18th May 2007 Archive

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AMD readies HyperFlash cache tech

To be built into SB700 Southbridge

AMD's 'Puma' laptop platform, due to debut next year with the 'Griffin' processor and the M780 chipset, will incorporate the chip maker's alternative to Intel's TurboMemory Flash cache technology, as expected. AMD's M780 chipset incorporates the company's own SB700 Southbridge chip. The SB700 will feature what AMD calls …

PC Builder 18 May 2007, 05:02
WPP, AOL buy into the race for online ad spend

On your marks, get set...

Real-world advertising and marketing agency WPP has dipped a fairly big toe into the murky world of online ads with the $649m acquisition of 24/7 Real Media. According to reports, Microsoft had been considering putting down a billion dollar offer for the company, which analysts had valued at about $600m. The deal illustrates …

Software & Security 18 May 2007, 09:28
GPL to undermine Microsoft's Novell deal?

Back at ya

Microsoft will apparently nullify its patent protection agreement with Novell, under the terms of the forthcoming GPL 3 license. That seems to be the conclusion to be drawn from remarks by Software Freedom Law Centre founding director and general counsel to the Free Software Foundation, Eben Moglen, made yesterday during a …

Software & Security 18 May 2007, 09:34
Gatwick gets iris recognition

Biometric border control

Gatwick South has started using an iris recognition system - it is the ninth UK airport terminal to roll out the system. Project IRIS(Iris Recognition Immigration System) is designed to give travellers resident in the UK, who have no black marks against their name on the immigration database, a means of avoiding normal …

Software & Security 18 May 2007, 09:54
Net censorship growing worldwide

Control freaks

Censorship of internet content is growing across the world. A survey by the Open Net Initiative (ONI) across 41 countries found that 25 applied content filtering to block access to particular websites. Web applications such as Google Maps and Skype as well as "subversive" websites featured on content blocking lists. Five …

Software & Security 18 May 2007, 12:59
Project Hybrid: Dell's transformation begins

Hunting the Butterfly Effect

Dell now hints with muscularity around its future data center plans. We give you Project Hybrid. Company executives, most notably CEO Michael Dell, have spent the last few weeks positing the notion that Dell will revamp its server and storage hardware. On Thursday, Dell added the faintest touch of concrete detail to these …

Enterprise 18 May 2007, 14:26
Tandberg touts VXA to Euro channels

Fighting over the tape drive crumbs?

The market for tape drives may be declining, but that doesn't mean it's dead or unprofitable, declared Tandberg Data as it launched a European version of the VXA Alliance, its vehicle for convincing resellers to adopt the ex-Exabyte VXA tape format. Tandberg corporate marketeer Marije Stijnen claimed that a reduced emphasis …

Enterprise 18 May 2007, 16:04
Microsoft squares up to Google with $6bn buy

Bill's most expensive ever purchase

Microsoft today opened a new front in its war with Google for online advertising dollars, with a $6bn cash offer for the Seattle-based online advertising group aQuantive. This is Microsoft's biggest acquisition to date, and boy, does it want the company: the $66.50 per share offer is an 85 per cent premium on aQuantive's …

Software & Security 18 May 2007, 16:48
Indian dealers are squealers over Microsoft piracy raids

Feel OS vendor has them by their Rupees

Computer dealers in Gujarat, India held a one-day strike to protest ongoing anti-piracy raids from Microsoft. India news portals itVARnews and CIOL report about 350 dealers joined in a statewide bandh (that's a general strike) initiated by Surat-based South Gujarat Information Technologists Association (SITA). This month, …

IT Channel 18 May 2007, 21:47