Archives for December, 2008
Samsung digital picture frame CD infected by virus
You’ve been iframed
Christmas gifts of Samsung Digital Picture frames could come with the unwelcome gift of malware, Amazon has warned.…
Walmart’s Jesus Phone no better, no worse
Save two bucks!
Mercilessly squashing any vestiges of what rumors remained of a $99 iPhone, the megamall-master Walmart today let the world know that, yes, they will be offering the Jesus Phone to the world beginning on Sunday, but no, they won’t be adding a $99 super-savior to the mix.…
Getting animated about a 6,000 core Soho supercomputer
Can you get me 413,138 mouse hairs?
London’s Soho has become a thriving media rendering and animation centre, with creative media professionals using the latest model IT gear in shiny studios between buildings full of ‘models’ selling the oldest professional services of all.…
Global notebook sales finally beat desktops
PCs are up, Macs are down
Global sales of notebooks in the third quarter exceeded desktops for the first time in history, according to market watcher iSuppli.…
New Unisys CEO tightens the belt
Layoffs and other cost-cutting moves
Ed Coleman, who took the helm at struggling server and services vendor Unisys in October, has made his first big moves in getting the company aligned to the tougher realities the IT market is facing thanks to the turbulent economy.…
Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom
Long way to go to beat Linux
Intel has announced that the OpenSolaris variant of Unix is now better supported on its Atom processors.…
MS (finally) confirms unpatched SQL Server flaw
Exploit code for 0day fails to ping on Redmond’s radar
Microsoft came clean and admitted its SQL Server database software is vulnerable to code injection attacks. It’s not a new flaw but the same bug in the database software that emerged around the time of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday update earlier this month.…
The Mac OS 10.5.6 update saga continues
Apple suggests fix for Mail suicides
Apple is hoping that its latest support bulletin will calm down some of the uproar over problems caused by its latest Mac OS X upgrade – in this case, the propensity of Apple’s email client to unexpectedly quit.…
VMware piles up next virtual stack for servers
Lots of new code coming in 2009
While VMware still has the lion’s share of the money and installed base in the server virtualization software racket on x64 platforms, 2009 is shaping up to be a year when various contenders ratchet up the pressure on the company and try to steal away some business. But VMware [...]
Livedrive’s livewire, high-living CEO
Pop storage idol
Livedrive’s Andrew Michael is not your average storage CEO.…
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