23rd November 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• ATI to spend $10m on Korean R&D plant Exploring PDA 'transmission technologies', apparently
• Motorola e1000 3G phone Review After the A1000, can Moto get it right this time?
• Thomson takes 33% stake in MS-backed DRM developer Vodafone selects Open Mobile Alliance's alternative
• Vodafone Ireland puts price tag on 3G First 3G phones in Ireland

Comms: Networks

• Broadband prices fall in Europe Fascinating
• T-Online spends, spends, spends to win customers Short term pain for long term gain

Hardware: Servers

• Enterprise software faces 50 per cent price hike Gartner says talk to vendors now...

Hardware: Storage

• UK.biz prefers pets to backup systems And who can blame them?

Lifecycle: Manage

• Linus and friends lead charge against software patents On, on, you noblest coders

Management

• Griffin, Froomkin join EFF board New broom time (we can but hope)

Management: Financial News

• 'iPod Flash chip partner' hikes Q4 sales forecast Big demand from leading MP3 player makers, says SigmaTel
• 15,000 shareholders hire 630 lawyers to sue Deutsche Telekom They do things differently in Germany
• Apple shares hit four-year high iPod sales accelerating PC-to-Mac switching, says analyst
• CA eyes IBM software exec for CEO post Swainson in waiting
• Chicago's bits and pieces to be sold on eBay Auctioning for art
• eCasino snaps up Virgin Mary cheese sarnie Praise be
• Firefox.de in adware rumpus Verboten
• Google sued by smut peddler Pornmeister complains of piracy
• Google sues website over click fraud We want our money back. And more ...
• Kazaa signs up with Skype File sharer offers VoIP
• Spanish eBayers in open revolt International agitators join mass protest
• Tech bubble banker banned for life I'm sorry Mr Dell, but Frank can't come to the phone right now

Management: IT Director

• CA finds Big Blue exec for CEO role Inherit the sin
• Compliance costs UK.biz dear How much are new regulations costing you?

Management: Public Sector

• BMA tells doctors: avoid NPfIT's flagship project Patient data still at risk

Music and Media

• Battered mail-order bride awarded $430k Ukrainian internet wife in the money
• BT preps pre-fab digital music store service Hop on the download bandwagon with ease
• Suicide pigs fly to support Blunkett's War on Terror NotaScare sighted near Canary Wharf

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Australian Idol fans directed to gay porn site Poptastic ad gaffe
• Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft's 'enemy within'? Alien browser spotted in PR shots

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Reg readers stick it to big tech Letters And just how long is a piece of string?
• We're not so inEFFectual Letters Just you try battling the pigopolists, mate

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Register restores ad service Site Notice Some rough figures
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Personal

• JFK assassination game branded 'despicable' 'Docu-game' gets it in the neck

Personal: System Builder

• AMD ships Mobile Sempron 3000+ Targets thin'n'light laptops

Science

• Biofuels key to UK farming future More handouts, please

Software

• Microsoft, Dell win $500m US Air Force contract One Air Force, One Network

Software: Applications

• PeopleSoft holds firm Rejects Larry's offer again...

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft sees bespoke Windows everywhere Analysis Premium hand-tuning service available