11th March 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Mobile phone gunman jailed Interesting ringtone
• Samsung unveils 3GB HDD smart phone CeBIT 2005 Seven megapixel 'professional' camera handset too

Comms: Networks

• Global DSL tops 100m And other broadband stuff

Comms: Wireless

• Wi-Fi security is getting worse Hackers' playground

Distribution

• Tech Data Q4 profits jump on tax settlement Sales up

Hardware: Servers

• IBM rediscovers ancient plan for renting powerful computers Blue Gene brilliance
• Sun could plug Sparc into utility grid Hopes to turn on customers soon

Hardware: Storage

• DVD+RW 8x drives to ship in 'coming months' CeBIT 2005 16x in the Autumn?
• IDC's storage winners and losers CeBIT 2005 EMC goes top in Europe, SOX goes bottom
• New SanDisk drive lets your fingers do the storing Biometric flash
• Quantum previews SuperDLT CeBIT 2005 But looks to LTO for growth

Lifecycle: Manage

• MS calls for US patent reform System threatened, Redmond claims

Management: Financial News

• Beware auction sites, says Citizens Advice Reports rise in fraud complaints
• Intel's Q1 'a little better' than expected Modest 16 per cent growth
• Yahoo! comes under Xfire Gaming outfit countersues in IM patent punch-up

Music and Media

• High Court orders ISPs to name file-sharers Given 14 days to comply
• Madrid plotter used ID stolen from Spanish mint, say police One of 300 swiped in 2002...
• Microsoft pot calls Patent Office black Comment Cleanliness starts at home
• UK tagging for 'terror plotters' goes live on freed suspects Here's a restriction we prepared earlier...

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Critical Mass of Geeks Episode 9 She's gonna blow!

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Microsoft's Sun server fetish revealed Blabby blogger spills the secrets

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Beer is fattening, say fat beer-swilling readers Letters Can't raise the dead, though

Personal: Consoles

• Nokia nails N-Gage to its perch Remake, remodel

Personal: Peripherals

• Slim Devices adds 802.11g to wireless MP3 player Ground-up redesign

Science

• Fujitsu CTO ponders immortality CeBIT 2005 Nano nano, I’m going to live for ever

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Dyson unleashes self-replicating hoover Bagless assassin menaces humanity

Security: Enterprise Security

• Alternative browser spyware infects IE Backdoor attack
• Corporates tackle security in-house Too much of a mess to outsource
• Time-drift technique fingers PCs Is this the end of anonymous net access?

Security: Spam

• Massive web trawl nets spammers Multinational effort

Software

• Chem student tames Microsoft's legal eagles eBay educator wins
• MS UK locks in schools via 'special terms' sponsorship deal DfES takes relaxed view of 'commercial interest'