21st December 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Unions back Lucent pay deal Up the workers

Comms: Mobile

• Skype ties up with C&W While C&W helps keep beer flowing this Xmas

Comms: Wireless

• Auto makers to create car-to-car WLAN by 2006 Cure for [insert name of nation noted for poor motoring skills] drivers

Hardware: Storage

• Iomega unveils 400GB, Firewire 800 drive Firewire 400, USB 2.0 built in too

Lifecycle: Manage

• Munich asks ministers to drop EU patent vote More last minute changes

Management: Financial News

• ABN Amro slashes IT workforce One in four techies to lose jobs
• EA to buy 20% of Ubisoft - report Consolidation comes to games publishing biz

Management: Public Sector

• Germany bans 'Intel only' IT tenders Government procurers will have to be more CPU agnostic

Music and Media

• Child porn suspect suicide tally hits 32 Shame too much to bear
• Internet logs nail fetus snatcher Forced Caesarian adoption none too clever
• Labour's Zombie Army clinches ID card vote for Clarke The Commons at its spinelest...
• Poland halts software patent directive As if by magic...
• Rogue pharmacies still thriving Fake medicines and identity theft

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Cisco Networking specials for less Reg offer Save 30% on Cisco guides & more

Personal: Peripherals

• Sony denies plasma TV pull-out No early withdrawal

Personal: System Builder

• Nvidia to pitch NV48 at ATI's R520 Battle royale in Q2 2005, apparently

Security: Anti-Virus

• Botnet used to boost online gaming scores Exclusive Randex worm shenanigans
• Botnets, phishing and spyware 2004 in review The year in IT security
• Santy worm defaces thousands of sites PHP exploit

Security: Enterprise Security

• Cisco pays $65m for Protego Keeping tabs on security threats
• Security holes that run deep How a simple bug betrays Microsoft's disdain for basic best practice principles

Software: Operating Systems

• European court to rule on MS sanctions To lift or not to lift...