Netgear buys network storage firm

Netgear has completed the acquisition of Infrant Technologies, a networked storage provider. Netgear, best known for its networking products such as broadband modem/routers, paid $60 million for the privately held start-up that specialises in providing enterprise-level storage technology to small businesses and home users. Its ReadyNAS family of networked RAID storage features a proprietary network storage processor and the Linux-based RAIDiator operating system. ...more

The year in search 2005 [part 1]

2005 was always going to be a busy year for the search engine business, but we had no idea quite how busy. Barely a week passed without some new announcement or initiative from one of the big search engines. This year the market shaped up to be a fight between the big three - Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. ...more

IBM reads the last rites over OS/2

IBM has read the rites to OS/2, the operating system it co-wrote with Microsoft at the height of its dominance of the PC market in the 1980's. Although Big Blue has not put any serious development into the operating system since the early 1990s, the company has now issued a road map that signals the final withdrawal of support. It has announced that it will discontinue selling the operating system by 23 December of this year. ...more

Skype begins rollout of new pricing structure

Skype has begun an overhaul of the global pricing structure for its eponymous Internet telephony service. Beginning in Europe, the new structure will be implemented during the course of 2007, and will include the introduction of a premium subscription package - Skype Pro - that will remove per-minute charges for SkypeOut calls to domestic landlines, replacing them with a small connection fee. However, the first stage is a reduction of the global dialling rate to a number of countries. ...more

Windows Vista - the launch roundup

All the news you need to know surrounding the consumer launch of Windows Vista - Home and Ultimate editions - and Office 2007. PC PRO REVIEW Microsoft Windows Vista For those buying a new PC, the decision is clear.. ...more