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Data centre hardware

• October 06, 2004 06 Oct'04

  Slimline dual core processors will fit single core slots

  AMD's dual-core Opteron processor will fit into the same area as its single-core product, helping to hold down manufacturing...

• October 06, 2004 06 Oct'04

  PalmOne licenses MS Exchange for mobile e-mail

  PalmOne has licensed technology from Microsoft to make its devices work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server.

• October 06, 2004 06 Oct'04

  Users face five years of patching pain as security flaws keep rising

  Force suppliers to act on vulnerabilities or pay the price, leading security experts warn users

• October 06, 2004 06 Oct'04

  IBM targets the medium-sized business

  IBM has rolled out two lower-priced Unix-based servers that will compete with offerings from Sun and Hewlett-Packard.

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  NHS announces closure date for IT agency

  IT staff working for the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) face an uncertain future as the date for the agency's closure was...

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  EMC upgrades replication and storage management tools

  EMC is to upgrade several of its software products, including the integration of automated data migration technology with its...

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  IBM introduces ThinkPad with fingerprint reader

  Hoping to make biometric devices mainstream products, IBM has unveiled its first ThinkPad featuring an integrated fingerprint...

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  SmartDBA can now handle all major databases

  BMC Software has added IBM's IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a...

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  Sproqit launches true mobile access software

  Start-up Sproqit Technologies has invited users to sign up for a download of its mobile access software.

• October 04, 2004 04 Oct'04

  Hitachi and NEC see fruits of joint venture

  Alaxala Networks, the backbone-network router and switch joint venture announced by Hitachi and NEC earlier this year, began...

• October 04, 2004 04 Oct'04

  IT press gives early warning says O’Brien

  Newly appointed IT minister Mike O’Brien has praised the role of the media in alerting government to IT problems.

• October 04, 2004 04 Oct'04

  NHS IT NHS fines BT for missing spine targets

  The national programme for IT in the NHS has fined BT for failing to meet targets for the national data spine for care records, a...

• October 01, 2004 01 Oct'04

  Abbey bets bank on consolidation and virtual call centre

  A datacentre consolidation and an update of its call centre technology are among the main IT projects under way at Abbey ahead of...

• October 01, 2004 01 Oct'04

  DHL gives drivers PDAs to improve workflow

  DHL's same-day delivery division is to equip 700 drivers with integrated personal digital assistants and phones to cut costs and...

• October 01, 2004 01 Oct'04

  Microsoft loses Fat patent

  After winning one intellectual property battle over its Smart Tags in Office, Microsoft has lost another over its file allocation...

• October 01, 2004 01 Oct'04

  Cooler technology cuts datacentre size

  Syska Hennessy has unveiled a unique design for cooling datacentres that will allow companies to pack almost double the number of...

• September 30, 2004 30 Sep'04

  Now SCO is demanding Linux licence payments from SMEs

  Legal experts adivse Linux users not to be pressurised into buying a licence form SCO.

• September 29, 2004 29 Sep'04

  Toshiba has big plans for a small drive

  Toshiba will begin commercial production of its 0.85in hard disc drive before the end of this year.

• September 29, 2004 29 Sep'04

  Toshiba notebooks cold-shoulder Pentium M

  Toshiba's new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks provide further evidence that US consumers have yet to embrace the...

• September 29, 2004 29 Sep'04

  HD-DVD goes to brink of mass production

  The DVD Forum has approved the physical disc specifications for the rewritable version of high-definition/high-density DVDs,...

• September 28, 2004 28 Sep'04

  EU team takes 'proven' route to nano-switches

  A European research consortium has adapted existing nanotechnology to create tiny switches that could further reduce the size and...

• September 28, 2004 28 Sep'04

  PC market sends out mixed messages

  Consumers are easing off on PC purchases as corporations ramp up theirs, according to market researcher IDC.

• September 28, 2004 28 Sep'04

  Dell upgrades high-performance cluster line

  Dell has upgraded its high-performance computing clusters (HPCC) by adding support for larger Topspin InfiniBand switches and...

• September 28, 2004 28 Sep'04

  Intel drops plans for Wi-Fi access point in Grantsdale

  Intel no longer plans to turn its latest batch of chipsets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC...

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  The virtual path to desktop management

  Virtualisation software supplier VMWare has released a secure desktop environment called VMWare Ace, which allows the end-user to...

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  China's first 300mm chip plant starts production

  Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has begun commercial production at a 300-millimetre semiconductor fabrication...

