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Data centre hardware

• April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05

  RFID tags get speed boost

  RFID supplier Impinj is about to start shipping radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags based on the more powerful Gen 2...

• April 01, 2005 01 Apr'05

  Transmeta bows out

  In a widely predicted move loss-making chip company Transmeta is extricating itself from the processor manufacturing business and...

• March 30, 2005 30 Mar'05

  Security fears scupper Mac hacker challenge

  Apple Macintosh peripherals maker DVForge has cancelled a $25,000 (£13,900) challenge to hackers to write a virus against the Mac...

• March 30, 2005 30 Mar'05

  Media firm cuts cost of web content hosting

  A UK media company is using edge side includes (ESI), to dramatically cut the cost of supporting dynamic web content in large...

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Problems with biometric IT could double ID card costs, warns study

  The cost of the government's £5.5bn ID card programme could double because of problems with biometric technology, a report by the...

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Brainshare news in brief

  Short takes from Novell's Brainshare conference

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Novell reveals its Linux strategy and 10-year support programme

  More than 6,000 delegates gathered in Salt Lake City last week to hear what Novell has in store for application development on...

• March 24, 2005 24 Mar'05

  Programmers crack Apple's iTunes again

  A group of US and Norwegian programmers claim they have again bypassed Apple's anti-piracy controls in its iTunes music...

• March 24, 2005 24 Mar'05

  SBS takes over entire Siemens infrastructure

  Over the next three years, Siemens will hand over the operation of its IT infrastructure for all its units and regions to Siemens...

• March 23, 2005 23 Mar'05

  GPs win battle for IT systems of choice

  The government has announced that GPs will have a wider choice of computer systems as part of the National Programme for IT,...

• March 23, 2005 23 Mar'05

  HP points blades at SMEs

  HP is expanding its Smart Office initiative to boost server blade sales in the SME market.

• March 22, 2005 22 Mar'05

  Apple bites back over piracy hole

  Apple has modified its iTunes downloading technology to prevent users bypassing its anti-piracy controls.

• March 22, 2005 22 Mar'05

  Time Warner fined £166m for accounting failures

  Media giant Time Warner has been fined $300m (£166.6m) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for posting inaccurate...

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Linux lags Windows in new security report

  A controversial research paper takes a critical look at two popular platforms' track record on vulnerabilities and fixes. In turn, its findings are facing sharp scrutiny as well.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Lack of transparency limits value of Gateway reviews into NHS plan

  The national programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS opposes Computer Weekly's call for an independent audit of the scheme.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  IT will be crucial in making £21bn savings

  The government's commitment to make £21bn savings by 2008 across all ministerial departments, which was restated in last week's...

• March 18, 2005 18 Mar'05

  Annual CA World user conference back on

  The annual CA World user conference is back on after Computer Associates initially said it would be cancelled this year, having...

• March 18, 2005 18 Mar'05

  Toshiba launches Satellite R15-S822 convertible notebook PC

  Toshiba has launched the Satellite R15-S822 convertible notebook PC, which doubles up as either a laptop or tablet device.

• March 17, 2005 17 Mar'05

  RIM settles wireless patent dispute with $450m payment

  RIM has splashed out $450m (£250m) to settle a patent dispute over its use of wireless connectivity technology used by its...

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  Harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 RRAS Configuration

  This excerpt from Chapter 11 of Roberta Bragg's "Hardening Windows Systems" describes how to harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  Yahoo launches blogging and social networking rival to MSN and Google

  Yahoo is introducing a blogging and social networking feature to its portal to compete with MSN and Google products.

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  IT manager jailed for hacking ex-employer's network

  An IT manager who pleaded guilty to hacking into his previous employer's computer network using a rival company’s equipment has...

• March 15, 2005 15 Mar'05

  Express tool released for 64-bit Linux

  Software tools provider Micro Focus has launched Server Express for 64-bit Linux applications running on Intel Itanium 2 64-bit...

• March 14, 2005 14 Mar'05

  Property firm predicts efficiency gains from mobile access system

  Property services firm National Property Solutions (NPS) began to implement an ambitious "zero-client" system last week to allow...

• March 10, 2005 10 Mar'05

  AMD launches 64-bit processor

  AMD has launched its Turion 64 processor family for high-end laptops, to compete against Intel’s established Pentium M...

