18th February 2004 Archive

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Channel

• ‘Centrino 2’ to launch next Autumn IDF Time's arrow narrows for Sonoma
• 90nm Dothan to lead consumer Centrino drive IDF Volumes ramping up 'quickly' through 2004
• Cisco parades extra trade discounts Dealers who register deals get money off
• Intel to ship 64-bit Pentium ‘in time for Longhorn’ IDF Mobiles, too
• Quantum offers full line through European channel Channel Roundup

Comms: Mobile

• Handheld porn comes closer Is that a killer app in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
• Stafffs opens nursery for mobile computing firms Nice safe place to test ideas
• Sun wins big with China Mobile Java gig Platform for 90m subscribers
• Sybase beefs up Pocket PowerBuilder Quicker, simpler mobile wireless apps

Hardware

• Ellison appeals direct to PeopleSoft shareholders Oracle begging letter
• Home Office to centralise police intelligence Confused coppers struggle with DPA

Hardware: Data Networking

• Nanotech researchers see the light Through fibres smaller than lambda
• VoIP will be US broadband killer app Without FCC intervention, that is

Hardware: Servers

• HP to pump IDF full of Opteron boxes IDF No Yamhill love
• The point of Itanium keeps floating with new chips IDF High-end again

Hardware: Storage

• Seagate spins 10k rpm disks Smaller, faster
• Slinging disks, NetApp booms in Q3 Record profit

Management

• AMD's ‘colourful’ chairman to step down Sanders to become Chairman Emeritus
• Europe to revoke Rambus memory patent Memory maker awaits FTC fraudruling
• Film makers join revulsion at Pepsi RIAA doublespeak Big Brother knows best
• Judge throws out FTC case against Rambus Role reversal

Management: Small Biz

• DTI's £50m bet on Nanotech UK firms will not miss the boat

Music and Media

• EC wants biometrics on passports And residence permits, and visas
• Google touts stalking service While Yahoo! goes it alone
• Help! I married a Net porn star Man encounters wife on amateur smut site
• Irish e-voting furore hots up Tanaiste weighs in to debate
• P2P service makes beautiful music with EMI and others Wippit in harmony with UK majors
• The pop-up ad is dead (nearly) Europe in brief

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• £48m cash infusion for JET fusion Profusion, not confusion or delusion
• Captain Cyborg issues chilling TV warning Jeremy Clarkson paralysed with fear by roving robopundit
• ESA probes Beagle 2 failure Is there life on Mars?
• Ethernet compo winner announced We'll put you out of your misery
• Homer Simpson let loose on US nuclear weapons facility OK, hand me that drill.... Doh!
• Mice grow monkey sperm Yes, really
• Moon-sized diamond found in space Too much ice, even for J-Lo
• Oldest galaxy found behind big cluster Always in the last place you look
• Stob: McDosh hires Titbits Stob Softwron primes its legal seagull
• Universities cash in on IP Spin-off companies, patents, on the rise
• Using photon momentum to trap viruses Cool things happen with pure research grants

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Swastika still controversial, shocker Letters: An opinion or ten from El Reg's postbag

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Inova X-5 in blue, red and green Cash'n'Carrion New LED colours for mother of all torches

Personal

• Grantsdale DX9 support limited to pixel shader only IDF Geometry offloaded onto the CPU

Security

• Email fraud soars Swimming with the phishes
• Microsoft's Shared-Source defeats Trustworthy Computing Opinion Security through obscurity only works to a point
• MS demos Jetsons' kitchen on FoodTV An RFID paradise

Software

• BSA software audit ‘will not trigger legal action’ It's confidential. Really, truly, really