1st March 2005 Archive

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Channel

• MS launches online dating agency for dealers Desperately seeking distribution

Comms: Mobile

• Sony Ericsson launches 'Walkman' It's ... a phone

Comms: Networks

• 15,000 jobs to go if Qwest/MCI gets green light Still, it would 'unlock value from each standalone firm'
• Ebbers recalls shock of discovering WorldCom fraud 'No earthly idea that that would occur'
• KPN to axe 1,750 jobs a year Restructuring for a simpler IP world
• Redbus power failure - companies form group to voice concerns Still no word from Redbus
• Yet another power failure hits Redbus Something 'blew up'

Hardware: Servers

• HP and Intel hire Asian helpers to make Itanium cheap IDF Spring 05 Itanic sails offshore
• Intel preps Truland, Bensley Xeon platforms IDF Spring 05 Yes, it's 'servertrino'
• Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 IDF Spring 05 90nm Paxville to accompany 65nm Xeon DP Dempsey

Hardware: Storage

• Hitachi hikes consumer disk production Taking the market an inch at a time
• HP whacks own storage software in favor of AppIQ Friend with benefits

Lifecycle: Manage

• EC rebuffs Parliament's patent restart request Non!

Management: Financial News

• Couple defeats Merrill Lynch's stock rating system $1m aberration
• Getronics buys PinkRoccade Going Dutch

Management: Public Sector

• Service levels more important than e-gov deadlines: survey Who'da thought it

Market News

• Intel drops 'Vanderpool' handle IDF Spring 05 Chip virtualisation tech to be called... er... Virtualisation Tech

Music and Media

• Real Madrid cries foul against online bookies Intellectual property clash
• Restrict freedom to preserve liberty: cunning Home Office plan Analysis How the Terror Act does it

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Clint sets Dirty Harry on spotty youths Go ahead punk - buy my game

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Readers embrace napalm death Letters Homemade explosives? Those were the days...

Personal

• China sends DVD royalties South We've got our own format, thanks
• Gartner trims chip forecast It'll get better before it gets really bad

Personal: Mac Channel

• Is the Mac Mini Apple's future 'smart' iPod Dock? Probe points to integrated player port

Personal: PCs

• Intel confirms 64-bit Celeron scheme IDF Spring 05 It's punching out Smithfields too
• Intel details twin 'desktrino' platforms IDF Spring 05 One for the office, one for home
• Intel dual-core Smithfield to ship as Pentium D IDF Spring 05 HyperThreading dropped

Personal: Reviews

• Sony Vaio VGN-FS115B 'Sonoma' notebook Review The latest technology - at a budget price

Personal: System Builder

• ATI ships AGP-edition X850 XT graphics chip X800 XL too
• Centerprise buys disaster recover firm Would you Adam and Eve it

Science

• GlobalFlyer and Fossett take to the skies Around the world in 80 hours
• Space is the place, says Esther Dyson Fly her to the moon. Please.

Security: Enterprise Security

• Insecure indexing risk dissected How did THAT get out?

Security: Spam

• Bagle variants served up with spam Trojan version goes into 'stealth mode'
• Send-Safe spam tool gang evicted by MCI Botnet utility made homeless