HP targets SMBs with new all-in-one storage range

HP today announced a suite of new storage systems specifically aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses, claiming the new devices were 'unbelievably simple, uniquely affordable and unquestionably reliable'. The target customers for the new StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems are companies that currently use direct attached storage, with HP offering a range of four products that contain up to 3TB of capacity, disaster recovery tools and HP's proprietary management software. Neal (Cornelia) Clapper, vice president of HP's EMEA storage works division, told journalists at the devices' Barcelona launch that, 'A customer only needs to think about how many mailboxes they have to provide, not worry about striping, volumes and disk groups. ...more

Microsoft re-signs NHS to nine-year licensing deal

A nine year deal has been signed by Microsoft and the National Health Service which gives the NHS a licence to use Microsoft software across 900,000 computers. Neither Microsoft nor the NHS will confirm the value of the deal although The Times today mentioned a figure of around ?500 million over the term of the contract. According to sources, this is around the same figure for a previous contract. ...more

Bluetooth technology ready for the big time

It's been a long time coming, but analysts at the In-Stat/MDR research group predict Bluetooth is about to explode onto the mainstream market, with shipments of devices offering the wireless technology rocketing 60 per cent every year to more tha 700 million by 2008. 'Most of the end-use markets for this technology seem to be making significant headway,' said Joyce Putscher, Director of the high-tech market research firm's Converging Markets and Technologies Group. In particular, ever more mobile phones are integrating the technology along with accessories such as wireless headets. ...more

JavaScript flaw returns to threaten Internet Explorer

Microsoft is warning customers that it knows of malicious software being used to exploit a security hole in Internet Explorer, which is as yet unpatched. Stephen Toulouse from Microsoft's Security Response Center posted on the company blog that 'I wanted to go ahead and let you know some breaking information. We've been made aware that there has been some malicious software exploiting the recently publicly disclosed Internet Explorer vulnerability . ...more

£1.6bn Freeserve@Wanadoo.fr

It's just been made official - Freeserve has been taken over by the French Internet services company Wanadoo in a deal that values Freeserve at over £1.6bn. That's €2. ...more