HD-DVD, Blu-ray marriage back on

The president of Toshiba has insisted that there will be a single, unified standard for high-definition DVDs, despite the failure of recent talks between representatives of the two rival formats. However Tadashi Okamura told Japanese business leader said that he expects both HD-DVD and Blu-ray products to be on the shelf before an agreement can be reached. 'We may actually have a situation where merchandise from both sides is put on store shelves. ...more

IBM makes play with chip stacks

IBM claims it will be able to make microchips faster and more energy efficient by stacking components on top of each other, a breakthrough that shortens the distance an electrical signal needs to travel. The technique works by drilling tiny holes through a wafer of silicon and filling them with metal. Components such as memory can then be stacked on top of the main part of the chip, eliminating the need for wires stretching out to the sides. ...more

Toshiba shows off HD-DVD forward-compatible DVD disc

Toshiba struck another blow for its high capacity DVD technology yesterday when it announced a new disk which supports both the existing DVD and the HD-DVD format. The new disc, unveiled by Toshiba and Memory-Tech is a single-sided unit, with two layers. An upper layer can store up to 4. ...more

Poor patching keeps Internet worms at highest threat

Kapersky Labs has published a virus report for 2002, showing top 4 viruses exploit the same flaw in IE. In a year where highly publicised viruses such as BugBear and Opasoft would have led one to suppose that most Web-savvy users were well aware of the threat from the Net, Kapersky Labs' annual report proves that a significant proportion of users are not keeping their software up to date. The top four viruses for 2002 all exploit an IFRAME security hole in Internet Explorer that can be easily fixed simply by applying the latest patch. ...more

mailto:happy@30th.birthday

Thirty years ago today one Ray Tomlinson sent what became acknowledged as the first ever email, using a 200-line program he wrote himself. Thirty years ago today one Ray Tomlinson sent what became acknowledged as the first ever email, using a 200-line program he wrote himself. Tomlinson was involved in the early development of Arpanet, a US defence department network that was the forerunner of the Internet. ...more