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  Microsoft to charge for Hotmail-Outlook link

  Microsoft will start charging for a Hotmail feature that allows users of the web-based e-mail service to access their e-mail...

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  HP drops Itanium workstations

  Hewlett-Packard has stopped selling workstations based on Intel's Itanium 2 chip.

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  Principia to deliver NCC services

  Last week saw the official launch of Principia, a major rebranding of many of the National Computing Centre's core services.

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  Former CA boss Kumar accused in fraud scandal

  Computer Associates' former chief executive Sanjay Kumar was in court last week charged with fraud and obstruction of justice in...

• September 24, 2004 24 Sep'04

  Sun unveils pay-per-use grid for non-transactional data processing

  In its quarterly product announcement last week, Sun outlined 24 products and services, including new mid-range storage systems,...

• September 24, 2004 24 Sep'04

  Lloyds TSB simplifies staff access to systems

  Lloyds TSB has bought software to simplify the job of controlling the access rights of 10,000 staff to more than 1,000 Unix...

• September 24, 2004 24 Sep'04

  RealNetworks restructures to offer integrated service

  RealNetworks is to merge its RealPlayer and Music Services business units into a single group so that the teams can collaborate...

• September 24, 2004 24 Sep'04

  AMD considers joint-venture chip plant plans

  Advanced Micro Devices may team up with another chip maker for the construction of a semiconductor fabrication plant (fab) to...

• September 23, 2004 23 Sep'04

  PalmOne reports 62% rise in Q1 revenue

  PalmOne has reported revenue of $273.1m (£151.5m) for the first quarter of year 2005, whicd ended 27 August, up 62% from the...

• September 22, 2004 22 Sep'04

  Oracle and Dell offer server/database bundle

  Oracle and Dell are offering a package featuring a Dell PowerEdge server bundled with the Oracle Database10g Standard Edition One...

• September 21, 2004 21 Sep'04

  Ask Jeeves revamps search and gets personal

  Ask Jeeves has made three significant enhancements to its search engine with the aim of competing with larger search companies...

• September 21, 2004 21 Sep'04

  Microsoft introduces Data Protection Server

  Microsoft has introduced its Data Protection Server, which is designed to simplify and reduce the backup and recovery process for...

• September 21, 2004 21 Sep'04

  Samsung develops high-capacity memory chips

  Samsung Electronics has developed two high-capacity memory parts, one of which will lead to higher-capacity storage cards for a...

• September 21, 2004 21 Sep'04

  HP forms new blade group

  Hewlett-Packard has formed a new division within its Enterprise Storage and Servers Group chartered with unifying the company's...

• September 21, 2004 21 Sep'04

  AOL to promote Aim Robots

  America Online (AOL) is launching a programme to promote and facilitate the creation of what it calls AIM Robots for its Aim...

• September 20, 2004 20 Sep'04

  IBM launches low-end Power5 Linux servers

  IBM has released a line of Linux-only servers aimed at the financial and retail sectors based on its 64-bit Power5 chip...

• September 20, 2004 20 Sep'04

  Biometrics 'not yet ready to secure corporate IT'

  Biometric technology is not mature enough to secure corporate IT systems, Gartner warned this week, as the government stepped up...

• September 20, 2004 20 Sep'04

  Sun returns to network attached storage

  Sun will introduce a number of new storage products, including a new server that signals the company's return to network-attached...

• September 17, 2004 17 Sep'04

  Linux user Bergen beats Microsoft licence jam

  A Microsoft Enterprise licence agreement has allowed the local authority in Bergen, Norway - an open source software user - to...

• September 17, 2004 17 Sep'04

  Novell offers its Netware users a migration path to SuSE Linux

  Novell chief executive Jack Messman kicked off the company's Brainshare Europe conference last week with a keynote address to...

• September 17, 2004 17 Sep'04

  IBM to produce 90nm chips for Via

  Via Technologies' C7 and C7-M (mobile) chips, based on the Esther processor core, will be produced by IBM using a 90nm process.

• September 17, 2004 17 Sep'04

  IBM fits hardware security chip to PCs

  IBM has begun using new security hardware from National Semiconductor in its desktop PCs in an effort to fend off viruses and...

• September 16, 2004 16 Sep'04

  Vodafone first to offer slimmer Blackberry device

  Vodafone is the first mobile operator to sell the new slimmed down Blackberry 7100v "push e-mail" device, which will appeal to...

