16th January 2008 Archive

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Code

• Dip into concept programming Do what it says on the tin

Hardware

• Dell tells customer 'Mac is good option' Anything Jobs can do...
• Investors shred Intel over double-digit Q4 gains Fear is in the share

Market News

• Acquisition-happy Game not anti-competitive Green light for Gamestation deal
• Former Brocade boss gets 21 months in prison Switch sensei sized for stripes
• IBM: Treasure Island Revisited Comment Even rivers of gold run dry

News

• Intel holds back 3.2GHz gaming CPU release Ties in with retiming of X48 chipset debut

Reseller

• Computerland appoints brace of directors And loses another

Security

• Mac lambs line up for slaughter Is Apple airtight?
• Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive Security research, Web 2.0 style

Servers/Storage

• Meet the world's premier open source vendor - Sun Analysis Red Hat, Dell, IBM and HP get SAMPed
• Quad-core Xeons use small power plant to maul Opterons When Fully buffered DIMMs attack
• Sun pulls MySQL into its orbit Updated: Pays $1bn for Web's favourite free database
• Sun stashes more cash in Q2 Tech titans hold steady

Services

• Amazon defies French courts over shipping costs Does the crime and pays the fine

Software

• BEA finally says yes to Oracle - for $8.5bn Larry flashes extra cash
• OOXML marks the spot, says research firm ODF? It's for poseurs