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eBay fined £31m over counterfeit goods

Online auction site eBay is preparing to fight a £31 million fine for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its website.

Google hit with writ over e-mail migration tool

A small Chicago-based software company is accusing Google of ripping off a tool it developed that allows Microsoft Outlook e-mail users to shift over to Gmail.

HP enters de-duplication fray with new tools

Hewlett-Packard has launched de-duplication software designed to speed up and simplify data backup operations in its high-end and midrange disk-based backup systems.

Red Hat Summit panel: Who 'won' OOXML battle?

A Microsoft official said Wednesday that Open Document Format (ODF) has clearly benefited from the two-year fight over the OOXML standard.

HP adding solid-state memory to its servers

Hewlett-Packard and startup Fusion-io Wednesday announced plans to jointly enable the latter's solid-state memory technology to run across HP server products.

Judge rejects call for White House to disclose how it lost 10 million emails

The US Executive Office of the President doesn't have to turn over information on an alleged 10 million missing e-mail, a judge ruled Monday.

Royal Mint issues urgent call for disaster recovery system

The Royal Mint has issued an accelerated procedure contract notice for the urgent introduction of improved disaster recovery services.

Europe tells mobile operators to slash data roaming fees

The European telecoms commissioner has dismissed claims by mobile phone operators that they are cutting data roaming prices, as insufficient.

Sun open sources code to turn x86 servers into storage arrays

Sun Microsystems will this week release Friday open source software that can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device capable of emulating the physical characteristics of a storage array.

Western Digital's offers 1TB mainstream drives

Western Digital has announced a new family of 3.5 inch hard drives offering capacities of 750GB and 1TB for desktop and multi-drive systems.

McAfee expands enterprise antivirus line

McAfee has outlined a strategy to extend its antivirus product line into the areas of offline virtual images, SAP's NetWeaver as well as storage systems from EMC and Sun Microsystems.

Symantec uses open-source virtualisation for combined backup

Veritas, Symantec's storage arm, has announced that it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualisation platform.

Forrester issues virtualisation scorecard

Virtualisation is ubiquitous but some of the virtualisation technologies currently offered by vendors will not be fit for enterprise deployment for many years, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.

Intel anti-trust trial delayed until 2010

The trial for Advanced Micro Devices' antitrust suit alleging that competitor Intel unfairly manipulated the chip market has been delayed until February 2010.

Intel doubles storage on solid-state drives

Intel has demonstrated a tiny 8GB solid-state storage drive (SSD) that's small enough to use with mini-laptops, and said it would make a 16GB version available in the fourth quarter of this year.

Sun prepares to strip hard drives from servers

In a bid to remove hard drives from servers, Sun on Tuesday announced that it will offer solid-state drives (SSDs) later this year as a replacement for spinning disk drives.

Nexsan paints SAS green

Nexsan claims to be the first supplier with an energy-efficient SAS storage system.

APC teams up with IBM on efficiency

Backup-power product maker APC and building automation vendor TAC will integrate their software management platforms with IBM's Tivoli Monitoring energy management tools.

Seagate to launch 2TB solid-state drive next year

Seagate is to introduce its first SSD (solid-state drive) storage and 2TB hard drive next year according to the company's CEO.

Google whacked with £34m damages claim

A group of Belgian newspaper publishers wants Google to pay up to €49.2 million (US$77.5 million) in damages for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their web pages.

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