• September 16, 2004 16 Sep'04

  Nokia and NEC test IP multimedia interoperability

  Nokia and NEC have established VoIP sessions and transferred instant messages between terminals over a network using new IP...

• September 16, 2004 16 Sep'04

  Technology speeds up post-hurricane claims resolution

  When Hurricane Charley roared into South Florida last month with 145-mph wind gusts, the force of the storm snapped utility poles...

• September 15, 2004 15 Sep'04

  Sony to mass produce flattest screens

  Sony will begin mass production of full-color organic light emitting diode (Oled) displays next year.

• September 15, 2004 15 Sep'04

  Hitachi introduces new notebook drives

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will bring up to 100Gbyte, 2.5-inch hard drives for notebook computers to market by the end...

• September 15, 2004 15 Sep'04

  Nokia embraces SD memory cards

  Users accustomed to removing the memory card from one of their consumer electronic devices and plugging it into another will soon...

• September 15, 2004 15 Sep'04

  Protocol Smash technology barriers

  An emerging protocol for managing servers, Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (Smash), was introduced at...

• September 15, 2004 15 Sep'04

  Smaller, sharper digital pen hits market

  Logitech has developed a new version of its digital pen, which can digitise handwritten text.

• September 14, 2004 14 Sep'04

  IBM takes Linux down market

  IBM's plans for an agressively-priced series of Linux-only systems will take Linux into the lower end of the market.

• September 13, 2004 13 Sep'04

  Intel strategy improves PC management

  Intel has given a preview of new technology designed to give IT managers better control over their networked computers

• September 13, 2004 13 Sep'04

  Cisco introduces integrated routers

  Cisco is to introduce a line of branch-office routers that integrate basic routing capabilities with IP voice support and...

• September 13, 2004 13 Sep'04

  Hitachi and Intel join forces on mobile phone drives

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and Intel are pushing the development of an interface technology that they hope will...

• September 13, 2004 13 Sep'04

  IBM unveils new low-end Power5 server

  IBM has launched a new, low-end Power5-based server which the company said was core to its plan to offer 64-bit capability at...

• September 10, 2004 10 Sep'04

  Housing association polices mobile net use

  A publicly-funded housing association has worked with a major software supplier to develop technology to police the way staff use...

• September 10, 2004 10 Sep'04

  Could security costs tip the TCO balance?

  Newham Council's findings that Microsoft offered a lower total cost of ownership than open source software surprised many. Here...

• September 10, 2004 10 Sep'04

  Oracle predicts grids will be only way to meet processing demands

  Businesses will have to adopt grid computing if they are to meet user demands for more processing power, according to Oracle.

• September 10, 2004 10 Sep'04

  German teenager indicted over Sasser worm

  Prosecutors in Verden, Germany, have indicted an 18-year-old student for allegedly creating the Sasser worm that crashed hundreds...

• September 10, 2004 10 Sep'04

  Tracker puts goods into business context

  US company WhereNet has added business rules to radio frequency identity (RFID) tagging to automate workflow in the car industry.

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  New Microsoft mouse, keyboard read fingerprints

  A new line of keyboards and mice from Microsoft includes some with fingerprint readers that let users scan a finger instead of...

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  Intel Developer Forum - 64-bit x86 has set back Itanium

  Intel's decision to begin shipping versions of x86 processors that are capable of 64-bit computing has slowed down the adoption...

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  Siemens releases patch for series 65 phones

  Siemens has received the green light from operators to patch a software defect in some of its 65 series mobile phones which could...

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  New IBM server to support dual-core Opteron

  IBM will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual-processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron...

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  Sleeker Nokia Communicator to hit the shops

  Trying to regain some of its lost market share, Nokia is hoping to woo both enterprise and consumer customers with a lighter,...

• September 09, 2004 09 Sep'04

  T-Mobile begins offering Microsoft smartphone

  Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile will begin selling a smartphone in Europe running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software for...

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Intel Developer Forum - Rosedale chips fuel Intel's WiMax drive

  Intel says its first-generation WiMax chips will go into wireless broadband devices that cost less than $200 (£112) and would not...

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Intel confirms Yonah chip plans

  Intel will unveil plans for its first dual-core successor to the Pentium M processor, codenamed Yonah at the Intel Developer...

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Intel Developer Forum - Parallel processing set to take off

  Intel and the PC industry are about to go through a major change in the way client computers are designed, built and marketed.

