17th February 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Intel fortifies mobile transactions 3GSM Wireless Trusted Platform
• Killing an iPod: harder than it looks? 3GSM Music phones unnatural, as born killers go...

Comms: Networks

• Aussie watchdog to rule on broadband pricing row soon Year-long ruck near end

Distribution

• Bell swings into full year profit Euro ops boost Q4 margins
• Northamber doubles interim profit Chilly January but sunny days ahead

Hardware

• Compuware calls IBM a 'killer' Mainframe spat turns nasty

Hardware: Data Networking

• UK ATC system falls over - again More airport woes

Lifecycle: Manage

• European Parliament votes to scrap software patent text Taking it one step at a time
• University launches semantic web interface Information is all about context, you see

Management: Financial News

• HP serves up bland post-Fiorina Q1 She who must not be named
• Qwest goes public with $8bn MCI bid Time to reconsider?
• SCO faces ejection from Nasdaq The lawyers ate my filing
• Taiwanese agents detain Chinese foundry chief UMC investigation plot thickens
• WorldCom CFO lied, he admits to court Sullivan faces cross examination

Management: Small Biz

• More online buying from HM Gov Paperwork is soooo last century
• Net downloads prompt retrial in rape case Judges rule conviction 'unsafe'

Music and Media

• Apple suspends online hack subpoenas The Leaky Cauldron
• Chav burglar collared by webcam 11 months' slammer for baseball-capped blagger
• Cryptographers to Hollywood: prepare to fail on DRM RSA 2005 No universal panacea here
• DJ fined €1.4m for massive 'illegal' music cache MP3s in da house
• Florida teacher cuffed for bomb-making classes Student detonated device on golf course
• Investigators uncover dismal data disposal Risk of ID-theft, hacking, blackmail, fraud...
• Security experts warn of 'scary' new web scam E-traders beware

Personal: Consoles

• Grand Theft Auto firm faces 'murder training' lawsuit Sony and Wal-Mart named too
• MS recalls 14.1m Xbox power cables Is that smouldering shagpile I can smell?

Personal: PCs

• HP goes to bat for the Foreign Office FCO goes inhouse / outhouse for IT delivery

Personal: Reviews

• IBM ThinkPad T42p mobile workstation Review High-end heaven?

Science

• Congress seeks stem cell side-step Bills aim to bypass Bush funding ban
• Intel boffins build first continuous beam silicon laser Two-photon absorption problem solved
• Japan joins global satellite disaster network Space Week Quick pics
• Vampires live longer: official Vlad Dracul salutes US research

Security

• Crypto researchers break SHA-1 It's official
• Cyberpunk authors get the girls RSA 2005 Minority Report

Security: Enterprise Security

• T-Mobile hacker pleads guilty Unusual secrecy

Security: Spam

• Spam gets vocal with VoIP RSA 2005 I spit on your spam

Software: Applications

• Sage calls for new MS anti-trust probe Doesn't want Redmond's finest playing in its pond