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November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
The structure of a SID

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" describes the fields that make up a SID.
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Well-known SIDs

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" offers examples of constant SIDs.
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Intel's Pentium M sales take off in US

Intel's Pentium M mobile processor is finally starting to gain ground against older mobile technologies in the eyes of US...
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
eBay buys top Dutch ads site

Online auction powerhouse eBay has scooped up Dutch classifieds website Marktplaats.nl.

November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Survey finds grid computing uptake slow

Only one in five IT managers surveyed by analyst firm IDC understood grid computing with most respondents failing to see its...
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Record results for Dell in third quarter

Dell continued to outpace the rest of the IT industry in the company's third quarter with sizzling growth in shipments, revenue,...
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Dell closer to using AMD chips

Dell president and chief executive officer Kevin Rollins indicated that the company is considering including Advanced Micro...
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
Microsoft's own search engine hits beta

A beta version of Microsoft's search went live yesterday with an interface and features that bring it more into line with popular...
November 10, 2004 10 Nov'04
Firefox looks to integrated desktop searches

Having launched the much awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation is already planning...
November 10, 2004 10 Nov'04
Itanium 2 stuffed with cache

Intel has delivered updated Itanium 2 processors with larger memory caches aimed, in part, at high-volume data warehouse...

November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04
Dual-core desktops still 18 months off

Montecito, the first dual-core processor based on Intel's Itanium 2 architecture, will not begin shipping in volume until 2006.
November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04
Blue Gene quits ivory tower

Fresh from setting a supercomputer performance record, IBM has announced it will make a commercial version of its Blue Gene...
November 09, 2004 09 Nov'04
Business the star of supercomputing show

As companies explore the possibility of adding supercomputers to their IT portfolio, supercomputer prices continue to fall even...
November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04
Microsoft deal to save £37m a year for NHS

The NHS has signed a software licensing deal with Microsoft that could save the health service £112m over the next three years...
November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04
Intel battles rise of blade servers with power boost to Itanium 9M

Intel has bolstered top-end performance on its Itanium 2 range by 20% with the launch yesterday of its Itanium 9M processor.
November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04
NAO advocates openness but not publication of Gateway reviews

The National Audit Office has recommended that Gateway reviews should be more widely available to civil servants, but has stopped...
November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04
Europe's most powerful supercomputer unveiled

IBM and the Spanish government have introduced a new supercomputer they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and one of the...
November 05, 2004 05 Nov'04
HP introduces 17in Media Center notebook

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a 17in digital entertainment notebook that is available with Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center...
November 05, 2004 05 Nov'04
HP and Brocade hook up for integrated servers

Hewlett-Packard is to integrate Brocade Communication Systems' San switching capability into its HP BladeSystem architecture.
November 04, 2004 04 Nov'04
European grid server revenue set to reach £1bn

Grid computing is likely to find widespread mainstream success, despite barriers that have so far limited its adoption to...
November 04, 2004 04 Nov'04
Experts share their patching advice

The Computer Weekly Infosecurity User Group will discuss vulnerabilities and patching in its final session this year.
November 04, 2004 04 Nov'04
Infineon and Samsung to offer high-capacity smartcard chips

Infineon Technologies and Samsung Electronics have each responded to demand for higher-capacity smartcard chips with two new...
November 04, 2004 04 Nov'04
Time Warner sees profit dip

Time Warner has reported revenue growth of 5% for its third quarter, but net income declined.
November 03, 2004 03 Nov'04
AOL to cut 700 jobs

America Online (AOL) plans to lay off 700 employees, about 5% of its US workforce, by the end of the year.
November 03, 2004 03 Nov'04
ID card costs soar as supplier slams technology

The UK government's national identity card scheme is too complex and the biometric technology it will be based on has not been...
November 03, 2004 03 Nov'04
Nokia launches its first PDA

Nokia has introduced a new handset with organiser functions and a wide, touch-sensitive screen, opening the door for it to...
November 03, 2004 03 Nov'04
XP shrinks to fit Russia