• March 08, 2005 08 Mar'05

  Remote PCs come under control

  Intel has released details of Active Management Technology (AMT), a specification for a set of hardware components designed to...

• March 04, 2005 04 Mar'05

  TfL expands Oyster card plans

  Transport for London is considering allowing Oyster smartcard users to pay for low-value goods such as newspapers and milk as...

• March 01, 2005 01 Mar'05

  Hitachi doubles consumer hard drive shipments

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is to double the total shipments of consumer hard drives this year, in response to faltering...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Intel forum spotlights extended memory and multi-core chips

  Intel chief executive Craig Barrett is due to kick off Intel's annual developer forum today (1 March), with a keynote examining...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  IBM introduces new leasing plans to aid PC management

  IBM has introduced three new PC leasing programmes to make it easier for firms to acquire and manage PCs. Analyst firm Gartner...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  United we stand for user needs

  Suppliers often talk about partnerships with their customers, but these have too often turned out to be one-sided, with little...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Akamai gets Flash

  Akamai Technologies and Macromedia have announced the availability of Akamai streaming with Macromedia Flash, to improve...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Apple Mac creator dies

  Jef Raskin, the man who launched the Apple Macintosh project at Apple Computer, has died of cancer, aged 61.

• February 25, 2005 25 Feb'05

  Intel offers 64-bit desktop processors

  Intel has introduced five processors for desktop computers using its Extended Memory Technology, EM64T, which supports hybrid...

• February 25, 2005 25 Feb'05

  Laser chip sheds light on faster processing speeds to come

  Intel has announced a breakthrough in using standard silicon chip manufacturing processes to create the world's first...

• February 24, 2005 24 Feb'05

  AMD demonstrates dual core 64-bit PC chips

  AMD has announced plans to introduce faster dual-core processors for PCs later this year.

• February 24, 2005 24 Feb'05

  Met sets up internal high-tech crime unit

  The Metropolitan Police has set-up an internal high-tech crime unit to monitor police officers’ use of internal computer...

• February 22, 2005 22 Feb'05

  No big price cuts in near future, says BT wireless broadband chief

  The head of BT’s wireless division has said significant price cuts for Wi-Fi users over the next year are unlikely.

• February 21, 2005 21 Feb'05

  Intel in silicon laser breakthrough

  Intel has used standard silicon chip manufacturing processes to create the world's first continuous wave silicon laser.

• February 21, 2005 21 Feb'05

  Business chiefs wake up to IT as productivity driver

  Survey shows CIOs and business leaders in agreement on value of IT

• February 21, 2005 21 Feb'05

  Warning on waste PC data danger

  Companies should review their procedures for erasing confidential information from PCs before they are discarded, experts warned...

• February 18, 2005 18 Feb'05

  Nats systems failure to blame for flight delays

  A problem with the Flight Data Processing System at national air traffic control (Nats) is being blamed on flight chaos at...

• February 17, 2005 17 Feb'05

  Microsoft spring conference to issue Longhorn build

  Microsoft is to release a test version of Longhorn this April, ahead of the formal launch of the next major version of its...

• February 17, 2005 17 Feb'05

  Novell launches Linux-compatible OES

  Novell has officially launched its Linux-compatible Open Enterprise Server at this week’s LinuxWorld conference in Boston.

• February 16, 2005 16 Feb'05

  EMC offers cheaper IP-based storage

  EMC has started offering iSCSI-based storage on a new line of its CLARiiON arrays.

• February 14, 2005 14 Feb'05

  Strategic Storage: DR planning blueprint

  Developing a good disaster recovery (DR) plan is similar to good dental hygiene -- and almost as exciting. Similar to going to the dentist twice a year, you should also test your DR plan with the same frequency. Wait too long to clean up your plan ...

• February 14, 2005 14 Feb'05

  PDAs boom on back of business buy-in

  The worldwide market for personal digital assistants grew by nearly 7% last year, boosted by corporate users, according to...

• February 14, 2005 14 Feb'05

  Intel to offer 64-bit lessons to developers

  Intel is preparing an education programme to help businesses’ in-house software developers use the latest functions of its...

• February 14, 2005 14 Feb'05

  AMD cranks up clock speed on Opteron chips

  AMD has announced two new chips in its Opteron server range.

