4th January 2008 Archive

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Hardware

• Intel walks out of OLPC project Short-lived love-in ends
• Nvidia readies mid-range GeForce 9600 GT Speeds'n'feeds leak

Market News

• Toxic chemicals suit dumped on IBM Kidney cancer claim

PC Builder

• Evesham Technology goes into liquidation Lights go out

Security

• 'Ragtag' Russian army shows the new face of DDoS attacks Semi-organized people just as dangerous as botnets
• Beware of pickpockets and malware-laced banner ads MySpace, Excite and Blick serving them now
• Camouflaged code threatens security apps Evil twin hash bash
• Firefox spoofing bug raises phishing fears Basic authentication sucks
• McAfee spies malware in legit JavaScript apps More anti-virus false alarm madness
• MS preps critical Vista patch for Tuesday As Redmond unwraps 'comments disabled' vuln research blog
• Nato secrets USB stick lost in Swedish library 'Intolerable carelessness'
• Secret Crush widget spreads adware on Facebook Worming through users' affection
• Spam King Ralsky indicted over stock spam scam Pump and dump gang raked in millions

Servers/Storage

• NetApp thinks big with SAN management vendor buy EMC puts the boot in

Services

• Atos wins Highways Agency £75m contract Trumps rivals in IT deal
• Cameron blames Labour naivety for NHS IT woes We don't need NPfIT, we need Google
• Schools minister touts 'one interweb per child' pork barrel BT 'keenly welcomes' more money shocker

Software

• Google preps Street View Big Mac search Privacy be damned
• Linux squeezes into connected devices But Android is nowhere to be seen
• Microsoft opens Server 2008 licensing a smidge Apache warrior