Computer makers sued over 'deceptive' hard drive sizes

Four Los Angeles residents are suing the world's leading computer manufacturers, alleging that they mislead customers when advertising the size of their hard drives. Reuters reports that the lawsuit focuses on the fact that although computers write data in the binary system drive sizes are described using decimal. Consequently, a hard drive advertised as 20GB provides just 18. ...more

Parallels updates its virtual PC system

Parallels has updated its virtual PC system, Workstation 2.0. It enables users to run networked, independent virtual machines on a single physical system. ...more

Sony, Mitsubishi unaffected by EU SRAM cartel raids

Sony and Mitsubishi have announced that their offices in Europe were not raided as part of a European Commission probe into a possible cartel in the SRAM electronic chip market. Yesterday Samsung, the world's biggest maker of memory chips, said its German offices were raided in the Commission's investigation of static random-access memory chips. 'We have not been raided and we have not received any notice of an investigation,' Sony spokesman Atsuo Omagari said. ...more

Pace Micro stems losses

British set top box manufacturer Pace Micro has reduced the flow of red ink on its balance sheet but the year 2002-03 is probably a year it will want to forget. Annual revenues fell 53 per cent to just ?166.6 million from 2002's ?351. ...more

Cisco and Microsoft agree to agree on network security

Cisco Systems has promised that its Network Admission Control security architecture will work with Microsoft's Network Access Protection. Both systems do essentially the same thing. That is, to prevent potentially compromised machines from connecting to a company network. ...more