SANTA CLARA, Calif., Apr. 9, 2007 - Intel Corporation today advanced its enthusiast-level quad-core processor family with the introduction of the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor QX6800, the company's twelfth quad-core processor offering. Running at 2.93 GHz -- the fastest native clock speed yet reached with the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture for the quad-core desktop -- this addition to Intel's innovative processor family sets new standards for desktop PC performance. The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 is ideal for those gamers, digital design professionals and enthusiasts who crave the highest performing computers they can get their hands on. At the recent Game Developer's Conference* in San Francisco, several software developers demonstrated new games that have been "threaded" to take advantage of multiple processor cores and threads. This increased performance can help deliver smoother gameplay, more realistic game effects and more lifelike artificial intelligence. Some of the most exciting titles of the year such as Crytek's Crysis*, Gas Powered Games' Supreme Commander* and Flagship's Hellgate London* have undergone substantial joint engineering efforts with Intel to use more than two processing threads to their advantage. One of the first games ever developed for the PC is also entering the quad-core era. "The latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator* X, Service Pack One (SP1), due out later this month, is a great match for the extreme multi-core processing delivered by the new Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor," said Phil Taylor, Flight Sim Program Manager, Microsoft Game Studios. "Flight Sim X SP1 greatly increases multicore utilization and will scale as more threads are available leading to reduced load times as well as frame rate improvements and greater visual complexity during flight. The Flight Simulator team at Microsoft is pleased to work with Intel to provide our end users with a great gaming experience." In addition to delivering
Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, and Andrei Pyshkin from Technische Universit.at Darmstadt wrote an interesting article on WEP security where they published a new algorithm to break WEP very quickly. Here is the abstract: We demonstrate an active attack on the WEP protocol that is able to recover a104-bit WEP key using less than 40.000 frames with a success probability of 50%. In order tosucceed in 95% of all cases, 85.000 packets are needed. The IV of these packets can be randomlychosen. This is an improvement in the number of required frames by more than an order ofmagnitude over the best known key-recovery attacks for WEP. On a IEEE 802.11g network, thenumber of frames required can be obtained by re-injection in less than a minute. The requiredcomputational effort is approximately 220 RC4 key setups, which on current desktop and laptopCPUs is negligible. You can download the article from here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/120.pdf Personally, I hope that WEP dies ASAP and is replaced by WPA in most cases.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4, 2007 -- Under a new brand called Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology, Intel Corporation today announced it will extend its innovative and popular features designed for desktop business PCs called Intel® vPro™ processor technology into its forthcoming high-performance laptop offering. IT departments will be able to reliably manage both desktops and notebooks and deal with what plagues them most - security threats, cost of ownership, resource allocation, and asset management -- and do so wirelessly. "Intel Centrino Pro processor technology brings the best of our offering with Intel vPro processor technology and adds it right into our highly successful Intel Centrino brand for laptops," said Mooly Eden, vice president of Intel Mobile Products Group. "This is an ideal time for this product as we continue to see notebook penetration rates increasing in business." With Intel Centrino Pro processor technology, IT managers will be able to manage and protect their notebooks over Wi-Fi. In addition, administrators can manage both wired notebooks and desktop PCs regardless of their power state or the health of the PC***. The result is better protected PCs, increased IT department compliance, more accurate PC inventories, fewer desk-side visits and less interruption to business. Major Companies Already Deploying vPro Businesses have quickly recognized the significant potential time and cost savings from the manageability features of Intel vPro processor technology, and are rapidly deploying the technology. More than 200 business deployments are underway worldwide, ranging from the thousands to tens of thousands of PCs per customer including 3M*, BMW*, FujiFilm*, ING*, Johns Hopkins*, Pioneer* and Verizon*. Many of these customers will add Intel Centrino Pro processor technology to their deployments when it is available later this year. There is broad industry corporate software support for Intel Centrino Pro processor technology with softwar
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 3, 2007 - ProCurve Networking by HP today launched the ProCurve Alliance, a membership program designed to offer customers security, mobility and convergence solutions that have been tested and qualified for interoperability with ProCurve offerings. Four companies - Mitel, AirWave Wireless, DVTel and ShoreTel - are the initial members of the ProCurve Alliance, with Mitel and AirWave recognized as top-tier strategic members. Each alliance member completed a rigorous application process that includes technology certification to ensure solution interoperability, simplified deployment and optimized performance. ProCurve plans to add further member companies based on customer needs. "Customers want to work with vendors they trust and who can deliver complete solutions to solve their business needs," said Mark Thompson, global director of sales and marketing, ProCurve Networking by HP. "Through the ProCurve Alliance, we have created alliances that deliver tested interoperable solutions without exposing organizations to unnecessary risks." ProCurve Alliance members will work with ProCurve, the No. 2 networking vendor in both ports and revenue, and be able to benefit from its well-established and growing distribution channel. Resellers also benefit from the ProCurve Alliance as they can offer customers comprehensive solutions built on dependable ProCurve infrastructure that are certified as reliable, secure and scalable. "The ProCurve Alliance enables us to offer solutions with the breadth and depth needed to successfully penetrate new opportunities and capture competitive accounts," said Ashley Snelling, managing director, ADA Networks, a UK-based ProCurve reseller. ProCurve Alliance members Mitel Networks provides market-leading unified communications solutions and applications that help customers in more than 90 countries to increase employee productivity, raise customer loyalty, generate new revenue and reduce costs. "ProCurve and Mitel have a
ARMONK, NY - 02 Apr 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will extend its Internet Security Systems (ISS) intrusion prevention technology to remote segments of the network by adding a new, lower-cost product to the IBM Proventia® Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) family. Through the addition of Proventia Network IPS GX3002, IBM will offer comprehensive, ahead-of-the-threat protection for a new layer of the enterprise network. The GX3002 is designed to protect a single network segment at up to 10 megabits per second (Mbps) of throughput, and its desktop form factor features integrated zero-power bypass functionality to help ensure high network availability. "IBM ISS understands that scalability is a key ingredient for offering customers a comprehensive set of options for their enterprise security needs," said Rob Ayoub, Industry Manager, Network Security with Frost & Sullivan. "The addition of a lower-cost intrusion prevention appliance to the company's product line extends its powerful, preemptive protection capabilities to a broader set of companies, and enables larger companies to cost-effectively shield additional segments of the network from attack." Proventia Network IPS GX3002 brings IBM's IPS protection to remote segments of the network such as small branch offices and critical end points, including ATMs, points-of-sale and self-help kiosks, which are increasingly becoming popular targets for Internet attacks. Until now, companies needing to protect these points have only had limited-feature IPS offerings available to them. This product provides the same robust security features found in other Proventia Network IPS products, while still meeting the lower cost requirements for remote segments. "Long gone are the days when a firewall and antivirus solution were enough to protect a corporate network," said Greg Adams, Business Line Executive, Network Solutions for IBM Internet Security Systems. "In today's rapid-paced business environment, new ap