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Acer Ferrari 4006 (London, Price: £330)	01 January 0001
This computer is like new. The hard drive has just been reformatted so it is back to the factory conditions. Get ready to feel the high-speed computing power of the Acer Ferrari 4006WLMi (model Lx.Fr40M.027) a continuation of the speedy mobile-centric laptops the two companies have previously collaborated on. Sleekly styled the Ferrari 4006 s carbon-fiber casing-which is stronger and lighter than aluminum-comes in a more conservative black and is accented with exclusive Ferrari red edges and the classic yellow prancing horse Ferrari logo and the interior has a rubberized coating. Made for today s demanding applications and ready to continue working into tomorrow the Ferrari 4000 is powered by an Amd Turion 64 Mobile processor and Windows Xp Professional x64 edition (which is ready to support 64-bit native applications as well as current 32-bit software Hardware features include a bright 15.4-inch Lcd 120 Gb hard drive 1 Gb of installed Ram (with a 2 Gb maximum) integrated 54g wireless Lan and Bluetooth wireless connectivity gigabit Lan multiformat memory card reader and dual-layer Dvd Cd burner. The Basics Hard Drive The 120 Gb hard drive is above average in size for notebook Pcs and it s roomy enough to store business productivity applications all your important documents and presentations and a good-sized digital audio and video library. Processor Combining strong performance with efficient usage of power the 2.2 Ghz Amd Turion 64 Ml-40 is uniquely optimized to power today s thinnest notebooks. It s also built for tomorrow s 64-bit applications which will require a processor with significant power. It includes such Amd technology features as HyperTransport (which increases the communication between integrated circuits) PowerNow (which enables longer battery life and reduced heat generation) and Enhanced Virus Protection (which works with Windows Xp to better withstand attacks from certain classes of viruses It also features a 1 Mb L2 cache An L2 or secondary cache temporarily stores data and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system s performance Memory The 1 Gb of installed Ram (512 Mb Ddr333 Sdram installed in each of two memory slots) is an excellent start at the races and the Ferrari 4006 has room for extra pimping with a 2 Gb maximum Ram size (1 Gb x 2 Cd Dvd Drive Offering the latest in Dvd writing technology the Ferrari 4000 multiformat Dvd Cd drive is compatible with both Dvd and Dvd- disc formats as well as dual-layer Dvd R discs which can store up to 8.5 Gb of data. You can also burn your favorite music mixes to Cd. It offers the following write speeds 24x for Cd-Rs 8x for single-layer Dvd R and Dvd-R 2.4x for dual-layer Dvd R and 2x for Dvd-Ram. Keyboard Mouse This notebook features an 88-key Acer FineTouch keyboard with five-degree curve inverted T cursor layout 2.5mm minimum key travel and international language support. It also offers a touchpad with four-way integrated scroll button and an external gloss-black optical mouse. Screen Graphics and Sound The 15.4-inch Tft Lcd screen has a 1680 x 1050-pixel resolution and can display up to 16.7 million colors. It s powered by the Ati Mobility Radeon X700 video graphics card with 128 Mb of Ddr Ram memory on Pci Express architecture. With 8 parallel pixel pipelines and breakthrough image enhancement technology it provides extremely smooth responsive high-definition video that s great for fully immersive 3d gaming as well as Dvd movies and graphics-intensive presentations. It offers Vga and S-Video outputs as well as a Dvi-D connection for high-def output. This notebook has an integrated audio card that s Ac97 compliant and it features a line-in microphone line-out headphone and two stereo speakers. Connectivity and Expansion Slots This notebook features an integrated 54g wireless Lan for connecting to 802.11b and 802.11g wi-fi routers as well as integrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity (for synchronizing and transferring data between your Pc and your Pda or cell phone connecting to Bluetooth-enabled printers and more It features the following connectivity options 4 Usb 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals-from digital cameras to Mp3 players 1 FireWire (also known as Ie 1394 or i.Link) port for connecting digital video camcorders and other peripherals Type Ii Pc Card slot 32-bit Pc CardBus architecture 5-in-1 memory card reader (compatible with MultiMediaCard Secure Digital Memory Stick Memory Stick Pro and xd-Picture Card) Connector for optional ezDock docking station Stereo headphones speakers line-out with Spdif support Dvi-D (digital visual interface-digital) Vga and S-Video outputs Fast infrared (Ir) connectivity It also has an integrated 56K modem (V.90) and an Rj-45 Lan network port (for a 10 100 1000 Gigabit Ethernet connection to networks and Dsl cable modems Preloaded System and Software This system comes with the Windows Xp Professional x64 Edition which is a near feature-complete version of Windows Xp Professional that runs on x64 processors. The 64-bit architecture when combined with Windows Xp Professional x64 Edition can run the thousands of 32-bit programs available today. It s designed for 32-bit system users who are pushing the memory limits of their systems and want the new 64-bit technology to improve their Pc or workstation performance. Windows Xp Professional also adds Microsoft s Iis Web server back-up and recovery utilities Remote Desktop and other enhanced business features. Other preloaded software includes Cyberlink PowerDVD Norton AntiVirus and Nti Cd Maker. Power It comes with an 8-cell lithium ion battery which provides up to 3.0 hours life depending on configuration and usage. It has a 2.5-hour recharge time with system off 3.5 hours with system in use.
