DarkMail levels rise 400 per cent

Levels of email that are sent to people that don't exist have risen 400 per cent according to security company Email Systems. Email Systems suggests that between 65 and 75 per cent of all email traffic is classified as such, with between 25 and 35 per cent of mail successfully making it to inboxes around the world. This figure includes spam and viruses as well as legitimate mail. ...more

Red Hat preps JBoss Windows alliance

Red Hat has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance in a bid to get its software working properly with Windows. Initial work on interoperability had already been begun by application server builder JBoss a year and a half ago, before it was bought up by Red Hat. So far, the interoperability work has focussed on Web Services standards such as WS-Security, WS-Transactions, and WS-Addressing. ...more

NTL and Telewest merger is back on

The long-expected merger of NTL and Telewest is back on, with both companies finalising who will handle the $5.5bn deal. The boards of both companies are believed to have given the go ahead. ...more

Intel boosts Xeon cache and clock speed - claims 25 per cent performance boost

Intel has introduced an upgraded version of its Xeon processor aimed at the multi-processor server market. The chip now runs at 3GHz and sports up to 4MB of level three cache. This, according to Intel offers performance improvements of up to 25 per cent over the previous 2. ...more

SCO subpoenas sally forth

Following IBM's subpoenas on the financial friends of SCO, SCO has served subpoenas to five companies and one individual: Linus Torvalds. The subpoenas are being served to Linus Torvalds, Novell, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Development Lab and Transmeta, the company for which Linus Torvalds was working until recently. There is also one other organisation on which we are still awaiting a name. ...more