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Apple blames Windows, contract manufacturer, self ...
Apple today apologised for selling a "small number" of video iPods infected with the RavMone.exe virus. Pox-ridden ipods accounted for less than one per cent of the video iPods hitting the streets after September 12.
Hardware
18 00:09
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Never mind the password, come on in...
Oracle today published the mother of all security patches containing 101 fixes for flaws in its database, application server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications.
Security
18 01:56
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iTuneski's foes gain strength
AllofMP3.com may hail from Russia, but the rebel retailer is the North Korea of the music industry. The record labels accuse it of online piracy and hate what it does, but only now are they figuring out how to deal with this internet phenomenon.
Media
18 06:53
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Power corrupts
The boss of UK police technology has warned that government attempts to use surveillance and databases to impose law and order could backfire unless those with access to the system are prevented from abusing the power it gives them.
Media
18 07:02
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Wall St slashes Razr vendor
Motorola took a kicking yesterday night when analysts decided a 17 percent rise in third quarter sales just wasn’t enough.
Mobile
18 09:15
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But new web editor post opens up
The Queen has ended her search for an IT director, with applications for the post closing on Monday, and the advert already removed from her website.
Management
18 09:17
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TET offensive planned
Intel will next year extend its Core 2 Duo desktop processor line, rolling out four CPUs in the Q2 2007 timeframe, three with support for the 1,333MHz frontside bus speed due to be introduced with the 'Bearlake' chipset series, it has been claimed.
Hardware
18 09:21
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NAO report slams Rural Payments Agency
Computer problems played a significant role in the chaos affecting England's Rural Payments Agency (RPA), according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO)
Policy
18 09:22
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Microsoft scrolling
A Microsoft campus billboard has confirmed that Vista does exist and may even ship to manufacturers later this month.
Developer
18 09:50
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Fewer staff, fewer debts, same problems
Grumpy naysayers will argue that SGI shouldn't have bothered. It should have put the purple logos away, handed its old contracts to IBM or Sun Microsystems and called it a day. Never mind this bankruptcy emerging business.
Servers
18 09:59
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As does Symantec...
McAfee has dismissed Microsoft's release of information to allow security vendors to build products that will interoperate with Vista.
Operating Systems
18 10:14
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System-on-glass
NEC's LCD Technologies division will next year begin mass-producing its latest low-temperature poly-silicon TFT displays for PDAs and other handheld gadgets, the company said today. The devices' unique selling point: the circuitry is embossed on the glass.
Hardware
18 10:23
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Favourite thing now tied up with string
An Austrian roofer who slipped on the job ended up nailing himself to the roof - through his wedding tackle.
Media
18 10:39
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Nokia wants it for the 770 Internet Tablet
Hardware
18 11:07
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Reducing carbon footprint by selling silicon
Logicalis will offer environmental training to its customers in an effort to reduce their carbon footprints.
The Channel
18 11:14
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TCP/IP overdrive
Intel's era of openness continues. The company this week freed up some homegrown technology for improving the networking performance of servers.
Servers
18 11:20
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How to get youngsters interested
The Department of Constitutional Affairs is urging local authorities to pilot e-voting schemes in the May 2007 local elections.
Policy
18 11:24
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Top dollar
So how much are Intel's upcoming quad-core processors going to set you back? Top dollar, it seems, according to reports coming out of Taiwan citing industry sources who've seen the chip giant's latest roadmap.
Hardware
18 11:24
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3G for All
Twelve operators have announced their support for the GSMA-sponsored "3G for All" programme to develop a cheap 3G handset with video, music, instant messaging and fast(ish) internet access.
Mobile
18 11:36
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That's torn it
A US casino mogul has blown a deal to offload a Picasso painting for £74m ($139m) after accidently sticking his elbow through it, the BBC reports.
Media
18 11:37
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It's all in the game
Online games enthusiasts are up in arms over Electronic Arts's (EA) decision to bundle monitoring software with its latest game. Retail packages of Battlefield 2142 come with a leaflet explaining that the game comes with an adware package. The software, developed by IGA Worldwide, is used to deliver in-game advertising so that users traveling through the virtual environment will see billboards advertising real-world brands.
Security
18 11:41
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Moving on from cupboard fitting
EMC's Tuesday job cull would have been long expected by many in the company.
Storage
18 11:47
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Sports cars follow Smarties into exile
Sports car outfit TVR has announced it will cease production in the UK, meaning redundancy for the 250 workers at its Blackpool plant, the BBC reports.
Financial News
18 11:50
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Build-your-own AMD Socket AM2 box
With the demise of Airfix, we blokes are left with few hobbies to pursue. Happily, we can still build our own PCs. If you want to work on the cheap you can use a beige tower, but should you fancy a modicum of style then there's no better starting point than a Shuttle barebone...
Hardware
18 11:50
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RAZR slicer?
Phones
18 12:34
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Board decision to close loophole
Internet overseeing organisation ICANN will vote later today on whether to introduce a new system aimed at closing a loophole in domain name rules that enables speculators to register thousands of domain names effectively for free.
Financial News
18 13:26
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Jolly well done...
Orange has got its broadband network back up and running, with access restored early this morning.
Networks
18 13:29
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Large players waiting for wave two
Officially, 802.16e - or Mobile WiMAX as the vendors insist on calling it, even though its greatest advantage is that it spans fixed and mobile operations - is almost with us.
Data Networking
18 13:38
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DSG will not stock title in 'family friendly' outlets
Controversial game designer Rockstar will not see its take on Bash Street, Canis Canem Edit - aka Bully - on sale in shops owned by UK retail giant DSG, it has emerged. The reason? The chain believes the title is "not appropriate" for its "family-friendly image".
