Dell pushes the Dimension for Budget PCs

Dell is attacking the value the end of the PC market with its latest Dimension, the 2400. Pricing for the Dimension 2400 starts from ?429 (inc. VAT and delivery), the chip for which would be a 2. ...more

Apple launches Xserve RAID

Apple has unveiled its RAID system for adding as much as 2.52 terabytes* of hard disk storage to an Xserve. Three different versions of the Xserve RAID are available: four drives with a capacity of 720Gb, seven drives with 1. ...more

FBI gets the marketing bug

FBI's infamous Internet monitoring system, Carnivore, is no more. But it hasn't ceased to exist; it's just got a new name. The surveillance tools - that are installed on a US ISP's network with federal authority - are to be called DCS1000, which is certainly nicely anonymous. ...more

Office 2003 gets first fix within weeks of launch

Just weeks after launching Office System to the world, the first hole gets patched. Users opening or closing Excel, Word, and PowerPoint documents that included an OfficeArt shape that had been created in earlier version of Office encountered a number of problems. The document might fail to open at all, become corrupted, open without the image, or generate an error message. ...more

IBM launches new mainframe range

IBM went back to its roots yesterday and rolled out a new line of mainframe computers. The new System z9 line of computers concentrates on key security and virtualisation features. The new machines can process up to one billion transactions per day, double the performance of the Series z990, and process up to 6,000 secure online handshakes per second, around three times as many as the previous generation. ...more