Keeping up with the Dunningtons Well, the rumor going around that IBM is doubling up the processor core counts on its Power Systems servers turns out to be true.… Full published article at: Read More »

More reliance on compliance In brief Enterprise software omnicorp CA has acquired Palo Alto, CA-based IDFocus to blend the firm's identity management software with its own CA Identity Manager.… Full published article at: Read More »

Struggles on AJAX interop project The OpenAjax Alliance is once again finding it tough to enlist support for its projects, despite representing some of the biggest players - with the most resources - in software biz and on online.… Full published article at: Read More »

Replace this The EU is readying a new set of directives that could spell trouble for Apple's iPhone and any other gadget that lacks an easily removable power pack.… Full published article at: Read More »

Smile, your webcam has been clickjacked Underscoring the severity of a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC's video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player.… Full published article at: Read More »

'IP addresses are so not private' Interview Consumers ought to accept that loss of privacy is the price they pay for using internet service, according to Symantec chief exec John Thompson.… Full published article at: Read More »

More than supercomputing EverGrid has changed its name to Librato, expanding the scope of its products to include Windows servers as well as Linux and to the broader workload management job.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Hotel chain Premier Inn is using a revenue management system to improve visibility of occupancy levels throughout the year, and steer sales and marketing activities accordingly. The system, provided by travel specialist Amadeus, will analyse bookings to produce forecasts of length and standard of stay based on historical reservations information. The Premier Inn deal represents the largest implementation of Amadeus' revenue management system to date, with a roll-out across 556 hotels already underway. Under the new system, Premier Inn expects to improve occupancy, book more guests over less popular nights and reduce marginal costs. "We wanted a...Read More »

Parcel it up and sell it cheap Last month saw the launch of SpecEx, allowing companies to sell on spectrum licences - but SpecEx backers Spectrum Bridge want to see us all competing for a few MHz in the brave new world of secondary markets.… Full published article at: Read More »

Parliamentary reporter, Gas and electricity regulator Ofgem is threatening to crack down on supply companies that use the internet to offer heavily-discounted deals that are not intended to last, so that they come top of the price comparison tables. An Initial Findings Report [http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Markets/RetMkts/ensuppro/Documents1/Energy%20Supply%20Probe%20-%20Initial%20Findings%20Report.pdf] Initial Findings Report (PDF) on the energy market cleared companies of price-fixing or taking advantage of soaring world energy prices, but warned of "instances of differential pricing that are of concern". These include vigorous competition in the online market "with heavily discounted offers, the cheapest of which may be, initially at least, at below cost"....Read More »