10th March 2004 Archive

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Channel

• IDC forecasts healthy PC sales Double digit growth until 2005
• Software download site pitches across Europe Kicking off in Benelux

Comms: Mobile

• Hutchison picks up 3 UK's tab Settles £1.5bn debt
• Industry unites for .mob? Mobiles to get their own TLD
• Ryanair Telecom delays mobile telco launch 'Cos fixed line biz too 'fantastic'
• T-Mobile calls the tune in Europe Pushing back the ringtone envelope

Comms: Networks

• David Bedford upstages 118 Runners relaunch Cunning stunt
• Tiscali UK unveils PAYG broadband By the hour, by Mb - you choose

Comms: Wireless

• Intel won't play by China's Wi-Fi rules Joins Broadcom in WAPI snub

Hardware: Servers

• Fujitsu zooms with tubby Xeon blade Muscle mass

Hardware: Storage

• Cisco beefs up IOS security Minor milepost in self-securing network drive
• Hitachi ships 400GB whopper DVRs drive capacity demand ever upwards
• Liverpool is 30 minutes from IT wipeout Addresses disaster non-recovery plan

Management

• ‘One in six’ Silicon Valley tech jobs ripe for offshoring So get into your flying car - and look for work
• BT near to settling London allowance dispute Friends again
• Eidos snaps up IO Interactive Europe in Brief Plus liquid lenses at CeBit
• Union opposes BT – HP job swap plan You have my helpdesk, I'll have yours

Management: Small Biz

• Benefits of online tax returns ‘negligible’ Costs outweigh cash incentives

Music and Media

• Computer voting snafus plague California Come back chad, all is forgiven
• RealNetworks sues baseball broadcaster It's not cricket...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Airbag grasses up killer driver Smart inflatable sings like canary
• Claire Swire II faces worldwide humiliation Don't hit the 'reply to all' button - ever
• Our t-shirt went to America and all we got was this lousy email NY Times replies to India apparel outrage slur

Odds and Sods: Letters

• No need to panic over IP rights directive Letter: Crying 'Wolf' damages our intellectual freedom

Odds and Sods: Site News

• PDA bargains at The Reg Mobile Store Reader offer Plus discounted phones, GPS and MP3 kit

Personal

• Artists vow to sue Apple for dodging French music fees Pay your dues
• CeBIT to premiere USB Swiss Army Knife Something horribly inevitable about this
• Kodak sues Sony over digital camera patents I am a camera, you are a patent infringer

Science

• Hubble nudges the dawn of universe As far back as we can see
• Radio star gazing gets European boost Plugging the Hubble-James Webb gap
• Robot grunts tumble in race for $1m prize Testing. Testing.

Security

• Big US ISPs set legal attack dogs on big, bad spammers Taking them out, 'one kingpin at a time'
• The perils of Googling A tool for good and evil

Security: Anti-Virus

• MS March patch batch low on peril Moderate, important and moderate (none critical)
• NetSky author signs off The Long Goodbye

Software

• Sun nails StarOffice win in India Outsourcing cheap software