5th February 2008 Archive

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Distribution

• Irish distie DCC trims profit forecast Blames weak pound

Hardware

• MIT and TI to produce low energy chips Body-powered RFID just one exciting app
• More remote workers squatting next door's broadband Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's Wi-Fi

News

• Nvidia to purchase Ageia Physics chip maker gobbled by GPU giant

Reseller

• Apple retail kills Apple retail outlet 'You just can't take Apple on head-to-head in the High Street'

Reviews

• Intel Skulltrail high-end gaming system Review Intel's showcase gets Nvidia SLI and AMD CrossFire

Security

• 'Crash tested' e-voting machines spread doubt on Super Tuesday Six states at 'high risk'
• Exploit for 'extremely critical' Yahoo Jukebox vuln goes wild ActiveX strikes again
• Swedish police cuff seven for online pill sales Suspiciously bulgy packages
• Veracode hunts for backdoors in outsourced code Sniffing out malicious code

Servers/Storage

• IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet Ruby on Rails on Rails on Rails on Rails
• US Army struggles with Windows to Linux overhaul The greatest penguin migration of all time

Services

• EDS hits job cut target Nearly 200 staff take voluntary redundancy
• Tax credit mistakes cost Joe Public £1bn a year Updated Taxing Peter to overpay Paul

Software

• N-Gage makes it into software For the N81 at least
• NEC goes Back To The Future with XP for biz users Vista-ectomy won't hurt a bit