After offering a simplified and cheaper version of Windows XP for sale in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, Microsoft has decided...
November 03, 2004 03 Nov'04
Credit card firms add chip and Pin and RFID technology to cards

Two of the biggest credit card providers have announced new cards based on chip and pin and radio frequency identification...
November 02, 2004 02 Nov'04
Macromedia introduces publishing tool for eBay

Macromedia will announce a special version of its Contribute web publishing desktop application designed to automate and simplify...
November 02, 2004 02 Nov'04
Intel launches first of superfast-bus fleet

Intel is poised to release a version of its powerful but expensive Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor with a chipset containing...
November 02, 2004 02 Nov'04
Intel increases Pentium 4 clock speed

Intel will increase the clock speed of its Pentium 4 processor for possibly the last time as the company heads into a new era for...
November 01, 2004 01 Nov'04
Havering's council partnership develops online system to speed up library services

Open Galaxy software slashes support and maintenance costs by 40%
November 01, 2004 01 Nov'04
Petrol exchange users continue to shun e-trading a year after roll-out

An electronic trading system set up by the International Petroleum Exchange is still being shunned by traders one year after its...
November 01, 2004 01 Nov'04
x86 joins Ultrasparc for Solaris 10 launch

The next major release of Sun's flagship Solaris operating system will formally appear on 15 November.
November 01, 2004 01 Nov'04
Toshiba to replace faulty notebook memory modules

Toshiba has launched a global programme to replace faulty memory modules in certain models of its notebook computers that have...
October 29, 2004 29 Oct'04
Faster and more secure wireless USB to compete with Bluetooth

A more secure rival to the Bluetooth short-range wireless connectivity standard is expected next year with the arrival of...
October 29, 2004 29 Oct'04
Limit user freedom to improve IT security

IT departments need to lock down their users' PC configurations, Gartner research vice-president Brian Gammage has warned
October 29, 2004 29 Oct'04
Grocery wholesaler reduces stock errors to almost zero with voice recognition system

Grocery wholesaler James Hall has cut costs and administration time by investing a six-figure sum in a voice technology system to...
October 29, 2004 29 Oct'04
Icann moves closer to approving .post and .travel

Internet users may soon see two new domain name suffixes in their browser window: ".post" to identify the postal community and...
October 29, 2004 29 Oct'04
Mobile and net telephony boosts Alcatel sales

French telecom manufacturer Alcatel posted an 11% increase in third-quarter sales, buoyed by strong demand for its mobile...
October 28, 2004 28 Oct'04
Dell to pre-install SuSE Linux on servers

Dell will install Novell's SuSE Linux operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers as part of a worldwide agreement, the companies...
October 28, 2004 28 Oct'04
Yahoo search goes mobile

For the first time Yahoo is letting mobile phone users query its search engine, giving them access to conventional web results,...
October 28, 2004 28 Oct'04
PDA market continues to decline

For the third straight quarter, shipments of handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) fell as some prominent...
October 27, 2004 27 Oct'04
Microsoft details new domain-specific modelling tools

Microsoft has announced a new framework and tool for Visual Studio Team System to support the creation of service-oriented...
October 27, 2004 27 Oct'04
Intel eyes remote wireless device management

Intel is working on a device management technology that could allow IT departments to take advantage of existing management...
October 27, 2004 27 Oct'04
Top supercomputer race continues with Nasa/SGI box

Engineers at Nasa's Ames Research Center have staked their claim have built the world's fastest supercomputer.
October 27, 2004 27 Oct'04
Via's twin-core processor may upstage AMD and Intel

Via Technologies is developing a twin-core x86 processor that is likely to hit the market by June 2005.
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Microsoft previews mobile strategy

Mike Wehrs, Microsoft's director of technology and standards for its Mobility Division, has detailed Microsoft's future mobile...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Nokia woos operators with Preminet

Nokia has unveiled a system for hosting, delivering and charging for entertainment and application content for mobile phones,...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Telco suppliers and operators aim for simplicity

Services and software to be introduced at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment trade show in San Francisco are aimed at giving...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
PalmOne updates the Treo smartphone

