26th January 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Vodafone hits 150m customers Punters up, ARPU down

Comms: Networks

• Telewest spanked for broadband ad Misleading claims continue unabated

Hardware: Storage

• EMC aims 'switcher' campaign at Veritas users Dantz in its pants
• Europe wants cheaper storage and lots of it SATA to score at last, with space-hungry apps on the way

Lifecycle: Manage

• Are Microsoft's licences unfair to open-sourcerers? Free software advocates think so

Management

• Gloves off in Ebbers WorldCom fraud trial Defence and prosecution exchange blows

Management: Financial News

• ARM income, revenues rise Q4 figures posted
• CA re-organises management BUMs on seats
• EA sales, profits slide US buyers favoured other publishers' games
• Energis all smiles amid whispers of sliding revenues Everything's fine, honest
• Fans rage as U2 ticket sales site falls over Sorry, says Ticketmaster
• Nintendo's Q3 income falls 43% Not selling enough GameCubes and DS games
• Oracle finds an extra penny to boost 2005 Investors waffle
• SAP Q4 profits up 29% Europe flat, US strong
• TI Q4 earnings slide as sales fall Freezes 2005 capex
• Yahoo! bets on Betfair Gambling for UK and Ireland

Management: IT Director

• UK tech jobs jump in Q4 Especially in Wales

Management: Small Biz

• BT customer signed up for five years - without his consent BT apology
• Inland Revenue predicts bumper year for online filing Demand is peaking
• Watch out for bogus health and safety invoices Another day, another scam

Market News

• Hynix execs arrested on bribery charges - report Prosecutors allege dodgy share deals
• Rambus sues four for GDDR 'infringement' Fresh lawsuits for Hynix, Infineon, Nanya and Inotera
• VIA 2GHz C7 CPU to debut Q4 Slower Esthers to meet earlier H1 2005 deadline?

Music and Media

• China bans The Sims And 49 other games that might corrupt the nation's youth
• Dell joins domain name hall of shame (again) Comment No, Mr Dell, website designer, you can't have www.dellwebsites.com
• P2P radio wins big money Webcasting in a box

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Microsoft flying car spotted over Fishguard We're going nowhere - but we're getting there fast

Personal: Consoles

• Sony PSP outships Nintendo DS One week's figures, in one territory

Personal: PCs

• Intel to bring 64-bit to P4, Celerons in Q2 Roadmap EM64T coming to value, mainstream desktops too
• Nvidia chisels away at ATI market share Catching up

Personal: Reviews

• Mattel Juice Box kids' portable media player Review How to keep the little mites' mitts off your iPod

Personal: System Builder

• Lite-on ships 'fastest' DVD rewriter Internal unit does dual-layer recording too

Science

• Postcard arrives from Europe's lunar probe Lots of craters, not many locals

Security: Anti-Virus

• Fathers 4 Justice slams ‘support’ virus Not our style, says campaign group
• Lawyers demand hard time for Blaster teen 37 months in federal jail

Security: Enterprise Security

• US to tighten nuclear cyber security Added computer security standards

Security: Spam

• Earthlink wins cash from spammers Oh Mama, it's the Alabama spammer
• FBI backs transatlantic anti-spam summit Links fight against viruses with war on spam

Software: Operating Systems

• MS updates: real Windows users only need apply Authentication program
• OpenSolaris makes Sun top donor of open source code We're #1! In the second quarter!