PC Pro Labs Correction - 3.5in SATA hard disks

In the Upgrade to Vista Labs in Issue 149 (March 2007, p110), we incorrectly printed that the Western Digital Caviar SE16 was available from www.sandisk.com. ...more

Borland beefs up its development support

Borland has bought software development company Starbase, whose products support project specification, version handling and bug tracking. The tools help throughout the development lifecycle from initial design to final testing and deployment. 'We believe time-to-market demands will continue to compress the development process, making integrated solutions paramount,' said Dale L. ...more

Penicillin and Pentiums

Over 9,000 people heard Clinton give a speech on the opening day of Oracle's AppsWorld conference in New Orleans. Clinton used the event to call for increased spending on technological research and development. The New York Times reports him as saying: "I know there have been a few dot-coms falling on the NASDAQ for the last several months, but don't kid yourselves, the Internet is still our future. ...more

Expanding digital universe drowning in data

The digital universe is set to expand to 988bn Gigabytes of data by the year 2010, according to a study. The IDC report, sponsored by the storage company EMC, claims that last year the world's data users created a piffling 161bn Gigabytes (161 exabytes), but is set on a path of 57 per cent compound growth year on year. The largest slice of the pie was accounted for by the 250bn or so images shot by digicams and cameraphones, not to mention medical scanners and the like. ...more

Microsoft tempts enthusiast programmers with new Express products

Microsoft is to release lightweight 'Express' versions of its development tools. Aimed at enthusiasts and budding programmers, the tools are intended to ease the path into developing applications for Windows. The new Express line consists of: SQL Server Express Edition (a free version of SQL Server 2005 designed for building data-based apps; Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (a tool for building websites and Web services; Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition (a cut-down version for building Windows apps); and Visual C# 2005, Visual C++ 2005, and Visual J# 2005 Express Editions (for students and enthusiasts getting to grips with Java, C++ and Basic). ...more