SP1 materialises for Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the availability of the company's Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta version at the annual Microsoft Management Summit. The SP1 will provide support for upcoming Windows Server 2003 x64 editions to provide host operating system support for virtual machine software. At the same time, he emphasised Microsoft's commitment to interoperability The Service pack is available at the the Microsoft website. ...more

Anti-porn software on the loose

In the month when staff at phone company Orange were dismissed for downloading pornography it is no surprise that companies are looking into a software solution to monitor staff email usage. There are several products that already claim to do this but there have been cases of alarms being raised by innocent users. An unnamed British company has come up with an application that claims to be accurate in 90 per cent of cases. ...more

HP claims PC top spot

Last year's HP-Compaq merger took the new company to the top of the PC sales league for 2002, according to Gartner Dataquest. Despite selling 9.3 per cent fewer computers than the two separate companies managed in 2001, HP claimed 16. ...more

Apple re-releases the recent security update for Mac OS X Server

Apple has re-released the recent security update for Mac OS X Server, having withdrawn it last week. The update includes the following components: AFP Server, Bluetooth Setup Assistant, CoreFoundation, Cyrus IMAP, Cyrus SASL, Folder permissions, Mailman, Safari, Samba, SquirrelMail. For details of the vulnerabilities addressed go to www. ...more

eBay protects its customers against online fraud

Do you feel safe bidding large amounts of money in an online auction? Are you concerned about online fraud? Well, eBay UK has moved to offer more protection to those who do take part in its 'e-auctions'. From today, the UK arm of the Internet auctioneers is to offer customers insurance to the value of ?250 in damages. This will be done through its PayPal payment processing system. ...more