HP Itanium blade due early 2006
HP will begin selling its first blade servers to use Intel`s Itanium processor in 2006, the company is expected to announce today, reports CNet.
The move means the company will be able to offer its HP-UX version of Unix on its BladeSystem products. Those servers are available only with x86 processors - Intel`s Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices` Opteron - and can run Linux and Windows.
HP`s Integrity BL60p accommodates two Madison 9M Itanium chips, the current top-end model that has 9MB of on-board cache memory. A model with two 1.6GHz chips, 4GB of memory, two hard drives and an HP-UX licence will cost $5 695, the company said.
Nokia, EMI plan for Bluetooth tunes
The Bluetooth short-range radio system could soon be used for streaming music to mobile phones. Handset maker Nokia and music label EMI have started a project to let coffee shop customers listen to music sent to their phone via Bluetooth, reports the BBC.
The first free tests of the service, dubbed bFree, will be in six coffee shops and music stores in Helsinki, Finland. Customers will be able to select and listen to tracks sent to them via the short-range radio system.
Triallists must download software to their handsets that will let them browse the tracks on offer. The service is designed to work with Series 60 Symbian phones (such as Nokia`s N90 and the Siemens SX1) and Nokia Series 40 phones (such as the 6060 and the 8800).
Rootkit sparks IM worm fears
The sudden appearance of a rootkit file in a spyware-laden instant messaging worm attack has set off new fears that malicious hackers are sophisticated enough to launch a fully automated worm attack against instant messaging networks, reports eWeek.
In the most recent attack aimed at users of America Online`s AIM network, the "lockx.exe" rootkit file was bundled with a new variant of the W32/Sdbot Trojan to create a nasty mix of hidden malware.
This is the first detection of SDBot squirming through instant messaging chat windows, and the addition of a rootkit program is causing raised eyebrows among security researchers and worm watchers.
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