28th January 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Freescale licenses PowerVR MBX graphics core Ex-Moto chip biz opts for Dreamcast video chip successor
• Mobile phones shipments up 38% in Q4 Record breaker
• Mobile virus epidemics: don't panic Low risk
• Philips predicts mobile TV dominance Phones to overtake televisions 'within a decade'
• TI delivers on single-chip promise Nokia signs up for 'revolutionary silicon'
• US telcos scramble for spectrum Roll up, roll up

Comms: Networks

• BT faces 'bogeyman' if it fails to open market Change, or else...

Hardware

• Gartner, Meta deal in need of analysis - report Customers told to duck and cover

Management

• Ebbers knew of financial fiddling Then said 'sorry', witness claims
• Outsourcing: Reg readers unconcerned Reg Reader Studies Low pressure reading on the jobs barometer

Management: Financial News

• Gateway Q4 loss shrinks Falling restructure costs
• Real sees revenues up, losses narrow More sideswipes at Redmond
• Siemens delays decision on handset biz fate Plegdes to provide 'road map' for loss-making... sometime
• TSMC Q4 decline mirrors chip market Record year, weak second half

Management: Public Sector

• NCC and eGov launch IT accreditation scheme But will it do any good?

Market News

• Toxic gas leak at TSMC fab hospitalises 21 Plant still running despite Arsine emission
• World chip inventory fell 38% in Q4 Still $1bn worth of unsold products to clear

Music and Media

• Cyber-stalker faces sentencing today Three-year hate campaign by spurned lover
• German rogue dialler suspects cuffed Two arrested, two on the run
• Kids' blogs a 'paedophile's dream' Expert highlights possible threat
• RIAA sues 717 alleged copyright cheaters No sign of slowdown to anti-P2P programme

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Driller Killer Episode 3 X-rated data cabling shocker

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• All at sea, Microsoft axes flying car project Norway, Estonia in shock
• Brit plumber to visit ISS Dodgy oxygen generator? Sorted
• Woman rents cleavage in eBay auction Bosom buddies seek corporate endorsement

Personal: Consoles

• Friday 11 March is Euro Nintendo DS day One week or two before Sony's PSP arrives?

Personal: PCs

• Intel baffles with latest trademarks Slogan's run...
• Tablet PC bug 'fills computer with ink' Er, Redmond - we have a memory leak

Science

• MIT boffins moot space leotard Dress appropriately for Mars, dress like The Darkness

Security: Enterprise Security

• Area 51 'hacker' charges dropped Black helicopters return to base
• MySQL worm attacks Windows servers Batten down the hatches
• Unholy trio pose DDoS risk for Cisco kit Malformed protocols flummox routers