24th May 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Abit VT7 Pentium 4 mobo Review No bells and whistles but a definite bargain
• AMD brings performance ratings to Geode line Stresses performance and power consumption
• Dell's Rollins turns on ink-dealing HP Evil trade in world's most expensive liquid
• Intel 'acquires' Russian Itanium killer's R&D staff And its technology, too
• Sony samples Cell 300mm wafer fab rolls out very early dies

Comms: Mobile

• DoCoMo pins 3G hopes on handsets New kit wins contracts
• No killer app, but mobile data will boom Thus spake IDC
• PalmOne overturns Xerox Graffiti patent Unistroke 'not unique'
• Smile, you're online It was five years ago today... 24 May 1999

Comms: Networks

• NTL to branch out into ADSL - report 'Rumour and speculation' says cableco

Hardware: Data Networking

• Happy Birthday to Cisco Twenty years young
• Lucent buys VoIP firm More good news for Internet phones...
• VoIP to transform telecoms market $32bn cash cow by 2009
• Wireless kit sales on the up-and-up Competition should keep lid on prices

Hardware: Servers

• Intel's next-gen Xeon chipsets to support 1066MHz Exclusive Montvale, Blackford and Greencreek appear

Hardware: Storage

• Iomega ships 160GB back-up hard drive Hot plug'n'play and auto back-up

Management

• Text scammers fined £450,000 'Justice has been done' says UK e-minister

Management: Financial News

• ICANN grows up at last New attitude and a budget to match
• NetBenefit buys Easily for £2.5m Easily done

Management: IT Director

• PCG slams Abbey's India jobs move What about unemployed UK contractors?
• Public-sector IT closes salary gap Catching commercial sector

Management: Public Sector

• Abu Ghraib: US security fiasco Opinion Human rights trampled in rush for worthless intelligence

Music and Media

• Blunkett appoints development partner for ID card project PA Consulting gets the gig
• eBay scammer gets stung Powerbook fiddle ends in humiliation
• Munich faces RFID-controlled congestion charge Green traffic plan

Personal: PCs

• Sun to share 3-D stash with developers Looking Glass late for date

Science

• Final report on Beagle 2 UK space agency and public cash required
• IBM UK in running for £50k innovation purse MacRoberts Award shortlist down to four
• Scrap space robots, government urged Manned flights the answer, say UK boffins

Security: Enterprise Security

• Apple patches critical Mac OS X hole 'Theoretical vulnerability'
• TippingPoint launches European offensive Intrusion prevention vendor comes to London

Security: Spam

• Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email Spam leads to fake website and waiting Trojan

Software

• Allchin named, as proof of MS email destruction policy is sought In addition to the undeliberate policy...

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft loses Lindows appeal Microsoft's claim to 'windows' questioned