Reboot your Windows-powered Toyota

Toyota is planning to install Windows in one of its forthcoming production models later this year. The company announced that the car will be equipped with the Windows CE Automotive-based G-Book at one of its Japanese plants before the end of the year. The G-Book is an information network service that provides in-car information and services such as hands-free communication as well as navigation. The G-Book also includes a customisable graphical user interface and Internet access, the building blocks for wide-ranging multimedia systems.

Reuters reports that HP and IBM are now joint leaders in the server maker market, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). The research company says HP and IBM both account for 27.8% of the total market share. However, IDC said HP actually lost share compared with a combined HP and Compaq market share a year earlier, while Sun Microsystems and Dell gained share from the previous year. Sales of high-performance business computers worldwide dropped during the second quarter, making this the sixth quarter in a row that has seen shrinking sales. Revenue from server computers declined 16% to $10.5 billion in the second quarter from $12.6 billion a year earlier.

TheRegister reports that a trojan, marketed as spyware by a company called SpectorSoft, can be used to lift information from anyone you choose. The trojan, called eBlaster, can be e-mailed to specific users and it will then log their keystrokes and send a copy of all their e-mail to you. The trojan even records their chat and instant message sessions and the Web sites they visit. Apparently the code is marketed as a tool for protective parents and snoopy employers, but the potential for abuse is enormous. The company says its terms state that the tool may only be used on computers you own, but as TheRegister points out, that feeble warning is hardly going to discourage the more malevolent users out there. [More at TheRegister]