21st October 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• iRiver ships Linux portable media players PMP series arrive ahead of firm's Microsoft Media Center-based offerings
• Operators announce mobile classification board ICSTIS subsidiary to classify adult content

Comms: Networks

• Fibre-provider lights up UK network Geo punts access to British business

Lifecycle: Manage

• Campaign warns of software patent menace FFII-UK launches 'Project Innovation'
• Eclipse approves BIRT But will it only be good for Actuate?

Management: Financial News

• eBay beats expectations Big Q3, bumper Xmas to follow
• Lucent posts full-year profits Net income more than tripled
• Maxtor loss balloons on job cuts, falling ASPs Tough Q3 for HDD maker
• Microsoft cruises in Q1 Ups forecast on rosy server revenues
• Sage acquires profits Aquisitions bring in cash
• Sauce settlement sours Google results It's a one-off
• Transmeta loss widens as revenues miss target But big licensing deal in the wings

Management: IT Director

• Avis £30m ERP system crashes and burns Terminate with extreme prejudice

Music and Media

• Indymedia: the tale of the servers 'nobody' seized Home Office now also in denial
• Man flogs wedding invite on eBay Updated Evidently not keen to attend nuptials
• Music sales rise despite RIAA's best efforts We need to suffer!

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Apple issues critical alert for iMac G5 owners Don't move your machine until you've read this
• No Japanese pinball for Adolf Hitler Authorities block Fuhrer-themed pachinko machine
• Swearing makes you impotent: official We kid you effing not
• US cops taser battling granny Sparky OAP floored

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Introducing the Nitepalm Palm4 LED torch Cash'n'Carrion Plenty of lumens for your bucks

Personal: Consoles

• Grand Theft Auto sequel leaked onto web San Andreas slips out

Personal: Reviews

• Samsung X10 Plus slimline notebook Review Samsung tackles Sony, Toshiba on style

Personal: System Builder

• Intel follows Centrino price cuts with 2.1GHz Pentium M Say hello to the 765
• Intel puts back 90nm P4EE to Q1 '05 - report First desktop 7xx part to accompany 6xx series chips
• Intel said to have set 'Sonoma' launch at 17 Jan '05 Despite delay whispers

Science

• Cetacean community thwarted in Dubya sonar suit Court rules against Flipper et al
• Scientists slice graphite into atom-thick sheets Turn it sideways and it vanishes
• Student-designed satellite set for space Internet collaboration thumbs lift on commercial launch

Security

• A bumper crop of browser glitches Patches required for Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and IE

Security: Anti-Virus

• Viruses leap through window of opportunity AV scanners left standing

Security: Enterprise Security

• Google finally fixes Desktop security vuln Staff: 'Gone phishing'

Security: ID

• Brazil cybercrime bust nets 50 Online accounts pillaged, cuffs duly deployed

Software

• Ballmeromics: the hardware way to end software piracy As always, he's totally Ballmer...