16th April 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Apple confirms UK AppleStore opening European flagship
• ATI targets Nvidia's 60% desktop chip share 'Impossible,' says Nvidia
• Computacenter duo clean up again Channel Roundup Dealogic float raises fortune
• Intel completes hi-def audio spec Grantsdale can go ahead now
• Nvidia discounts old graphics chips Spring sale to clear inventory

Comms: Mobile

• Danes tag kids with Bluetooth Tivoli Gardens: child friendly
• Gametrac morphs into, er, Gizmondo Legal pressures behind renaming
• HP Wi-Fi, GPRS iPaq specs hit web 6300 series details emerge
• Nokia issues sales warning Will miss next quarter's targets, too
• Time called on EC - Oracle investigation Lack of info
• US to embrace Wi-Fi - not 3G - for data Mobile networks outstripped by 2007

Comms: Wireless

• Navini comes in from the cold Renegade broadband outfit joins WiMax
• Proxim results disappoint No early relief from financial woes
• T-Mobile equips US uni with guest Wi-Fi access Virtual network bypasses host's secure private WLAN

Hardware: Storage

• Japanese boffins perfect paper Blu-ray disc Pulp fiction

Management: Financial News

• Investor dumps SCO But the money is ours, says SCO
• Servers carry IBM to solid Q1 A little currency love too
• Transmeta sales rise as Efficeon interest grows On track for 90nm adoption

Management: Public Sector

• Open Source group wins € 2.6m EC grant Public sector push

Music and Media

• Dr Hosni Tayeb and the case of the disappearing Internet Why Libya went awol
• Global P2P jihad stumbles Punters fight back, courts unimpressed

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Cosmic 419er lost in space Stuck on Soyuz. Send help. Quick
• Return of the Aussie überLuddite Richard Alston in frame for Telstra chair

Personal: PCs

• Global PC sales keep growing IDC counts boxes

Personal: Peripherals

• Creative ships 256MB MuVo TX Reg Kit Watch USB 2.0 for key chain MP3 player
• Logitech results due to 'fighting spirit' of staff No mice here, then...

Security: Anti-Virus

• PGP to integrate anti-virus defences Symantec bundling deal

Security: Enterprise Security

• The average PC: spyware hotel 28 items per machine, audit reveals

Security: ID

• Innocent Brits labelled as crooks Records snafu

Security: Spam

• Estonian plasma TVs: Phishers fingered 419ers cleared on all counts
• US proposes rigorous spam sentencing CAN-SPAM big stick

Software: Applications

• Sage interim profits jump Rest of world comes on stream