31st January 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• EU waves through Airbus mobile phone system We're OnAir

Comms: Networks

• Rivals warn of BT 'delaying tactics' UKCTA alert ahead of Telecoms Review deadline

Hardware: Data Networking

• Dutch turn town into supercomputer Home PCs connected to computer grid
• Marconi picks Chinese hardware partner Huawei makes another friend

Hardware: Storage

• EMC finds vacuum for backup software upgrades Don't tell. We have new wizards
• Hitachi brings IDE to 1.8in HDD line Ups capacity, too

Lifecycle: Manage

• Gates bemoans US visa restrictions Lack of foreign computing students a 'disaster'

Management

• Ebbers feared fortune would be 'wiped out' Witness cites possible motive for alleged fraud
• SCO parent sued by former execs Demand $100m and their jobs back

Management: Financial News

• SBC rings AT&T for $16bn mega-merger Talking telephone numbers...
• SMIC coughs $175m to settle espionage allegations TSMC prevails
• Touts flood eBay with black market tickets 340,000 during 2005, estimates security outfit
• Women warm to online betting Females who like a flutter

Management: Small Biz

• BT biz broadband billing balls-up Forgot to charge 700 customers
• Inland Revenue site buckling under load Midnight deadline
• Small.biz gets more spam No filter, much spam

Music and Media

• Music biz serves writ on German IT site Cannot publish links to CD protection-busting outfit

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Casino rents eBay cleavage for £422 A lot of mams for its bucks
• Doom goes back to boardgame origins Got no Clue?
• Man urinates his way out of avalanche Beer saves life

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Help required to build Reg reader profile Spare us five minutes...

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple updates G4 PowerBooks with Bluetooth 2.0 One last fling?

Personal: PCs

• IBM-Lenovo deal to face US govt. probe $1.25bn sale depends on Bush's say-so
• Intel, Nvidia were Q4's graphics chip winners Smaller players fared less well

Personal: System Builder

• VIA unveils P4 PCI-E chipsets 'Two cards, four monitors' vs 'two cards, one screen'

Science

• Computing network warns of massive climate change GlobalWarming@home

Security

• 'Thiefproof' car key cracked Grand Theft RFID

Security: Anti-Virus

• Blaster copycat author jailed for 18 months Parson escapes with minimum sentence

Security: ID

• Phishing morphs into pharming Nascent threat worries security researchers

Security: Spam

• Hormel Spam trademark case canned Court rejects action against Spambuster
• Interview with a link spammer Exclusive It's nothing personal...

Software: Operating Systems

• EU balks at Windows Reduced Edition End User Multimedia Functionality? That's what you told us to do!