Intel unveils embedded chipset
25 Jul 2008 11:28pm GMT Intel yesterday launched its System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor, which is said to offer lower power and customization capabilities for embedded voice, storage and security applications. The new product family is the first wave of Intel's revamped SoC design, which the company said adds smarter chip intelligence.The integrated offering includes based on Intel's Pentium M processor and combines the functionality of four chips into a single circuit, according to Seth Bobroff,...
Top 10: It's a crime-filled week in IT land
25 Jul 2008 10:24pm GMT In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing.Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the attack code, there were more twists and turns in the story of the jailed San Francisco network administrator, and a convicted spammer who walked away from a minimum-security prison apparently killed his wife, their young daughter and himself. And, we sadly learned that...
San Francisco DA discloses city's network passwords
25 Jul 2008 7:42pm GMT In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another.The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has made public close to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's virtual private network. The passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court document arguing against a reduction in $5 million bail in the case of Terry Childs, who is...
Microsoft gives Apache cash to promote open source
25 Jul 2008 6:23pm GMT Microsoft expanded its support for the open-source community on Friday by giving money to the Apache Software Foundation, the first time it has given money to the long-standing open-source project.Microsoft also said it is contributing code to support a PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) project and committing to offer royalty-free specifications for Windows Server and .Net Framework protocols as part of its expanded support for the open-source community. The company announced its plans at the...
Update: Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay
25 Jul 2008 4:34pm GMT A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit software on the auction site.The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on its site, but the auction giant has rejected most of those ideas, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the SIIA's antipiracy division. "We are at our last...