SCO DOS attack verified

Despite doubts that the denial of service attack on SCO's web-facing servers was genuine, new analysis reveals the attack was very much the real McCoy. Researchers at CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, showed that the attacks on SCO's Web and FTP servers registered more than 50,000 packets per second at their peak, on Thursday morning of last week. SCO later removed those servers from the Internet for a period, while its ISP filtered out traffic directed at them until they were put back online. ...more

Intel bullish on third quarter revenues

Chip giant Intel has announced that it expects revenues for the third quarter of this year to be in the range of $7.6bn to $7.8bn. ...more

GoogleTalk IM service launches

As widely rumoured this week, Google has launched a beta version of its first 'communications' product GoogleTalk, a combined instant messaging and VoIP service. GoogleTalk is a free service for Windows based machines. It does not currently carry any advertising although this might change in the future. ...more

Intel launches last single core Xeon

In an effort to regain some of the ground lost to AMD's Opteron processor, Intel is planning a flurry of announcements over the coming weeks and months that will totally overhaul the Xeon range of server processors. The company has now released its last version of the single core Xeon and promises that the first of the new generation dual core chips code-named 'Paxville' will be available 'in the coming weeks'. The launch has been brought forward as the Paxville range was not due appear until next year. ...more

Logitech buys out Labtec

PC peripheral specialist Logitech announced yesterday that it has agreed to purchase fellow computing accessories company Labtec. The cash and shares deal sees Labtec valued at $125 million and the exchange is expected to start in two weeks time and will be completed during late March or April. Labtec's operations in Vancouver will remain and the company president, Bob Wick, will be made a senior vice president and general manager of Logitech's new Audio Business Unit. ...more