PalmOne's long-awaited update to the Treo 600 will come with a new processor, sharper display and flash memory, as the company...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Microsoft offers Google to help promote Windows

Microsoft has found an unlikely new partner to help promote Windows XP: Google.
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Yahoo and Adobe to boost search tool

Yahoo and Adobe Systems have entered an alliance aimed at boosting Yahoo's internet search tool while possibly turning more net...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Tower of strength

Fujitsu Computer Systems will upgrade the company's Primergy tower and rack-mounted servers that will use the 64-bit capable...
October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04
Clear double advantage

ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and...
October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04
Stratus launches high speed Intel server

Stratus Technologies has launched an Intel-based server for mission-critical, high-volume applications.
October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04
Microsoft gives multi-core pledge

Microsoft gave a major boost to the development of multi-core processors and threw down a challenge to other software suppliers...
October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04
Intel switches off LCOS TV chip

Intel has decided to cancel its project to develop a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) chip that would bring down the cost of...
October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04
Intel outlines wireless USB security and use

Intel is backing the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption protocol for securing wireless USB connections, which...
October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04
Hitachi to post higher than expected sales and profits

Hitachi's group net revenue and profit for the first half of its current financial year will be higher than expected, the company...
October 22, 2004 22 Oct'04
Sybase to deliver online banking to Bank of China

Sybase's Financial Fusion subsidiary has won a contract to set up an online banking system for the Bank of China (BOC), one of...
October 22, 2004 22 Oct'04
IBM to offer slimmed-down blade chassis for small firms

IBM will begin selling a new slimmed-down version of its BladeCenter server chassis next month aimed at enticing small- and...
October 22, 2004 22 Oct'04
Google misses earnings expectations

Search engine Google has missed Wall Street's earnings expectations for the quarter which ended on 30 September, its first...
October 21, 2004 21 Oct'04
Designing an appropriate group strategy for accessing resources

Get an overview of Active Directory groups used to assign permissions in this excerpt from MCSE Exam Cram 2 book "Designing security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network."
October 21, 2004 21 Oct'04
Designing an access control strategy for directory services

This excerpt from the MCSE Exam Cram 2 book "Designing security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network" will help you create an access control strategy for directory services.
October 21, 2004 21 Oct'04
Intel expands Centrino line with new Pentium M chip

Intel has given its Centrino laptop package a speed boost with the release of a new, faster Pentium M processor.
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Intel researches optical connect for laptops and servers

Intel is developing an optical interconnect technology to replace copper ribbons in laptop computers and servers that should be...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
NEC announces speedy supercomputer

Less than a month after IBM claimed the world's fastest computer crown from NEC, the Japanese company is trying to win it back...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Sprint records $1.9bn loss

Sprint reported a $1.91bn (£1.05bn) net loss for the third quarter, due to a previously announced re-evaluation of its long...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Motorola continues profitable progress in Q3

Motorola has reported a net profit of $479m (£264m) on sales on $8.62bn for the third quarter of its fiscal 2004. Both figures...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
HP offers peek at its alternative to LCD

Imagine sitting down to your computer and seeing thin, plastic colour displays on either side of your monitor, showing...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Symbol unveils new 'durable' handheld device

Symbol Technologies has brought out a durable device designed for mobile workers who don’t need a fully ruggedised unit.
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Intel dual-core Xeon to ship in 2006

Intel plans to ship its first Xeon processors based on a new dual-core architecture in 2006 rather than the industry-expected...
October 20, 2004 20 Oct'04
Microsoft revises licensing policy for multicore chips

Dual-core processor users will not need to buy extra licences for Microsoft software.
October 19, 2004 19 Oct'04
AMD pushes desktop performance with new chips

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled its most powerful desktop processors a few days after rival Intel disclosed changes to...
October 19, 2004 19 Oct'04
Storage system improves Windows data back-up

Suppliers at the UK's largest storage exhibition have made a host of announcements, including a low-cost back-up system from...
October 19, 2004 19 Oct'04
The Prudential say yes to virtual servers

The Prudential is backing server virtualisation technology with a decision to replace its department individual servers with...
October 19, 2004 19 Oct'04
JBoss takes on business process management

