20th December 2004 Archive

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Comms: Networks

• BT connects 4m to broadband Wholesale division goes into overdrive
• Harry Enfield fronts Madasafish broadband ad Oi! Einstein! Nooooooooooo!

Hardware

• Grid Computing: mainstream, or not? Opinion Analyst firm takes issue with IBM claims

Lifecycle: Manage

• EU fish ministers to vote on software patents A nice change from debating cod stocks

Management: Financial News

• Dutch companies fined €7k for eBay typosquatting WIPO ruling
• Trading Standards, ASA confirm BT 'Advent Calendar' probe Ding dong merrily on high
• We were sold into porn slavery, cry African islands Sao Tome and Principe denounce own Internet domain

Music and Media

• Apple sues unnamed whistleblower Leak-plugging legal ploy
• Destroy your old emails for Xmas, UK gov tells civil servants Bracing new 3 month policy
• Dissolute youth plan mass pillow fight London Pillow Fight Club II terrorises capital
• Dutch eDonkey site owners released Criminal procedures still pending
• eBay India boss cuffed in porn vid scandal No bail for US national
• Government keeps the secrets on ID scheme legal advice 'Trust us, it's OK on human rights'
• Mugging the truth to spin Blunkett's comeback Analysis Would you buy an audit trail from this Government?
• Music biz threatens International Red Cross Demands freeze on cash from Kazaa-funded trust
• Punters warned over 'matrix' web scam Cheap trick turns sour
• Watchdog groans as email hoax returns to life £50 a minute phone scam does not exist
• Web inaccessibility 'creates net underclass' Access denied

Security: Anti-Virus

• Hotmail ditches McAfee for Trend Turning up the frequency
• Teenage British Trojan distributor escapes jail Randex worm used to launch DDoS attacks

Security: Enterprise Security

• Major flaw found in Google Desktop Already fixed
• NASA hacker jailed for six months You've uploaded warez onto the wrong server, buddy
• The chip and PIN insecurity card Updated Point of sale theft

Security: Spam

• UK's biggest spammer charged with more offences Accused of blackmail, fraud and criminal damage
• US ISP wins $1bn damages from spammers More chance of winning the Lottery than collecting

Software: Applications

• Sonic buys Roxio software biz But not Napster, which goes it alone