19th August 2006 Archive

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Former Transmeta CEO goes at Intel with another low-power chip

Exclusive Not again

Matthew Perry - no, not that one - can't seem to escape the idea of dealing a devastating blow to Intel. The former Transmeta CEO has landed at chip start-up Montalvo Systems, according to our sources, and is running the company. As we reported in an exclusive last October, Montalvo has been hammering away on a low-power x86 …

IT Director 19 Aug 2006, 00:18
LinuxWorld, virtually speaking

The future's in virtualisation

Woody Allen once famously said, "80 per cent of success is showing up". And often, showing up means you're in the right place at the right time to take advantage of new opportunities. Nowadays, for instance, we take the talking heads that deliver the news to us on TV and radio for granted. But it wasn't always so. In fact, it …

Software 19 Aug 2006, 07:02
NAO rebuts BBC claims on NHS IT

'We didn't edit criticisms'

The National Audit Office (NAO) has hit back at BBC claims that it toned down criticisms about the progress of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in its recent report. Speaking to GC News, an NAO spokesperson said the criticisms were unfounded because "the overall conclusions (in the report) had remained unchanged". BBC's …

Public Sector 19 Aug 2006, 08:02
Apple relieves Chinese iPod slave laborers

Promises a 60-hour week

Apple Computer has vowed to cease driving its Chinese iPod assemblers like rented mules, after being shocked, shocked, to learn of abuses at several of its overseas factories. The Mail on Sunday recently broke the story, and identified poor conditions at factories in Longhua and Suzhou, operated by Taiwanese outfits Foxconn and …

IT Director 19 Aug 2006, 08:45
What the heck was on that stolen laptop?

Cluelessness compounds data disclosure security flaps

Four in five (81 per cent) US firms have lost at least one laptop containing sensitive data in the last year, according to a new study. The Confidential Data at Risk (PDF) survey of 500 IT pros by Ponemon Institute was sponsored by data loss prevention firm Vontu, which is using it in the time honored tradition of talking up …

ID 19 Aug 2006, 12:02