Disk-Based Backup and Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options	01 January 0001
Storage requirements are growing at unbelievable rates for businesses. This white paper details four disk-based data recovery architectures and provides guidance on how to determine which of these architectures would be a fit for your IT infrastructure. Published by: Datalink/NetApp
Pc Motherboard Top Of The Range Brand new, in the box with all the wires, manuals. Never been used (London, Price: £75)	01 January 0001
Cost £120 in Pc World.Also includes free Sata cables(seen on top of box in pics) Hope to hear from you soon Here is the full specification The Gigabyte Ds3 motherboard delivers high performance with great tuning facilities for Diy and power users. The board s complete performance tuning facility enables power users to customize system performance according to their individual needs. Boasting solid capacitors this platform is specifically designed for enhanced durability ensuring a longer system operation lifetime and boosting system stability under extreme conditions. World s First Natively supported 1333MHz Fsb Gigabyte Rev 3.3 P Series motherboards were designed to take full advantage of the blistering performance inherent in the new generation Intel Core 2 Duo processors featuring 1333MHz Fsb. As 1333MHz Fsb is natively supported no overclocking is need to unlock the performance benefits of these powerful processors. The Gigabyte Rev 3.3 P965 Series motherboards also feature flexible memory support options in the Bios greatly extending the overclocking potential of the boards especially when using a 1333MHz Fsb processor. With memory multiplier settings including x2.0 x2.5 x3.33 and x4.0 users who overclock will be able to see a marked improvement in memory performance with even slight overclocking reaching a more than 5 increase in performance. Quad Core Optimized The Ds3 (rev.3.3) supports latest Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors manufactured using a 65nm silicon technology Intel s latest high performance Cpu delivers the most energy-efficient performance available today. Based on Intel s Micro Architecture the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors with 4 cores and two shared L2 caches provide the best capability-per-watt solutions and are an ideal choice for multi-media enthusiasts and intensive multi-tasking environments. This cutting-edge processor offers significant performance boosts and provides an overall more energy efficient platform. Windows Vista Premium Logo Certified Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing experience designed to fundamentally change how users view find and organize their digital information. With P965 G965 946 945 solutions all enabling support for Vista Premium Gigabyte offers a fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative intuitive and completely new.more The Industry s Leading All-Solid Capacitor motherboard Design To ensure a longer for systems in daily operation and boost system stability under extreme conditions this platform adopts cutting-edge Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors from the world s leading vendors. With these high-quality components users can take advantage of better electronic conductivity and excellent heat resistance for enhanced system durability. Speed The Speed compliant motherboards of Gigabyte S-series provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through both hardware and software design.more Smart The Smart featured motherboards of Gigabyte S-series provide Gigabyte proprietary innovative software such as Download Center Bios Q-Flash Xpress Install Boot menu and Smart Fan. Bios and driver management now becomes much easier and user friendly through Gigabyte Smart features .more Safe Safe is the key feature of Gigabyte S-series motherboards with the following elements Excellent hardware design reinforced Bios protection through Gigabyte Virtual Dual Bios Technology and Gigabyte Bios Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2 Pc Health Monitor Hdd S.M.A.R.T. and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your Pc .more Intel Next-Generation Core 2 Duo Processor Leading the silicon process technology from 90nm to 65nm the Intel new-generation Cpu transistors deliver more energy-efficient performance than anyone. Based on the Intel s next generation Micro Architecture the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors with 4 cores and two shared L2 caches provides the best capability-per-watt solutions. The cutting-edge processor the significant performance boosts and better energy efficient platform. Intel P965 Express Chipset The Intel P965 Express chipset brings crossing-aged improvement on performance with supporting of various innovation technology including the latest Core 2 Extreme processors dual-channel Ddr2 memory with Intel Fast Memory Access technology dual Pci-Express graphics interface and Microsoft Vista operation system as well. Dual Channel Ddr2 800 Get a jump in memory performance with the advanced technology of Ddr2 800 memory architecture which delivers superior performance for the most demanding applications. Sata 3gb s storage interface Sata 3gb s is the latest generation of Serial Ata interface speed that doubles bus bandwidth from 1.5gb s to 3gb s. Sata 3gb s facilitates bandwidth aggregation for multiple devices enabling max through put as well as higher cache through put performance in single drive configurations. Due to add Gigabyte Sata2(Jmicron363) chip on board the model can be able to support Ncq (Native Command Queuing) and Hot Plug. Gigabit Lan connectivity The Gigabit network interface delivers a high speed Lan connection with data transfer rate up to 1000Mb s providing new generation connectivity for the broadband era. Gigabit Lan is ideally for seamless internet connection such as streaming audio and video contents. Intel High Definition Audio Intel High Definition Audio enables 8 channel premium digital sound in the Pc for an immersive surround sound experience. In addition Intel Hd Audio delivers multiple audio channels in your Pc so you can listen to two different streams simultaneously in two separate rooms.
