INFOCHAT NEWS

Fortinet Philippines announced its FortiOS 4.0 operating system, a major firmware upgrade which integrates hundreds of new features to significantly improve the value and functionality of its FortiGate® multi-threat security appliances. Four of the most notable features of Fortinet’s new OS include application control, data leakage protection (DLP), WAN optimization and SSL traffic inspection.
FortiOS 4.0: [...]

Sony Ericsson has revealed that it will be dumping Sony’s proprietary and much maligned Memory Stick Micro card format and use the more universally accepted microSD in all its handsets.
Sony Ericsson has used microSD card in its recently released handsets – the Satio, Aino and Yari phones. microSD is a format for removable flash memory [...]

Lenovo has unveiled the IdeaPad S12, the company’s first 12-inch netbook, based on Nvidia ION platform.
The new netbook comes with a 12.1-inch screen, a 100% full-size keyboard and the Intel Atom processor with Intel integrated graphics or the Intel Atom processor with Nvidia ION graphics. It also comes with 1080p HD video and OneKey rescue [...]

The battle between Intel and Psion Teklogix over the use of the name “netbook” has been settled, with the latter withdrawing its trademark claim over the term it secured back in the late 1990s.
Both Intel and Psion didn’t reveal the financial details of the out of court settlement and referred to it as “an amicable [...]

Acer has confirmed it will offer Google Android based netbooks and would likely go on sale in the third quarter of the year.
A version of the Aspire One netbook was demoed at Computex running a dual-boot system that could be switched between Android and Windows XP.

Drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD) Philippines has launched a new series of drives, differentiated by three colour categories to ease the buying process.
WD managing director Noel Timbol said the new series of WD Caviar and WD Scorpio drives, for desktop and laptop respectively, are now available in a new labeling system, using three colours—blue, green [...]

Intel announced three new Core 2 Duo processors, as well as an ultra-low voltage (ULV) chip and new GS40 Express Chipset. The three new Core 2 Duo chips are the T9900, P9700 and P8800, topping out at 3.06Ghz with 6MB of L2 cache and a 1,066MHz FSB.
In addition, Intel unveiled the Mobile Intel GS40 [...]

AMD announced the availability of the world’s first six-core server processor with Direct Connect Architecture for two-, four- and eight-socket servers. Six-Core AMD Opteron’ processors (code-named ‘Istanbul’) extend AMD’s commitment to offering server customers superior value at every price point with unmatched platform flexibility.
Across a single platform, AMD can address the need for more cores [...]

Kaspersky Lab says Twitter has been hit with a scam that tries to rope users into buying bogus security software. Twitter users who were tricked into clicking on a link in a tweet were taken to a site that attempted to download scareware, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The attack begins with a message, or tweet, with [...]