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May 13, 2005 13 May'05
Dell profits rocket

Dell has reported big increases in sales and operating profits for the first quarter and has reported a 21% increase in sales...
May 12, 2005 12 May'05
BCS to set a gold standard

A new joint British Computer Society (BCS) and industry initiative plans to put the IT profession on par with governed or...
May 12, 2005 12 May'05
Clear business gains from BlackBerry mobile technology

Significant business efficiencies and cost savings can be gained from using converged voice and data devices
May 11, 2005 11 May'05
W3C launches mobile web access initiative

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), with the aim of making web access from a mobile...

May 10, 2005 10 May'05
Sun delays grid utility processing

Sun Microsystems has delayed the roll-out of its web-based Sun Grid utility processing service because of a lack of computing...
May 09, 2005 09 May'05
Computer Weekly wins top honour

ComputerWeekly was last week declared the UK's campaigning magazine of the year at the publishing industry's annual awards for...
May 09, 2005 09 May'05
Supercomputer improves forecasts

The Met Office has started to produce weather forecasts from the supercomputer at its Exeter headquarters.
May 06, 2005 06 May'05
Intel launches dual-core chip prototypes

Intel has unveiled three second generation dual-core chip prototypes, as it continues to battle AMD in the processor market.
May 04, 2005 04 May'05
TNT creates global service desk

Logistics company consolidates 30 service centres into virtual desk
May 03, 2005 03 May'05
Chinese firm completes purchase of IBM PC division

Chinese firm Lenovo has completed the acquisition of IBM’s personal computing division, and has now become the third largest PC...

May 03, 2005 03 May'05
Dell opts for Microsoft 64-bit technology

Dell is to install Microsoft 64-bit processing technology across its Dell Precision workstations and PowerEdge server lines
May 03, 2005 03 May'05
Why this is not just another Windows release

Microsoft, Intel, AMD and hundreds of PC manufacturers spent last week discussing ways to get you to buy something you already...
April 29, 2005 29 Apr'05
Quantum cryptography demonstration

Quantum cryptography has entered a new phase on its path from the laboratory into business with a major series of demonstrations...
April 28, 2005 28 Apr'05
Sales up but profits fall at Siemens

Siemens recorded a 4% increase in sales for its second quarter ending 31 March but net profits still fell, partly as a result of...
April 26, 2005 26 Apr'05
Free film and video clip network hits the Play button

Former Netscape bosses Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen have set up a free film and video clip internet distribution network.
April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05
Sales high drives Motorola up rankings

Motorola has announced record sales of $8.16bn (£4.53bn) for the first quarter, an increase of 10% on the same quarter last year.
April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05
RealNetworks patches media player

RealNetworks has released a security patch for its media player to stop hackers running their own code on users’ machines via a...
April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05
Second DRAM maker pleads guilty to price-fixing

Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to DRAM price-fixing, and is willing to pay a $185m (£102.7m) fine to settle a...
April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05
XM Satellite Radio goes online with Akamai

Akamai Technologies has been named lead provider of internet streaming services for XM Radio Online.
April 21, 2005 21 Apr'05
AMD delivers dual-core servers

AMD has launched the first commercial dual-core processors for both servers and desktops, days after rival Intel's launch of its...
April 21, 2005 21 Apr'05
Spellcheck and print tools for Blackberry

Smart Global has launched Smart Print2Fax and Smart Spellchecker to boost the functionality of mobile e-mail.
April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05
Dell offers dual-core PCs

Dell has started selling PCs equipped with Intel’s new dual-core processor platform.
April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05
Mac update goes wrong

Apple has admitted that a minor security update to the Mac operating system has prevented users from gaining access to certain...
April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05
Licensing top priority for user alliance

Software licensing, international purchasing and IT service contracts will be the first issues tackled by the Strategic...
April 18, 2005 18 Apr'05
Europe drives rising demand for PCs

PC shipments increased by over 10% in the first quarter of this year, said analyst Gartner, although enterprise demand was...
April 15, 2005 15 Apr'05
AMD first with chips that herald era of the multi-core PC processor

AMD is due to launch the first dual-core PC versions of its 64-bit Opteron server processor on 21 April, ahead of rival releases...
April 15, 2005 15 Apr'05
Digital pen and paper system speeds up customer research analysis

The Sheffield-based South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) is improving the way it collects customer service data...
April 14, 2005 14 Apr'05
AMD reports $46m loss for first quarter

AMD made a first-quarter loss for the three months ending 27 March and is now selling off its struggling memory chip business,...
April 14, 2005 14 Apr'05
Spanish supermarket giant chooses Red Hat Linux

Mercadona, one of Spain’s leading supermarket chains, is deploying Red Hat Linux software on 10,000 desktops.
April 13, 2005 13 Apr'05
Fujitsu launches global enterprise PC brand

Fujitsu has re-branded its enterprise PCs to give it a more easily recognisable global presence.
April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05
Adobe Reader launched for Linux

Adobe has launched Adobe Reader 7.0 for the Linux operating system, to allow Linux users to read, manage and print documents in...
April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05
Automation tools accelerating benefits of server farms

The cost and complexity of implementing and operating large server farms is driving the move to automated management, according...
April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05
US Department of Defence hacker arrested

A Venezuelan man has been arrested for allegedly hacking into US Department of Defence (DoD) servers in 2001.
April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05
Managed services opportunity in data centre market

A new report from consultants BroadGroup forecasts that managed services will contribute markedly to revenues for data centres...
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Users' poor understanding holds back e-learning

The take up of e-learning has been stunted by businesses' lack of understanding about how the technology should be used, an...
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
News in brief

Short takes on this week's news
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Sun to enter new Galaxy

Sun is believed to be planning to launch four new high-performance servers by the end of the year, which will all rely on AMD’s...
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Scania switches to software-based tokens to reduce its security costs

Swedish truck maker Scania is replacing hardware-based two-factor authentication from RSA with a software-based system in a bid...
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Fujitsu adds Itanium 2 servers

Fujitsu has introduced two Itanium 2-based servers in an attempt to increase its enterprise user base.
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Blades could help councils at the sharp end

Local authorities under pressure for savings should take a fresh look at servers
April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05
Lack of proper training compounds problems

Lack of proper training compounds problems
April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05
IBM sponsors female IT student awards

IBM sponsors female IT student awards
April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05
Cybercrime police chief plans for local officers with high-tech savvy

New Hi-Tech Crime Unit head reveals plans at last week's conference
April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05
CA flies in for Concord

Computer Associates is to buy Concord Communications for $330m (£183m).
April 07, 2005 07 Apr'05
Trojan aimed at smartphones

Mobile device security firm F-Secure has discovered a Trojan virus that crashes users’ smartphones and causes them to lose their...
April 06, 2005 06 Apr'05
Fujitsu launches Itanium servers

Fujitsu has introduced two new Itanium 2-based servers in an attempt to increase its enterprise base.
April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05
E-crime is costing UK business £2.4bn a year, says police report

Businesses are facing direct losses to computer criminals of at least £2.4bn a year, research to be published today by the...
April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05
Bank attempts to cut costs with IBM

Commerzbank of Germany is replacing EMC and Hewlett-Packard storage systems with IBM hardware in an attempt to cut costs as part...
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...