HP has decided that its time to overhaul the Integrity line of mission-critical servers. The firm has announced details of an upgrade to the core architecture of the Integrity servers, a refresh that comes with a partnership with Intel to include the new Itanium 9300 quad-core processors. All told, the new Integrity line boasts more [...]

Dells strategy to provide enterprise customers with the hardware and services they need to implement best-of-breed servers, storage arrays and blade servers rather goes a bit against the grain of current computing philosophy. But as Server Watch reports, Dell isnt too concerned about perception. Its more interested in generating buzz for its latest line of [...]

Telecommunications companies have demanding needs from their servers a market that Oracle is aiming for with the Sun Netra 6000 server, based on the Sun Blade 6000 server design. The offering is more than just a rebranded Sun blade server The Netra 6000 adds carrier-grade features and enhancements designed to support applications like Operations and [...]

HP today announced it is upgrading its Itanium-based Integrity server range to offer a blade chassis format for the first time. The company also unveiled the next generation of its high-end Superdome server platform – Superdome 2 – which also takes on a standard blade dessign and is scheduled to ship in August. Speaking on [...]

Credit card fraud rates are up to 14 times higher overseas than they are in the UK, according to financial trade body the Association for Payment Clearing Services, which also said that overseas fraud reached £610m on UK-issued plastic cards alone in 2008. To date, banks have simply blocked cards used in suspected frauds, then [...]

A screen grab from the original Kates Party Facebook event. Notorious party boy Corey Worthington appeared to have met his match after more than 60,000 Facebook users invited themselves to fellow Australian Kate Millers birthday party. But the joke may in fact be on the gatecrashers as the entire meme and Miller herself has now [...]

On Twitter, everything is Nick Cleggs fault at least today, ironically Its all Nick Cleggs fault. That fake tan that went wrong, Samantha Camerons pregnancy, that ladder in your tights Twitter would appear, if one were to take it at face value, to have decided that the Liberal Democrat leader is the source of many [...]

ATO computer system now the font is too small Photo Karl Hilzinger Over budget and misfiring, the Australian Taxation Offices new computer system has another problem the font is too small. The computer system has been blamed for delaying the processing of hundreds of thousands of tax returns, and for sending out 140,000 returns this [...]

In what would appear to be a blasphemous strike against the holy Google writ, Skyhook will replace Googles location technology on Motorolas Android-based mobile devices. Skyhooks Core Location will be baked into future versions of Googles Android phones, making Motorola the first major Android device maker to abandon Google for its location services. Skyhooks technology [...]

In 2001 Dennis Crowley, a young interactive telecoms graduate from New York University, found himself turning over a particular problem in his head. Crowley and a lot of his friends had been involved in various internet start-ups which, after the dotcom bubble burst, had gone pop. The problem was this the friends were mostly living [...]