17th February 2004 Archive

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Channel

• AMD brings Opterons to blades Low power
• AMD halves Opteron 848 prices Big cuts ahead of anticipated Intel x86-64 announcement
• BT's ‘new wave’ mitigates fixed-line decline Broadband and corporate buoy Q3 growth
• Intel unveils 64-bit capable Xeon IDF 2004 Emphasis on memory, not number crunching
• Lindows now Lindash No me--ing about
• Nvidia unwraps PCI Express graphics chips GeForce FX PCX

Comms: Mobile

• Microsoft co-founder to demo always-on mini PC Combines power of a notebook, portability of a PDA
• T-Mobile goes 3G in UK But don't mention the calls
• Vodafone loses AT&T Wireless battle Cingular outbids

Comms: Networks

• IT Pros demand govt broadband intervention What do we want? USO!

Hardware

• The USA: outsourcing heartland Opinion Selective protectionism?

Hardware: Servers

• Germans bag über-dooper super computer Europe's No.1 number-cruncher?
• IBM shows Itanic love with Power4 benchmark What's IDF?
• Intel's Barrett hints at 64-bit compatibility glitches IDF Xeon contains magic Intel-only instructions
• Who sank Itanic? Analysis Remembering the i432 and other billion dollar gambles

Management

• IT contractors enjoy rate rise Show this story to your boss...
• WM-Data: would-be Nordic powerhouse Aiming for a 10,000 employee, €1.1bn business

Music and Media

• 100 rural areas in Europe to get subsidised broadband It's a TWISTER
• BBC ponders P2P distribution BT and Auntie do lunch over Internet plan
• London's charge zone: blueprint for road pricing 'success'? The spin says one thing, the numbers something rather different
• Outcry as Chinese Net dissident arrested Claims of subversion 'abusive'
• US spammer fined £75k for porn sting 'Entirely inappropriate'

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Close Encounter yours for $1.3m Interdimensional eBay madness
• MS cites kidnap fears in bid to keep execs' wealth out of court Everywhere, kidnappers' ears prick up...
• Stob: Softwron number stolen Stob Lost weapon of maths destruction

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Urgently seeking 419 haiku Competition Compose poetry, win t-shirts, defend democracy

Personal

• ATI touts low-cost HDTV tuner card Well, cheaper than a digital TV, anyway...
• Intel moots Centrino-style home PC platform IDF Spring 2004 Grantsdale chipset details emerge
• Sony unveils two-tone Vaio K series notebooks Reg Kit Watch Slick systems designed for DVD watching

Security

• Windows source code exploit released That didn't take long...

Security: Anti-Virus

• Bagle-B clobbers weary Net users More mass mailing worm madness
• Firm hunts for Nimda-like worms in Web traffic ScanSafe

Software

• Microsoft to offer rival CDs Is it enough for Europe?