9th March 2004 Archive

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Channel

• C2000 gears up for Microsoft sales binge Channel round-up
• Dealers win High Court VAT action against Customs Next round, Europe
• Reseller are chipper about future Confidence rises

Comms: Mobile

• AT&T Wireless users balk at ‘compulsory downgrade’ Going a bungle
• MS, Linux, board battles – Psion boss lists the threats to Symbian Defence of deal paints picture of company up agin it
• Sony Ericsson – credible camera maker? New camera phones aim to bridge perception gap
• Sony Ericsson unveils megapixel flagship, EDGE kit High-end swivel
• Telefonica buys Bell South's Latin American mobile ops Numero uno

Comms: Networks

• BT climbs down in Tiscali ad spat When 'No comment' means 'It's a fair cop, guv'

Hardware

• Cognos buys Softa Oxford company takes the dollar
• SAP and MS line up for and against Oracle Letters to the DoJ

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco tops 2003 VPN sales league Market moves towards appliances
• Court backs telcos in US network wars Big four take on FCC

Hardware: Servers

• Fiorina touts HP advances Figures show retreat
• HP nips and tucks low-end servers Blade play
• Intel's Xeon Extender promises to enlarge your memory size Pump it up

Hardware: Storage

• 300GB drive: now it's Fujitsu's turn MAP and MAS lines to be replaced

Management

• France Telecom cleared to buy back Wanadoo Some T-Online stuff as well
• Fujitsu shifts helpdesk jobs to South Africa Skills shortage blamed for transfer
• Martha Lane Fox sells £4.6m in shares No more budget travel for her, then
• UK unions calls time on offshoring Here are some demands

Management: Small Biz

• Yorkshire Forward accused of BT favouritism 'It's just a draft'

Music and Media

• PayPal forced to apologise for dodgy small print Fined $150,000

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Protecting bodily waste in the public domain Episode 8 Counting the cost of excrement

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• NY Times in ‘My job went to India’ shirt outrage Born in the USA, apparently

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Experts give developers a Kick Start Site Offer 30% off books for technology professionals

Personal

• DVD Forum provokes HDD spec punch-up MS Windows Media 9 codec is catalyst for strife

Security

• I'd recognise that ear, anywhere Boffins crack ear identification
• Microsoft's high-risk security strategy Between a rock and a hard place
• We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers AOL begs to differ

Software

• MEPs wave through IP rights enforcement Hunting season opens in two years
• Microsoft v. Minnesota Another day, another court case
• MS listens to PC OEMs – two years later Nothing to do with investigations, honest...
• No US patent for the patently obvious US to fall in line with Europe?