7th September 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Colour laser printers = commodity Prices plunge

Comms: Mobile

• Mac users get Vodafone 3G data access Network offers Mac OS X drivers
• Nokia calls up RIM, again Pivotal role for email gateway
• Softbank snubbed in Japanese 3G allocation Mulls legal action

Comms: Networks

• Call centres are a nightmare Press '3' to read this story or hold for a hack
• PlusNet throws broadband 'lifeline' to ISPs Order through us, reduce wholesale cost
• Wanadoo to build Dutch broadband network Incumbent too costly

Hardware

• Oracle's biz suite lumbers on stage Shipping in 60 days

Hardware: Servers

• Beastly Itanium delayed until Q4 IDF Fall '04 Slower, fatter

Hardware: Storage

• HDS aims virtual Lightning at EMC, IBM Discovers virtualisation just as everyone else is trying to forget it
• IBM taps Emulex for cheap Fibre Channel Never mind the fabric, feel the price

Lifecycle: Manage

• Intel plans for digital planet IDF Fall '04 Think different, developers told
• Microsoft patents tabbing through a web page Just tab along to our IP licensing agreement...

Management: Financial News

• AMD, Infineon to spend $200m on nanotech know-how Yet another Dresden plant
• Hearing aids reach the internet 'YES - ON THE INTERNET...'
• ITNet makes loss, calls lawyers Cabinet Office blamed
• Microsoft sees sluggish PC growth ahead No repeat of fiscal 2004
• Seagate ups Q1 estimates Expects good quarter
• Symbian sale drives Psion into the black One-off gains fuel turnaround
• TiVo and Netflix 'team for movie downloads' Partnership brings Java full circle

Management: IT Director

• Swansea IT strikers go marching on Workers' rally tomorrow

Market News

• DrinkorDie suspect to be 'extradited to US' Aussie rules (not)

Music and Media

• Online pharmacist jailed He won't need diet pills where he's going...
• Wikipedia 'to make universities obsolete' Look out, Old Guard - it's the Khmer Rouge in nappies

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• Introducing the BOFH-brand internet café Episode 29 Or should that be 'Technology Centre'?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Fuji gives photographers the two-finger salute Say cheese, then eff off

Odds and Sods: Site News

• How to succeed with open source Site Offer Discounted guide for IT managers

Personal: Consoles

• Stores slash PSX prices - report Almost 50 per cent off

Personal: System Builder

• AMD heralds OS support for dual-core CPUs IDF Fall '04 As Intel prepares to detail its own multi-core chips

Reseller

• Computacenter pulled down by France and Germany Price erosion

Science

• Keyboards are old - tap tables to send email Sensor system allows input from virtually anything

Security: Anti-Virus

• McAfee AV ate my application False Trojan horse alert causes chaos

Security: Spam

• SurfControl rides spam tsunami Strong results, shares up