10th May 2004 Archive

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Channel

• AMD to parade Socket 939 at Computex Chips at show shocker
• Intel launches Dothan with Pentium M price cuts The 90nm 7xx series ships

Comms: Mobile

• Dollar decline stunts Symbian growth Performance 'in line with expectations'
• EC opens ears on e-money directive Suggestions on a postcard, please...
• Orange UK sorts German roaming snag Trying times
• PalmOne preps Treo 600 code update Bug fixes coming this week
• Sony unveils tiny wireless pen PC Reg Kit Watch Look, ma, no keyboard

Comms: Networks

• BT in broadband free flight promo Get connected, then leave country
• BT will compensate customers for Manchester blaze Not to blame, though

Comms: Wireless

• Nokia quits WiMAX Forum Shock move by enthusiastic founder member
• T-Mobile wins Heathrow hotspot siting Wi-Fi to be installed in other UK airports too

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco offers WLAN switching Finally putting pressure on start-ups

Hardware: Servers

• Topspin hopes to hit winner with VFrame Server virtualization, anyone?

Hardware: Storage

• Sun and Veritas bury the hatchet Licensing love-in

Management: Financial News

• Ebookers sales up but jobs down Turns a profit in skinny quarter...
• Intel pumps VC cash into JBoss Java play
• Royal Bank of Canada dumps SCO Group shares BayStar moves in

Management: Public Sector

• E-voting promises US election tragicomedy Brace yourselves

Music and Media

• Hate websites continue to flourish More nastiness than ever, says SurfControl
• Japanese P2P founder arrested Copyright rap for Winny P2P software author
• Sony US music service an 'embarrassment' Damning report

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Oops! BT bills man £25,000 for cut cable Garden fence project totals 2km of fibre optic

Personal

• 321 lookalike punts DVD copy software Naughty, naughty

Personal: Reviews

• PalmOne Zire 31 Reg Review Colouring the consumer PDA market

Security: Anti-Virus

• German police arrest Sasser worm suspect Updated Alleged Phatbot perp also nabbed
• New version of Sasser undermines lone coder theory Worm turns up after arrest of prime suspect

Security: Spam

• FTC fines porn spammers $112k A small price to pay?

Software

• BBC develops 'alternative' codec With wavelets, 'Dirac' lessens lossiness

Software: Applications

• IBM bangs drum for client middleware New software architecture

Software: Operating Systems

• (Almost) everything may go, as Longhorn rushes to release Rearranging the wish list