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  • Intel unwraps 65nm 'Presler', 'Cedar Mill'

    Next-gen dual-core and single-core desktop CPUs ahoy!

    Intel has debuted its latest dual-core desktop Pentium D processors, launching the chip family as the 9xx series. The chip giant this week added four models to its price list: the 920, 930, 940 and 950, all containing 4MB of L2 cache split into two 2MB chunks, one for each of the two cores in the chip package. All four operate …

    PCs 3 Jan 2006, 10:51

  • Intel prices up 65nm dual, single-core 'Yonah'

    'Napa' Centrino bundles debut, too

    Intel has started shipping its 65nm dual-core mobile Pentium processor, Yonah, along with Centrino bundles based on the new processor. As expected, the chips use Intel's new model-numbering scheme. The T2600, T2500, T2400 and T2300 are dual-core parts - hence the '2' - and are joined by one single-core chip, the T1300. The five …

    PCs 3 Jan 2006, 10:55

  • 'Sossaman' launches as 'low-voltage' Xeon DP

    Intel debuts first dual-core Xeon DP too

    Intel has launched 'Sossaman', its low-power Xeon DP server processor based on its Pentium M mobile chip. The company has also added the first dual-core CPU to its Xeon DP line-up. The launch of the dual-core Xeon DP follows the release of 'Paxville', the first dual-core Xeon MP part, in November 2005. The $1043 DP chip is …

    PCs 3 Jan 2006, 11:04

  • NTL tipped to up bid for Virgin Mobile

    OFT clears NTL/Telewest tie-up

    NTL is expected to up its offer for Virgin Mobile, according to reports, although there are doubts as to whether the revised bid by the UK cableco will be enough to secure a deal. The Sunday Times reported that NTL is expected to increase its £817m offer for Virgin Mobile - which is 72 per cent owned by Sir Richard Branson - by …

    Financial News 3 Jan 2006, 11:52

  • Google to 'launch own PC'

    Windows-free, of course

    Google is planning to provide an own-brand Windows-less PC and sell the low-cost system through a partnership with retail giant Wal-Mart. The machine and/or the sales deal could be announced as early as this coming Friday. So claims the Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed sources. Whether they've seen the text of Google co- …

    PCs 3 Jan 2006, 11:59

  • Data security moves front and center in 2005

    Users, admins likely to feel less safe after 2005

    High-profile leaks of financial data left more than 50 million accounts containing credit card information and, in some cases, confidential details at risk in 2005. Phishing attacks, targeted Trojan horses and web-based exploits compromised millions of PCs last year to create centrally controlled networks known as bot nets. …

    Security 3 Jan 2006, 12:21

  • El Reg's review of reviews

    2005 all wrapped up

    If you can still remember 2005, you've probably had a very, very quiet Christmas. Luckily, for the rest of you, El Reg’s editorial team not only managed to stay conscious just long enough to not only record the highlights and lowlights of 2005, but to wrap them up in a series of easily digestible packages. So, if your …

    Music and Media 3 Jan 2006, 13:27

  • The Cloud targets UK with city centre Wi-Fi hotspots

    So that's what BT payphones are for

    Nine UK city centres are to get blanket wireless broadband coverage as part of a deal between Wi-Fi operator The Cloud and telecoms giant BT. About 500 BT payphones in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Oxford, Cambridge and Liverpool, as well as in the London Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Camden and …

    Wireless 3 Jan 2006, 13:28

  • World+dog scrambles to fight Windows flaw

    Protect and survive

    Microsoft rushed out a temporary fix on Monday to defend against a dangerous new Windows Meta File vulnerability that became the focus of numerous exploits late last week. Redmond's workaround disables some functions in Windows and is only partially effective. Fortunately, there is an alternative. Security researchers at the …

    Enterprise Security 3 Jan 2006, 14:08

  • AMD spends $75m to license Rambus tech

    Five year deal

    AMD has licensed a raft of Rambus' memory controller technology patents, including intellectual property embedded in the DDR 2 and DDR 3 standards, the FB-DIMM and Rambus' own XDR system. The licence will last for at least five years, but the two companies refused to disclose any other terms and conditions underpinning the deal …