JBoss has added business process management (BPM) to its growing roster of open source software.
October 18, 2004 18 Oct'04
Microsoft issues bumper patch kit

Microsoft has released five critical patches in its October security update. It pushed out the bumper update despite a user...
October 18, 2004 18 Oct'04
AOL to have desktop searching in new browser

America Online will have a desktop search capability in a new browser the company is now beta-testing.
October 18, 2004 18 Oct'04
HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says

Hewlett-Packard has still not done enough to take full advantage of its buyout of rival Compaq Computer, according to HP's...
October 18, 2004 18 Oct'04
New bug in add-on tool fof MySQL

Users of the open-source MySQL database could be at risk from remote attacks from a bug in phpMyAdmin, the web-based MySQL...
October 15, 2004 15 Oct'04
JP Mobile offers rival to Blackberry

JP Mobile has introduced a new version of its wireless e-mail platform, adding security management features acquired from...
October 15, 2004 15 Oct'04
Nokia price cuts account for fall in profits

Nokia has reported a 20% decline in net profit for the third quarter, due largely to cuts it made in the prices for its mobile...
October 15, 2004 15 Oct'04
IBM launches top-end Power5 servers

IBM has expanded the top end of its eServer range with three multiple-processor systems aimed at datacentres and large enterprise...
October 15, 2004 15 Oct'04
Intel shelves plans for 4GHz Pentium 4

Intel has confirmed it will not release a 4GHz version of its flagship Pentium 4 product. Instead it will transfer its engineers...
October 15, 2004 15 Oct'04
Govt biometric ID cards could be vulnerable to fraud, warn experts

A leading biometrics expert has warned the government that biometric ID cards, due to be rolled out from 2007, could be...
October 14, 2004 14 Oct'04
Motorola to add NFC payment function to mobile phones

Motorola is the latest company to move towards adding a payment function based on Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology to...
October 14, 2004 14 Oct'04
UDO replacing MO faster than expected, says Plasmon

The ultra-density optical (UDO) disc and drive format is replacing magneto optical (MO) technology faster than expected,...
October 14, 2004 14 Oct'04
IBM unveils new Shark and midrange array

IBM has unveiled two new enterprise-class storage arrays which, despite being aimed at different markets, can be managed through...
October 14, 2004 14 Oct'04
Worldwide semiconductor spending to grow

Worldwide capital equipment spending is set to grow by 66 percent in 2004. However, despite this strong growth, the industry will...
October 13, 2004 13 Oct'04
PayPal users still stranded as site glitch continues

A routine monthly code update performed on Friday (8 October) for the PayPal.com online payment website has caused havoc for...
October 12, 2004 12 Oct'04
SGI launches Linux-based visual computer line

Silicon Graphics (SGI) has launched the successor line to its Onyx visualisation systems. The systems, called Prism, will be...
October 12, 2004 12 Oct'04
Authorities shut down UK-based news websites

US authorities have shut down 20 independent news websites run by the Independent Media Center (Indymedia) and seized two...
October 11, 2004 11 Oct'04
IBM upgrades blade servers

IBM will soon begin shipping upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers, including a new SCSI option for the HS20 that...
October 11, 2004 11 Oct'04
Ceatec: DataPlay is back

One of the most talked-about and anticipated optical storage formats of 2001 is back.
October 11, 2004 11 Oct'04
Dell recalls laptop power supplies

Dell is recalling some of the one million electrical adapters sold for use with Dell notebook computers, following seven reports...
October 08, 2004 08 Oct'04
HP launches wave of new products

At TechXNY this week, Hewlett-Packard unveiled more than 20 printers or print server products, including the HP Jetdirect 625n...
October 08, 2004 08 Oct'04
64-bit sales lead AMD up 30% on last year

AMD reported $1.24bn (£695m) in sales for the third quarter, in line with the updated guidance it provided earlier this week.
October 08, 2004 08 Oct'04
Google introduces wireless service

Google has launched a beta test version of Google SMS, a new service that lets users of wireless devices query Google for...