Swedish telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson has set aside 2.3 billion kronor (US$211 million) to settle a breach levelled against the company by the US Department of Justice with regard to its activities in Iraq some years ago.



VMware has unveiled a new solution to help global retailers modernise their point of sale (POS) and unlock greater financial value from their POS systems, developed in collaboration with Stratodesk.

Move over CPU, make way GPU; there’s a third type of silicon coming to a server near you - the DPU or data processing unit. In fact, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says it will be one of the three major pillars of computing going forwards and VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram says it will become ubiquitous within the next decade of computing.

Samsung Electronics is producing PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, the PM9C1a, which the tech giant claims can provide elevated computing and gaming performance in PCs and laptops.

The ACMA has warned the public to be vigilant of fake emails and SMS claiming to be from myGov, an Australian government services portal, which may possibly be a scam.

IT monitoring specialist Paessler has appointed Jim Lee to the role of APAC business development manager, and promoted Tommy Lok to the role of APAC director of technical services.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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