• February 11, 2005 11 Feb'05

  Logistics firms hold back but are key to widescale RFID roll-out

  Although retailers are pushing the roll-out of radio frequency identification tagging, logistics companies are staying with...

• February 11, 2005 11 Feb'05

  Toshiba, Sony and IBM develop Cell processor

  IBM, Sony and Toshiba have developed a chip based on the PowerPC architecture that can deliver processing speeds of 4GHz - twice...

• February 11, 2005 11 Feb'05

  Merrill Lynch installs VoIP to support 10,000 staff

  Financial management company Merrill Lynch is installing voice over IP systems from Avaya that will support 10,000 staff in the...

• February 10, 2005 10 Feb'05

  Intel offers 64-bit migration path with Itanium, Xeon and Pentium

  Intel has outlined its 64-bit computing strategy ahead of its Developer Forum in San Francisco next month.

• February 10, 2005 10 Feb'05

  QinetiQ teams with Intel to develop quantum chips

  QinetiQ, the former research lab of the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, is collaborating with US chip giant Intel on...

• February 08, 2005 08 Feb'05

  Loop switch

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• February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

  SATA drives product roundup

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• February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

  Novell Open Enterprise Server to offer Netware users path to Linux

  This month Novell will offer users of its Netware operating system a migration path to Linux through the introduction of its Open...

• February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

  Cisco switch is integrated in HP blades

  Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems are integrating Cisco's network switching technology into the HP Bladesystem architecture to...

• February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

  Dual-core Itanium chip doubles transistor count

  Intel has released details of its first dual-core Montecito chip, which will speed the performance of its Itanium systems.

• February 07, 2005 07 Feb'05

  Sun plans IT power exchange

  Sun is in talks with electronic stock exchange group Archipelago Holdings to create the world's first market for selling blocks...

• February 04, 2005 04 Feb'05

  ERP win for 64-bit Linux

  Kelvin Hughes, a global supplier of navigation products, is preparing to deploy the IFS enterprise resource planning system on a...

• February 04, 2005 04 Feb'05

  Sun builds first online computing processing exchange

  Sun Microsystems is to build the world’s first online computer processing exchange, allowing companies to buy computing power for...

• February 04, 2005 04 Feb'05

  Deutsche Bahn migrates to Linux

  German national rail company Deutsche Bahn is moving its critical business applications to run on Linux servers and operating...

• February 03, 2005 03 Feb'05

  HP expands notebook offering

  HP has expanded its range of business notebook computers, with 10 machines configured to provide users with access mobile data...

• February 03, 2005 03 Feb'05

  Handheld sales fall for another quarter

  The worldwide market for handheld devices has experienced its fourth successive quarter of sales decline, diving almost 19%.

• February 02, 2005 02 Feb'05

  HP move to molecular chip production

  HP is aiming to manufacture computer chips with molecules rather than using more expensive silicon transistors.

• February 01, 2005 01 Feb'05

  Microsoft finally releases own-brand search engine

  Microsoft has finally launched its own search engine, 15 months after it released the beta, in a bid to take a larger slice of...

• February 01, 2005 01 Feb'05

  HBOS to streamline storage in £35m deal

  Halifax Bank of Scotland has signed a £35m deal with storage supplier StorageTek for storage hardware and datacentre management...

• February 01, 2005 01 Feb'05

  HP offers blades with Cisco networking technology

  Hewlett Packard is to include network switching technology from Cisco Systems in its "BladeSystem" servers to cut costs for...

• January 31, 2005 31 Jan'05

  Red Hat and Novell update to support Linux kernel

  Red Hat and Novell are updating their enterprise Linux distributions to support the latest revision of the Linux kernel.

• January 31, 2005 31 Jan'05

  Revenue tax filing system struggles to cope with demand

  The Inland Revenue’s website for filing tax returns struggled to cope with demand yesterday as thousands of tax payers raced to...

• January 31, 2005 31 Jan'05

  Red Hat and Novell update for Linux 2.6

  Red Hat and Novell are updating their enterprise Linux distributions to support the latest revision of the Linux kernel.

• January 25, 2005 25 Jan'05

  HP considers splitting Fiorina's role

  HP is reportedly considering reducing the day-to-day responsibilities of chairman and chief executive officer Carly Fiorina as...

• January 24, 2005 24 Jan'05

  Intel unveils Vanderpool virtualisation specs

  Intel has introduced its preliminary Vanderpool virtualisation specifications to make it easier for users to run multiple...

