18th March 2008 Archive

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Hardware

• HP to ship SuSE on India PCs No plans for EMEA... yet
• Nvidia rolls out 'world's fastest' graphics card GeForce 9800 GX2 takes fight to AMD's 3870 X2
• Vyatta blows out Cisco routers with study The OPEC of networking

Information

• Google warns third parties on GData mashups We can fiddle if we want

Lifecycle

• Sweet, sweet smell of comments in code? Extreme Programming breeds overreaction

Market News

• NASDAQ delists Bell Micro for late filing Shares sink like a stone

News

• Intel tweaks SSE 4 to speed text processing String theory

Reseller

• Ofcom to hold operators responsible for dodgy dealers Voluntary code of practice not working

Security

• eBay scripting trick used to boost seller ratings Shockwave redirection ploy in mystery auction attack
• Ex-MS staffer to demo Vista smart card hack Hot Fuzz
• Online banking payment system aims to reduce fraud Cunning Aussie fix for online payments
• P2P highwayman gets four years for ID theft Dodgy downloader sent down
• Supermarket loses 4.2 million credit card details Supermarket identity sweep

Servers/Storage

• Brocade puts file virtualization in a pricey box StorageX gets metallic coating
• Cambridge brain touts wind-n-server combo farms Thin-client spinoff bizprof spins skinny as green
• Dell quads up single-socket rockets SMB sampler
• HP wants to get physical with virtual servers We'll touch you in one, special place
• IBM dreams of optical chips with tiny light pulse device Your server will be all 'bew bew bew bzzzap'

Services

• Google's riches rely on ads, algorithms, and worldwide confusion Special Feature 'Please ignore the cash machine behind the curtain'

Software

• Adobe pulls bug-riddled Photoshop update Lightroom users plunged into darkness
• Facebook says occupied territories are Israel Or Palestine...
• Intel and Microsoft dump $20m on researchers to avert software crisis To your Ivory Towers!
• Microsoft rolls out Vista SP1 You win some. You break some
• Sage settles on US head Telecoms player gets the nod