26th June 2007 Archive

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Distribution

• Avnet doubles Sun reseller fleet Hails successful channel push

Hardware

• America wastes gazillions with always-on PCs Switched off to the environment
• DHS forgets to mention border WiFi spy tower bungle Eye of Sauron poked after dodgy debrief
• HP coughs up surprise update to desktop PC range Breeds flock of hybrid DVD boxes
• IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer Blue Gene has long division licked. Next: killer sudoku
• Netgear promises 3G femtocells by end of year Still hedging bets with Wi-Fi included, too
• New way in for Cisco engineers Certifications get rejigged
• Nvidia to beat AMD to release on-the-fly GPU switching tech? 'SLI Power' becomes 'Hybrid SLI'
• Psion: the last computer Special Feature Secrets of the Sony we never had
• Vendors start testing 802.11n kit Certified by September, but spec not due till 2008

Market News

• eBay pirates plead guilty to selling $6m software for pennies Jail-time beckons
• IBM forks out $7m in Dollar General settlement Neither admits, nor denies, wrongdoing

Security

• Bush on cyber war: 'a subject I can learn a lot about' Real gov network strike might be scarier than botnet DDoS
• Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker Spookery goes mainstream as harasser hits the phones
• Symantec offer sticks in craw of some Chinese users 'Lacks seriousness and sincerity'
• Trend Micro boosts Vista package, extends Hotmail deal What's good for Redmond is good for us
• US porn spammers guilty as charged Canned by CAN-SPAM
• Vasco makes e-business accessible Secure transactions for the disabled
• Voltage secures patents on identity-based encryption Assumes you are who you say you are

Servers/Storage

• Biggest barrier to green IT is cost Spending green to feel green
• HP and Microsoft embrace and extend around HPC Robust cuddling leads to test centers
• NEC follows the path of XenSource Finding peace with virtualisation deal
• Red Hat's Exchange roars like a muted lamb Broad and thin
• Soggy IT pros check in from flooded Sheffield Wellies and pizza keep servers running
• Sun wants to support everybody's boxes As long as they're running Solaris
• Sun's new supercomputer and switch are bigger than yours Market's 90-pound weakling beefs up

Services

• Clarion trumpets UK acquisition Snaps up The Planning Loft

Software

• 'The 3D Flickr' is go French to take MS Virtual Earth into another dimension
• Google calls for court to tighten Microsoft's anti-trust leash Doesn't trust Microsoft to supervise itself
• HP and Microsoft take supercomputing mass-market Clusters for everyone
• Judge rejects Google's Microsoft anti-trust plea Analysis Satisfaction through litigation
• Microsoft finds good facts to sell Windows Vista Driver test
• Microsoft shill blogs steal Reg commercial strategy c.2001 In the blogosphere, everyone can hear you squeal for cash
• Safari gets four new fixes Quick fix tames vulns
• Virgin Trains's mysterious full-price ticket promotion 'Temporary data problem' scuppers cheap fares