1st December 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• 3G kicks off in Norway Telenor opens for business
• Cabir added to payload of Symbian mobile Trojan More skullduggery
• Cingular signs for 3G Ericsson and Lucent among the winners
• DoCoMo looks abroad for handsets Hello Moto, terve Nokia
• Liquid lenses for camera phones Clever stuff from France

Comms: Networks

• Kingston Comms buys Omnetica for £169m Uh huh
• PCCW cautious in UK broadband wireless rollout Will launch a fixed wireless service in a 'major city' next year

Hardware: Data Networking

• RIM ships Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 Device management tweaks and more

Hardware: Servers

• AMD took bigger slice of x86 server market in Q3 High-value chip focus pays off?
• Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? Exclusive Secure64 to the rescue

Lifecycle: Manage

• MOM grows up as DSI takes off Microsoft strides towards manageability

Management

• US netizens: white, wealthy and full of it - shock! Thanks, but no thanks

Management: Financial News

• Apple iTunes adds Band Aid 20 - for 79p Update Half the price rival services are charging
• SkillSoft to cut 120 Dublin jobs Also 13 jobs in Nashua, New Hampshire

Management: IT Director

• BCS says skills beat outsourcing Every cloud...

Market News

• Police cuff 28 in £10m counterfeit haul Operation Vendura sweeps Scotland

Music and Media

• 'Dial 9' email (still) a hoax, says watchdog Just bin it
• Philly sells Pennsylvania to Verizon Big city's WLAN okay. Little towns not so lucky
• Visa 'fast track' row threatens to engulf Blunkett The personal collides with the public

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Commuting is stressful: official Really? Good Lord!
• ISP finds pubic hair in keyboard A novel way to sell 8Mb broadband
• World's Biggest Luddite set for London job Strewth!

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo lauds 500,000 first-week DS sales Shifts 90% of inital handheld console allocation

Personal: Mac Channel

• Merrill Lynch looks to 'killer' Apple home media server The Mac maker a likely winner in the digital living room

Personal: Peripherals

• Creative unveils 'smallest' MuVo MP3 player Gigabyte capacity
• Goodmans readies portable video player Low-cost CE firm challenges iRiver, Creative
• Sony extends native MP3 support to Vaio Pocket Firmware update to fix bugs too

Personal: System Builder

• ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition Review Just as ATI's X800 XT PE ships, along comes the next board
• Intel next-gen Centrino chipset ships Small volumes arrive ahead of January launch

Reseller

• MS sues resellers for counterfeit certificates Eight US firms named...

Science

• Microsoft opens India research labs Bangalore bound

Security: Enterprise Security

• 0wn3d in 200 seconds Honeypots don't stay clean for long
• Thales secures broadband access for government Plug and play

Security: ID

• Home Office defends ID card plans (again) Anti-democratic? Nah
• Populace asked: Do you like ID cards? Say yes, or the puppy gets it

Security: Spam

• Hackers nobble Lycos anti-spam plan Vigilantes bash vigilantes

Software: Applications

• Sybase partners with IBM Strange bedfellows