HP 'jilts Intel Itanium'

Intel's biggest customer for its Itanium processor is to stop building workstations built around the chip according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Hewlett Packard is rumoured to have dropped the chip in favour of concentrating on IA-64 based machines. If true, the move will be seen as a serious blow to the Itanium which has struggled for some time to gain the kind of market acceptance that was expected of it. ...more

'Every mobile phone user will own a laptop' claims Intel

An Intel spokesman has claimed that one day, 'virtually every mobile phone user will own a laptop', citing the 'insatiable' demand for the Internet as the reason. The striking claim was made by Sean Maloney, the chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, during a keynote speech at HP's Mobility Summit in Shanghai. The keynote otherwise covered the official announcement of the newest version of Centrino and Centrino Pro, formerly codenamed Santa Rosa. ...more

Nvidia brings Direct X 9.0 to the PC

Graphics chip designer Nvidia has announced that its GeForce FX and Quadro FX processors are compatible with the new version 9.0 of Microsoft's games driver DirectX. By using DirectX 9. ...more

British domain scammer jailed for six years

A 23-year-old Cambridge man has been sentenced to six years for conning people out of ?1.6m and making violent threats. Peter Francis-Macrae was found guilty at Peterborough Crown Court of fraudulent trading, concealing criminal property, threatening to destroy or damage property, blackmail, and making death threats. ...more

Organised crime suspected of new IE-related spamming attacks

Hackers have exploited a recently discovered but as yet unpatched security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 to spread malicious software via websites. According to various reports, organised crime groups have broken into Web servers running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and installed a script on thousands of websites which then installs software on any visitor to the site. This software enables the infected PC to be used to relay spam email. ...more