PGP back from the dead

PGP, the widely used encryption technology, is finally out of mothballs and back in the hands of developers who want to see it grow.

Owner Network Associates mothballed the technology, created by Phil Zimmermann, in March. The company said it was looking for a buyer and would not develop PGP any further. Zimmermann at the time said he was eager to buy it back but he didn`t have the money. Now Network Associates has found a buyer in a new start-up formed specifically to rejuvenate the technology.

According to TheRegister, former chief PGP scientist Jon Callas is the new CTO of the company called PGP Corporation. [More at TheRegister]

AMD has taken a big step into the business market with the announcement that HP will use the company`s Athlon processors in the Compaq D315 Business PC range.

Athlon processors have gained a faithful following among home users since their release in 1999, but they have never really shone in the business arena.

The inclusion of the Athlon is a significant win for the main challenger to the Intel empire, because it is the first time either of the three big vendors - Dell, HP and IBM - have included the processor on a machine targeted at business users.

The D315 Business PC will also include the NVIDIA GeForce2 graphics chipset.

Iomega yesterday announced a new range of network-attached storage (NAS) servers for Windows. The company, which is well known for its disk-based storage devices, released the NAS P400M, P405M and P410M servers for Windows 2000 networks.

The three complement the company`s Unix-based NAS servers. Storage capacities of the new servers range up to 450GB in four hot-swappable 7200 RPM drives, with 10/100 Ethernet support.

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