Oracle to charge for four 11g database add-ons	14 August 2007
(InfoWorld) - Oracle has issued details on pricing for its new 11g enterprise database, with the vendor making some of the most talked-about features available as extra-cost add-ons. At the launch of Oracle Database 11g in New York just over a month ago, company executives spoke at length about new functionality but didn't address pricing. On Tuesday, Oracle confirmed that the basic price for the Enterprise, Standard, and Standard One versions of its 11g database would remain unchanged from the cost of the previous 10g versions. That puts the price of the enterprise edition of 11g at $40,000 per processor or $800 per named user. Oracle already offers a variety of optional add-ons for the enterprise version of its database including Real Application Clusters, Data Mining, Content Database Suite, and Database Vault and pricing for all those options will also stay the same. At the same time, Oracle debuted four options, each one focused around a single new 11g technology -- Real Application Testing, Advanced Compression, Total Recall, and Active Data Guard. Real Application Testing and Advanced Compression cost $10,000 per processor or $200 per named user, while Total Recall and Active Data Guard are priced at $5,000 per processor or $100 per named user. As companies move to a new database release, they spend a lot of time and money setting up a testbed where they can safely assess how well their existing applications will run on the new database. The Real Application Testing option allows users to record part of their real-life database operations and then use and replay that recording as a testing environment for their applications. Oracle claims that using the Advanced Compression option will enable Oracle database users to compact their data so that it occupies two to three times less disk space than previously possible. The Total Recall option lets database administrators go back and query historical information held in the database. It's a capability, which can be useful in monitoring changes to data as needed in relation to auditing and compliance issues. Companies can use the Active Data Guard option both in disaster recovery situations and to help improve the performance of their key databases. The technology allows users to offload resource-hungry operations, for instance backups and queries, to a standby database. New functionality that comes included in 11g includes better security, storage, and data warehousing capabilities. As far as platform support goes, Oracle has already begun shipping the Linux x86 version of 11g and users can download a free evaluation version of the database from the Oracle Technology Network.
