5th April 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Banc of America lowers Intel earnings Notebook inventory troubles in 2004, 2005
• February chip sales edge up Big year-on-year gains
• Intel to ship 1.8GHz Centrino as Pentium M 545 A feast of model numbers
• Intel trims mobile, server chip prices FYI
• Japan fires shot at Chinese chip tax Wants in on WTO talks

Comms: Networks

• IXEurope buys Swiss datacentre Err, that's it
• Ofcom urges gov to act on digital TV switchover C'mon now, don't be shy

Comms: Wireless

• A sunny future for European hotspots? Cash cow - or lamb to the slaughter
• Intel asks China to drop local WLAN spec 1 June deadline

Hardware

• Telcos muscle in on IT Big boys target new business opportunities

Hardware: Data Networking

• Manchester given all-clear after BT fire Telco mulls compensation
• Thus wins £3m GWR IP network gig Radio heads talk protocols
• US bill would free VoIP from regulation Boost for new services

Hardware: Storage

• EMC taps FalconStor for tape emulation Disk-to-disk virtualisation software

Management

• Sun job losses: Scotland spared Up to 330 jobs could be at risk...
• UK IT directors are unproductive workaholics I have work-life balance... they're both crap

Management: Financial News

• Aussie firms fight to take biggest loss for music downloads Cheapest tunes but at what cost
• Big Pharma puts squeeze on Canadian Net pharmacies 'Brink of collapse'
• Glastonbury blames BT for ticket sale fiasco Skinny back-end
• Google and Yahoo! ban gambling ads Free speech be damned

Music and Media

• Girl, 15, on child porn rap after posting sex pics online Self-abuse
• Internet rape fantasy ‘game’ goes horribly wrong Wrong address
• Welsh bang up 419er for 20 months No welcome in the valleys for you, boyo

Odds and Sods: About Us

• About the website What's this thing running?
• Site Map Find your way around...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• ‘Segway of the sea’ starts shipping Down Under Lazy divers rejoice
• Caped crusading sysadmin rumbles 419er Dublin cybercafe mayhem
• Microsoft's Gates dethroned as world's richest person by cheap furniture magnate IKEA bests the Beast

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Window's NT Infernal File System Cash'n'Carrion Here be dragons, courtesy of O'Really

Personal: Reviews

• Biostar iDEQ 200N small form-factor PC case Review The ideal living room system?

Science

• UK fields footballing RoboBeckhams Aim to compete in Premiership by 2050

Security

• Scambusters target 419 online ‘banks’ Fingers pointed, bandwidth busted

Security: Anti-Virus

• Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS Clean-up squad

Security: Enterprise Security

• Extortionists take out UK gambling site DoS attack on Sporting Options

Security: ID

• ID cards: a guide for technically-challenged PMs Special Report Save us all billions - don't do it, Tone...

Software

• Asia-Pacific govts sign Linux promo pact Want to reduce region's reliance on Windows
• Microsoft hopes Sun deal will dazzle EC Look, even Scott McNealy is being reasonable...
• Sun's Java prince refuses Redmond relocation Exclusive Greener pastures

Software: Applications

• Indian call centres ‘pose security risk’ A year's wages for customer details...
• Sybase results disappoint But buys XcelleNet...