Apple unveils Xeon Xserve

Apple has unveiled the new Xserve, a quad Intel Xeon, 64-bit server delivering a performance that is over five times that of its predecessor. The 1U rackmount server is powered by two Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 'Woodcrest' processors, each running at up to 3GHz and plugged into a high bandwidth architecture that includes PCI Express, independent 1.33GHz front side buses with 4MB of shared L2 cache, and fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs). ...more

Microsoft Office 2007 goes gold

Microsoft has officially gone 'gold' with Office - it has announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft Office system code and confirmed that all products have been released to manufacturing (RTM). The dates for the release of Vista and Office 2007 were leaked last week, with 30 November marking the business availability of the much-delayed Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. 'We've crossed the development finish line and the team deserves to celebrate,' said Jeff Raikes, President of the Microsoft Business Division. ...more

Telewest adds wireless option to Blueyonder

Telewest has announced an optional wireless pack for its Blueyonder cable broadband. Available to its digital TV customers, whether they already have broadband or want to get it, the pack costs ?35 and combines a pre-configured Netgear wireless access point with the cable modem already embedded in the set-top box. The wireless pack has been released following trials with 1,000 Telewest customers and is compatible with Blueyonder's 512K, 1Mbit and 2Mbit services. ...more

Virus charts make for a Sober Christmas

Sophos' December chart plots Sober at the top, but with Mimail worms taking five of the remaining positions. With 23.3 per cent of reports, the bi-lingual (in German and English) Sober-C virus topped the December chart, confusing its victims with a variety of messages and subject lines and spreading not just via email, but also using peer-to-peer networks, such as KaZaA. ...more

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