22nd April 2004 Archive

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Channel

• AMD looks to India for new chip skills Bangalore bits
• Hitachi preps Pentium M desktop PC In Japan, that is

Comms: Mobile

• Former Symbian, Psion boss answers all your questions Exclusive £1 a pop
• Java to dominate consumer electronics? Yes, if it's lean and mean
• Mobile giants deny cartel slur Putting pressure on vendors? Us?

Comms: Networks

• EU ministers in broadband powwow Jolly well done

Comms: Wireless

• China agrees to drop WAPI wireless sec spec First fruit of trade talks
• Wayport wins McDonald's hotspot gig WLAN, burger and fries

Hardware

• Blue Shield teams up with RelayHealth Online patient care
• IT voices drowned in corporate governance rush Ignore techies at your peril

Hardware: Data Networking

• Boffins make data go zoom 6.25Gbps over 11,000km

Hardware: Servers

• EC threatens court action over Intel-only contracts Demands open tenders
• HP takes Opteron to the next level Xeon kit bested
• Supercomputer accelerates car design at GM IBM p655 horsepower

Hardware: Storage

• Boffins discover upper limit of HD write speed Magnetic pulse ceiling

Lifecycle: Manage

• Sun's Java Desktop gets tooled up Faces retail challenge

Management: Financial News

• Bigmouth McBride turned us off SCO, says investor BayStar boss speaks
• eBay profits soar Busy, busy
• Infineon shortlists two CEO candidates Reports sales, income gains, too
• Intel pours VC cash into Digital Home Look mum, no wires
• Lindows preps $57m IPO Hurdles to growth
• Online ads draw record complaints ASA has its hands full
• Search drives US online ad sales First growth since 2000
• Tower Records settles charges over hack attacks Must improve security
• Veritas posts solid Q1 results Investors back-up shares

Management: Public Sector

• Union moots strike over Swansea e-gov plan Early days yet

Management: Small Biz

• Anti-spam tsunami hits SMEs World + dog on the vend

Music and Media

• Danes love Internet - true Europe in Brief 80% penetration
• State senator drafts Google opt-out Bill No Oogling, please
• Three Brits arrested in global warez raids Dragnet
• Witchfinder General targets NSA in Warez sweep? Keystone Piracy Cops

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Morrissey detained in LAX terror swoop Heaven knows he's miserable now

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Creative bath ad shocker Letters Readers dead angry

Personal: Reviews

• Evesham integrated GPS PocketPC Reg Review Mitac Mio + CoPilot Live 4

Science

• The smart road that spies on you - but it doesn't really... Humble solar catseye triggers speedcam panic

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Killer cyberloo kidnaps kiddie Plymouth lad shaken by terror ordeal

Security: Enterprise Security

• 'New' Internet vuln long ignored Opinion It ain't broke unless we fix it

Security: ID

• Digital certificate regime wins UK gov plaudits tScheme better than we could have done
• UK public wants ID cards, and thinks we'll screw up the IT Non-contiguous brain compartments R US

Software

• Opera syncs its releases with 7.50 beta for Mac, Linux, Windows, etc Hold hands and jump...