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Open source groups revolt against Microsoft anti-spam plan

  Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected the Sender ID technology standard backed by Microsoft.

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Unisys joins Red Hat partner community

  IT services and hardware supplier Unisys has joined the Red Hat partner community one month after unveiling support for Linux on...

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Operators form cell-to-Wi-Fi industry group

  The telecoms industry has taken the first step in allowing mobile phone users roam between cellular and wireless networks.

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  Lexmark recalls 39,000 laser printers

  About 39,400 laser printers made by Lexmark and sold by Lexmark, IBM and Dell can pose an electrical shock hazard, the US...

• September 08, 2004 08 Sep'04

  EC spends £35m grid computing research

  The European Commission is putting €52m (£35m) into research projects aimed at boosting the take-up of grid networked computing...

• September 06, 2004 06 Sep'04

  Oracle to track grid technology implementation

  In a move designed to fuel adoption of enterprise grids, Oracle has tied up with analyst Quocirca to publish a report rating...

• September 06, 2004 06 Sep'04

  TSMC's allegations are baseless, claims SMIC chief

  Allegations that contract chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) infringed on chip-making patents held by...

• September 06, 2004 06 Sep'04

  Users set to benefit from commodity blade servers

  Intel and IBM are opening up parts of the design specifications for blade server technology that they have been developing since...

• September 06, 2004 06 Sep'04

  Network and support costs will be cut

  BP hopes to make substantial savings in networks, telecoms and IT support costs with its radical externalisation strategy.

• September 03, 2004 03 Sep'04

  Users to choose as Microsoft rivals mature

  DesKtop management Intel's Developer Forum kicks off this week and, with a host of Microsoft alternatives coming of age, there is...

• September 03, 2004 03 Sep'04

  First fully interoperable products out this year

  The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), a 165-member consortium of consumer electronic, IT and mobile equipment...

• September 02, 2004 02 Sep'04

  IBM and Intel to open up blade specifications

  In an effort to encourage hardware suppliers to build components for the blade platform they co-develop, Intel and IBM will open...

• September 02, 2004 02 Sep'04

  Intel looks to clarify strategy and execution

  Intel will look to a multicore future during the autumn Intel Developer Forum (IDF) as it tries to leave behind a tumultuous year...

• September 01, 2004 01 Sep'04

  Apple unwraps new iMac G5 at Paris show

  Apple Computer will begin shipping its new iMac G5 desktop computer worldwide in mid-September.

• September 01, 2004 01 Sep'04

  Renesas to take chip design to Vietnam

  Renesas will establish a system large-scale integrated circuit chip design centre in Vietnam in October.

• September 01, 2004 01 Sep'04

  Samsung adds payment function to mobile phones

  Samsung Electronics and Koninklijke Philips Electronics are teaming up to incorporate Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology...

• September 01, 2004 01 Sep'04

  Opera to launch browser for Windows Mobile

  Norwegian browser developer Opera Software ASA has developed a product to run on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system,...

• August 31, 2004 31 Aug'04

  Server market hits $11.5bn

  Fuelled by strong sales of Windows and Linux systems, the worldwide server market grew to $11.5bn (£6.38) during the second...

• August 31, 2004 31 Aug'04

  AMD demos first dual-core processor

  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has demonstrated the company's first dual-core microprocessors.

• August 31, 2004 31 Aug'04

  3D memory chips get closer to market

  Matrix Semiconductor is shipping samples of a new, cheaper memory chip that has been delayed by technological problems for nearly...

• August 27, 2004 27 Aug'04

  BCS group targets UK IT directors

  Following the Queen's approval of its revamped royal charter in May, the BCS is aiming to get more senior IT users to join its...

• August 26, 2004 26 Aug'04

  Making use of Active Directory Taskpads

  Overwhelmed by the administrative tool that comes with the adminpak.msi? This book excerpt discusses how you can narrow down the information you see in an interface: Taskpads.

• August 26, 2004 26 Aug'04

  Advantages of Microsoft Group Policy Management Console

  This excerpt from "Administrator shortcut guide to Active Directory security" describes GPMC, which is one of the tools that manages AD security.

• August 26, 2004 26 Aug'04

  Linux supercomputers used for US war simulations

  Complicated battle scenarios are to be run on US Department of Defense Linux-based supercomputers.

• August 26, 2004 26 Aug'04

  Server shipments and revenue increase

  The latest Gartner figures show that both server shipments and revenue increased in Q2 as Hewlett-Packard and IBM lost market...