29th September 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• 3G chiefs choose AAC for mobile music delivery High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
• PalmSource unveils Cobalt OS Phone-friendly for fast Wi-Fi data

Comms: Networks

• Tories mock PM for broadband pledge Don't ya just love politics

Hardware: Servers

• BlueGene sneaks past Earth Simulator Supercomputer chart officially out of date
• Sun does Opteron can-can for French bank Oh la la

Hardware: Storage

• Toshiba to punch out 0.85in HDDs by year-end iPod Micro, anyone?

Lifecycle: Manage

• Yahoo! now! sucks! - official Feeds at speed

Management: Financial News

• Cendant offers $1bn for Orbitz Travel mergers takeoff...
• EC wrong on Worldcom / Sprint deal Court spanks Monti
• RIP the online exchange Opinion Long live the trading grid

Management: IT Director

• BCS offers members proof of professionalism Training tool
• Brit IT pros pessimistic on spending But optimists are more optimistic...
• IT professionals urged to swot up on new Sexual Offences rules Conditional defence

Management: Small Biz

• BT doubles DSL speeds for business Residential upgrade looms

Music and Media

• Biometric gear to be deployed in hospitals and GPs' surgeries Early sighting of ID scheme budget-laundering
• Blair's Britain vies with US in ID snoop wars The CAPPS fits, Blunkett's wearing it
• Chinese IT student jailed for running XXX site Porn crackdown continues
• UK gov pilots passenger tracking in fight against terror Project Semaphore
• US phishing losses hit $500m The ones that didn't get away

Odds and Sods: About Us

• Job Opportunity: Account Manager Work for El Reg...
• Job Opportunity: Sales Executive Join the team...

Personal: System Builder

• ABIT intros video card overclock tool Plus ATI X300, X600-based boards
• Intel ships 3.33GHz Mobile P4 Halfway to 6.66GHz...
• S3 ramps GammaChrome 3D production In retail cards in Q4, company claims
• Seagate seeks system builder support for 100GB notebook drive Ideal for barebone laptops, apparently

Science

• SpaceShipOne bids for X-Prize Updated First competition flight a success despite 'anomalies'

Security

• UK policeman arrested over phone tap claims Watching the Detectives

Security: Anti-Virus

• Ha, ha you're infected New Bagle worm poses as 'joke' message

Software

• CA to shed 800 workers $70m a year savings

Software: Operating Systems

• Linux, the pirate's friend, says Gartner Or has it changed its mind about that?