5th October 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• ARM to add media booster to next-gen chips Neon SIMD extensions coming mid-2005
• Intel, Symbian to define 3G smart phone 'standard' From Wintel to Symtel, horizontal integration coming to handsets

Hardware: Servers

• Cray comes to market with XD1 Mid-range slugger conquers cluster
• IBM in attack mode with 'budget' Power kit Express swipe at world+dog
• Sun hypes new UltraSPARC and Siebel love All in a day's work

Lifecycle: Manage

• 'Black box' software probes app crashes Faster diagnosis, quicker fix

Management

• Judge defangs Patriot Act No ISP snooping for chastised Feds

Management: Financial News

• AT&T Wireless launches mobile music store Buy on your phone, listen on your PC
• Game upbeat amid downbeat interims Lack of new titles
• InterActive Corp walks away from ebookers Shares down
• Yahoo! can! get! stuffed! Opinion Man on the edge of IM insanity

Management: IT Director

• Empress of eBay dethrones Queen Carly Meg Whitman most powerful US businesswoman
• Kodak blames digital cameras for jobs cull 900 axed in UK and France
• UK call centre jobs on the up Sector 'very much alive'

Management: Public Sector

• Feds hold E-Rate funds hostage Schools in limbo

Market News

• AMD issues revenue warning Newsflash!
• One in three IT workers is Bill's European study reveals extent of Microsoft ecosystem

Music and Media

• Big guns board Intertrust DRM bandwagon Coral Consortium tools up
• BT blocks 1,000 rogue dialler numbers Block first, ask questions later
• eBay 'second chance' fraud reaches UK Buyer beware

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Romanian villagers flee disco-dancing aliens Mars attacks!

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Reg writer receives right royal rogering FoTW 'What unadulterated bollocks'
• Valiant Reg readers save internet Letters Reports of demise premature

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Put on your Red Hat and dance Site Offer Save 30% on comprehensive Fedora guides

Personal: Reviews

• Biometric IBM ThinkPad T42 Review Fingerprint-scanning prototype

Personal: System Builder

• VIA announces 64-bit x86 processor 'Isaiah' to battle Athlon 64, EM64T-based P4 etc.

Reseller

• Microsoft seeks 'competent' resellers Euro channel programme rollout rolls on
• Sita flogs WEEE ops to Oz recycling giant Sims gains European foothold

Security: Spam

• Click here to become infected (Part 2) Double whammy spammy

Software: Applications

• Peoplesoft, Siebel predict rosy Q3 Corporate licences make for happy software vendors