Network Associates to become McAfee

CBS Marketwatch reports that Network Associates has outlined an extensive restructuring programme that includes selling a division, renaming itself McAfee and narrowing its focus to only security products.

CEO George Samenuk said in a statement that the company was engaged in the most "aggressive and important transformation in its history."

The name change will take effect after the sale of its Sniffer network management operations later this year. Sniffer will be sold for $275 million to private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group.

Reuters reports that German chipmaker Infineon Technologies has announced a plan to spend $1 billion to increase the capacity at its US factory in Richmond, Virginia.

Infineon will install equipment at the factory to make advanced DRAM memory chips on 300mm (12 inches) wafers beginning in early 2005, it said in a statement.

"This initial expansion of capacity at Richmond will allow us to accelerate the shift of production from memory to logic products at our 200mm (eight inches) plant in Dresden," said Andreas von Zitzewitz, chief operating officer of Infineon Technologies.

BenQ has launched two new digital cameras in SA. Featuring graphical user interface technology, the three-megapixel DC C30 and the four-megapixel C40 give users professional quality pictures without the hassle of complicated menus and settings, BenQ says.

"The BenQ DC C30 and C40 are equipped with 3X optical zoom and a spacious 1.6" LCD screen with 80 000-pixel resolution," says Manoj Tripathi, BenQ SA country manager.

The BenQ DC C30 and C40 also support MPEG-4 format, enabling users to record continuous movies with sound and playback of 30 frames per second. Other features include 12-language support capabilities, built-in 14MB memory and single-setting shutter priority feature.

While spam control for the enterprise market has been available for some time, a new standalone product is now available in South Africa for the 1-5 user sites.

SpamWeed from Vaxxin in the Netherlands is being distributed in South Africa by Boxall`s CC, who are also the distributors of the Norman suite of security software.

"This is the first time that SpamWeed has been made available outside of Europe, where it is currently marketed in the UK, Benelux, and Spain," says Peter Boxall, a consultant at Boxall`s.

SpamWeed combines a number of filtering techniques, such as Bayesian, key words, black list/white list and spam identity, and is also "self learning". This combination makes SpamWeed extremely effective, achieving 99%-plus accuracy, says Boxall.