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TODAY ON iTnews.com.au:

Update: New MySpace Trojan discovered

Opinion: Why SaaS is the future of software delivery

Big surge expected in offshore outsourcing by banks, study says

Dada and Google try social advertising

Hack attack forces Texas A&M to change 96,000 passwords

Motorola says Icahn files to buy its shares

Alcatel-Lucent's CDMA service to aid public safety organisations

Majority of Russian net traffic is spam

HP touch-screen computer sparks debate

Lenovo recalls ThinkPad batteries

Sony confirms PSN release schedule and prices

Sophos laughs at Secure Computings' Trojan warnings

Symantec clears Vista on malware

Oracle deal for Hyperion shakes up business-intelligence market

Friday, 2nd March 2007

Headlines

	AMD shows off first ATI chipset
	Update: New MySpace Trojan discovered
	Opinion: Why SaaS is the future of software delivery
	Big surge expected in offshore outsourcing by banks, study says
	Dada and Google try social advertising
	Hack attack forces Texas A&M to change 96,000 passwords
	Motorola says Icahn files to buy its shares
	Alcatel-Lucent's CDMA service to aid public safety organisations
	Majority of Russian net traffic is spam
	HP touch-screen computer sparks debate
	Lenovo recalls ThinkPad batteries
	Sony confirms PSN release schedule and prices
	Sophos laughs at Secure Computings' Trojan warnings
	Symantec clears Vista on malware
	Oracle deal for Hyperion shakes up business-intelligence market

Tim Lohman,
Editor

This afternoon, AMD has unveiled its first chipset since its acquisition last year of graphics firm ATI.

Also making news, Lenovo is recalling Sanyo Electric extended-life, 9-cell battery packs that were sold with some of its notebooks.

Mail your comments on this afternoon’s news:

editor@itnews.com.au

Breaking News

Hardware

AMD shows off first ATI chipset
Chip giant promises Vista Premium experience without discrete graphics card.
By Tom Sanders

Security

Update: New MySpace Trojan discovered
A MySpace profile coercing users to click on a link to a ‘top model website’ is actually a malicious Trojan, according to security vendor F-Secure.
By Negar Salek

Applications

Opinion: Why SaaS is the future of software delivery
WebEx Australia director Kevin Mackin argues that SaaS offers a way to avoid IT costs blowouts.
By Staff writers

IT Services

Big surge expected in offshore outsourcing by banks, study says
Offshore tech spending by banks will increase from the present 6 percent of the banking industry's US$44 billion total annual IT budget to 30 percent by 2010, according to Deloitte.
By Staff writers

Internet

Dada and Google try social advertising
The global social network and blog service plans to begin sharing revenue from online ads with users who agree to run ads on their pages.
By Staff writers

Security

Hack attack forces Texas A&M to change 96,000 passwords
Students, faculty, and staff are required to change their passwords after a hacker tried to break into files containing encrypted passwords to university accounts.
By Staff writers

Finance

Motorola says Icahn files to buy its shares
Motorola has said that it received notice that Carl Icahn and three of his
entities have filed to buy more than US$2 billion, or 4.4 percent, of the company's common stock, potentially making the financier Motorola's second biggest institutional holder.
By Staff writers

Convergence

Alcatel-Lucent's CDMA service to aid public safety organisations
A CDMA2000 mobile networking service for the 700-MHz spectrum band may lead to better communications for public safety workers.
By Staff writers

Security

Majority of Russian net traffic is spam
Malicious programs also up 41 percent on the previous year.
By Matt Chapman

Hardware

HP touch-screen computer sparks debate
Is the TouchSmart IQ770 the beginning of a new generation of computers or a flash in the pan?.
By Staff writers

Hardware

Lenovo recalls ThinkPad batteries
The computer maker is recalling Sanyo Electric extended-life, 9-cell battery packs that were sold with some of its notebooks.
By Staff writers

Hardware

Sony confirms PSN release schedule and prices
UK pricing in line with Europe.
By Staff Writers

Security

Sophos laughs at Secure Computings' Trojan warnings
We laugh in the face of Trojans, and tweak the nose of the spindly killer
worms.
By Iain Thomson

Security

Symantec clears Vista on malware
Not a secure system, just more sturdy than previous Windows versions.
By Matt Chapman

Applications

Oracle deal for Hyperion shakes up business-intelligence market
By paying such a premium for Hyperion, Oracle shows it means business, and it's aiming straight for the knees of competitor SAP.
By Staff writers