30th September 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Free info for London visitors Analysis Shape of things to come
• Hello Ogo : IM a-go-go Compact kit for the thumb-generation
• mmO2 ups sales forecasts UK doing better than expected
• Sony apes Apple with coloured music players NW-HD update gets iPod Mini colour scheme

Comms: Networks

• Bulldog airbrushes 'Best Broadband ISP' logo ISPA leans on Bulldog
• France crowned Europe's LLU Prince UK still unbundling pleb
• Kingston Comms buys Eclipse Internet Look what £12.5m will buy
• NTL tunes in to video-on-demand Roll-out begins next year
• Tiscali UK blames spamfest for sluggish email All sorted soon

Comms: Wireless

• LA warspammer guilty as charged Six months' can for CAN-SPAM man?
• Linksys sends corporate WLAN standard home Punts 802.11a kit at gamers, multi-room music streamers

Distribution

• PNY broadcasts to reseller nation High-end graphics cards looking for a home
• RFID promoter can't stand being tracked Don't look at me looking at you

Hardware: Servers

• HP kills slow-selling marketing miracle UDC - Years ahead of its time, purpose and cost

Hardware: Storage

• 8GB Flash for a grand Writing on the wall
• DVD Forum finalises HD DVD-RW disc spec Unveils high-def format's logo, too

Lifecycle: Manage

• Microsoft FAT patent rejected Back to the Drawing™ Board™
• New desktop Java - come and get it J2SE hits 1.5

Management

• Kimble plans 'Ultimate Rally' Fantasist's latest venture

Management: Financial News

• Apple to open 'borderless' Euro music store Questions company's 'one country, one store' restriction
• L-mail offers snail mail web interface Deliver the letter, the sooner the better
• World chip sales flat in August Inventory corrections put pressure on vendors

Management: IT Director

• Old-timers squeeze $300m out of IBM $1.1bn to go

Management: Public Sector

• Will the US election matter to the IT sector? Analysis Only slightly if at all

Music and Media

• Iceland's net traffic plummets, following P2P raids Brief 12 Bjorked
• Oz police arrest 200 in net child porn crackdown Police officers and doctors among those held
• People still thick despite internet e-learning? Never heard of it, mate
• US judge raises bar on net privacy People 2: Ashcroft 0

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• In Electric Larryland, the stones have secrets Oracle boss Ellison auditioned bathroom boulders
• Killer hamster ices owner Warning: no IT angle

Personal: Consoles

• Australia bans Manhunt Bloody video game spiked after 11 months on store shelves

Personal: Reviews

• Motorola E398 mobile phone Review The best-sounding music phone yet?

Personal: System Builder

• India next in line for cut-down XP The roll-out rolleth

Science

• Siemens picks Intel for 3D medical imaging Do you have Intel on your insides?
• UK firm plans space tug for satellite rescues Life extender
• US Navy cuts ELF radio transmissions Environmentalists welcome decision

Security: Anti-Virus

• Sophos in porn dialler row with UK developer Bowling for Coulomb

Software: Applications

• From soup to nuts with Microsoft’s collaboration chief Interview Anoop Gupta

Software: Operating Systems

• MS EC appeal kicks off 'The bell once rung cannot be unrung'