28th June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Intel preps i925XE chipset with gigahertz FSB Pitched at Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
• Intel shaves a buck off certain Centrinos Generous or what?

Comms: Mobile

• Dutch downplay 3G health scare study Results require verification, says Health Council
• Hutchison 3G on road to break-even Just round corner, claims CEO
• Kids, cancer and mobile phones It was five years ago today... 28 June 1999
• Mobile phones rot your balls Hello Moto. Goodbye Mojo
• Singaporean sets SMS world speed record 26 words in 43 seconds
• T-Mobile unveils Wi-Fi PDA-phone Sports slide out keyboard too

Comms: Networks

• Kent pubs win rural broadband award Pub's the hub
• MPs slam premium-rate 'criminal scams' Tough talking at £1.50 a minute

Hardware: Servers

• Fujitsu and Microsoft cement Itanium future Making Windows mission critical
• Intel feels more 'complete' with release of 64-bit Xeon Opteron-capable, don't you know
• Sun's HPTC chief becomes loosely coupled Khan to hunt Beowulf elsewhere

Lifecycle: Manage

• Sun open sources Looking Glass and updates Java tools and platform
• UK IT departments waste £165m a year Back to basics, and back to India...

Management: Financial News

• Egg attracts interest from Capital One E-bank sale drags on
• iTunes users hijack iMixes to demand indie content Activists co-opt Apple's own technology
• Pixies top UK download chart Fully live on 1 September
• Virgin Mobile edges closer to IPO Not good to talk right now, though

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Email use survey results: report now in Reg Reader Studies Data collated, conclusions drawn

Music and Media

• Beastie Boys claim no virus on crippled CD We'll be the judge of that
• Red Hat, Novell back Real Linux player With no iTunes, what else?
• Sony may test hybrid DVD/CDs in UK DualDisc trial to follow broader US roll-out
• WSIS II warm-up degenerates into human rights punch-up Tantrums in Tunisia

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Hotel calls disgruntled punter a 'tw*t' Email customer service, Nottingham style

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple 'launches Longhorn' with better search, graphics While Redmond blogs, Cupertino codes

Science

• Astronomers uncover mystery at galactic core How did it get so hot?
• Brain Academy 2: Calling all students Fancy doing a comp sci degree?
• EC gets embedded in systems Chips with everything

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Killer cyberappliances: Satan implicated The Devil is in the wiring

Security: Enterprise Security

• CERT recommends anything but IE Safer surfing
• European betting sites brace for attack Euro 2004 extortion bonanza?
• Gates defends Microsoft patch efforts Sydney 'We are absolutely doing our best'
• Internet Explorer. Quick, call security! Opinion The Redmond Butterfly Effect

Software

• MS, open source, The Facts and the fit-ups We explain How It Works

Software: Operating Systems

• EC suspends Microsoft sanctions Pending appeal
• MS expands WinCE 5.0 'shared' source licence Commercial code derivatives can stay closed