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3rd December 2007 Archive

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  • CodeGear bets on Application Factories to transform JBuilder

    Optimus primed

    CodeGear is betting on something called Application Factories to distinguish its Eclipse-based JBuilder developer suite from the rest of the Java tools herd. Application Factories will be part of JBuilder 2008, now going into beta, and be "a major leap in development paradigm" according to CodeGear principal architect Ravi …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 00:02

  • Remembering the CDC 6600

    This Old Box The Craying Game

    You smell that? That's the tangy aroma of aging silicon, cigarettes and loneliness. This week we're traveling back to the 1960s to look at one of the crown jewels of the high performance computing world. You'll notice that — Hey! Don't touch that. Has Jean Claude Van Damme's Time Cop taught you nothing about tooling with the …

    Enterprise 3 Dec 2007, 00:52

  • No Fusion illumination for Oracle users

    Information company confounds

    Customers' opinion of Oracle's licensing has hit a new low in the UK while the company's Fusion plans remain a mystery to half of its users - notably developers, who'll be on the sharp end of implementing Fusion-based software. The UK Oracle User Group's (UKOUG) annual poll of Oracle customers has found just 15 per cent either …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 09:57

  • Capita targets SMEs after public sector losses

    Predicts strong performance in 2008

    Capita Group has spat out a bullish 2008 forecast and said private sector deals had pushed up the value of new contracts to £1.89bn for the year, an increase of 38 per cent on 2006. It said in a trading statement that despite corporate and government spending being squeezed, it was confident opportunities would increase at the …

    IT Channel 3 Dec 2007, 10:39

  • Intel 'Penryn' Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and X48 chipset

    2007's Top Products Say hello to the 1600MHz desktop FSB

    Intel has been busy sending out a batch of 'Penryn' Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors to every tech site in the known universe, and if you take a look at some of the reviews that have popped up you’ll spot a common theme. The QX9770 is the first desktop processor to run on a 1600MHz frontside bus (FSB) but right now there are no …

    Reg Hardware 3 Dec 2007, 11:02

  • MI5 warns over China hacking menace

    PLA implicated in targeted Trojan assault

    MI5 has warned UK businesses of the threat posed by state-sponsored Chinese hackers. The UK security service has sent an advisory to banks and law firms warning them to guard against attack from "Chinese state organisations". Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, took the highly unusual step of writing to 300 UK chief …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 11:10

  • Dell marries WPP in big ads push

    Bachelor days are over

    Dell has climbed into bed with ad agency WPP in an estimated $100m a year deal that will bring the computer giant's global marketing, advertising, and communications ventures under one group. WPP will set up a separate company to deal exclusively with Dell, while the computer maker will see its sprawling PR empire, currently …

    PC Builder 3 Dec 2007, 11:43

  • ID sales sites start loss leader marketing programme

    Journalists find thousands of IDs online

    The Information Commissioners' in-tray got a little bigger today as it confirmed it would be investigating a series of ID trading sites unearthed by journalists. The Times screamed today that "the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons" were being sold on the internet. The paper detailed how it had been able to …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 12:33

  • Best Buy kicks out misbehaving Geek Squaders

    Video killed the downloading staff

    A number of porn-obsessed Geek Squaders have come unstuck following a US-wide internal investigation by computer retail giant Best Buy. The firm mounted the inquiry after the Consumerist.com published a video sting operation which caught a Best Buy employee stealing nudie pictures and MP3s from their computer. Not liking the …

    IT Channel 3 Dec 2007, 13:25

  • Mozilla rubbishes IE Firefox security study

    The fix is in

    Mozilla developers have hit back at a Microsoft study that suggests Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox. The study, Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis, is based on a comparison between the number and severity of security updates issued for IE and Firefox since the release of Firefox in November 2004 …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 14:53

  • Samsung readies 'fastest' graphics memory

    Samsung will next year put GDDR 5 into mass production, it said today after announcing 6Gb/s 512Mb chips based on the graphics memory spec. Samsung's GDDR 5: due next year It's not the first. Qimonda began sampling a 512Mb GDDR 5 chip early last month and was quickly followed by Hynix, which upped the ante with a 1Gb part. …

    PC Builder 3 Dec 2007, 16:37

  • Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked

    Tapping up

    Security researchers have cracked the rudimentary encryption used in a range of popular wireless keyboards. Bluetooth is increasingly becoming the de-facto standard for wireless communication in peripheral devices and is reckoned to be secure. But some manufacturers such as Logitech and Microsoft rely on 27 MHz radio …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 17:06

  • LiveJournal flogged to Russians

    Blogging problem child sent to gulag

    San Francisco blogware firm Six Apart has offloaded LiveJournal, the fiesty community it bought only two years ago, to the Russian media group SUP. LiveJournal already beats Google's Blogger and others for the title of Russia's most popular blogging site. It claims more than 14 million registered users worldwide. It makes no …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 17:16

  • Pedophile gets 110 years in MySpace extortion scheme

    'Tools of Terror'

    A 33-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to 110 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he terrorized more than 100 underage girls by hacking into MySpace accounts and extorting nude pictures from them. Ivory Dickerson, a civil engineer, received the maximum sentence on three counts of manufacturing …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 17:54

  • XBRL could learn from XML's success - Bray

    Controlled approach stalling

    Supporters of extensible business reporting language (XBRL), the proposed standard for electronic filing of financial information, need to learn lessons from the development of the Web if they want to promote it successfully. Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies and one of the original architects of …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 19:15

  • Google officially quashes PageRank passing

    Sell at your peril

    Google has officially proclaimed that it doesn't like webmasters trying to hawk their lofty PageRank status to other sites. In an update to its Webmaster Guidelines, the world's largest search engine says that any attempt to "pass PageRank" could result in a PageRank plummet. "Some SEOs [search engine optimizers] and …

    IT Channel 3 Dec 2007, 19:25

  • IT departments poised to fly past airlines on CO2 emissions

    How green is your love?

    Carbon emissions from computing looks set to overtake aviation, a UK environmental charity claimed today. According to Global Action Plan, IT now accounts for 10 per cent of energy consumption in the UK. Speaking at the House of Commons this afternoon, Trewin Restorick, the author of "An Inefficient Truth" report, said IT …

    PC Builder 3 Dec 2007, 19:55

  • LogLogic eyes new CEO Sueltz as IPO propeller

    Data dominatrix

    Seasoned software whiz Pat Suetlz has turned up as LogLogic's new CEO. Most recently, Sueltz served as CEO at British censorware firm Surf Control - a company bought in April by Websense. Before that role, Sueltz worked as President of Salesforce.com and before that as the head of software and then services at Sun Microsystems …

    Enterprise 3 Dec 2007, 20:09

  • TJX agrees to pay banks $41m to cover Visa losses

    Up to 100 million accounts stolen

    TJX, the US retailing giant, has agreed to reimburse banks nearly $41m in losses stemming from the theft of as many as 100 million credit- and debit-card accounts in the world's largest data breach. The tentative deal, which still must be approved by issuers representing 80 per cent of affected Visa cards, calls for TJX to pay …

    Software & Security 3 Dec 2007, 22:08

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