24th June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Intel Wi-Fi module trims Centrino prices Updated Launches new Pentium Ms too
• Shuttle shows Socket T SFF PCs Bare bones, bare bones, dem bare bones...
• Taiwan notebook makers 'unwilling' to sell Athlon 64 kit locally US, Europe more important
• Tyan to ship Socket T mobos next quarter Unveils i915, i925-based boards

Comms: Mobile

• Sony Ericsson Vodafone-only phone to go Live! in July F500i tied into MMS package
• Sony, PalmOne and the death of the PDA? The beginning of the end?

Comms: Networks

• BT's phone network hit by 'illicit access' Punters billed for premium-rate XXX action
• Calling a BT Bluephone could cost you dear Telco undecided on tariff charges

Comms: Wireless

• Cisco sued in Wi-Fi patent clash All your 802.11g, WiMAX are belong to us

Hardware

• IT outsourcing goes east Unlike the Village People

Management: Financial News

• AOL splashes $435m on Advertising.com Ad-tastic
• MSN hikes Hotmail storage My inbox is bigger than yours
• Napster pays BestBuy $10m to promote music service But cash registers will still ring up iPod sales

Management: IT Director

• Accenture wins £400m Barclays outsourcing gig In brief Inherits 900 staff

Music and Media

• Britain's Web presence to be saved Stop those Net pages dropping like flies
• Germany tops porn Web hosting superleague Excluding the US, that is

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH and the workplace hazards Episode 20 Bloody lucky we had a health and safety bloke

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• eBayer fires salvo at PS2-vending mum Distributing clue to parent
• Fancy appearing in Hitchhiker's Guide movie? Yes? Get your skates on then
• If Slot A is Athlon, is Slot B Bi-Athlon? It was five years ago today... 24 June 1999
• Programming pioneer Bob Bemer dies at 84 ASCII, ESC, /, COBOL, Y2K, RIP

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Java Database Connection and RMI Register Training A new course for get-ahead Java bods
• We have the knife for the man who has everything Cash'n'Carrion Polished silver Victorinox Classic

Personal: Consoles

• 'Leaked' Xbox 2 spec no hoax, claim developers And if it is, it's close enough to the truth

Personal: Reviews

• ABIT AS8 Socket T mobo with AGP Review New CPUs meet old(ish) graphics cards

Science

• ESA on mission to surf gravity's waves Pathfinder craft to test Einstein prediction
• Microsoft patents the body electric Humans, pets as power supplies

Security: Anti-Virus

• When spyware crosses the line Punting porn to children

Security: Enterprise Security

• Feds urge secrecy over network outages No 'virtual road map' for terrorists

Security: Spam

• Penis pill peddler stiffs AOL spam insider Employee sells 92m names

Software: Applications

• Oracle-Peoplesoft merger will boost competition - SAP Counter-intuitive testimony

Software: Operating Systems

• MS to request stay of EC ruling Delaying action pending appeal