Tech Data has been selected as the first U.S. IT products distributor to offer Cisco MDS 9000 Family storage area networking (SAN) solutions to Cisco Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Partners, the distributor has announced.

Tech Data will offer the entire line of Cisco MDS 9000 fabric switches, multilayer fabric switches and directors.

Intel is cutting prices on its higher-end desktop processors by up to 50 percent.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant reduced the 3.4GHz top-line desktop Pentium D 950 from $637 to $316, based on 1,000-unit quantities, according to prices Intel published on the Web.

Intel also cut pricing on the

Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices division is moving toward more of an annual refresh schedule for its operating system releases.

According to a recent Microsoft executive's presentation, Microsoft is readying the next two releases, code-named "Crossbow" and "Photon," of its Windows Mobile operating system.

Crossbow, which Microsoft is endeavoring to deliver

MANHASSET, N.Y. — TDK and Rimage Corp. have introduced what they claim are the first thermal printable BD-R Blu-ray Disc media.

Using a DVD/CD compatible thermal printer from Rimage, users can print custom text and graphics directly on each disc's label-side surface. The discs, incorporating TDK's advanced Durabis 2 hard coating technology, are

An active, open source development community and new tools are fueling stealth “rootkit” programs.
 
The number of stealth techniques found in malicious software surged 600 percent in the past three years, according to data published last week by McAfee. And the pace of change is accelerating, driven by developer interest

AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Wednesday officially rolled out integrated Internet-based voice services.

The offering brings Yahoo Messenger with Voice to AT&T Yahoo high-speed Internet subscribers and Yahoo users in AT&T's 13-state local service area. Free voicemail and missed-call message retrieval are included. The Phone Out feature gives consumers in the U.S.

A dirt-cheap, do-it-yourself hacking kit sold by a Russian Web site is being used by more than 1,000 malicious Web sites, a security company said Monday.

Those sites have confiscated hundreds of thousands of computers using the "smartbomb" kit, which sniffs for seven unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Firefox, then attacks

Seeking to repeat its success with the Centrino platform for notebook PCs, Intel said today it will launch vPro, a collection of hardware and software services based on its new Conroe processor for business desktops.

Conroe is the desktop version of the three new 64-bit, dual-core chips that Intel hopes will reverse its

Microsoft declared Visual Studio 2005 Express "forever free" last week, extending the no-cost deal it initially said would end a year after the software's November 2005 release.

Visual Studio 2005 Express joins SQL Server Express in Microsoft's portfolio of entry-level freebies. Intended for hobbyists and students, the Express editions have limited functionally

Phone users will be a step closer on Wednesday to being able to make on-the-move calls over the Web in the latest effort by Internet-based telecoms firms to grab a share of the market from mobile operators.

U.S.-based Internet phone company Vonage and WiFi hotspot operator The Cloud have linked up to