7th February 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• 3G success hangs on handsets Price and usability crucial
• TI licences PowerVR phone graphics core Extends MBX licence to MBX Lite

Comms: Networks

• AOL UK doubles broadband speeds Prepares for new love affair with Dixons
• Energis calls for BT break-up 'Just get on with it'

Comms: Wireless

• Broadreach to bring Wi-Fi to motorway eateries Displaces Swisscom Eurospot

Hardware: Servers

• Egenera freshens blades with a touch of Opteron Beyond Wall Street
• Intel details dual-core Itanium Foxton power conservation tech too

Hardware: Storage

• Alliance touts holographic disc 'revolution' One HVD equals 200 DVDs

Lifecycle: Manage

• XML - past, present and future Chewing the fat with MS's Jean Paoli

Management: Financial News

• Ask Jeeves if it'll buy Bloglines Blogtastic
• Google loses another trademark fight in France Handbagged by Louis Vuitton
• U2 says soz for online snafu Ticket touts toast Irish rockers
• US telcos Sprint for the line Analysis Competition hotting up

Management: Small Biz

• eBay backtracks as it cuts some fees Power to the eBayers
• Small.biz demands return to tech college system Old school thinking, 21st-century reasoning

Music and Media

• Revealed: the tech consumer as prawn Comment Mouth open at sewage outlet
• University of California moots barcodes for corpses Swapping toe tags for RFID tags

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• US brewer adds caffeine to beer Get me a pint - quick

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Your 'fancy' Napster bashing bites Letters We dream of disappearing music

Personal: Reviews

• Sanyo S750 3G handset Review Nice technology, shame about the size?

Reseller

• Intel Japan faces anti-trust action Regulators not happy

Science

• Aussies deploy toad-blasting audio killing machine War against the cane toad gets louder
• PPARC sets up Mars committee Planning for Aurora
• Rude software causes emotional trauma My PC is ignoring me

Security: ID

• Acer spills user details Down Under Breach plugged, customer warning fired out

Security: Spam

• 13 EU countries link up to fight spam Come and join us
• AOL man pleads guilty to selling 92m email addies Fuel for spam
• Firefox spoofing flaw goes international Esperanto for spammers bug hits Opera and Konqueror too
• MCI 'makes $5m a year from spam gangs' Spamhaus accuses telco of aiding and abetting junk mailers