• January 24, 2005 24 Jan'05

  Industry giants unite to push open source grid computing

  IBM, HP, Intel, and Nortel Networks have joined together to promote open-sourced-based systems for grid computing.

• January 24, 2005 24 Jan'05

  HP steps up moves to standardise on 64-bit servers with Itanium

  Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in its strategy to standardise on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor with the introduction...

• January 19, 2005 19 Jan'05

  AMD in red despite record sales

  Chip manufacturer AMD has posted a fourth quarter loss of more than £16m as a result of debt repayments. AMD did, however,...

• January 18, 2005 18 Jan'05

  HP boosts RFID spending

  Hewlett-Hackard is to open an RFID (radio frequency identification) "Noisy Lab" to drive further development in the retailing and...

• January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

  Avis sees wireless benefit

  Avis has used wireless technology to cut the time it takes to check in millions of rental cars being returned by customers.

• January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

  So much for the new era of openness

  Lord Falconer, secretary of state for constitutional affairs, spoke in November of introducing a new era of openness in...

• January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

  Computer Weekly barred from briefing on national programme

  The first media demonstration of new multibillion-pound NHS IT systems took place in Whitehall last week - but technology...

• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  Germany company develops low-cost RFID tag

  A German company has developed what it claims is the worlds fastest plastic radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, which...

• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  AMD and Intel in race to meet mobile needs

  AMD has released a mobile wireless processor to rival Intel's Centrino and, later this week, Intel will introduce Sonoma, the...

• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  Unsung internet pioneer awarded society's distinguished fellowship

  An unsung hero in the international development of the internet has been made the 24th BCS distinguished fellow.

• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  Research highlights discrepancies in FOI information requests

  Some public sector organisations may ask for payment for information under the Freedom of Information Act because they lack the...

• January 14, 2005 14 Jan'05

  Avis uses wireless to slash check-in time

  Avis has used wireless technology to cut the time it takes to check in millions of rental cars being returned by customers.

• January 13, 2005 13 Jan'05

  Apple posts record profits

  Apple has posted big increases in sales and profits for its first quarter ending 25 December, helped by a Christmas rush for its...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  NHS IT plan omitted practicalities

  The world's biggest civil computer project, the IT-led modernisation of the NHS, was launched without a full understanding of its...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  Industry rallies to disaster victims

  The IT industry has been offering technical help and donations to aid the relief effort in south east Asia following the tsunami...

• January 10, 2005 10 Jan'05

  AMD announces Centrino wireless chip rival

  AMD has announced the release of a mobile wireless processor that will rival Intel’s Centrino offering.

• January 07, 2005 07 Jan'05

  IBM sharpens blade

  IBM expects to ship a new 32-processor server based on Intel's Xeon processors in the first half of 2005 and may begin selling...

• January 05, 2005 05 Jan'05

  Dell UK cuts system prices

  Dell has followed up its pre-Christmas US price cuts with reductions in the UK on specific configurations of servers, desktops...

• January 04, 2005 04 Jan'05

  Apple ships Xsan storage system

  Apple has begun shipping its enterprise class storage area network (San) file system Xsan.

• January 04, 2005 04 Jan'05

  BlackBerry support offers users greater choice

  Research In Motion (RIM) has signed up a number of third party smartphone makers to support its BlackBerry wireless e-mail system...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  Study says mobile phones affect DNA in isolated cells

  Radio frequency radiation from mobile phones can damage DNA in laboratory conditions, European researchers said in a recent...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  DoCoMo invests £1.5m in Linux developer MontaVista

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, expects to complete on Wednesday a £1.5m investment in Linux software...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  IBM readies 32-way Xeon server and hints at Opteron blade

  IBM expects to ship a new 32-processor server based on Intel's Xeon processors in the first half of 2005 and may begin selling...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  Nokia offers mobile field service package

  For companies seeking ways to increase the efficiency of their field forces, Nokia has introduced a one-touch system to connect...

• December 17, 2004 17 Dec'04

  Hewlett-Packard drops Itanium development

  Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the chip-making business. The company announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement to...

• December 17, 2004 17 Dec'04

  NTT DoCoMo's 4G research hits 1Gbps

  NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile communications carrier, achieved a 1Gbps packet transmission speed using 4G) mobile...