April 28, 2006
AMD: Opteron chipsets on high
Link: AMD: Opteron chipsets on high
Filed under: Companies News, Hardware News, IBM News, Webhosting News, Technology News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) continues to increase its market share of the server processor market, now accounting for over 20% of x86 server processors in Q1 of this year, according to Mercury Research.
The company looks so inviting that IBM, who has ...
Internet vulerable to serious attack
Link: Internet vulerable to serious attack
Filed under: Webhosting News, Ecommerce News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
As much as 85% of the internet could be wiped out by a simple combination of attacks - according to the latest research from Cornell University.
The problem is due to the way that website addresses work, which relies on a small ...
Pension funds see huge deficits
Link: Pension funds see huge deficits
Filed under: Pensions News, Finance News, Employment News
by Brian Turner
The government's Pensions Regulator has warned that Occupational Pension Schemes are failing - with deficits of up to £400 billion.
The regulatory highlights poor controls and planning, especially in smaller pension schemes, and is seeking active intervention in as many as 300 of ...
Contextual ads for IPTV
Link: Contextual ads for IPTV
Filed under: IPTV News, Marketing News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
The grab for IPTV continues, as new start-up Dave.tv offers to not simply aggregate video content, but also serve contextual advertising with it.
It's no brash claim either, as the person driving Dave.tv is Rex Wong, who was formerly the director of Applied Semantics ...
Spam: Asia strong importer
Link: Spam: Asia strong importer
Filed under: Internet News
by Brian Turner
Asia remains the strongest importer of spam emails to the internet, with China rapidly catching up to the USA as the leading nation of spammers.
The information comes from security company Sophos, who released figures from a study showing where spam was ...
DVD format war: HD DVD launches
Link: DVD format war: HD DVD launches
Filed under: Technology News
by Brian Turner
The first salvo in the DVD format war has been officially fired, as HD DVD players officially go on sale in the US today.
In a situation mimicking the VHS vs Betamax video format war on the 1980's, there are two different formats in ...
Online marketing doubles in a year
Link: Online marketing doubles in a year
Filed under: Marketing News, Internet News
by Brian Turner
Online marketing spend almost doubled over the past year, according to Nielsen Netratings Adreelvance figures, published by MediaPost.
The figures show just how seriously marketers in the United States are taking the internet as an advertising medium, purchasing over 185 billion ad impressions.
E-mail ...
Search engine user habits analysed
Link: Search engine user habits analysed
Filed under: Marketing News, Search Engine News
by Brian Turner
Jupiter Research and iProspect analysed how people use search engines.
While the results are not entirely surprising, it underlines how important it is for companies to be well represented at the top of search engine results for their key commercial interests.
Key points of the ...
British hacker faces Guantanamo
Link: British hacker faces Guantanamo
Filed under: Political News, Legal News, Security News
by Brian Turner
Convinced that the US government was hiding secret information on UFOs, London man Gary McKinnon hacked his way through US military computer systems over 2001-2002.
Now he faces extradition to the US, and possible internment at the infamous Guantanamo Bay concentration camp.
Although US diplomats claim ...
UK economy shows increasing weakness
Link: UK economy shows increasing weakness
Filed under: Business News, Economy News
by Brian Turner
Various economic indicators published this week warn that the economy shows increasing weakness.
On Tuesday the British Retail Consortium (BRC) revealed that high street sales were down 1.4% on last year.
Cold weather and the late Easter have been blamed for the fall.
Then on Wednesday, ...
Dixons loses name to Currys
Link: Dixons loses name to Currys
Filed under: Companies News, Ecommerce News
by Brian Turner
DSG International, which owns both Dixons and Currys, has decided that Dixons must now become Currys.
Dixons will still exist - but only as an online retailer, with the high street Dixons stores becoming Currys retail outlets.
At this point it's worth underlining that online sales ...
Leopard to run on Windows
Link: Leopard to run on Windows
Filed under: Hardware News, Software News, Apple News, Microsoft News
by Brian Turner
Apple have announced that the next update to their Operating System - OS X Leopard - should allow Apple machines to run Windows XP as well.
Currently only in beta, the specific application that allows Apples to run Windows is called Boot Camp, and ...
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