3rd February 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• HP preps iPaq smart phone More Treo than Treo?
• Possessions Reunited SMS tech used to trace owners of lost kit
• Siemens readies digital TV, VoIP Wi-Fi handsets CeBIT outing
• T-Mobile unveils Sidekick-styled 3G device MDA IV to ship with Windows Mobile

Comms: Networks

• BT bashed in prisoners' call discount row Are these the punters coming back to BT?
• BT DSL price cut undermines LLU competition The telco giveth and the telco taketh away
• BT promises to play fair, in Ofcom appeasement Offers to open network
• BT Wholesale to resell iomart software to ISPs Content filter

Comms: Wireless

• UK's Royal Festival Hall announces WLAN link Wi-Fi jobbies in the lobbies

Hardware: Servers

• Sun opens processor auction house Bid on grid

Hardware: Storage

• HP and EMC ready to settle ancient storage dispute Team Fiorina gives in

Lifecycle: Manage

• Software patents: EU votes for restart Shock JURI boost to anti-patent campaigners

Management: Financial News

• Botnets strangle Google Adwords campaigns Keyword hijacking risk
• Investors pummel Amazon for Q4 miss Firm points to new membership deal
• Napster launches portable player-friendly music service Will 'change the music industry forever'
• Sierra sued over 'flawed' Voq smart phone Allegedly misled shareholders

Management: IT Director

• Bosses cool on IT spending ICT ROI, OK?

Management: Public Sector

• UK councils will all meet e-enabling deadline e-Gov minister Hope springs eternal

Management: Small Biz

• E-crime to rocket in 2005 Ballooning losses

Market News

• Gainward bosses 'buy company' Parent firm's 69% stake acquired, reports say

Music and Media

• DEC warns of fake tsunami appeal website Looks official, but it ain't
• First French P2P 'pirate' fined €10,200 Schoolteacher's public shaming
• MP3.com founder vows unchained melodies Will unveil DRM-free music store
• Parliamentary report flags ID scheme human rights issues Home Office becoming serial lawbreaker?
• Tory group report attacks ID scheme as a con trick Just a big identity fraud, you could say...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Avalanche man urinates his way into urban legend News reports taking the p*ss

Personal

• The Cell Chip - how will MS and Intel face the music? Analysis Part II: Place your bets

Personal: Consoles

• No Xbox 2 launch at GDC - MS All eyes on E3

Personal: System Builder

• Gigabyte 'developing' dual-GPU graphics card series Follow-up to its GV-3D1 SLI board?
• Matrox unveils PCI-E Millennium Upgraded P650 to ship in two months' time
• Nvidia updates mobile Quadro FX graphics chip line Shader Model 3.0 and PCI Express at last

Science

• Bid now for a piece of computer history Christie's to auction lots and lots of lots
• Brit flying car earns its wings Order your Jetpod now

Security: Anti-Virus

• Worm poses as Saddam death pics Latest zombie ruse

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hackers at mercy of US judges Supreme Court ruling grants leeway in sentencing

Security: ID

• EU goes on biometric LSD trip Consortium considers legal, standardisation and deployment issues