IT contract auction saves NHS ?4.5m

The NHS is turning to e-auctions to get a better deal from IT suppliers. A group of trusts lead by the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust claims to have saved ?4.5m by doing so. ...more

First laser mouse launched

Logitech has announced a new mouse using breakthrough laser technology. The Logitech MX 1000 Laser Cordless Mouse has unusual specifications for a mouse. It captures 5. ...more

SurfControl warns of IE7 phishing campaign

SurfControl is warning of a phishing campaign capitalising on the launch of Internet Explorer 7 to dupe people into visiting a site that tries to download Trojan code. The message appears to originate from support@microsoft.com and urges recipients to visit a site in order to download Release Candidate 1 of IE 7. ...more

OS X Server upgraded

Apple has released version 10.1 of its OS X Server software, designed to deliver, "system-wide performance enhancements, increase reliability and substantially faster file transfer times". Apple lists the major improvements as: System-wide performance enhancements that increase reliability, launch server-side applications faster, speed printing times, increase administration response and reduce file transfer times; the latest advancements from the Open Source community, with the most reliable releases of Apache, Samba, PHP, MySQL, Tomcat and OpenSSL; RAID support for disk striping (RAID-0) and disk mirroring (RAID-1) allowing flexible storage configuration, data redundancy and improved disk read performance; A new release of QuickTime Streaming Server, version 3. ...more

HP backs Debian

Hewlett Packard is expanding its support for Linux distributions by adding Debian GNU/Linux to its list. The company says that the software is now enabled across HP's range of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. HP already offers support for a range of Linux distros including ones from Red Hat, Novell Suse and the Asianux foundation of Miracle, Red Flag and Haansoft. ...more