4GB DDR memory sticks in volume production

Samsung says its 1Gbit DDR memory is the first to receive Intel endorsement and is already in mass production in DIMMs of up to 4GB in capacity. The 4GB registered DIMMs will be produced for high-end machines - servers, workstations and so on - but even the humble desktop will see 2GB sticks, of the unbuffered variety, and SODIMMs for notebooks will also be produced to this capacity. The modules will be clocked at DDR266 and DDR333 speeds. ...more

Microsoft disables OEM Windows product keys

Microsoft is changing its activation policy for new copies of Windows XP. From the 28th of February Microsoft plans to disable internet activation for XP product keys printed on the Certificates of Authority (CoA) labels from the world's top 20 OEMS. The move should not affect most customers who have Windows XP preinstalled on their machines and have the copy of the operating system already activated or those who buy a boxed copy of Windows through retail. ...more

And also today (10-Apr-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Bad maths in the courtroom Last week an award of $296,873 was made against MP3.com in a copyright lawsuit brought by the record label Tee Vee Toons. ...more

BBC mulls advertising for international site

As part of an ongoing review of how to increase revenues from its Internet offerings, BBC Worldwide is planning to begin sell advertising on the international version of its website. Under the proposals, BBC.com - which currently points to an international version of the main BBC. ...more

Sun rises on Solaris 10

Sun yesterday announced the UK launch of its Solaris 10 operating system: the result of half a billion dollars and 3,000 man years of development. It boasts more than 600 new features and runs on SPARC, x86, AMD64 and EM64 and EMT64 chip architectures, as well as more than 270 different hardware platforms. Of the new features, most notable are the inclusion of DTrace, a diagnostic tool which allows the fine tuning of applications to speed up performance between three and 30 times. ...more