Microsoft money steels clone mainframer
Clone mainframe maker T3 Technologies – one of the last few non-IBM alternatives for running Big Blue’s mainframe software – says that it doesn’t anticipate settling its IBM lawsuits in Europe and in the United States. In other words, it won’t pull a Platform Solutions.…

Hi ho! Hi ho! It’s off to no work we go
Europe’s largest online storage provider, Humyo, has been offline all afternoon due to a multi-terabyte database rebuild.…

Round up the dweebiest suspects
Security experts reckon a new low-threat worm that displays the image of President Obama on infected desktops is the work of technically-knowledgeable pranksters.…

Code this. Or don’t
Multi-vendor standards for self-encrypting storage devices are emerging through the Trusted Computing Group. But flash and tape drives are not included in them.…

Code this. Or don’t
Multi-vendor standards for self-encrypting storage devices are emerging through the Trusted Computing Group. But flash and tape drives are not included in them.…

IT follows auto makers down that road
Server, PC and ink maker Hewlett-Packard gets a lot of business from small and medium businesses, and these companies are struggling a bit in the Western economies right now. So HP’s Financial Services arm has rolled out a tried and true – but dangerously addictive – tactic to move gear: zero per cent financing.…

Code this. Or don’t
Multi-vendor standards for self-encrypting storage devices are emerging through the Trusted Computing Group. But flash and tape drives are not included in them.…

‘I’m a capital ‘D’ Dumbass’, admits fleeced victim of Lads from Lagos
A Houston lawyer is suing Citibank after being taken for $182,500 by email scammers claiming to be a debt-chasing Japanese company, Texas Lawyer reports.…

Time-wasting diversion keels over
Like Monty Python’s famous dead parrot, the futile Aperi open source storage system management project has fluttered to earth because IBM has removed the funding nail that was keeping it upright. Aperi is now openly dead for all the world to see.…

Botnet blackmail
Techwatch is back online following a sustained denial of service attack that left the digital TV news site unavailable for two days earlier this week.…