Microsoft to add Data Protection Server to Windows Server family

Microsoft has announced that it is to add a Data Protection Server to its Windows Server System. The product, which the company has slated to launch in the second half of 2005, is the company's first entry into the disk-based backup and recovery market The product is designed to operate with Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003 and Active Directory and is aimed at companies with between five and 49 servers to manage. Once up and running, Microsoft's disk-based solution will monitor each server that logs all changes made to a disk. ...more

Hynix intros GDDR4 DRAM

Korean memory manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor has announced the availability of the world's first 512 Megabit GDDR4 DRAM. The company claims that new chips provide the world's fastest and highest density graphics memory. The foundation of the blazingly fast graphics from the major suppliers such as ATi and NVidia GDDR is an ultra-high speed graphics DRAM that processes movie quality animations and graphics data for personal computers and game consoles. ...more

Microsoft introducing new mouse range

Microsoft is introducing a new range of mice based on its 'High Definition Optical' technology. The company is offering one new design aimed at notebook users on the move and two other devices for deskbound operations. Already available is a new version of the company's popular Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse. ...more

HP puts its stamp on nanotechnology

HP is seeking a pay-off from 10 years's investment in nanoscale electronics with the announcement of a new licensing programme. It is for technology that HP says could enable the fabrication of semiconductor chips significantly more powerful than those available today. The technology involves a nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process, a method of stamping patterns less than 50 atoms wide on a substrate. ...more

SecurePoint loses business over hiring Sasser author

A German security company has severed ties with partner SecurePoint, following the latter's decision to hire a virus writer. In September, SecurePoint offered a position to teenager Sven Jaschen, currently awaiting trial charged with writing the Sasser and Netsky viruses. The decision was met with derision from the antivirus industry who said that although it was easy to write a virus, writing software to defend against it that works across a variety of platforms and doesn't interfere with other software is another matter. ...more