Google launches web analytics tool

A move by Google towards offering some kind of web analytics tool has been on the cards since March of this year when the search engine announced the purchase of Urchin software. Web analytical tools have become a vital component in the search engine optimisers' armoury. Whilst the analysis of server log files has been a no-brainer for any serious web site for over a decade web analytical tools are able to delve much deeper and provide information that allows an optimiser to study where the traffic from search engine comes from, what is does when it arrives on landing pages and, most importantly what it does when it gets there. ...more

Samsung unveils thin and light 17-inch notebook

Samsung has announced availability of its new M40 notebook, which it claims to be 'the lightest, and one of the thinnest 17-inch notebooks in the world'. The Centrino machine, using 802.11g for wireless networking, also comes armed with a DVD re-writer. ...more

FairUse4WM crackers threaten Microsoft DRM defence

No sooner had Microsoft closed a hole in its PlaysForSure DRM technology than the FairUse4WM crackers opened another one. Last week Microsoft issued a patch to PlaysForSure clients, such as Napster, to disable the ability of the FairUse4WM software to strip the DRM from music files. Inevitably the release of the patch prompted a swift response - a new hack was released which not only works round the Microsoft update but includes additional DRM-stripping features into the bargain. ...more

Novell kick-starts a new group collaboration open-source project

Novell has kick-started an open-source project to build a group collaboration server with a donation of 200,000 lines of code from its own NetMail product. The Hula project includes standards-based e-mail, calendaring and address book functionality that can scale to 250,000 registered users on a single PC with 50,000 simultaneously connected users. It is based on open Internet standards, including SMTP, IMAP, iCalendar and the emerging CalDAV calendar access protocol. ...more

Taiwanese manufacturer Soltek announces new 'Prescott' motherboards

Mobo manufacturer Soltek has launched a new 'Pro' top of the line motherboard, which is said to support the new 'Prescott' range of Intel Pentium processors due out by the end of the year. The SL-865Pro-FGR mainboard supports Intel Socket 478 microprocessors and Hyper Threading technology. The mobo is based around the Intel 865PE chipset and features a 400/533/800 MHz Front Side Bus and supports Dual Channel DDR SDRAM running at speeds of 400, 333 and 266 MHz. ...more