European traffic to get performance boost through Linx

Network service providers in Europe can now connect direct to London's Linx internet exchange via Redbus Interhouse datacentres across the continent. The direct connection to Linx will be via switches in Redbus's London facility. NSPs connecting via Redbus's data centres in London, Milan, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris will have their traffic routed as though they were housed through Linx. ...more

Netgear preps for 802.11n

Netgear has announced that it is shipping the 'world's first' wireless-enabled ADSL2+ modem router based on the draft 802.11n specification. The box combines a next-generation broadband modem with a four-port Ethernet 10/100 switch, a double SPI and NAT firewall with Netgear's draft 11n-compliant RangeMax NEXT wireless LAN technology. ...more

Duron steps out at 900Mhz

AMD has released the latest addition to its Duron stable, this time in a 900Mhz flavour. The chips cost $129 each for a batch of 1,000. The chip will maintains the Duron Socket A infrastructure. ...more

International IT publisher baffled by hypertext

As part of our continuing quest to bring you news from around the world, we avidly read the news stories on other web sites. If they are interesting we report them and add a link to the original story. As do many other IT news sites. ...more

Global software piracy hits 36 per cent

Thirty-six per cent of computer software in use worldwide during 2003 was pirated, according to the latest figures from the Business Software Alliance. While the global market in legitimate copies was worth $51bn, an additional $29bn was illegally installed. The piracy rate of 36 per cent, calculated by dividing the value of illegal software by the combined value of legal and illegal, was up two per cent on the previous year's figure. ...more