23rd March 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Dixons bottom of ‘customer respect’ index Research flawed, says retailer
• IBM CPU sales rocket… ...but fails to dent Intel, AMD market shares
• Microsoft gets new UK boss It's all go at the top, allegedly...

Comms: Mobile

• Europeans indifferent to 3G Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
• Nvidia, ATI strengthen mobile phone graphics ties Symbian, Qualcomm partnerships

Comms: Wireless

• AMD faces legal action over ‘zealous’ Wi-Fi promotion Sites alleged to have been branded without permission
• Motorola and MBOA split on UWB Two specs risk chaos and slowdown

Hardware

• Novell loves Linux (true) Torvalds pops up at BrainShare
• Red Hat wins pre-load slot on IBM POWER servers Big deal

Hardware: Storage

• HP to ship Brocade low-end switches Broad sweep of product updates
• Optical storage: destined for oblivion? Reports of its demise may be premature

Management

• BT dominance ‘unacceptable’, say MPs Punters confused over tariffs and providers
• C&W has good day in court Two out of three class actions dismissed
• Demon founder bailed on blackmail charges Stanford in court
• German chancellor attacks ‘unpatriotic’ offshoring Unpatriotic maybe, but so much cheaper
• Microsoft faces ‘one per cent’ fine €497m misdemeanor
• MPs accuse Oftel of failure to help consumers Pressure on Ofcom to deliver

Management: Small Biz

• E-minister calls for business broadband targets for 2010 Doing well but could do better
• MS waves goodbye to bCentral Meet the replacement

Music and Media

• Anti-spammers press for own domain Nine names, 10 proposals
• Crikey – a freebie toolbar that works! Cram access to entire planet into slim desktop aid
• Judge delays Kazaa case to clear up ‘mess’ Seized material not properly sifted
• Napster picks former Capital FM song picker to pick songs But will Jeff Smith pick 'too much pop'?
• New Zealand to ‘legalise CD piracy’ – music biz Just for making personal copies, actually

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Hitting the savegame panic button Episode 10 Drastic measures in the dungeon of drudgery

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Develop Linux applications in a jiffy Site Offer Tasty Mozilla titles and lots more at 30 per cent off

Personal

• DVD Forum chooses Apple music format for DVD Audio AAC 'sounds better' than WMA, MP3 et al
• Kodak triumphs with 3D screen – possibly And exactly how it works is a mystery

Science

• Russian nuclear warship ‘ready to blow’ Peter the Great ordered back to port
• Supercool atoms and quantum computing Hot stuff at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference

Security

• IE flaw exposes weakness in Yahoo! filtering Defences down
• Lock down gambling sites, go to jail Rough justice for security professionals - DoJ style

Software

• LinuxUser Expo rewards open source excellence Loads of laureates at this year's London shindig