    Channel Register 3 Jan 2006, 14:59

  • UK top Euro broadband nation, say analysts

    Happy New Year

    The UK has leapfrogged France as Europe's number-one broadband nation, according to estimates by research outfit Point Topic. Having totted up the latest numbers available, analysts reckon that, as of New Year's Day, the UK had 9.8m broadband lines compared to 9.7m in France. This compares with figures from September, which …

    Telecoms 3 Jan 2006, 15:05

  • Two-track mind for MP3 Surround

    More compatible with the binaural world

    Having seemingly failed to persuade the digital music world to upgrade to MP3 Pro, the format's founder, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, is trying again, this time with MP3 Surround, a multi-channel implementation of the hugely popular music codec. Its latest teasers are MP3 SX - short for 'stereo extended' - and Ensonido, …

    Peripherals 3 Jan 2006, 15:27

  • CODASciSys drives East

    No sleep till Budapest

    CODASciSys is spending upto €2.4m buying its Hungarian and German distributors. The UK-based software and services group is paying €0.75m upfront for its Hungarian partner, Singular Hungary, with another &0.25;m based on future profitability. The Hungarian business will be redubbed CODA Hungary, and serve Central and Eastern …

    Channel Register 3 Jan 2006, 15:45

  • Intel confirms 'Core' branding

    'Duo', 'Solo' to promote multi-core platforms

    Intel today made public the new processor branding scheme that leaked out of the company late last year. The launch confirms the company's plan to brand upcoming Centrino notebooks in 'Duo' and 'Solo' forms, to indicate dual- and single-core implementations of the platform. Where OEMs want to stress the CPU - for desktops and …

    PCs 3 Jan 2006, 16:02

  • TomTom threatens TamTam developer

    Mac-based GPS software developer beats the retreat

    Route-planning software and GPS navigation hardware developer TomTom has successfully forced a small Mac software developer to stop offering code that allows users to maintain TomTom's Go device from a Macintosh. Equinux shipped TamTam in 2004. Since the launch, TomTom has persistently tried to persuade the company to drop the …

    Peripherals 3 Jan 2006, 16:08

  • Swansea IT staff shunted to Capgemini

    E-gov deal underway

    IT staff at Swansea Council have been transferred to Capgemini as part of a controversial £83m e-government outsourcing project designed to modernise the way the council provides its public services. As part of the first phase, Capgemini intends to overhaul the council's existing IT systems and working practices as part of an …

    Public Sector 3 Jan 2006, 16:21

  • Domain scam duo fined AU$2.3m

    Oz crooks pommelled over Nominet attack

    A pair of fraudsters who made millions using a domain registration scam have been ordered to pay AU$2.3m (£980,000) by an Australian court. Brad Norrish and Chesley Rafferty conned victims into stumping up non-existent fees under the threat that they risked losing their domain names unless they paid up. The duo used data from …

    Spam 3 Jan 2006, 16:53

  • Blair appears in online love story

    It's Tony. Actually

    It is billed by the Prime Minister's Office as a "rare glimpse into his world"; and so it is because rarely nowadays are the cameras so kind to Tony Blair. The latest in a line of propaganda films produced by Two Four Group, a corporate and TV film maker, for the British government, is a three minute short of platitudes from …

    Public Sector 3 Jan 2006, 17:03

  • Windows users waiting for serious fix

    New Year security blues

    At least two unofficial patches have been made available for millions of users running Windows left hanging by the latest serious security vulnerability to hit Microsoft's operating system. Security specialists at the Internet Storm Center (ICS) are pointing customers running Windows XP Services Pack 1, SP2, Windows Server 2003 …

    Channel Register 3 Jan 2006, 20:44

  • Mercury nudged off the NASDAQ

    The firm hand of compliance

    Mercury Interactive is being de-listed from the Nasdaq after missing a second deadline for restating its financials in the wake of a company share-trading scandal. Shares in the business technology optimization (BTO) specialist will be removed from Nasdaq at the opening of business on Wednesday morning, Mercury announced on …

    Financial News 3 Jan 2006, 23:48