28th February 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• PalmOne brings forward Euro Treo 650 debut Once delayed from Q1 to Q2, now back to Q1
• Skype offers texts Fr3 txts
• Vodafone preps 3G, Wi-Fi palmtop smart phone Follows T-Mobile, Orange

Hardware: Data Networking

• BT's Infonet acquisition completed That's it

Hardware: Servers

• Intel misses Itanium sales mark by $26.6bn IDC 95 per cent wrong

Hardware: Storage

• EMC puts a super-Google in Centera boxes Then teaches how to charge for it
• Magirus buys Exello Pan-Scandy distie deals a-go-go

Management: Financial News

• EDS offers stake to AT Kearney partners Services boss made first move
• Music download prices to rise Big labels upsetting the Apple cart...
• Qwest to sweeten sweetened offer - WSJ One lump or two?
• Samsung glum on year ahead But sticks to guns on forecasts
• When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping Ecommerce snapshot

Management: Public Sector

• German courts go techno Piles of paper given the boot

Market News

• Arrests over £580m VAT fraud Operation Domino nets two

Music and Media

• MEPs vote to outlaw phone prize scams Be off with ya
• Ringtone sellers told to clean up act Diddle-ee etc
• Webcam Trojan perv gets slapped wrist As if it didn't hurt enough

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Americans roll out tinfoil automobile Full stealth mode, 100% secure

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg revs up Mod vulture logo t-shirt Cash'n'Carrion Lambrettas at the ready

Personal: Mac Channel

• RIP Jeff Raskin: Father of the Mac Obituary Polymath, inventor of the Information Appliance

Science

• Around-the-world jet adventure is go Steve Fossett and GlobalFlyer prepare for take-off
• ISS resupply blasts off today Vital supplies ahead of Discovery return to flight
• Japan moots manned Moon base Big plans follow satellite launch

Security: Enterprise Security

• Opera beefs up browser to thwart phishers Dead cert

Security: Spam

• Can CAN-SPAM can spim? New law required to address IM spam?
• eBay provides backdoor for phishers Scripting backdoor helps craft more convincing cons

Software: Operating Systems

• EC checks MS compliance Asks IT industry for report card...