RIAA closes in for p2p kill

The US record industry has begun issuing 'cease and desist' orders to p2p firms as it steps up its campaign to curtail music file sharing. The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to seven companies, which it declined to name. Consequently WinMX. ...more

Intel extends 64 bit Xeon to the storage arena

Intel has introduced a version of the Xeon server processor with Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) aimed at increasing throughput from larger servers. In particular, the new chip will remove the 4Gbyte memory addressing which is far short of today's storage applications. Aimed at the storage server market, the new Xeon 2. ...more

Sober virus set to continue reign

Antivirus vendors have totted up the figures for December, with some showing nearly four in five reports accountable to the Sober worms. Sophos put the Sober-Z worm at number one for the month, claiming 78.9 per cent of reports. ...more

Northern Ireland to get 100 per cent ADSL coverage

BT Wholesale has announced yet another batch of ADSL ready for service dates, primarily in Northern Ireland and Scotland. This means that all the 119 exchanges in Northern Ireland currently without ADSL now have ready for service dates. Of course extending coverage to 100 per cent of exchanges may not mean that averyone will have access to broadband, given the current 60dB signal degradation maximum, which limits the service to properties within some 6km of the exchange. ...more

Sun to sit ultra-thin client suite on Linux servers

Low cost and security likely to appeal to government and education buyers Previewing at the San Francisco Linuxworld Conference and Expo, Sun is showing off its Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 (SRSS 3)running on low-cost x86 Linux-based servers. Sun Ray technology allows workers to log in to their desktop environment via a remote terminal that has almost no computing power in it at all: Just a keyboard, mouse and a screen. ...more