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27th August 2007 Archive

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  • Crisis? What crisis?

    Analysis Will the credit storm soak the tech channel?

    Unless you live in a bunker, you will have noticed the sub-prime credit crisis that has sucker-punched the US, pushing interest rates down, weakening the dollar and battering stocks and shares worldwide. The impact is yet to hit home here in the UK but many are predicting doom and gloom for businesses as bank managers roll up …

    Channel Register 27 Aug 2007, 06:02

  • Hit the Pano button - desktops go virtual

    A tiny, sliced PC

    Marry the renewed thin client/blade PC rage with the uproar around virtualization software, and you get Pano Logic. The Silicon Valley start-up has crafted a dual-front attack on corporate and consumer PCs. The assault starts with a homemade device called the Pano that handles network, keyboard, mouse, monitor and peripheral …

    PCs & Chips 27 Aug 2007, 06:56

  • The Revenge of the BlackBerry killers?

    Review Putting the Nokia E61i and Motorola Q9H head to head

    To say that I find BlackBerry-type phones unappealing is an understatement. So the prospect of using two of these phones was about as attractive as cleaning the wax out of my left ear by sticking a knitting needle through my right ear. Why? For me, the BlackBerry form factor seems to be the worst of all worlds, highlighting …

    Mobile 27 Aug 2007, 07:02

  • Fastscale puts VMware on a diet

    Triple your VMs per box

    Just a few months after de-stealthing, software maker Fastscale has updated the user interface of its flagship product and, more importantly, added a new package for managing VMware virtual servers. Fastscale stands as one of the more unique virtualization-type companies out there. It relies on a repository of OSes, …

    Servers 27 Aug 2007, 07:08

  • Sharp touts ultra-slim LCD TV

    Sharp has lowered the bar for the thickness of an LCD TV. It has developed a prototype 52in telly that's as little as 2cm thick. Sharp's super-thin prototype LCD Admittedly, it does incorporate components to its rear that make some areas stick out a further 0.9cm, but who's counting? By comparison, today's comparably sized …

    Reg Hardware 27 Aug 2007, 09:02

  • Samsung two-way slider spied on web

    The mobile phone rumour mill has been grinding to the tune of reports that Samsung has created a stylish slider handset. And now the pictures to prove it have popped up on the web. Samsung's i450: is that a speaker poking out? The SGH-i450 is thought to run the Symbian OS and sport a Nokia N95-esque two-way slide mechanism …

    Reg Hardware 27 Aug 2007, 09:02

  • Acer to grab Gateway for $710m

    The cow jumps over the Pacific

    Acer plans to buy Gateway in a deal worth $710m, which will make Taiwan's computer giant the third-largest computer supplier in the world. Under the agreement, Acer has made a cash offer to buy all outstanding shares of Gateway for $1.90 per share. Acer said the purchase will create a combined company worth $15bn in revenues …

    PCs & Chips 27 Aug 2007, 18:36

  • Yahoo! Unveils! New! Mail! Service!

    Text messaging for the uncoordinated

    You can now use Yahoo! Mail to swap text messages with mobile phones. If you're living in the right country. With the popular web-based mail client approaching its tenth anniversary, Yahoo! has unveiled a shiny new version that trades texts with any cell phone in the U.S., Canada, India, and the Philippines. We send our …

    Applications 27 Aug 2007, 18:46

  • User seeks $1.4m from IBM for shoddy server packing

    Forklift leads to unplanned downtime

    Say what you will about cooling issues, disgruntled admins and memory failures. There are times when it's the guys in shipping that cause the most harm to a data center. Contractor T.R. Systems has sued IBM for allegedly packing a $1.4m server so poorly that it fell off a forklift and wrecked the box. As InformationWeek …

    Servers 27 Aug 2007, 20:17

  • Gonzo a goner, but NSA surveillance here to stay

    Surveillance and torture enthusiast resigns, but legacy intact

    Is it all over yet? We'd like to think so, but while Alberto Gonzalez, the Attorney General who slayed the habeas corpus beast, made torture official policy, and brought warrantless surveillance to a neighborhood near you called it quits today, his legacy will stay with us for years to come. This correspondent has followed the …

    Law 27 Aug 2007, 21:13

  • Windows Genuine Advantage cries wolf (again)

    Aargh! Server outage turns customers into pirates

    Over the weekend, thousands of Microsoft customers who tried to download patches or updates for Windows were falsely accused of running a pirated version of Windows. Microsoft blamed the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) glitch on server problems, since fixed. WGA is an anti-piracy program which determines the validity of Windows …

    Software 27 Aug 2007, 22:01

  • World of Warcraft exploit PKs servers

    Not even murlocs safe

    Players in the World of Warcraft discovered an exploit that crashes the game's servers late Sunday, causing massive outages throughout the night. The bug reportedly crashes the game's main world as well as all instances associated with the server, including its dungeons and battlegrounds. Officially, Blizzard - the company …

    Music and Media 27 Aug 2007, 23:51