14th October 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Camera phones boost Sony Ericson profits Average selling prices up
• Mobile users twice as likely to get tumours - report Could be an analogue thing
• Nokia blames prices for profit fall Erstwhile handset supremo still suffering
• Vodafone reshuffles top jobs 3G rejig

Comms: Networks

• The Great ISP Buyout Feature Consolidation runs and runs

Comms: Wireless

• WiFi Alliance warns chip makers over 802.11n claims Don't jump the gun

Hardware: Servers

• Compaq's servers save HP from enterprise sales hell World to blame for woes

Hardware: Storage

• Europe's SAN avoidance strategy Storage Expo Do you want a SAN or a SANity check?
• IT under threat, says Veritas Storage Expo It's 10pm, do you know where your DR plan is?
• Removable disks back from the dead Storage Expo Iomega punts a hard disk autoloader

Lifecycle: Manage

• Intel opens ISV testing lab in Swindon Joints global network of Innovation Centres

Management

• Brit cuffed in US net sex investigation Faces extradition

Management: Financial News

• Apple profits leap as iPod sales rocket Over 2m players sold, masking Mac decline
• Sun kicks off fiscal '05 with a $174m loss Damn you, Kodak!

Management: IT Director

• Business Objects sets sights on Dublin 350 jobs in new ops centre

Management: Public Sector

• A digitally United Kingdom So how are we supposed to get there?

Music and Media

• Consumer, privacy groups demand seat at Kazaa trial To prevent public interest issues being overlooked
• Dixons offers Napster UK pre-pay cards Download top-ups coming to other retailers soon
• Google launches desktop search for Windows PCs Mail, Office, and chat indexed
• How to kill a website with one email Exploiting the European E-commerce Directive
• Identify file-sharers, judge tells UK ISPs Given 14 days to comply ... or appeal
• Indymedia seizures: a trawl for Genoa G8 trial cover-up? Updated Injunction sought to prevent export of journalists' data
• Servers seized by FBI returned - but who wanted what? MPs push Blunkett for answers
• Smut filter in Dick-pulling outrage Bites kids' panto

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BT sets heavy mob on El Reg Distraught staff receive counselling over unpaid bill
• MS PlaysForSure™ - GoneForNow™? Those the gods wish to destroy, they first make really dumb
• Segway LLC imagines futuristic four-wheeled vehicle More than a scooter, less than a car

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg online training offers 'try before you buy' Site offer Plus 10% off membership - while stocks last

Personal: Consoles

• Greece to face Euro court over video games ban Eurocrats stand up to Tetris, Manhunt et al
• Halo 2 leaked onto the net French version, apparently

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple eyes Birmingham for next UK store Update Brum chum
• Apple results best for nine years iPod primes the pump

Personal: PCs

• Intel decides speed matters less these days, kills 4GHz Pentium Giant change of heart

Personal: Reviews

• Evesham e-box Media Center 2005 PC Review All-in-one entertainment box

Science

• Brits scan skies for impact threats Is it a bird? A plane? A planet-levelling asteroid?
• BT goes green 'Globally significant'
• EC falls out with UK over nuclear waste Failure to comply with Euratom Treaty
• ISS crew blasts off Two-day orbit, then down to work
• UN to debate embryo cloning Stem cell controversy goes global

Security

• Feds approve human RFID implants Solution desperately seeking a problem
• MS UK security chief moves to Accenture Career development

Security: Anti-Virus

• 90s retro virus spreads over physical media Blast from the past

Security: Enterprise Security

• Undead IE bug rises from grave Regression reawakens 'moderate risk' flaw

Security: Spam

• ASA rules against Moviechoices.com over bulk mailing Beware of buying email marketing lists

Software: Applications

• NetSuite moves up the food chain Little fish getting bigger

Software: Operating Systems

• Paris may favour gradual switch from MS to open source 'Big bang' costs high, says study