn't really know from the products HP released to back up the marketing. …

Enterprise 27 Apr 2007, 21:27
Reg readers total 3,238 years against cancer

The final score as grid.org closes shop

After almost seven years of harnessing volunteers' unused CPU cycles to find a cure for cancer, Grid.org is shutting down operations. The organization said today it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale internet-based grid computing and will retire from service. Grid.org was the …

Enterprise 27 Apr 2007, 21:49
Apple releases MacBook battery update

Rest easy, not the explosion-preventing kind

Apple is recommending an update be installed on all MacBook and MacBook Pro computers and extra batteries purchased between February 2006 and April 2007. Users can download the patch from Software Update or here if that's your bag. According to Apple, there are factors causing performance issues in the batteries which do not …

PC Builder 27 Apr 2007, 23:36