Chris Mellor

A security engineering researcher at New Zealand's university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, and claims Vista is trying to achieve the impossible by protecting access to premium content. Users will find their PCs' compromised by the persistent and continuous content access checks carried out by Vista, according to the researcher.

The U.K. government has made changes on controversial plans for a single ID card database. Instead of one huge, new National Identity Register (NIR) database, it will now be spread across three existing systems. John Reid, the Home Secretary, said it was "a sensible decision" but denied the government is taking a U-turn from its original plan.

Siemens is squirming on the hook of the investigations into bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion.

IBM has built a prototype storage device with two partners that it claims is 500 times faster than Flash. It uses less than half the power of Flash memory and can be built in ultra-thin form factors most likely unavailable to Flash. In short, it's being dubbed a Flash-killer.

2Degrees Frost claims to have made the cheapest storage area network (SAN) in the world available for Mac OS X users.

The investigation into fraud at Siemens now involves as much as 200 million euros (CAD$295.5 million), ten times the liability previously admitted. Two more Siemens staff have been arrested, with six people now in custody.

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Texas Memory Systems has produced what it claims is the fastest storage in the world, working at more than 600 times the speed of your normal disk drive.