Google Apps manager: Google hearts IT managers	24 May 2007
(InfoWorld) - With the launch of the Google Apps suite last year, Google became a provider of hosted collaboration and communication software for small and medium-size organizations, and it made clear its aspirations to lure large-company IT managers and CIOs with the suite's Premier Edition, introduced in February. This move, which puts it in direct competition with software heavyweights like Microsoft, builds on Google's first steps as an enterprise vendor years ago when it launched its first enterprise search product. Although Google generates most of its revenue from search engine advertising, it says it is committed to the IT enterprise space. IDG News Service recently had a chance to talk to Rajen Sheth, Google Apps product manager, about the challenges and opportunities Google sees in enterprise software. Following is an edited version of the interview: IDGNS: Does Google's Enterprise unit have a good understanding of the needs of IT managers and CIOs? Sheth: I think we do. We're breaking new ground in some of these areas, for example with Apps and the concept of hosted applications for large companies. We're learning as the industry is learning in some areas. In our Enterprise division, everyone has worked at a significant enterprise company before, from the sales force to product management and engineers. They all know what it means to be an enterprise company and to build enterprise products. That said, you'll see us do things differently from other enterprise organizations in the ways we build products and roll things out, and you see that already with the Search Appliance and with Apps. IDGNS: How big of an issue are government regulations when you offer hosted applications and you store customers' data, particularly for customers in heavily regulated industries like health care and financial services? Sheth: We've added functionality like the ability to put a mail gateway in front of Google [Apps] to filter all your incoming and outgoing mail and also archive it. That's important for financial services companies that need to archive mail for six or seven years and can't let e-mail messages that, for example, contain social security numbers go out. IDGNS: You have made an uptime commitment for Gmail of 99.9 percent availability, and yet you have had several Gmail outages affecting Premier Edition customers. Sheth: Several of the things we hit were anomalies right after our launch, unfortunately. We have done pretty deep postmortems on them, and we're using those experiences to improve the product and what we do. [These incidents] have helped us examine the whole process and think of other things we're going to do. For example, regarding notification to customers, we're working through a variety of processes by which we can further give customers visibility into what's going on with their systems, expected recovery times, current status, and things like that. IDGNS: Are you thinking of beefing up phone support? Sheth: We offer 24 by 7 phone support with the Premier Edition. We're scaling that team more and more. We have a combination there of front-line support and enterprise support engineers. Similar to how we support very high-end customers of the Search Appliance, I think we can do the same for Google Apps. IDGNS: Becoming a Premier Edition customer is pretty inexpensive at $50 per user per year. Have you been hit with a tidal wave of signups? Can you support the volume of customers you're getting? Sheth: The uptake and interest have been very good, but we were expecting it. We were scaling up the team and the resources, so we were able to handle it quite well. In terms of scalability of our systems, it's something we're tremendously good at. Even if we add a 100,000-person corporation, it's still a very small fraction of the entire user base, so we can scale up our systems pretty easily. The [consumer] services that we offer are already scaled up to very high degrees. We have tens of millions of Gmail users, for example. In terms of support, we started scaling up that organization a while ago to meet the demand we have now. IDGNS: Any plans to create desktop clients to give offline support to Google Apps? Sheth: The offline experience is definitely a hole in the product. It's something we're exploring in various ways. Right now, we let people import and export to a [third party] offline client. That's adequate, but it's not the endgame. There's nothing I can talk about right now in detail [regarding future plans]. IDGNS: Many express concern over data security in hosted applications in general. How do you address those concerns? Sheth: Security has been part of Google's development and operational philosophies from the very start. We've taken a lot of measures to protect the data centers and the infrastructure from external attacks. Also, Premier Edition lets customers apply their security policies on top of the Google applications. For example, you can use your own authentication systems so that a company that requires employees to sign in to their e-mail by putting a fingerprint against something can implement that with Google Apps. You can also lock all of the applications to be encrypted and make it such that it's all talking over HTTPS so that the level of encryption we have for your e-mail and chat sessions is the same you would use for a stock transaction. IDGNS: How are you doing in terms of mobile access to Google Apps? Sheth: It's definitely an area of focus. We have a pretty good reach for Gmail right now with the Gmail mobile application and Gmail mobile browser experience. We're continuing to think across all the applications and figure out how to make the experience better and better on mobile devices. In general, mobile access is an extremely important thing to Google because in so many parts of the world, more people access the Internet by mobile devices than they do by a laptop or PC. IDGNS: Are you interested in including vertical applications in Google Apps, maybe as options to customers in certain industries? Sheth: Our forte and user benefit is in applications that have a very broad appeal, especially within collaboration. That's where you will see a lot of the emphasis. That said, I've been pleasantly surprised about the amount of development that has happened on top of Google Apps since its release. 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McAfee ushers in new CEO	06 March 2007
