Archives for April, 2009

Anonymity proves grey area for IDScan


Redacted ‘fake’ card details exposed on website
Security software provider IDScan has been left red-faced after a page of supposedly anonymous details of ID cheats on its website turned out not to have been anonymised after all.…

Whitepaper – Making flexible working work for you

Virgin wi-fi rolls up two years late


Wrong kind of WiMAX
Virgin has finally switched on wi-fi access on its trains, a mere two years after it was supposed to arrive.…

Firefox finds more pesky bugs


Patches week-old release
Mozilla Corporation has released a new version of Firefox in order to remove a bug found just a week after an updated version of the browser was released.…

Whitepaper – Making flexible working work for you

QLogic rumored as EMC takeover target


Server-storage networking smackdown
With only two companies in the world who make host adapters for networking servers to external storage – and one of them trying to shake off a hostile takeover – it is no surprise that the other one is rumored to be the target for a takeover too.…

IBM unloads Nehalem towers, clusters


System x family gets rounder
It’s Dynamic Infrastructure blitz week at Big Blue. In a kicking out new entry and midrange rack servers and funky new blade server based on its Power6+ chips and a bunch of storage enhancements and Fibre Channel over Ethernet and other networking products rebadged from Brocade, IBM previewed two upcoming x64 [...]

QLogic rumored as EMC takeover target


Server-storage networking smackdown
With only two companies in the world who make host adapters for networking servers to external storage – and one of them trying to shake off a hostile takeover – it is no surprise that the other one is rumored to be the target for a takeover too.…

Whitepaper – Making flexible working work [...]

EMC sues Donatelli over HP move


To compete or not to compete
EMC and its ex-executive VP David Donatelli are entangled in legal disputes over him joining HP and competing with EMC.…

Whitepaper – Real time protection for Hyper-V

EMC sues Donatelli over HP move


To compete or not to compete
EMC and its ex-executive VP David Donatelli are entangled in legal disputes over him joining HP and competing with EMC.…

Hacker behind P2P botnet gets no jail time


Turns to good after spawning Nugache
A hacker who confessed he created one of the world’s first botnets to use peer-to-peer technology won’t spend any time in prison because of the assistance he’s provided to prosecutors.…

Whitepaper – Protecting small business server and other tips for SMBs

IBM doubles Power Rewards to chase Sun gear


Big Blue can’t discount like in the old days
After having snubbed Sun Microsystems last month, leaving it to be acquired by database and application software powerhouse Oracle for $5.6bn, IBM wants to do its best to make sure that the Sun that Oracle gets perhaps by summer is as weak as possible. And hence, it [...]