14th June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• AMD to ship mobile Athlons, Semprons in Q3 Low-power parts

Comms: Mobile

• France gets first virtual mobile operator Cheaper texts ahoy
• Italian gov text spams entire country Berlusconi orders mass SMS election call
• Jormaspeak - Nokia CEO explains targets, culls and price cuts Ollila sucks the bullet
• Nokia unveils phones, promises Wi-Fi And a keyboard
• Telecom future to look a lot like the past - study Lumbering dinos hold all the VoIP chips

Comms: Networks

• 40k hit by Telewest email snag 'Unforeseen issues' not spotted
• Consumers want big telcos to supply VoIP services Not so hot for start-ups

Hardware

• Lloyd's bets on Unisys £10m on desktops and servers

Hardware: Storage

• DVD Forum backs CD/DVD hybrid DualDisc format now official
• Forum approves Apple music format for DVD Audio Steering Committee says 'yes'
• Seagate unveils 'tiny to terabyte' hard drives From 5GB 1in units to 0.5TB enterprise jobs

Management: Financial News

• AOL to target Hispanic Net users in ad campaign ISP eyes growth market
• Apple readies European iTunes launch Excitement reaches fever pitch
• Kazaa in German trademark punch-up Mi Casa no es tu Kazaa
• NTL signs up Napster Punters to pay extra for music downloads
• OD2 unveils 1p-a-play digital music jukebox And downloads that get cheaper the more you buy

Management: Small Biz

• BT links to eBay Small business gets a boost
• Vodafone finds mobile workforce All gadgeted up and ready to go...

Music and Media

• Chinese cyber-dissident gets four years' house arrest Let off lightly

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 16k nostalgia - Britpop style A musical trip down memory lane
• Amazon search engine fingers G-Spot Interesting related reading for kiddies
• US woman eBays stroppy son's PS2 Teen drank Dad's beer, paid price
• Wiltshire feds in online gnome appeal Do you own this gnome?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• FoTW: Take your SMPs to Cuba! Flame of the Week: I'll read none of this tripe

Personal: Consoles

• Nokia N-Gage QD US debut slips Update Some 60 per cent fewer titles will ship, too

Science

• Briton invades France in amphibious car Previous cross-channel record smashed
• Computing needs a Grand Challenge Sir Tony Hoare lays down the gauntlet
• NASA to grow Brit strawberries on Mars Cream of UK horticulture
• Phoebe's past writ large in craters Saturn's moon shows its age
• Scientists go quantum dotty over night vision Tailored to the infrared
• Sheep like happy, smiley people: official More cutting-edge scientific research
• US orbiter detects non-English language signals Foreigners may not speak English, advises US tech guru

Security: Spam

• Churn baby churn: junk email inferno It was five years ago today... 14 June 1999

Software: Applications

• HP OpenView software can tax corporate bottlenecks Analyze this or that
• Microsoft's war on GPL dealt patent setback FAT not a banker