21st June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Dell launches i915, i925 systems XPS desktops for gamers, Dimensions for everyone else

Comms: Mobile

• Bluetooth folding keyboard enters the wild PDA cool - at a price
• Sendo X S60 smartphone rollout finally starts Hot in Europe this summer?

Comms: Networks

• China urges ISPs to sign 'self-disciplinary' pact Wants Net to be healthy
• Glasgow vandals cut 5,000 phone lines Cables get snipped

Hardware

• Hewitt takes HRO lead with Exult acquisition That's human resources outsourcing to you

Hardware: Data Networking

• Nortel and Cisco chat prompts merger mania Two plus two can equal five...
• Nortel stock rallies on talk of Cisco bid All mouth and no trousers
• North Americans confused about VoIP It's the cheap calls, stupid

Hardware: Servers

• AMD: no longer the also-ran Long-term strategy for serious contender
• IBM overtakes HP in top of the teraflops Supercomputer hit parade...
• Met Office bags shiny new supercomputer Cray twins out of the forecasting business
• Unisys pushes the ES7000 envelope Performance up, cost down

Lifecycle: Manage

• Linux alliance fights against Euro software patents It was five years ago today... 21 June 1999

Management: Financial News

• C&W moots more UK acquisitions Wants to be major telco player
• FriendsReunited buys Aussie site Onwards and upwards for nostalgia / infidelity service
• GorillaPark emerges as GP Ventures Tech incubator battles on

Management: IT Director

• Workers get into email trouble Adults treated like adults act like adults...

Management: Small Biz

• UK.biz complacent over virus threats Blended attack? Whatever

Music and Media

• EMI, Warner Music renew 'pre-nup talks' If Sony and BMG can wed, why not us?
• Syrian surfer jailed Downloaded material from banned website
• Universal to revive dead CD single format Tiny discs to restore single market in turn

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 'Spit with Totti' - the online challenge Euro 2004 footie fun
• Bahrain mobile number: yours for $13k Eye-catching numerals demand high price
• Dell UK slashes Dimension to just £53,000 A 'build-your-own' online bargain

Personal: Peripherals

• Sony adds HDD to USB Flash drive line-up Reg Kit Watch More capacious, but less compact

Science

• SpaceShipOne ready for go Next stop space for private craft

Software: Applications

• Oracle waves goodbye to NetSuite Preps its own small biz suite
• Symantec hits counterfeit biz for $3.2m Personal damages too