22nd March 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Hynix, STMicro plot Chinese DRAM JV Tackling China's chip tax?
• Intel confirms Pentium model numbers Update 300, 500 and 700-series chips

Comms: Mobile

• Carphone Warehouse in free call offer Fixed-line punters to benefit
• Oi! Yob! Blunkett wants your mobile Mad, bad and dangerous to know (and that's just the home secretary)
• Sony, Ericsson plan move to block Nokia majority at Symbian Pre-emptive pre-emption announcement...

Hardware

• IBM ships ‘mandatory’ ThinkPad HDD patch Fixes Hitachi Travelstar 'reliability issues'
• Why infrastructure is not a dirty word Back in the IT lexicon

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco buys anti-DDoS firm Adds belt to braces

Hardware: Storage

• Build your own iSCSI SAN server DataCore pitches $1200 software app against EMC's Clariion

Management

• Axe falls on Ebookers jobs 'Significant' restructuring programme
• Baltimore fights attempted coup Major shareholder seeks to oust board
• TW, MS deny AOL buyout dialogue 'Entirely inaccurate', apparently

Music and Media

• AOL attacks spamvertisers Sites punted in junk emails blocked
• Blunkett ready to force through compulsory ID for UK National security, the 'last refuge of a scoundrel' de nos jours...
• EC – MS talks failed ‘over Longhorn fears’ Monti launches pre-emptive strike
• Internet virgin faces police probe Hasn't she been through enough?
• Mean Fiddler flogs music downloads Following the piper who calls the iTune
• Recordstore offers MP3 and WMA tracks Another day, another music download service
• UK web hosts spurn illegal content Just one per cent hosted here

Personal

• Eco-friendly mice and granite PCs CeBIT Top kit for tree-huggers
• Nintendo UK launches £10m voucher promo Buy stuff over Easter, get more stuff free

Personal: Reviews

• Poweroid 1204 silent PC Review Hear that pin drop?

Science

• Macclesfield centre of universe: official UK to host scale model of solar system
• MS co-founder funds hunt for ET Paul Allen gives SETI a cool $13.5m

Security

• Close encounters of the viral kind Virus infection and clean-up costs rise - again
• NEC demos Big Brother biometric phonebooth CeBIT 3D facial recognition algorithm 95.5 per cent accurate
• Scripting flaws threaten Norton software ActiveX components vulnerable
• Stopping the enemy at the gate Intrusion prevention systems
• The farce of federal cybersecurity Flawed technology management to blame
• UK.biz leaves door open to hackers Fourfold increase in Web security breaches