19th February 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• As stock sank, Fatcat SBC boss paid himself $19.5 million First person Cingular
• Dust settles on AT&T Wireless battle Vodafone outflanked by Cingular Wireless
• Intel chief touts mobile 3D chip, ignores next-gen XScale IDF Wireless MMX shunned
• UK Watchdog bites mobile spam scammers Two operations shut down under emergency procedures
• UWB group dumps IEEE to speed wireless USB, 1394 IDF And maybe Bluetooth too

Comms: Networks

• AOL calls for UK broadband competition Key challenge
• Cruel sea threatens Torpoint's ADSL plans Bandwidth-starved locals praying for fair weather
• NTL renews assault on broadband hogs 'Please, for the sake of all our customers...'

Comms: Wireless

• Intel to combine Wi-Fi, Bluetooth in Centrino 2 IDF Next-gen ProWireless module
• Wi-Fi in the real world – pt. 2 There's a hotspot where?

Hardware

• BT wins NHS broadband megadeal Big savings

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco gets into video conferencing Sound and vision

Hardware: Servers

• Function trumps form at Intel showcase IDF We muster an Itanic cluster or two

Hardware: Storage

• Rise of the virtual machine The inexorable march of progress

Management

• Amstrad's em@iler makes a profit They said it would
• Job fears raised as Demon offshores tech support to India Just a trial, insists ISP
• Technology sales to bloom in 2004 Looking good for IT and telecoms
• Telewest MD Burdick quits 'Leaving to pursue other opportunities'

Music and Media

• Judge OKs California e-voting Do or Diebold
• Mom sues RIAA members for racketeering Don't call me scarface
• Music fans beg to buy music Help us, help you

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Interviewing for Helpdesk Episode 5 Easy when you know how

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Aberdeen councillor proposes motion on toilet Another .gov howler
• Stob: Number patents Euro-endorsed Stob Bonjour la tristesse
• Welsh local govt website caught with trousers down A bit like their poor kids, in this case

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Last call for O'Really end-of-line stock Cash'n'Carrion Get 'em while you can
• Urgent assistance sought to build reader profile Survey Spare three minutes for a quick survey, guv?

Security

• AOL and Earthlink chase spammers through the courts Legal cudgels
• Sex, drugs and cans of spam Viagra and diet pills jamming inboxes everywhere

Security: Anti-Virus

• Netsky B is very pesky Mutating worm

Software

• EC IP enforcement ‘threatens more SCO-style attacks’ Has 'pulling a SCO' entered the English language?