Seagate Claims 2.5" SCSI Drive is World's Fastest

theraindog writes

"Seagate has announced a 2.5" SCSI hard drive that spins at an astounding 15,000RPM. The Savvio 15K is the first 2.5" hard drive with a 15K-RPM spindle speed, but what's more interesting is that Seagate claims it's the fastest hard drive on the market. Indeed, the drive boasts an impressive 2.9ms seek time, which is more than half a millisecond quicker than that of comparable 3.5" SCSI drives. The Savvio 15K also features perpendicular recording technology and a claimed Mean Time Between Failures of 1.6 million hours."

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Expert Says Cisco's iPhone violates GPL

Stony Stevenson writes

"Even while Cisco Systems is suing Apple for violating its iPhone trademark, an open-source enthusiast is accusing Cisco itself of infringing copyright in the same product.

From the article:

"Cisco has not published the source code for some components of the WIP300 iPhone in accordance with its open-source licensing agreement, said Armijn Hemel, a consultant with Loohuis Consulting and half of the team running the GPL Violations Project, an organization that identifies and publicizes misuse of GPL licenses and takes some violators to court."

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Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC

An anonymous reader writes

"InformationWeek has a review of 6 rootkit detectors.This issue became big last year when Sony released some music CDs which came with a rootkit that silently burrowed into PCs. This review looks at how you can block rootkits and protect your machine using F-Secure Backlight, IceSword, RKDetector, RootkitBuster, RootkitRevealer, and Rookit Unhooker."

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AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison

A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes.

Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury in the U.S. District Court for Central District of California in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.

Goodin, who was arrested last year, was found guilty of operating a sophisticated phishing scheme, the prosecutors said in the statement. As part of the scam, he sent e-mails posing as AOL's billing department to trick people into giving up their credit card information, according to the statement. He then used the credit card data to make purchases, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Persistent zombie attacks target Symantec corporate software

Symantec first dismissed the threat, but worm attacks that exploit a known security hole in the company's corporate antivirus tool are proving to be persistent.

The attacks target computers running older versions of Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Compromised systems are turned into remotely controlled zombies by the attacker and used to relay spam and other nefarious activities. Symantec's Norton consumer software is not affected.

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BlackBerry Pearl now in white

Research In Motion and T-Mobile USA released a white alternative to the BlackBerry Pearl on Sunday.

The pearl-colored BlackBerry is $350, or $150 with T-Mobile contract discounts, compared with its original September discount launch price of $199. The phone is also available through Cingular Wireless.

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Oracle plugs 51 security flaws

Oracle on Tuesday released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities that affect its software products.

The update is part of the Redwood City, Calif., company's quarterly patch cycle. Oracle preannounced its patch release Thursday, when, for the first time, it published an advance notification so customers could plan ahead to apply the fixes.

Oracle's actual Tuesday "Critical Patch Update" has one fix less than the company originally announced. Instead of the planned 27 fixes for its database products, 26 vulnerabilities are addressed in the company's flagship software.

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DoCoMo's new phones feature touch panel, smell

Japan's top wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, unveiled on Tuesday a mobile phone featuring a touch-sensitive screen, like the popular Nintendo DS portable game console, and another model that gives off a relaxing scent.

DoCoMo's D800iDS, made by Mitsubishi Electric, opens up like a clamshell and is equipped with screens on both upper and lower halves, rather than the typical design of one display and a number keypad.

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Film packs in memories of arcade superstars

Chasing Ghosts, a documentary set to screen next week at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a nostalgic look at the golden age of the arcade.

Those were the days when video game play began with the drop of a quarter amid the smell of adolescent bodies and the sound of electronica gunfire.

Out of this 1980s scene emerged a class of player that gained fame and a following as top scorers of popular games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong Jr.

These arcade warriors--who predated today's sophisticated home gaming systems--might have been forgotten were it not for a friendship and a photo, which together laid the foundation for director Lincoln Ruchti and producer Michael Verrechia's first feature-length project.

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Small drives cross performance threshold

Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market.

Seagate's new Savvio 15K spins at 15,000 revolutions per minute, which means data can be found and retrieved faster than with preceding 10,000rpm 2.5-inch models.

That's important in particular for servers, which often run multiple jobs simultaneously and therefore need to access data scattered across the drive. And computing jobs often are constrained by the time it takes for a hard drive to start sending requested data as well as the speed with which it can send it.

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Salesforce.com debuts upgrade to CRM service

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled the latest version of its on-demand customer relationship management service.

Winter '07, the upgraded version of Salesforce's core on-demand CRM service, includes a developer preview release of its Apex code. The code is meant to ease the ability to write applications and components for use on Apex.

Apex, a Java-like programming language and server infrastructure, is designed to allow customers to build their own free-standing programs or extensions to Salesforce's services.

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SAP launches midmarket software for some markets

Germany's SAP announced the launch of some versions of its updated software for midsize companies, which it is targeting to boost growth, in some of its largest markets.

SAP, which said last week it had missed its 2006 targets for sales of new software licenses, said on Tuesday it would introduce the next version of its All-in-One software worldwide throughout 2007.

Lack of clarity about a timetable for the launch of new midmarket software was a factor cited by investors as disappointing when SAP announced preliminary results last week.

Some versions of the new software will be immediately available in important markets including the United States, Germany and Japan, an SAP spokeswoman said.

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