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December 02, 2004 02 Dec'04
IBM opens up on Power processors

IBM has formed an industry consortium, called Power.org, to open up the process of building Power processors.
December 01, 2004 01 Dec'04
Sharp and Sony Ericsson work together on 3G handsets

Sharp and the Japanese division of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will jointly develop mobile phone handsets based on the...
December 01, 2004 01 Dec'04
IBM to support Sybase for Linux

IBM is extending its support for the products of one of its software competitors, Sybase, to present a Linux server-software...
November 30, 2004 30 Nov'04
Linux slashes costs for bank giant

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein uses Linux on Intel servers to cut running costs by 45%

November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04
Computer Associates picks IBM veteran Swainson to take the helm

John Swainson, the leader of IBM's worldwide software sales group, has been appointed president and CEO-elect of Computer...
November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04
Budget must address lack of funds to fight e-crime

The IT industry is hoping for more money to fight computer crime and extra tax relief for training when chancellor Gordon Brown...
November 29, 2004 29 Nov'04
Linux sales growth beats Windows

Linux is gaining in popularity as a server operating system, according to the latest market data from research company IDC.
November 26, 2004 26 Nov'04
IAEA needs funds to update ageing systems

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is struggling to raise funds to overhaul the computer system it uses to ensure...
November 26, 2004 26 Nov'04
UN to rule on Methuselah batteries

A United Nations committee meeting next week will decide whether to allow cartridges containing methanol on commercial aircraft....
November 25, 2004 25 Nov'04
Mm02 in talks to roll out DoCoMo's I-mode in UK

UK carrier mmO2 is negotiating with NTT DoCoMo to launch a mobile internet service in the UK based on the Japanese company's...

November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04
Fake Windows XP to be replaced for free

Users who fear that their Windows XP software might be counterfeit could get free legitimate replacements from Microsoft under a...
November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04
Network printers vulnerable to hackers

Printers can be hacked and used to launch denial of service attacks or compromise employee details over the web, a security...
November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04
AMD's 2005 mobile push off to early start

Gericom and Packard Bell NEC plan to use the Mobile Sempron 3000+ chip in new notebooks before the end of the year, but AMD's new...
November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04
Linux server sales top $1bn in third quarter

According to a report by analysts IDC, quarterly sales of servers running the Linux operating system topped $1bn (£533m) for the...
November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04
IT professionals hand out £70,000 to child charities

Two charities have received cheques totalling £70,000, raised during two Computer Weekly-supported industry-wide events that took...
November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04
Sun to offer low-power Niagra chip

Sun is developing a low-power version of its Ultrasparc chip, dubbed Niagra, for blade servers based on 90-nanometer fabrication...
November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04
Expanding Isotrak becomes blade runner

Logistics support firm Isotrak, whose customers include Tesco and Royal Mail, has used blade servers to expand its computing...
November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04
Blunkett defends £3.1bn ID card spend as an add-on to passports

The home secretary David Blunkett has defended the government's plans to spend more than £3.1bn on its national biometric ID card...
November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04
Microsoft ignores Itanium 2 to target low end with cluster server

Microsoft will not support Intel's Itanium 2 processor in Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, due out in the second half...
November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04
DoCoMo develops Linux and Symbian platform

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, has developed a common software platform that can run on both the Linux and Symbian...
November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04
Intel considers India for chip manufacturing

Intel is considering India as a possible location for a new chip manufacturing facility.
November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04
W3C's workshop aims to improve handheld web access

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is considering a new effort called the "W3C Mobile Web Initiative", that will seek to make...
November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04
Yahoo and SBC extend partnership and plan new services

Yahoo and SBC Communications have agreed to collaborate to extend some of the online services and content they currently provide...
November 18, 2004 18 Nov'04
Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes team on 3D design

Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes will work to integrate Microsoft's Office applications with Dassault Systèmes' 3D design...
November 18, 2004 18 Nov'04
Gateway expands Media Center PC lineup

Gateway has released two additional Media Center PCs in the hope that consumer excitement over multimedia will boost what is...
November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04
PC hard drive expands size and speed

Seagate Technology has started shipping a 400Gbyte hard drive targeted at personal computers.
November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04
Maxtor loses fourth finance director in eight months

In another round of executive turmoil at hard-disc drive maker Maxtor, chief executive and head of finance Paul Tufano has left...
November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04
Profits perk up at HP

Hewlett-Packard's troubled enterprise storage and servers group bounced back to profitability and the company as a whole saw...
November 17, 2004 17 Nov'04
AMD to put virtualisation on low-end server chips

AMD plans to build security and virtualisation features in its server processors by 2006.
November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04
Nokia demos first mobile call using IP standard

Nokia has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), a version of the protocol that...
November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04
Dell thrusts blade into datacentres

A substantial price cut and footprint squeeze show a new commitment from Dell to getting its enterprise-class blade servers into...
November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04
3.8GHz Pentium last of the speed breed

As expected, Intel introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor yesterday in what could represent the end of an era for the chip...
November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04
Apache hands Geronimo compliance weapons

Geronimo, the open-source Java application server in development by Apache, will offer a flexible technology base for regulatory...
November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04
Dell and Microsoft integrate patch management apps

Dell and Microsoft are working together to integrate their systems management applications to allow customers to update server...
November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04
Certification gives IT recycling drive a boost

Computer recycling company RDC last week announced it had become the first company of its type to achieve British Standards...
November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04
News in brief

Short takes from this week's news
November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04
Minister promises extra funding for NHS systems

NHS trusts will have the funds to allow them to increase their IT budgets to 4% of the total NHS spend, according to the health...
November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04
PDA market veers to Windows CE

Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs) using Microsoft's Windows CE operating system have surpassed those...
November 15, 2004 15 Nov'04
Icann domain transfer policy takes effect

The new transfer policy for inter-registrar domain names came into effect last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...
November 12, 2004 12 Nov'04
How access control works

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" explains what access control really does.
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...