After having accused OSX to be less secured than claimed, Symantec is warning all PC users (that's easier target...). They have performed a test with a PC being connected to game- or children-dedicated websites: in less than one hour of web surfing, the computer was infected Spywares and suspicious cookies.
When Symantec is reporting such results, knowing the business of this company, one can seriously question where do start the marketing and propaganda campaign, and where does end up the real IT security information...
Regularly, we are visiting IBM website
IBM to check if a new document related to the PPC970MP were disclosed.
So, either IBM made a mistake while indexing articles, unlikely; or they have removed mentions to the non existing 970MP processor.
However, the subject of this article is really the proof that this processor is indeed hot, meaning releasing substantial amount of heat. It describes the "Use of BGA underfill to strengthen the BGA connections between the processor module and the processor card and increases long term reliability performance affected by creep and cyclic fatigue."
The complete article is available here:
BGA Solution for G5.pdf
Some of us know already the BlackBerry terminal, able to connect to corporate email servers. The new model, BlackBerry 7290, is now shipped with BlackBerry software version4 which is adding support to OSX server. So companies will not have any excuses not to move their IT to OSX server ;)
After weeks of constant decrease, the price of the price of the RAM is now stabilized. I will probably not go further down since manufacturers are empting their stock and losing money (sold lower than production cost). So it is time to buy your RAM to upgrade your desktop or notebook computer.
