18th November 2006 Archive
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Vista released: PC sales drop? Dealers blamed!
Jumping the gun
"I'm not buying a new PC, not yet," said the angry NewsWireless reader. "I need a new computer, and I found one online - but it comes with Windows Vista! I don't want that!" Sadly, it seem that in their enthusiasm to be seen to be as far up on Microsoft's beautiful unique marketing as possible, several online PC stores have …
Operating Systems 18 Nov 2006, 04:08
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Man used MP3 player to hack ATMs
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people's money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers' …
Enterprise Security 18 Nov 2006, 08:02
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ClearSpeed commits to 5x floating point boost
SC06 Fresh silicon commeth
Floating point specialist ClearSpeed faces an enormous challenge. Its products must run at least 5 times faster than the best general purpose chips being pumped out by Intel and AMD, while at the same staying faster, cheaper and more energy efficient than a coming onslaught of rival, nichey chips. According to Intel import and …
Servers 18 Nov 2006, 17:09
