18th April 2008 Archive

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Hardware

• Commodore goes titsup (again) Creditors bankrupt the company

Market News

• AMD's Q1 loss comes in as planned Puts faith in quad-core Opterons
• Avnet sees blue skies with Horizon buy Irish reseller falls into line
• Motorola remodels mobile division Blame pulled from operational flowchart
• Samsung chairman faces tax dodging charges Escapes jail to protect economy
• Warning sounded on Microsoft and Google's health records landgrab Dr Ballmer will market you now

News

• Mystery HDD maker orders kit to build monster-capacity drives Patterned-media mass-production equipment ordered
• Nvidia preps rival for AMD's Radeon HD 3830 GeForce 9600 GSO, anyone?

R&R

• Coupling and the power of accidental relationships Book extract, part three Emergent Design: break point

Security

• MySpace profile hack provides early warning to predators Unplugged 'system error'

Servers/Storage

• IBM continues storage land grab with Diligent acquisition Gets EMC's old R&D hands
• Nimbus-led alliance hopes to big up 10Gb Ethernet Switch and adapt
• Windows Server 2008 is better than Vista, but why? Juice your desktop with Server

Software

• Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play Mozilla still peeved
• Ballmer bitch slaps Vista Confesses to Vista's bloat and imperfections
• eBay software faker jailed for ten months A++ sentence! Would use judge again!
• Microsoft buys travel search site Pays real money