Games
18 13:45
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Is there a difference?
Hackers have created a bogus Internet Explorer 7 download site that attempts to load Trojan code onto the PCs of visiting surfers.
Security
18 13:51
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Model on the rise, but there's still work to be done
Enterprise uptake of wireless Lans (WLan) has never taken off at the speed that was anticipated a few years ago, and the equipment vendors face the unpleasant prospect of margins plummeting before they have achieved sufficient volume to compensate.
Data Networking
18 14:05
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So says IDC
Spending on support services for VoIP will hit $1.27bn by 2010, analysts at IDC say.
VoIP
18 14:10
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Ladies and gentlemen, the world has another UMPC. The latest is the Vega from Japanese supplier Brulé - the crème de la crème of ultra-mobile PC providers, perhaps? - which is based around a 4.3in, 800 x 480 display and an AMD Geode LX800 processor. There's 512MB of RAM on board and a 4,200rpm 30GB hard drive.
Hardware
18 14:19
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Multifunction threat detection bot also sought
Armed forces Procurement Minister Lord Drayson, recently described as "quite preposterous" by fellow peers, has kicked off a £10 million ideas competition to accompany this week's launch of the UK's Defence Technology Strategy. The Strategy itself starts from the premise that "Current threats emphasise that science and technology is fundamental to UK military capability", and that the Ministry of Defence "must own and control key technologies", while the briefing documents for the ideas competition provides more specific indications of the tech-led road the MoD wishes to follow.
Media
18 14:23
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No money, honey
For HSBC, keeping thousands of customers from their money is just part of doing regular business with the bank. The company explained away Sunday's multi-hour ATM and credit card outage by telling us that it resulted from a "standard server" issue. HSBC issued no apology and called the whole kerfuffle "a minor" incident.
Letters
18 14:46
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Convergence ahoy
BridgeHead Software has done a worldwide distribution deal with Quest.
The Channel
18 14:48
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Congress, Bush defile Constitution with security bill
"It is a rare occasion when a President can sign a bill that he knows will save American lives; I have that privilege this morning," US President George W Bush trilled as he consigned 200 years of judicial oversight to the scrap heap of history.
Media
18 15:53
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Big rivals still playing catch-up
NetApp punted a new virtual tape library (VTL) offering today, as it continues to perform noisy running bombs into a growing pool of custom the really big lads have so far just dipped a toe into.
Storage
18 16:12
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Change of tack
Spamhaus has switched legal tack and decide to appeal an $11.7m judgment against it by a US court obtained by a firm it labelled a spammer. The London-based anti-spam organisation had argued that the court has no jurisdiction over it, but the threat of domain seizure has forced it to take action.
Security
18 16:40
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Live together, die alone
When two of the last two swingers in tape town tied the knot earlier this year, some interpreted the move as the bell tolling for independent tape vendors. When Quantum bought ADIC for $770m in May, the move was not well received on Wall Street.
The Channel
18 17:13
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While Opteron and virtualization sell
With a well revamped server line behind it, Sun Microsystems has reached a point of contentment. You can tell that Sun is happy with itself because the company has started flinging lots of far out concept gear. The best and most recent example being the White Trash Data Centers announced earlier this week.
Servers
18 17:15
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Like the posters in your bedroom
A leading MySpace executive has said it is extremely unlikely that there will ever be integration between social networking websites.
Financial News
18 17:26
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Hacker holiday confounds expectations
Web viruses fell by half in September, despite recent high-profile Microsoft vulnerabilities. But spyware infections grew 21 per cent over the same period last month, according to a study by UK-based web filtering firm ScanSafe.
Security
18 18:47
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'Terrorism Lite' makes US Homeland Security stats anyway
Be now assured that America is safe from a drug addict trying to make a weapon of mass destruction from castor oil, a laxative. This comes by way of the example of Casey Cutler, a drug addict from Mesa, Arizona, who wound up in the Department of Justice's 2006 count of WMD terror cases broken up by the government. It was reprinted in "Congress's Vigilance in the Five Years Since 9/11: Making America Safer," a propaganda sheet issued by Senator John Kyl on August 6, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, in anticipation of the five year rehash and memorial.
Media
18 18:56
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'Combination of hatred and technical skills'
The internet is a dangerous tool of radical ideologies, according to the US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. He said that last summer's attacks on London was an example of a domestic terrorist threat in action.
Media
18 19:14
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That'll teach them
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the US Department of Justice to learn more about the FBI's new monster database, called the Investigative Data Warehouse, or IDW.
Media
18 19:17
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So how many fingers do you need anyway?
The public fears losing their fingers to ruthless biometric ID thieves in the fingerprint-controlled future, apparently. Or at least, so says Frost & Sullivan analyst Sapna Capoor, who argued unconvincingly that "A dead finger is no good to a thief."
Media
18 19:55
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'Strategic' third quarter
A jump in sales and income for Microsoft partner Citrix Systems last quarter was accompanied by increased costs, following M&A and product launches.
Financial News
18 21:21
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On Q
AMD has turned in a good Q3 with sales of $1.33bn and net income of $134m, or 27 cents a share. Processor shipments rose 18 per cent from Q2 and revenues climbed nine per cent from Q2 and, on a like-for-like basis, 32 per cent from Q3, 2005 (last year's figures included the lossmaking memory business, since spun off).
Hardware
18 21:21
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Lack of knowledge
Steve Ballmer has pitched into the row over Microsoft's willingness to cough up vital Windows Vista APIs for partners to lock down the operating system against attack.
Operating Systems
18 22:09
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SIP on this
Born and hyped in the USA, mobile VoIP over Wi-Fi looks set to create waves everywhere … except the USA.
VoIP
18 22:34
