14th December 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• T-Mobile widens UK airport Wi-Fi cover Something to do when your flight's delayed

Comms: Networks

• Guildford runs out of broadband Join the queue
• Insight exits PlusNet, raises £15.8m PlusNet snuggles up to BT

Comms: Wireless

• Eurostar brings Wi-Fi to termini Today, London Waterloo; next year, Paris and Brussels
• Tunable surfaces prevent Wi-Fi leaks No more borrowing access points

Hardware: Servers

• IBM secures China server biz with Great Wall Lenovo loved and then attacked

Hardware: Storage

• Toshiba unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' Clever 'perpendicular recording system' boosts storage capacity

Lifecycle: Manage

• Software patents: the UK Patent Office pleads its case Sceptical audience

Management: Financial News

• BT denies fiddling prices on Advent Calendar sales promo URL 'manipulation' yields unpublished discounts
• ICANN goes domain crazy New .mobi and .jobs, a shift in the ownership of .net

Management: Public Sector

• UK forecasts 96% e-gov hit rate Electronic services aplenty

Market News

• Sony, Samsung agree to share toys Patent cross-licence deal cover all but cutting-edge techs

Music and Media

• 'Horoscopes' is AOL's most searched word People like hairstyles too
• Blunkett names kite as B52 base terror weapon Tooled-up drug-crazed anarchists...
• Finnish police raid BitTorrent site 'Millions of euros' of downloads
• MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers Targeting movie sharers, not enabling technology
• The new world's A to Z, courtesy of Google A is for Amazon, P is for Paris Hilton
• Tories come out in support of UK ID card scheme Nice stake, Michael - is it a good fit?

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Bestselling programming guides, going cheap Reg Offers Save 30 per cent and claim your free book
• UK customers get your skates on Cash'n'Carrion Last order date today

Personal: PCs

• Intel confirms dual-core desktop 'Smithfield' But is it two Prescotts in one package or a single-die part?

Personal: Reviews

• Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Review Can it appeal to novice and pro alike?

Reseller

• Mentec buys British Great Plains reseller Bulking up

Security

• Women are crap with PIN numbers - shock survey One PIN to rule them all

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS NAP aims to kill off Nimda-style outbreaks More recruits for network dewormer initiative
• Online extortion works Opinion Pay up, or your server gets it

Security: ID

• Gait advances in emerging biometrics I can tell by the way you walk

Software: Applications

• Oracle finally has its prize The curtain falls
• Oracle gets really, really virtual with VMware Partitioning together
• Symantec eyeing Veritas for $13bn - report Data protection on the grandest scale