Symantec offers compensation for bad software update

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News: EBay to again advertise on Google but at smaller scale
News: The big dig, Seattle style
News: Sony's 'ultimate' PC to cost $5,000
News: IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal
News: Symantec Labs working on SiteAdvisor alternative
News: Microsoft kills continuation of Longhorn client project
News: Attackers persuade users to infect themselves
Feature: Hands on with Korea's cutting-edge wireless broadband
ITWhirled: Fashion-forward Europeans to develop "smart clothes"


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Symantec offers compensation for bad software update
More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it's only good for a couple of weeks.


Seagate joins the terabyte disk club
Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by normal drives. It has also announced a ruggedized 2.5-inch drive holding 80G bytes. Hitachi was first to market with a 1T byte drive a month or so ago.


UK business wants green IT but doesn't know how
Nearly all British businesses think that companies should be doing more to reduce their carbon footprints but most of them haven't a clue how to go about it.


UK delays procurement for ID, passport projects
The U.K. is delaying the start of the procurement process for the IT systems that will eventually issue ID cards for an estimated 50 million U.K. citizens over the next decade.


Samsung begins producing 1.8-inch SSDs
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications.


EBay to again advertise on Google but at smaller scale
EBay Inc. will once again advertise on Google Inc.'s U.S. AdWords network, but its spending on it will be significantly lower.


The big dig, Seattle style
Xerox Corp. has its legendary PARC labs. Now Microsoft Corp has its famous parking lot.


Sony's 'ultimate' PC to cost $5,000
Expensive PCs were supposed be a thing of the past, but Sony has clearly not heard the news. The company has just announced what must be the most expensive non-gaming PC of the year, the £2,500 (US$5,000) RM1N.


IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal
IBM Corp. will work with the German chemical company BASF Group to produce a new generation of chips with feature sizes of 32 nanometers, the companies said Friday.


Symantec Labs working on SiteAdvisor alternative
Symantec Corp. researchers are working on a pair of projects to give Norton users a better idea of whether the Web sites they visit or the files they download are trustworthy.


Microsoft kills continuation of Longhorn client project
Microsoft Corp. has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client code-named "Longhorn."


Attackers persuade users to infect themselves
The Sans Institute has uncovered more evidence that internet attackers don't necessarily need any clever technical tricks to plant malicious software on users' systems -- an understanding of psychology will do just as well. Click Here!


FEATURE

Hands on with Korea's cutting-edge wireless broadband
It's been a year since a Mobile WiMax service was launched in Seoul and one of the world's most wired cities became one of the most wireless.


ITWHIRLED

Fashion-forward Europeans to develop "smart clothes"
A group of scientists working with EU funding are developing "intelligent textiles" that can monitor the health of those wearing them. The garments will measure vital signs such as temperature and sweat salinity in a quest to remotely diagnose the wearer's health.