24th March 2004 Archive

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Channel

• TSMC files ‘verification’ of SMIC spy claim Trade secret theft charges backed by 'eyewitnesses'

Comms: Mobile

• Who ate my text messages? Transatlantic traffic swallowed by SMS Bermuda Triangle?

Comms: Networks

• 60k AOL UK punters hit by billing cock-up Ooops
• BT simplifies tariffs See what competition can do?
• Five University of Northern Colorado students caught in RIAA John Doe suits Nothing personal, says RIAA in nice letter to Uni
• Ofcom to examine BT tariff change Competition concerns

Comms: Wireless

• Have fun with Wi-Fi in a rucksack But just don’t expect to pick up your emails
• Starbucks brings Wi-Fi to 154 UK stores If only it was as 'cheap' as the coffee...

Hardware

• Gnome emerges unscathed from hack attack Small-scale intrusion on Web server, no files dead
• HP puts Linux on the desktop Another win for Novell's SUSE
• IBM moots BPEL-Java fusion BPELJ offers 'complete business process applications'
• MS bigs up Windows XP SP2 Beta prelude to security Summer of love
• Red Hat powers ahead of Novell? It ain't necessarily so
• Red Hat revenues up 'A year marked by great execution'

Hardware: Servers

• Apple delays dualie Xserve G5 to April Single-CPU boxes ship at last
• IBM unleashes Jurassic predator on Japan How to celebrate 40 years of power servers in grand style

Management

• AOL mulls major restructuring Report suggests big changes in the pipeline

Management: IT Director

• CNET developer site offshores to India 'We're getting a better interface with producers of the content'

Music and Media

• DVD Forum denies ‘AAC for DVD Audio’ approval Choice is a 'done deal', say Working Group sources
• RIAA sues lots more students RIAA took my baby away

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BT engineer denies deflowering lesbian Telco launches investigation into Internet auction suspect

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Cretinous hacks in Cretaceous – Jurassic outrage Letters What's 80m years between friends?

Personal

• PC-hungry girls love science – true Europe in Brief But boys just wanna have fun
• Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust Java what?

Science

• Aussie boffins discover fifth form of carbon Strewth - it's magnetic!
• Boffins grow breasts on mice We're not even going to go there - this is cancer research

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Fire-breathing buses threaten London Updated Screaming commuters flee Godzilla-style carnage

Security

• Disgruntled ex-employee arrested for keystroke caper US insurance salesman 'bugged' bosses' PC
• Dutch Internet blackmailer gets 10 years Almost pulled off the perfect e-crime
• Eutelsat denies rogue diallers accusation Angry customers barking up wrong satellite

Software

• MS gets EU fine, orders for server info and WMP-free Windows And the Commission as the monkey on the back of its business model
• Opera browser to recognise speech So when will it start singing?
• Sun welcomes EC Microsoft ruling 'Enormously significant' decision...
• Windows ruling is biggest IP heist in EU history, claims MS Company plays IP crown jewels card, drops WTO hints