Botnet army massing in China - Prolexic

China is now the most infected country in the world and Asia contains half the world's infected computers, according to security company Prolexic. The figures come from the company's Denial of Service (DDoS) Weather Report, which reports on the botnet activity around the globe from infected computers. Countries in Asia account for five of the six most infected territories around the world, with the US in second place. ...more

nVIDIA to support AMD's DDR chipset

NVIDIA has announced that its next generation of graphics processors (GPUs) will support the new Athlon processor. AMD's latest processor sports a 266Mhz front-side bus, and its AMD-760TM chipset supports Double Data Rate (DDR) memory. Ned Finkle, director of AMD's Infrastructure Enablement Group, said: "NVIDIA is. ...more

TV Genius puts brains into channel-flipping

Something for those of you who get frustrated picking out quality television programmes from the morass of general scheduling - the interesting website www.tvgenius.co. ...more

Labs specification change: Mesh Matrix Photo Pro

Due to a shortage of AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processors, Mesh is changing the specification of the PC Pro Recommended Photo-editing PC (reviewed issue 145, p102). Instead of an Athlon X2 5000+, the machine will now be shipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. Naturally, this requires a motherboard change, so in place of the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe there will be an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. ...more

Latest broadband dates announced

BT Wholesale has announced another batch of broadband ready-for-service dates, with 57 exchanges scheduled to be ADSL-enabled. ...more