ASA backs Freeserve complaints about AOL and Tiscali ads

The Advertising Standards Authority has backed two complaints by Freeserve about advertisements for rival dial-up Internet services from AOL and Tiscali. Freeserve complained about an AOL promotion for a month-long free trial. In the ad, AOL compared its offer with Freeserve's introductory package of three months at a reduced price of ?9. ...more

AMD breathes on its processor roadmap

AMD has updated its public roadmap for processors, and as we always say: those already overloaded with processor codenames should look away now... ...more

PGP encryption now available as turnkey solution

PGP Corporation, the company that popularised the public key/private key method of encryption, has introduced PGP Universal. The system is claimed to offer full PGP data encryption, yet makes it easy for end users to operate. Originally written by Phil Zimmerman, PGP (pretty good privacy) has become the benchmark technology for secure transmission of data. ...more

IT Forum 2005: Exchange 12 to be 64-bit only

While Bob Muglia covered a future update release of Windows Server "Longhorn" R2 being 64-bit only in 2009, an aspect of Exchange Server's development wasn't highlighted: that Exchange 12 (E12), the next major version of Microsoft's messaging and collaboration server, will only be made available in 64-bit form. Microsoft UK's IT Evangelist Manager Eileen Brown, however, has flagged the news in her Technet blog. She also lifts the lid on early testing: 'The product team have been testing E12 on 32 bit and 64 bit, and have found some significant gains and a reduction of IOs per second which results in really good performance gains. ...more

Indonesia agrees software piracy amnesty with Microsoft

The government of Indonesia has struck a deal with Microsoft to pay one dollar for each government computer running pirated Microsoft software according to the BBC. With one of the worst records for software piracy in the world, it is estimated that tens of thousands of Indonesian official computers run some form of illegal Microsoft code. The BBC quotes figures which suggest that 87 per cent of the software in Indonesia is pirated. ...more