Friday, 9 May 2008

Hardware

• Nvidia exec admits GPU line-up is numerically 'challenged' Too many cards, too many choices
• Rock Group goes titsup Updated Staff theft leads to cashflow problems

Security

• Irish data protection chief in leaked report 'hack' Updated Man bites watchdog
• Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey Better off with a Win 2000 box

Services

• Barclays Capital slashes contractor rates by 10% IT workers get credit crunched

Software

• Office 2007 SP1 goes automatic for the people 'Huddled masses yearning to breathe free'
• Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot That Groundhog Day feeling, again

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Distribution

• Fayrewood ends takeover talks Time for a plan B

Hardware

• AMD boss keeps schtum on manufacturing restructure Meeting doglegs to pointlessness
• Best Buy eyes up Europe, buys into Carphone Warehouse Paint it yellow
• iPlayer to tart up Freesat Beeb and ITV square up to Sky
• Nvidia paid the right amount for 3dfx, court affirms Long-dead GPU brand exhumed, swiftly re-interred

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Creative to free Audigy Windows Vista compatibility app And buyers to be refunded

On the Job: Salary and Employment

• Oracle sharpens axe for BEA layoffs Four portals, two application servers, no future

Reseller

• BestBuy blasts into UK with Carphone Warehouse buy Phone chain sells 50 per cent of retail business

Security

• Facebook agrees to child-safety measures Reining in Web 2.0 predators
• Firefox language pack provides adware back-door Ho Chi Hack trail
• HSBC in further data loss Stolen Hong Kong server contained data on 159K
• I Was A Teenage Bot Master Exclusive The Confessions of SoBe Owns
• Interpol appeal unmasks US actor as child abuse suspect Operation IDent-ification
• Rare SCADA bug poses power plant risk Wonderware scare
• Renault F1 comp site spills entrants' details You will never break the chain

Servers/Storage

• Hitachi slips past Fujitsu with speedy 320GB laptop drive 7,200rpm, 2.5-inch drive out-firsts 'world's first'
• Surprise, surprise: F5 is doing something A storage de-dupe and network acceleration box

Software

• Britannica opens kimono, reveals widgets Free access for bloggers
• OpenOffice.org 3 beta lands Flex your fingers
• Sage sees flat US market But Europe helps boost first half
• Salesforce boss Benioff pushes cloud Pours scorn on Microsoft, bear hugs Sir Stelios

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Hardware

• Cisco hits lowered targets Pessimism pays off
• Intel delays next-gen integrated chipsets to fix video bug Eaglelake to get Computex launch
• Ruckus kicks off over directional Wi-Fi Netgear slapped with patent suit

Market News

• Two arrested over piracy at computer fair Goods valued at £1m seized

Security

• MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site Misconfigured marketing offshoot pulled
• Peter Gabriel's website is back Womad is safe...
• Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks Worst viral outbreak in three years

Servers/Storage

• AMD plans 12-core server chip for 2010 First 6-core offering due next year
• Citrix's XenDesktop can fly you to the moon If you have a space shuttle
• Dell issues virtualization wonder box despite AMD Veso happy to see the light of day
• NASA confirms manned mission to 10 Petaflops 'Our Xeon binge is named Pleiades'

Services

• Capgemini Q1 sinks on weak dollar, pound Mid-atlantic low

Software

• Opera Dragonfly emerges from pupa Debug tool aims to metamorphise web development
• SAP don't want to get SaaSy afterall We never said we would...
• Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft David and Goliath

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Code: Java/J2EE

• Sun juggles love of code with need for cash CommunityOne Don't attack us... attack them!
• Sun's JavaFX to hoover-up user data JavaOne Spirit of McNealy lives

Hardware

• Battery shortage leaves Compal forecast flat Q2 power down
• Ex-Navy SEAL and nanny 'Otter' does bird over Broadcom Kindergarten cop, shmindergarten shmop
• Intel and chums target 450mm wafer fabs 'It's only a tiny little thin one'

Security

• Cybercrims dump swag on open botnet server Health data found on hacker data dump
• Google launches security group for open source oCERT to make the world safe for GPL
• Yahoo! greenlights search security warnings Beta tests McAfee SiteAdvisor

Servers/Storage

• HP strokes web 2.0 with immense NAS 'Extreme' appliance for multi-petabytes
• Intel wants to own the weather prediction business Interview EVP Maloney in charge of 'Operation Kill Groundhog'
• NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant 20,480 cores on the Moon
• Rackspace flies storage on CloudFS Tap into our data ether

Software

• Hyundai and Kia's latest pitch to US drivers - Windows Microsoft's exclusive with Ford finishes soon
• Microsoft slings multiple sue balls at resellers Claims customers were 'deceived'
• Windows XP SP3 leaps into the tubes Second verse, same as the first

Monday, 5 May 2008

Lifecycle

• Read, test, don't repeat - how to avoid code complexity Book extract, part four Emergent Design: Lessons from Y2K

Market News

• AMD now has 'more than allegations' against Intel They totally [blank]ed our [blank]
• IBM's Zeitler retires For real. No euphemism

Servers/Storage

• How to destroy 60 hard drives an hour Driller killer
• Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' goes commercial Elasticated Amazon support, squared

Software

• Sun looks beyond MARS for NetBeans scripting Pry vi from my cold, dead hands