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12th July 2007 Archive

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  • IBM performs AIX6 peep show

    Shows Sun and HP users its goods

    Packed with pride over the release of the Power6 chip, IBM has decided to go bold with its complementary AIX6 operating system. It's putting the OS up for public beta - a first for Big Blue. Historically, IBM will hand deliver beta AIX code to thirty of forty of its largest customers. With AIX6, however, IBM has gone to the …

    Enterprise 12 Jul 2007, 08:34

  • MEPs back green procurement

    New regs based on Energy Star

    Public sector buyers of office equipment will have to apply strict energy efficiency criteria after MEPs passed new procurement rules. The European Parliament adopted new regulations based on its Energy Star programme on 10 July. Under the new rules, EU institutions and central government authorities in member states will …

    IT Channel 12 Jul 2007, 09:14

  • Resellers warn of more expensive PCs

    Germany adds levy to PCs

    An international group of resellers is warning that changes to German copyright laws are likely to mean more expensive PCs. The controversial law will add a so-called "copyright levy" to IT equipment in order to compensate authors and artists for legal copies made of their work. The International Technology Channels …

    PC Builder 12 Jul 2007, 09:24

  • South Dakota rejoins the execution club

    Elijah Page first to die in 60 years

    South Dakota yesterday executed its first prisoner in 60 years, 25-year-old Elijah Page, who succumbed to a "lethal combination of three drugs at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls", the local Argus Leader reports. Page was convicted, along with Darrell Hoadley and Briley Piper, of the murder of Chester Allan Poage in 2000 …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 10:33

  • Brit troops release badger plague on Basra

    Forces deny responsibility for musteline black op

    British forces in the lively Iraqi city of Basra are denying claims they are responsible for a "plague" of "vicious badger-like creatures which have attacked livestock - and even humans", the Telegraph reports. Shaken locals have recounted chilling tales of rampant "ratels" - feared desert carnivores who normally dine on …

    PC Builder 12 Jul 2007, 10:52

  • If no news is good news, why do we have so many stories every week?

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    A failure to communicate Big news of the week is that Reg readers have decided communication is not something they want in their world. When given the option of changing the term for our industry from IT (information technology) to ICT (information communications technology), 57 per cent voted to consign ICT to the fires of …

    Channel Reg Weekly 12 Jul 2007, 11:09

  • What's al-Qaeda's take on the iPhone?

    In-depth analysis Resolute silence on the paradigm-redefining device

    In a fortnight during which just about everyone on the planet, excluding naturally those in a coma or temporarily indisposed up some tributary of the Amazon, has offered their two bits' worth on the launch of Apple's iPhone, it comes as a bit of a surprise that al-Qaeda has dismally failed to contribute to the brouhaha. We …

    PC Builder 12 Jul 2007, 11:44

  • Plods to get helmet cams

    Successful trial leads to nationwide rollout

    Police officers are to be equipped with head cameras under the government's latest crime fighting initiative. The Home Office is to provide £3m to equip police forces across the country with head camera technology, following successful trials in Plymouth. It said an evaluation of the pilot run by Devon and Cornwall …

    PC Builder 12 Jul 2007, 12:01

  • UK2.net hack cuts off email

    Pulling the plug

    Cut-rate internet host UK2.net has become the subject of a hacking attack, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their email. UK2.net customers were greeted by this screen instead of their email. Customers turning up to the site this morning were confronted by a defaced page, apparently posted by an Islamist …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 13:03

  • Experian rejects ID theft notification proposal

    Don't call us, and we won't call you either

    Credit rating giant Experian has rejected the notion of automatically informing UK citizens when their ID details may have been hijacked. Experian’s hardline stance came at a conference on “Big Brother Britain” in London today, where a number of speakers said that more severe penalties and obligations should be imposed on …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 14:58

  • Lightweight Java security app aims to pep up m-commerce

    Good things come in small applets

    UK mobile application developer Masabi has launched a lightweight Java security package for mobile phones in a bid to make m-commerce applications more user-friendly and secure. Masabi's EncryptME Java mobile security component is the only such application to use officially validated implementations of RSA and AES encryption …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 15:07

  • MS update sends PCs 'haywire'

    .NET patch trips up systems

    Early reports are suggesting problems after users apply one of the six patches issued by Microsoft on Tuesday. Applying the MS07-040 patch for the .NET framework, which as luck would have it is probably Redmond's most important security fix this month, can lead to systems going "haywire", the SANS Institute's Internet Storm …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 16:15

  • Microsoft's software IP prophylactic

    Protect your IP - but not with our stuff

    Microsoft told delegates at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week that it would deliver new software protection technology for developers and ISVs in October. But it won't be the same technology it currently uses to protect its own software. The new Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) services product is …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 17:07

  • Microsoft pushes Office 2007 with 'try-before-you-buy'

    WPC Limited use, certain risk

    Microsoft is shipping limited-use copies of Office 2007 with PCs in a try-before-you-buy scheme to seed the market with its latest suite and drive Windows server and client software sales. The company has revealed its Office Ready PC Program, where partners pre install images of Office 2007 on new machines and allow end-users …

    Software & Security 12 Jul 2007, 17:44

  • 75-year-old has world's fastest private internet connection

    Let me show you my grandchildren at 40Gb/s

    75-year-old Sibritt Löthberg from Karlstad Sweden just got her first computer, but it didn't take her long to download all the necessary patches. Swedish news site The Local reports that Löthberg's home has been tricked-out with a record-breaking 40 Gb/s connection - the first time a private residence has tapped into the …

    PC Builder 12 Jul 2007, 19:32

  • Dell promises 'radical,' two-year metamorphosis

    Analysis Angst removal for fun and profit

    IBM has its On Demand, we'll-service-the-hell-out-of-you thing. HP has its Business Technology, we'll-ink-the-hell-out-of-you thing. Sun Microsystems has its Participation Age, red-shifting, we'll-network-the-hell-out-of-you thing. And now Dell has the we're-tired-of-direct-modeling-the-hell-out-of-you Dell 2.0. Whereas the …

    Enterprise 12 Jul 2007, 20:44

  • Fujitsu Siemens makes tiny, quiet, green tower server

    For the Al Gore in your remote office

    Fujitsu Siemens says it has launched the world's smallest, quietest and most cost efficient tower server. The Tower Server Primergy TX120 is aimed at small businesses and branch offices that do not have a separate server room. According to FS, running on its highest configuration, the TX120 consumes 40 per cent less energy …

    Enterprise 12 Jul 2007, 23:56

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