Technology jargon frightens off Joe Public claims AMD

People are put off buying technology because of the jargon surrounding products and their perceived complexity. This is the finding of a new consumer survey carried out by AMD. Specifically, AMD's Global Consumer Advisory Board (GCAB) has released details of a consumer survey at its bi-annual meeting in Stockholm. ...more

Radware claims first high speed security switch to prevent DoS attacks

Security switching specialist, Radware has introduced a new high security switch DefensePro. The product is claimed to be the first such product able to support intrusion prevention and real-time Denial of Service protection to secure applications across high speed networks. As malicious software such as Trojans and worms and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue to increase, the company believes that there is a market for a comprehensive solution able to cope with the demands of websites and other high traffic servers. ...more

Movie industry grilled in P2P court case

Lawyers for the movie industry faced tough questioning by judges in the first day of the industry's latest legal battle against peer-to-peer file sharing. Movie studios want the US Supreme Court to rule that the developers of the Grokster and Morpheus P2P software should be held responsible for the illegal trading of copyrighted software using their technologies. Judges expressed concern that making P2P software illegal could have a major detrimental effect on future software innovation and asked where the entertainment industry would stop in its pursuit of file sharers. ...more

AMD Opteron to shadow Intel Xeon pricing

At the end of July, AMD re-jigged its pricing for the 64-bit Opteron server range to make way for a new release, the Model 246, which appeared earlier this week. From now on, however - according to reports on the Net - AMD will be explicitly shadowing the price charged for Intel's 32-bit server processor, the Xeon. Effectively, AMD is serving notice of higher charges for subsequent Opteron chips. ...more

Apple confirms lack of Vista support in Windows software

Apple has confirmed that its various Windows software products are not compatible with the new Vista version of Microsoft's PC operating system. An article in the company's knowledge base details Windows compatibility for software including QuickTime, Bonjour, AirPort, iPod Updater, iPod shuffle Reset Utility, iDisk Utility and AppleWorks. All are compatible with Windows XP and in most cases 2000. ...more