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8th May 2007 Archive

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  • Who do you think you are?

    Computers, Freedom and Privacy A week at CFP draws to a close

    At the beginning of the last day of the ACM conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy I thought I knew who I was. Now, after a couple of panels on identity management, I'm less sure. Web 2.0 (rounded corners and all) brings a new twist to an old problem: more IDs, more passwords, more economic transactions, and many more …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 09:45

  • Corporate wireless and alphabet soup

    Column 11n for business

    It's always been a bit of a mystery to the average corporate PC user: why, if Wi-Fi runs at nearly 60 megabits per second, can you still plug several Wi-Fi access points into a 100 megabit Ethernet socket and drive it from your 8 megabit broadband ADSL router? Shouldn't you need several 100 megabit lines - one for each access …

    PC Builder 8 May 2007, 10:20

  • Currys to cease stocking cassettes

    Mix-tape romance wiped out by MP3s and teledildonics

    The end of the road for cassette tapes has been widely heralded as Currys, the UK high street electrical heayweight, announced today that it will no longer be dealing in the classic storage format. Woolworths and HMV have already made the move. Cassettes were something of a cultural icon to many, though perhaps never as …

    Enterprise 8 May 2007, 10:21

  • Aussies make offer for iSoft

    Shares suspended

    iSoft shares are up over six per cent this morning on news that it could be taken over by Australian health specialist IBA Healthcare. IBA has suspended dealing in its own shares on the Australian Securities Exchange while the company talks to investors about raising funds to pay for the takeover. iSoft confirmed in February …

    IT Channel 8 May 2007, 10:48

  • Eighties throwback worm spreads via memory sticks

    Danger USB

    Miscreants have created a strain of malware which uses memory sticks as a vector for infection. The SillyFD-AA worm spreads by copying itself from infected machines onto removable drives such as USB memory sticks before automatically running when the device is next connected to a computer. The malware, which is also capable …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 11:55

  • Sage makes British buy

    Snaps up Snowdrop

    Accountancy and small business specialist Sage has bought UK firm Snowdrop Systems Limited. Sage is paying £17m in cash for the company which made sales of £7.5m in the year ended December 2006. Snowdrop has headquarters in Witney, Oxfordshire as well as offices in Australia, Barcelona, and Glasgow. Snowdrop makes systems …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 13:49

  • Glastonbury data all at See

    Booking firm blames human error

    See Tickets, the booking firm at the centre of the Latitude festival spam outrage, has admitted that an "error of judgement" led to data on applications for Glastonbury tickets being carelessly shared. Martin Fitzgerald, general manager at See confirmed to The Register that the booking agency had sent out an email urging …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 14:06

  • Moduslink blames OEMs for Vista upgrade delays

    'We're just the middle-men'

    ModusLink has said it regrets the lengthy delay experienced by customers awaiting Vista upgrades, but has pointed the finger of blame squarely at PC manufacturers. As we reported previously, customers who had purchased computers before the release of Microsoft's long-awaited operating system on 31 January had been promised …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 14:15

  • Russian teacher fined for MS piracy

    Justice DLLs not found

    A Russian headteacher has been fined half a month's wages after being controversially found guilty of buying school PCs that ran unauthorised copies of Microsoft software. Alexander Ponosov, who was fined $195, plans to appeal following his conviction on Monday at the end of his second trial for software piracy offences. He …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 15:12

  • HP raises outlook

    Sells PCs, buys back shares

    HP has found another billion dollars of sales and another seven pennies profit a share to boost forecast figures for its second quarter financial results. Originally expecting to be reporting something like $24.5bn in sales for its second 2007 quarter next Wednesday, it said today it would instead report about a billion more …

    IT Channel 8 May 2007, 16:01

  • Yahoo! Shouldn't! Sell! To! Microsoft?

    Analysis Divide and ad broker

    As The New York Post's "Microsoft eyes search giant in proposed takeover" splash rapidly evaporated over the weekend, you couldn't help but muster some sympathy for the seemingly confused Yahoo!. A quick recap: the tabloid's "scoop" on Friday sent Yahoo! stock into an unaccustomed rapid climb, until Reuters, Bloomberg and the …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 17:11

  • Buttons and sliders go wild with Sun's Java FX

    JavaOne Jumping the Web 2.0 shark?

    Sun Microsystems has jumped in headfirst into Web 2.0, urging developers to change the world with cell phones and online services powered by its Java software. Using inspirational statements and not always functioning software demonstrations, Sun executives opened JavaOne outlining a world where Sun's open source and Java …

    Software & Security 8 May 2007, 20:06

  • RapidMind lets old dogs code for Cell and GPGPUs

    Same tricks, faster software

    Some people in the software industry say coders will fail miserably at writing multi-threaded applications capable of running on multi-core graphics processors, accelerators and x86 chips. RapidMind couldn't agree more with such cynicism. The start-up this week released Version 2.0 of its RapidMind Platform. This product lets …

    Enterprise 8 May 2007, 20:08

  • Dell reinvents the cardboard box

    R&D team now eying glue

    Dell will revitalize its server business by, er, shifting fewer boxes. The strategy may seem counterintuitive until you realize that we're quite literally talking about boxes - those cardboard things that go around the servers. Dell today revealed - a liberal use of the word - project Multipack. This initiative - still liberal …

    Enterprise 8 May 2007, 21:38

  • Rackable and Supermicro settle over server IP

    Front-mounted I/O connectors safe again

    Low-cost server makers Rackable Systems and Supermicro have settled a patent dispute over system designs. The companies have reached a confidential agreement covering the two troublesome patents - Rackable's 6,496,366 and 6,850,408. These patents were tied to Rackable's back-to-back server configuration in a custom chassis and …

    Enterprise 8 May 2007, 22:23

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