15th May 2007 Archive

This is the archive for Channel Register. You can browse articles by publication date, or enter a query into the search box.

< 14th May 2007 | May 2007 | 16th May 2007 >

Hardware

• Force10 barks at Cisco's Cat 4500 New midrange chassis offers Cat 6500 performance at Cat 4500 price
• PePWave links LANs to city Wi-Fi Extending the reach of public wireless mesh nets

Market News

• Former Oracle VP pays $200K to settle insider dealing rap Pillow Talk

News

• Intel to revamp Core 2 Duo processors on 22 July? Price cuts on same the day, it seems

PC Builder

• Alcatel-Lucent wants more Microsoft money $1.5bn is so two years ago
• Vista goes gangbusters 40 mil and counting

Reseller

• Green issues overlooked in IT procurement, survey says Green evangelism not translating into action

Security

• Gone in 120 seconds: cracking Wi-Fi security Interview WEP is dead
• IBM courier crashes. Sensitive tapes go AWOL Can we have them back, please
• Software piracy rates remain stubbornly stuck BSA calls for bigger stick to beat pirates
• Spammers stuff PlusNet email accounts (again) New email platform fails to stop the rot

Servers/Storage

• Dataupia: a utopian vision for databases? MPP offering could give vendors no place to hide
• Half of stored files will never be accessed Waste of space
• NetApp offers de-dupes with less hoops Releases A-SIS as stand-alone offering

Software

• No end in sight for Vista's Long Goodbye Looking for yet another reason to hold off buying Vista? Read on
• SAP and Novell cosy up on support Mutual assistance
• Sun warns Microsoft - 'You'd be wise to listen to your customers' Lessons learned the hard way
• Torvalds weighs in on Microsoft's patent dance Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah