Dodgy reliability costs UK E-Business ?30 million a month

Five per cent of UK Web sites had significant 'technical problems' and were unavailable for three per cent of the time during January according to web monitoring service Site Confidence. Although it doesn't say whether all of these companies were e-commerce businesses, using figures from analysts Forrester, Site Confidence reckons this cost .co. ...more

Computex 2004: World's fastest data throughput claimed for new memory card

Very fast data transmission speeds are the key feature of Pretec Electronics' new Flash memory card, which is being showcased at Computex 2004 in Taipei. The American company claims the 2GB memory card is capable of the world's fastest data transmission speed for memory cards, being the first to comply with the latest configuration of the MultiMediaCard standard (MMC version 4), reports the North East Asia Online website. With reading speeds reaching 22. ...more

Microsoft issues VML patch

Microsoft has broken with its usual practice and has issued a patch for the critical zero-day VML vulnerability for Internet Explorer. Normally, any security update is held over until the second Tuesday of every month, which would have been 10 October. In the Microsoft Security Response Center blog, Craig Gehre writes, 'We're in the process of releasing out of band update MS06-055 to address the VML issue. ...more

DDR output tops SDRAM for first time

DDR has officially surpassed SDRAM in output for the first time, according to DRAMeXchange's global September DRAM shipment statistics released on 1 October. September DDR output worldwide totalled 172.44 million of 128Mbit-equivalent die and took a market share of 49. ...more

Toshiba charges compact batteries for iPod-style devices

Toshiba has announced a new highly compact battery for portable devices which it claims could power a digital music player such a the iPod for as long as 20 hours on one charge. The direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) measures just 22x56x4.5mm plus 9. ...more