Red Hat boosts OpenGL for Fedora Core 5

Red Hat has made version 5 of its development platform Fedora Core available. As it previously indicated, Fedora Core 5 includes the first implementation of Xen virtualisation technologies, which will later emerge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At present this includes the virtualisation platform built from version 3. ...more

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Poor email management puts businesses in legal limbo

Research carried out for Veritas has found that 11 per cent of CIOs and IT managers surveyed said they could only recover email that is a week or less old - potential putting them in hot water should they face a request to retrieve email for legal reasons. Peter A. Gerr, senior research analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, said: 'By failing to have adequate procedures and systems in place to ensure appropriate retention and security mandates are met, both IT organisations and business leaders are unnecessarily exposing themselves to legal ramifications which could place their business at risk. ...more

Google turns blue

Problems with a content filter on Google's recently launched Google Base turned the classifieds service blue as a slew of adult content flooded into unsuspecting browsers. It appears there was a problem with the 'Safe Search' filter that failed to block the many thousands of pornographic content items apparently already on the service, despite it being barely a week old. A spokesperson for the company told News. ...more

As free as a wireless PC device

Devices without the clutter of cables, that's what's on offer with Intel's family of wireless PC peripherals. Stand up and walk away, you can still be connected to your PC - and you won't trip over any cables. Called the Intel Wireless Series, it includes the Wireless Series Gamepad, the Wireless Series Mouse and the Wireless Series Keyboard (all pictured). ...more