19th March 2008 Archive

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Code

• Microsoft cozies to Eclipse, no tongues though EclipseCon Seven-year commitment

Hardware

• Avaya banks on recession to push cheap comms kit Drops price into bargain basement
• Video conferencing gets cheaper, nastier easier Poor showing precipitates price cuts
• WD puts twin-platter 640GB HDD into mass-production Space efficient

Information

• Windows hardware challenge draws on resources Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Things get heavy

Market News

• Ex-Brocade HR chief gets four month prison sentence $1.25m worth of sadness, humility and regret

News

• Apple US retail sales leap past PC par MacBook Air driving demand?
• Intel prices up four wireless modules for 'Centrino 2' Not all WiMax modules are created equal
• Toshiba touts laptop refresh buts keeps mum on specs Glossy black Satellites coming

PC Builder

• Dell gets in a state over SSD claims Slams 'wholly inaccurate' report

Security

• Apple unleashes monster patch batch on Mac faithful 105MB of justice
• Botnet farmers play the international exchange game Oz installs worth 30 times more than Asia
• DSL Reports back up after DDoS attack The flood continues
• Japanese malware author admits guilt Movie-munch miscreant on trial for copyright infringement
• Security researchers show how to hook phishers Sniffing out bad sushi
• So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X? CanSecWest's Pwn2Own contest returns

Servers/Storage

• EMC spoons Brocade's Backbone OEMs big switch and sprinkles IntelliMagic
• Microsoft's Hyper-V release threat level reaches RC status The virtualisation journey continues
• Solaris SPARC to x86 software highway opens x86 to SPARC highway planned
• Symantec shines storage management software for Server 2008 Five point — oh, it'll be out in June

Services

• EDS hoovers up Reading networking firm Nexagent says yes to EDS
• Shell says still 'undecided' on massive offshoring plan Outsourcing document full of ifs

Software

• Apache rules web server landscape Almost half of top 100
• Patent Office loses software not a patent case Is it or isn't it?
• Sun invites VMware to virtual desktop dance VDI goes all 2.0