27th July 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Elpida to mass-produce DDR 2 in August Prices to fall?

Comms: Mobile

• Apple licenses iTunes to Motorola Music Store to feed phones
• HP rolls out Wi-Fi PDA phone Updated h6315 here at last, along with five other models
• Yahoo! offers phone photo upload Storage for phone piccies

Comms: Wireless

• BT chops cost of UK Wi-Fi access But it's still more expensive here than the US
• Outbreak of RFID tagging at medical facilities New York and Mexico City affected

Hardware: Data Networking

• Verizon dangles cheap VoIP for US land grab Analysis Data freedom

Hardware: Servers

• HP boots ServerWorks with new Xeon kit 64-bit ProLiant charge
• Intel: common Xeon, Itanic chipset by 2007 One ring to rule them all...
• Sun targets HP-UX and Windows with software subs Who needs Intel Inside?
• US Navy buys IBM supercomputer The military machine

Hardware: Storage

• Computacenter signs 3PAR for utility play Storage gig
• EMC makes Documentum 'storage-aware' Push your content around with ILM policies

Management: Financial News

• 11 year-old-kids free to gamble online What are the odds on that?
• Alert over invoices from 'Domain Registry Services' Nominet UK issues warning
• eBay denies South Africa 419 hacking report 'Completely false'
• Intel's CEO gets blunt about poor execution Shape up . . . or else
• Orange buoys France Telecom results And don't forget Wanadoo...
• Punters trade privacy for personalisation Fair trade no robbery
• Red Hat hit with class action (No.2) These investments could go up as well as down - if they go down we'll sue
• S&P revises Nokia outlook From stable to negative...
• Screen Select signs up Wanadoo and Dixons Land grab for online DVD rental market continues...

Management: IT Director

• Ex-ISP boss in legal challenge over unpaid bonus 'I just want what's owed to me'

Management: Public Sector

• Emergency advice parody misses Gov UK funny bone Duck and cover!

Management: Small Biz

• One.Tel touts cheap biz mobile calls In brief Diddle-ee etc.
• Sloppy businesses fingered by phone recording service Don't fob us off, OK

Music and Media

• DRM begins to work its magic Analysis How the music biz can sell our old stuff as new, all over again
• US Navy preps 'Gestapo' server removal Bill Clinton on the offensive

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Rampant capitalism upsets delicate Reg reader Letters: Sort of. And something about dog chips...

Odds and Sods: Site News

• The J2EE Tutorial - complete guide Site Offer Give yourself a head start and save 30%

Security: Anti-Virus

• We're all MyDoomed On the Google-bashing Zombie virus

Security: Enterprise Security

• America - a nation of corporate email snoops Big Brother's Little Brother

Security: ID

• Senate backs visa waiver extension One year to comply

Security: Spam

• Spamming for Dummies A cautionary tale

Software

• Microsoft gives Japanese watchdog the brushoff See you in court

Software: Applications

• Forgotten language enables nonstop gadgets Smalltalk, in a very small machine
• Microsoft Office 2003 gets first service pack SP1 for Office 2003

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft meets EC judge Informal meeting to suspend penalties