Charles Darwin’s work goes online for free 

　　达尔文全部著作将提供

　　网络版免费浏览

　　THE complete evolutionary works of Charles Darwin have gone online, including the stolen notebook he carried in his pocket around the Galapagos Islands.

　　Tens of thousands of pages of text and pictures and audio files have been made available, including some previously unpublished manuscripts and diaries of the scientist.

　　People can log on to the site at darwin-online.org.uk.

　　Microsoft fights back over iPod virus claims

　　微软称iPod中毒与微软无关

　　MICROSOFT has said Apple, not Windows, was to blame when a number of iPods were infected by a virus last month.

　　Jonathan Poon, who is responsible for ensuring Microsoft’s products are virus-free, said the fault lay with Apple’s working practices. “It’s not a matter of which platform the virus originated [on],” Jonathan Poon wrote in his blog. “The fact that it’s found on the portable player means that there’s an issue with how the quality checks, specifically the content check, was done.”

　　AOL to offer downloads for movie, TV shows

　　AOL可提供电影电视下载

　　MOVIES and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL’s new video portal under a deal announced Monday.

　　Classics such as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Chinatown” and newer releases like “Mission Impossible III” will be sold for $9.99 to $19.99 each, comparable to fees at online services CinemaNow, MovieLink and Guba as well as sites operated by MySpace-owner News Corp.

　　Consumers will own the movies and can transfer them to as many as three other computers or portable devices that support Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player technology.

　　Dell unveils first Opteron-based servers

　　AMD取代英特尔，

　　戴尔新款服务器现身

　　DELL this week announced its first servers running Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron processors.

　　Dell introduced the PowerEdge 6950, a four-socket server, and the PowerEdge SC1435, a two-socket model.

　　Dell says the SC1435 is designed to run in dense rack server environments.

　　The 6950, with a base price of $6500, is designed for demanding computing work such as database management, virtualization, and migration from RISC processor-based systems.