(InfoWorld) - McAfee introduced its newest chief executive on Feb. 5 in its latest step to rebuild the firm's leadership ranks after a 2006 stock options backdating probe that led to the departure of several top officials. The security applications vendor named David DeWalt, 42, a former executive with storage giant EMC, as its latest president and CEO. DeWalt is the fourth individual appointed to the top job at McAfee in only the last six years. The new CEO steps into the role that was being occupied on an interim basis by McAfee board member Dale Fuller, who will step down from the job on April 1, 2007, but will retain his role as one of the firm's directors. DeWalt was also named to McAfee's board. Fuller, who had only joined McAfee's board in Jan. 2006, was called upon to steer the company when its president, Kevin Weiss, was fired in October 2006 after it was discovered that he had engaged in options backdating. The scandal -- through which executives illegally pre-dated their stock options to maximize personal gains -- also led to the resignation of longtime McAfee chairman and CEO George Samenuk. Charles Robel, the former COO at venture firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, signed on as Samenuk's replacement as McAfee chairman. DeWalt joins McAfee at a time when the company has reached a crossroads not only in terms of management, but also regarding its future. While the software vendor has long held a leading role in the desktop security market, trailing only Symantec in the massive antivirus segment, market forces have led company leaders to reshape the firm through a long series of mergers and acquisitions. Over the last several years in particular, McAfee has aggressively expanded its holdings in the market for compliance automation applications and services, which are used by businesses to stay in line with federal regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Perhaps taking a page from Hewlett-Packard, which replaced colorful CEO Carly Fiorina with Mark Hurd -- a veteran of the stodgier data storage market at NCR -- McAfee clearly views DeWalt as someone who excels at management of both operations and business diversification. At EMC, DeWalt served as executive vice president and president of customer operations, including sales and services, and headed the company's software division, which the storage market leader has been pushing to grow aggressively. The executive came to EMC via its $1.7 billion buyout of Documentum in 2003, a deal which represented a strategic move by the firm to expand beyond its home turf in the storage space into the enterprise content management software arena. Immediately prior to the sale, as part of only a two-year tenure at Documentum, DeWalt is credited with leading the software company through 13 consecutive record quarters of financial performance, and he also worked previously at Oracle. "When I look at this company, I see no shortage of assets and a billion dollars in revenue as a pure play security vendor, which should give us a lot of potential opportunities," DeWalt said of McAfee "There's no debt, and the ledger is pretty positive. There were problems with the stock options, but the company has been getting stronger in a lot of intriguing areas such as compliance; we will be a top company worldwide when we come out at the other end." DeWalt specifically pointed to work done by CFO Eric Brown, who took on the additional responsibilities of COO in the wake of the stock scandal, as crucial to McAfee's recovery from the executive debacle.  The company said on March 2 that it plans to take an additional fourth-quarter stock options charge of roughly $1.8 million, lowering its net income by approximately $1.1 million, related to the backdating incident. The new CEO would not say whether or not McAfee will be more likely to become a buyer of smaller security companies or market itself as a potential acquisition to larger vendors but said that neither alternative is being ruled out. In the last year alone, a handful of security larger security technology makers have been swept up by larger infrastructure players, such as with IBM's acquisition of ISS for $1.3 billion. DeWalt's former employer EMC bought RSA Security for $2.1 billion in June 2006. While the executive said he was not planning to shop McAfee to potential buyers in his first days on the job, which officially begin on April 2, he said that the firm wouldn't rule out any possibilities until further exploring all of its options. DeWalt said he helped lead three different companies that have been acquired and that he's completed nearly 50 similar transactions from the buyer side. "These are all possibilities, I'm no stranger to the consolidation game -- mergers and acquisitions are a way of life, and the security space is one of the last not to go through that type of change," said DeWalt. "We could be the consolidator, or some larger companies could look at us as a pure-play security provider that they need. It's a good position to be in." Industry watchers observed that DeWalt is taking over at a time when McAfee must make some tough decisions about its future. While rival Symantec moved heavily into storage technologies via its massive acquisition of Veritas in 2004, McAfee has yet to stake as serious a claim with its roadmap, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst with the Yankee Group. Pushing into the compliance sector is a good short-term bet for the firm, he said, but McAfee will need to define more far-ranging goals for where it aims to take its business tomorrow. "It all boils down to figuring out what McAfee wants to be when it grows up, even while it sharpens its existing message on anti-threat technologies," Jaquith said. "Symantec has clearly planted a flag in terms of becoming a broader systems management company; McAfee has stayed as more of a pure play -- they'll have to decide if they want to remain as a specialist, broaden through acquisitions, or become the security division of a bigger company." Jaquith, who said he isn't personally acquainted with DeWalt, indicated that the comparisons to HP's hiring of Hurd may be fair. He indicated that giving the impression of a more conservative leadership approach may have been part of the message the security company's directors wanted to send investors regarding the direction they would like to see the firm head in. If that is the case, said the analyst, it may have been a wise move considering the company's recent history of executive upheaval combined with ongoing shifts in the security market itself. "The hiring strikes as me as one way they may be looking to make security appear a little more boring, which is good, because boring means operations, and that's what customers are concerned about," Jaquith said.
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Weak orders hit US firms	28 November 2007
US factory orders fell for the third month in a row, a further sign of the slowing economy, government data shows. a survey shows.