CRT recycling project switched on

Wrap, a UK-based waste management company, has begun investigating the best ways to recycle CRTs from PCs and TVs. Currently very few CRTs are recycled. But the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive seeks to change that with new weight-based targets that have to be met by the end of December 2006. ...more

AMD claims dual-core first with new Opterons

AMD has marked the second anniversary of its 64-bit Opteron chip by releasing multi-core versions of the server and workstation processor and also announcing the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor brand. This will be the dual-core offering for desktops, which is already being sampled, and it is due to ship in June. There is immediate availability of the Dual-Core AMD Opteron 800 Series processor, for four- to eight-way servers, while the 200 Series processors for two-way servers and workstations will be available in late May. ...more

ICANN turns to Californian judge in legal dispute with Verisign

Internet regulator ICANN has asked a California judge to strike down Verisign's lawsuits which allege that the organisation sent 'threatening letters' following the dispute over the US registry's introduction of the SiteFinder website. The lawsuit goes back to last year when Verisign abruptly launched the SiteFinder website. Using its control of the . ...more

Lycos anti-spam screensaver proves too effective for target websites

The anti-spam action pioneered by Lycos and its 'make love not spam' campaign has been all-too successful and could make the company vulnerable to legal attack. The screensaver, which has been downloaded 90,000 times, enables disgruntled users to contribute to denial of service attacks on identified spammers, the idea being to clog up their server's bandwidth and limit, but not fully disable, the problem at source. The Internet monitoring firm Netcraft reports, however, that two of the targets (bokwhdok. ...more

Seagate introduces DAVE to mobile market

DAVE has big plans. Seagate has the future all mapped out for its new baby, and what it amounts to is how the storage company attacks the mobile market. DAVE - or digital audio video experience - is the answer to that issue, according to Seagate's Director of Global Consumer Electronics Marketing, Rob Pait. ...more