Sandisk launches solid state laptop drive

Sandisk has unveiled a new 32GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD), touted as a replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. The disks are initially aimed at enterprise customers but the company hopes that this will then spread to consumer laptops as prices get cheaper. ...more

Man arrested for misspelt domain name scam

Federal agents have arrested a man who is alleged to have made millions of dollars luring unsuspecting children to porn sites. 53-year-old John Zuccarini registered thousands of domain names which were slight misspellings of popular children's sites such as teltubbies.com and forwarding them to sex sites. ...more

Google launches competition for British doodle

What does it mean to be British? It is a question asked by many, including most recently Jeremy Paxman and Gordon Brown, but now Google wants to know, too. The graphics that adorn the Google homepage have become a familiar landmark on the Web, and now UK school children are being invited to submit a 'homepage doodle' conveying what it means to be British. A Google panel will pick the top thirty entries, which will then be voted on by UK Google users in October to select three finalists. ...more

HP targets SMBs with new all-in-one storage range

HP today announced a suite of new storage systems specifically aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses, claiming the new devices were 'unbelievably simple, uniquely affordable and unquestionably reliable'. The target customers for the new StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems are companies that currently use direct attached storage, with HP offering a range of four products that contain up to 3TB of capacity, disaster recovery tools and HP's proprietary management software. Neal (Cornelia) Clapper, vice president of HP's EMEA storage works division, told journalists at the devices' Barcelona launch that, 'A customer only needs to think about how many mailboxes they have to provide, not worry about striping, volumes and disk groups. ...more

Microsoft offers enterprises time out patch for IE's Eolas legal tweak

Microsoft has confirmed that it is going ahead with the scheduled 'update' of Internet Explorer that will bring the browser into compliance with the Eolas ruling. However, the company says that it will also issue a 'compatibility patch' (deployed like a hotfix) that allows customers to turn off the change until the 2 June security update cycle The delay has apparently been made at the request of Enterprise customers who have their own ActiveX controls built into their systems and need extra time to resolve compatibility issues. However, Microsoft is strongly advising customers not to deploy the compatibility patch unless they absolutely have to. ...more