IT professionals want more flexible working

Britain's 'presentism' work culture got the thumbs down from IT professionals. The overwhelming majority of workers in IT want more flexible working practices. However, they don't believe that their senior managers are much of an example and that if they moved to part time working, it would harm their job prospects. ...more

Red Hat turns black with revenue jump

A successful quarter has seen Red Hat, the well-established Linux distro company, declare a profit of $1.5mn. This contrasts with the net loss of $273,000 from the last three months and the $4. ...more

Hyundai Imagequest launches nippy gamer screens

Hyundai Imagequest has lined up two new high-end LCD displays, which - with a response time of 8 milliseconds - are suitable for gamers. The L72D and L72S are 17in displays with a 700:1 contrast and horizontal and vertical viewing angles of 40 degrees. The L72D supports both digital and analogue inputs and the L72S analogue only. ...more

Live Strong profiteers to return web domains

The Lance Armstrong Foundation has secured two rulings against cybersquatters who were selling Live Strong bracelets for a profit. CSA Marketing and Chris Angeles were ordered to transfer three domain names to the Foundation, which was set up by the record-breaking cyclist and cancer survivor to raise money for cancer awareness and research. It has sold more than 50 million of the yellow bracelets, but many more are thought to have been sold by people cashing in on their popularity. ...more

DDR2 sees low yields at 0.11, sluggish sales

Except for Samsung Electronics' sales to Dell, shipments by chipmakers of DDR2 DRAM to PC OEMs are still low because the yield rates at 0.11-micron process technology are still too low to provide a consistent chip supply, according to sources. Even though Intel is pushing the adoption of PCI-express, which supports DDR2, by cutting prices of its 915 chipsets, PC OEMs are currently unwilling to adopt DDR2 on a broad scale until chipmakers can ramp yield rates above 80%, sources with chipmakers said. ...more