30th August 2004 Archive

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• US website offers Caller ID falsification service

  Overdue debtors, beware!

  Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller ID to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller ID spoofing to the business world, beginning with collection agencies and private investigators. Slated for launch this week, …

  Data Networking 30 Aug 2004, 10:32

• Orion delivers first 'personal cluster' workstation

  Deskside Linux workhorse

  There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days either in a makeshift data center or an expensive room with raised floors and penguin-friendly cooling. Cables overwhelm the …

  Servers 30 Aug 2004, 16:19

• Itanium sales fall $13.4bn shy of $14bn forecast

  Sun top Opteron vendor

  Itanium server sales are coming in just as expected, hitting the $14bn revenue mark halfway through 2004. Okay, well, not quite $14bn. That's the total analyst powerhouse IDC had once predicted Itanium would reach by the midway point of this year. In actual fact, total Itanium sales have hit $606m through the first two quarters …

  Servers 30 Aug 2004, 18:37