Intel expects to begin shipping more 45nm processors than 65nm chips - the so-called 'crossover point' - in 2008, a company staffer revealed this week.  Intel's D1D fab in Oregon will be the first to begin volume production of 45nm CPUs

The recent emergence of two sets of serious security vulnerabilities in Skype, the popular VoIP communications software app, couldn't have come at a worse time for the firm. Disclosure of the security flaws came days after the publication of a security evaluation of the Skype that wrote about its security model in glowing terms.
 

Is Google legal?

A Belgian court ruled against Google’s use of newspaper stories in early September. If you believe Google, it did nothing wrong and failed to defend itself because it was unaware of the publishers’ lawsuit. If you believe the publishers, Google is lying and infringes copyright on a colossal scale.

Quad-core and how

AMD today dangled a couple of key dates in front of customers, hoping to keep them sweet in the coming years instead of defecting back to Intel.

The chip maker has long promised to ship a four-core server processor in 2007.

It's more of the same, but faster - official

Processor Forum AMD confirmed details of its "Next Generation Processor Technology" today, but it's really business as usual for the company.

Microsoft will beat Google in the online advertising market through sheer tenacity during the next five years, not by offering a new or radically different online strategy, according to chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Ballmer, speaking at a Churchill Club lunch in Silicon Valley Thursday (pictured right), promised to "bootstrap" Microsoft's advertising engine with search, IM and Hotmail, Windows Live and Office Live, and sign partnerships with companies "large and small" that add value to those both buying online ads.

UK Exclusive Everyone wants to be the 'iPod beater'. SanDisk is one of the latest to try its hand, and its introduction of Sansa-branded players last year brought it some success at the low-end of the market.

Suitably encouraged, it's launched the Sansa c150, its first MP3 player with a colour screen and the ability to give the competition a run for its money...

 

Input technology takes p**n out of m*bile t*xt *ntry

Microsoft is preparing a technology that will allow users to enter search queries by using only a few characters.

 

Security watchers are warning of a new worm that's propagating over instant messenger networks run by both AOL and MSN. Nugache-A is also spreading (albeit modestly) as an infected email that uses a variety of well-known Windows exploits to infect vulnerable Windows PCs.
 

Malware's Dark Side of the Moon
 
Sophos’ latest malware top ten shows W32 Netsky-P and W32.Zafi-B battling it out for top spot.  Two-year old Netsky-P took the top spot for April, up from second place in March.

Back in 2004, Microsoft big cheese Steve "Ballistic" Ballmer reportedly claimed that "the most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'." - in the process extolling the virtue of Windows DRM which, as we all know, completely prevents piracy of any sort, anywhere, ever.

Samsung will this month offer its latest slimline slider phone to European consumers, pitching the 1.6cm-thick, "easy-to-grip" device's Bluetooth 1.2-based wireless stereo playback and 80MB of on-board music storage at "the modernist and music appreciator in you".

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured unprecedented images of a comet breaking up as it approaches the Sun.

Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a fragile chap, and is set for an Earth fly-by on May 6.

Intel will ship 'Conroe' in July and 'Merom' in August, CEO Paul Otellini said yesterday, illustrating his announcement with a slide using the icon of new buddy Apple's iCal application to indicate the ship dates.

TDK has gone ahead and produced the 200GB Blu-ray Disc it announced a few weeks ago that it was working on. And while it appears to have failed to compress four standard dual-layer 50GB discs together into a single unit, it has nonetheless come up with a novel alternative.