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  • SandForce's revolutionary SSD controller

    Equivalent and fast read 'n' write speed

    Major storage OEMS are expected to release commodity NAND chip-based flash memory products this year based on a new SandForce controller offering fast and symmetric read and write speeds, 80 times more endurance than notebook flash, and peak performance maintained for five years. SandForce is a newly-visible fab-less startup. …

    Storage 13 Apr 00:02

  • Register readers on software development

    Applications, languages, and tools in 2008-9

    This is one of a series of articles which draws on research conducted in partnership with The Register in October 2008. In this article, we focus on application development, current initiatives and the tools and technologies being used. Software development is business as usual Software development is alive and kicking. …

    Tech Panel 13 Apr 07:02

  • The Netbook Newbie's Guide to Linux

    Episode 5 Back to the Bluez

    I opened up my Acer Aspire One again after a prolonged interval while I was involved in a very different project and was puzzled to discover that Live Update was offering me a "Bluetooth patch". It's not just that the hardware doesn't have Bluetooth - that's easily fixed by plugging in a dongle - but even if you do plug in a …

    Reg Hardware 13 Apr 08:02

  • Dell adds VC hotshot to board

    Floats some notes, builds war chest

    Dell has appointed Accel Partners managing partner Jim Breyer to its board of directors while adding another $500m to its war chest. The venture capitalist will take his seat immediately, and will stand for election at Dell's annual shareholder meeting in July. Breyer, who is 47, has watched over the investments in more than …

    Financial News 13 Apr 16:12

  • Microsoft: have it your way on IE 8

    April downloads

    Microsoft will soon start encouraging users running old versions of Internet Explorer to upgrade to the latest edition of its browser. People running IE 6 and 7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 will in the third week of April receive a notification through the Automate Update service …

    Applications 13 Apr 17:10

  • Big-Blue Euro jobs cull coming?

    Non US stimulation package

    Big Blue's UK, German and Ireland employees should prepare for layoffs with thousands of jobs reportedly going to eastern Europe, the Far East and South America. IBM has around 41,000 employees in UK and Germany, with contractors in the UK already having received pay cuts. Lee Conrad, from US workers' group Alliance@IBM, is …

    Business 13 Apr 17:45

  • Twitter overrun by weekend of powerful worm attacks

    No user action required

    Twitter was hit over the weekend by powerful, self-replicating attacks that caused people to flood the micro-blogging site with tens of thousands of messages simply by viewing booby trapped user profiles. The worm attacks began early Saturday morning and were the result of XSS, or cross-site scripting, bugs in the Twitter …

    Security 13 Apr 19:01

  • Trend Micro to eyeball malware from cloud

    Gets suite with BigFix

    Trend Micro has unveiled a major update to its flagship scanning tools that puts your virus signature database online, plus a modular security and system management suite with partner BigFix. Trend Micro's updated OfficeScan Client/Server Suite includes an interesting change to the way its flagship scanning software keeps its …

    Security 13 Apr 19:40

  • Big-iron brains powers Schooner appliance power

    Putting a ding in server size

    A start up driven by some big-iron brains has emerged from stealth mode to deliver, no, not a better server but a duo of server appliances - one to accelerate web caching and the other to speed up MySQL databases. Schooner Information Technology was founded in February 2007 by president and chief executive officer John Busch, …

    Servers 13 Apr 20:53

  • Infosys fires 2,100

    Layoffs are so passé

    Indian IT giant Infosys has discovered a new way to cut costs during the ongoing global financial Meltdown: fire thousands of employees for "non-performance." And then insult them. Mohandas Pai, the HR chief of the 105,000-employee company who moved over from finance in 2006, explained that the 2,100 firings were the result of …

    Channel Register 13 Apr 21:06

  • JavaScript battle enters final round

    Third Edition followed by Fifth

    The final draft of the revised version of ECMAScript - better known by the Sun Microsystems-trademarked name of its most popular dialect, JavaScript - has been published by the ECMA and is now available as ECMA-262 for final interoperability and compatibility testing. This version, developed under the working name of …

    Developer 13 Apr 22:42

  • Google throws secret auto-updater to open sorcerers

    Bloody Omaha privacy breach

    Google has thrown a little-known but controversial part of its web services code to open sorcerers to prove to skeptics there's nothing funny going on under the covers. Oh, it also wants to give third parties a peek at what's going on inside your system, too. The Mountain-View chocolate factory has released the code of …

    Applications 13 Apr 22:47