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12th January 2010 Archive

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  • Apple sits on critical Mac bug for 7 months (and counting)

    Unix flaw fixed in OpenBSD, not OS X

    Researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the latest version of Mac OS X that they say Apple has sat on for almost seven months without fixing. The buffer overflow flaw could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute malicious code, and virtually all Apple devices - including Mac computers and servers, iPhones …

    Software & Security 12 Jan 00:14

  • Microsoft Office 2007 migration aches foreshadow 2010

    Pain now, pain later

    It has been predicted Microsoft's Office 2010 will cause migration headaches, but for some, the pain is already here. Customers speaking with The Reg are experiencing major delays in their move from Office 2003 to 2007, more than three years after Microsoft released the latest version of its suite. Problems include having to …

    Software & Security 12 Jan 00:36

  • Say hello to Maxell-branded hard drives

    Are you sitting comfortably?

    Hitachi Maxell is turning itself into an external hard drive supplier with a GEN branded line of products. Maxell is best known for supplying batteries and storage media. It's now extending its brand to cover USB-connected hard drives for the SOHO and consumer markets. The loss-making Maxell company was a partially-owned …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 07:02

  • Microsoft offers Oracle-phobes MySQL migration tool

    Data play

    In the past, Microsoft has worked hard to improve the Window performance of open-source database MySQL, hoping to stop the deployment drain from Windows to Linux. But now, Microsoft has released early software to help bring MySQL users into the closed-source company's database fold. The offer means Microsoft is joining other …

    Software & Security 12 Jan 07:02

  • Brown offers free laptops to deprived UK schoolkids

    Home Access scheme gets national rollout

    Free laptops with broadband access will be dished out to more than a quarter of a million UK households to help kids from cash-strapped families do better in exams, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday. "We want every family to become a broadband family, and we want every home linked to a school. For those finding it …

    PC Builder 12 Jan 08:02

  • Emulex posts higher than expected results...

    ...on the P&L and in the lab

    Emulex has announced preliminary results almost 20 per cent higher than expected just as testers confirmed its FCoE adapter goes three times as fast as QLogic's. Preliminary results for Emulex's second fiscal 2010 quarter show net revenues of $107m - $108m, significantly higher than the guidance of $88m - $92m. It gets Emulex …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 10:23

  • Avatar renders this earthly life meaningless

    Can't go to Pandora? Kill yourself!

    James Cameron's 3D sci-fi romp Avatar appears to have deeply affected some cinemagoers who've found that life on Earth doesn't measure up to the prospect of living on utopian world Pandora. CNN reports that net forums are awash with dark musings on the impossibility of visiting the virtual planet, with those most deeply …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 12:13

  • Acer announces 'Arrandale' laptops

    3D-ready model included

    Acer has introduced a pair of new notebooks each equipped with an array of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processor options and the new HM55 chipset. The two machines are the Aspire 5740, a 15.6in model, and its 17.3in sibling, the 7740. The 5740 and 7740 use the Intel GMA graphics built into the various processors they come with. …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 12:27

  • Computacenter says profits 'materially' ahead of forecasts

    As Morse signals confidence

    Computacenter said its profits for 2009 will be well ahead of expectations, as it saw services grow in the last quarter and hardware buyers rush to beat the government's VAT increase. The reselling giant said profits before tax and exceptionals should come in "materially ahead of consensus expectations" of £48.4m. Exceptionals …

    IT Channel 12 Jan 12:33

  • 2010: The year PC prices go up

    Component shortages means end of cheap PCs - for now

    PC prices have fallen - or at least stayed the same - for many years now, but some analysts believe this year will see them become more expensive. The reason is increasing prices for components as a result of overly pessimistic manufacturers cutting back production during the downturn. The long lead time for building complex …

    PC Builder 12 Jan 12:45

  • Browsers could host a (simple) database

    APIs for offline data access

    APIs are being developed to enable a browser and browser-based applications to ingest and store database records over the net for offline database access. In an apparently paradoxical development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is developing sets of APIs to enable browser-integrated applications, such as e-mail clients …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 13:39

  • DARPA cuts back on Cray super project

    Say goodbye to $60m

    As the market was getting ready to open this morning Cray told Wall Street that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds all kinds of advanced systems and networks, is scaling back its contract for a future petaflops-scale supercomputing system being designed by Cray under DARPA's High Productivity Computing …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 15:21

  • Sun, Fujitsu juice entry Sparc box

    Yes, Sun still sells servers

    Sun Microsystems and its Sparc chip and server partner, Fujitsu, have have upgraded the entry Sparc Enterprise M3000 rack server with a peppier Sparc64-VII chip. The M3000 was not part of the original rollout of midrange and high-end Sparc Enterprise servers that the two companies brought to market in April 2007 with dual-core …

    Enterprise 12 Jan 18:47

  • Open-source BI specialist gets in-memory boost

    Jaspersoft bundles up for the enterprise

    Open-source business intelligence company JasperSoft is boosting itself into high-end data warehousing and data marts. The company has announced version 3.7 of its BI suite, which enhances querying of in-memory data. In-memory can be used to quickly serve up frequently accessed data. It's seen as an alternative to disk-based …

    Software & Security 12 Jan 19:28

  • Apache mulls end to 1.3 and 2.0 web server releases

    Lack of developer interest

    The Apache Software Foundation may formally end development of the long-in-tooth 1.3 and 2.0 branches of its Apache HTTP Server to focus support on the 2.2.xx branch. Apache is the most popular HTTP server software in use on the web, with numerous machines still running branches 1.3 and 2.0. However, developer interest for the …

    Software & Security 12 Jan 22:37

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