European server shipments crash
According to researcher IDC, the European server market declined at a record rate in the first quarter of 2009, with revenue down 34.3%, to $2.9 billion, says Computing.co.uk (http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2243330/server-shipments-crash-nearly)
Separate figures also released today by analyst Gartner showed worldwide server revenue down by 24%.
Gartner's research showed European shipments dropped 29.6%, to less than half a million units for the first three months of the year.
40 000 sites hit by hack attack
More than 40 000 Web sites worldwide have fallen under the spell of a sneaky piece of attack code that silently tries to install malware on the machines of people who visit them, reports The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/beladen_mass_website_infection/)
The mass attack has been dubbed Beladen because beladen.net is one of the Internet domains used to unleash a swarm of exploits that target unpatched vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, and programs such as Apple's QuickTime.
It plants highly obfuscated javascript on the bottom of Web sites that's slightly different each time, making it impossible to spot infected sites using search engines.
Britons say broadband 'essential'
A panel of government advisers has said UK consumers now believe broadband is becoming as essential a utility as electricity or water, reports the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8079637.stm)
Some 73% of those questioned described a high-speed connection as important.
The Communications Consumer Panel's research involved 16 focus groups and a face-to-face survey with 2 000 people across the UK.
Court orders Dish to pay TiVo
A federal court has awarded TiVo $103 million plus interest in its long-running patent dispute with EchoStar Communications and ordered EchoStar to disable infringing features found on its subscribers' digital video recorders, says CNet (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10255373-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0)
US district judge David Folsom on Tuesday also found EchoStar, which is now part of Dish Network, in contempt of court for violating a permanent injunction by reprogramming millions of DVRs with a new "workaround".
"The harm caused to TiVo by EchoStar's contempt is substantial," Folsom wrote. "EchoStar has gained millions of customers since this court's injunction was issued; customers that are now potentially unreachable by TiVo."
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