Search and destroy

In this day and age it is really easy to get paranoid. We handle increasing amounts of data, but how do you make sure that sensitive material doesn't fall into the wrong hands? A lot of people have their own mini-shredders to do away with all those credit card receipts, but this digital age sees more people and companies storing their information on CD-R. It can be quite fun snapping CDs in two but this is hardly a safe way of destroying digital information. ...more

Recording with your Palm

Fancy yourself as the next Noel Gallagher or perhaps you are more of a Badly Drawn Boy? Well forget spending hundreds of pounds hiring a swanky recording studio, you can now record music using your Palm. It sounds crazy but Singapore-based Shinei International have been showing off a gizmo at the Comdex 2000 show in Las Vegas that turns the Palm into a mini-recording studio. The unit has a built-in speaker, headphone socket, MIDI ports and comes with audio applications. ...more

AMD extends the Opteron server range

AMD has announced two new additions to the Opteron family of 64-bit server processors: the Opteron Model 846 and the Model 146. The 846 is for heavy-duty eight- or four-way server systems, such as those handling large-scale databases and mission-critical enterprise applications. The 146, by contrast, is aimed at workstations for memory-intensive applications such as multimedia content creation and engineering design packages. ...more

Micron to offer 2Gbit NAND flash by year-end

Micron Technology today announced that it will begin offering 90nm, 2Gbit NAND flash chips by the end of this year. The new product will target memory cards, USB devices and other mass storage applications. Micron is planning its production ramp to coincide with the flash card market's predicted transition from 128MB to 256MB density NAND as the volume leader. ...more

Greedy Microsoft snubs AOL TIme Warner

Talks between Microsoft and AOL TIme Warner over the inclusion of AOL software with Windows XP broke down over the weekend, resulting in an AOL-free XP. The negotiations ended on Saturday because of a dispute over AOL's inclusion of RealNetwork's RealPlayer software, according to an AOL spokesperson. However, RealPlayer is the default player for AOL and handles most of the service's content. ...more