1st April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• PalmOne 'Life Drive' photos surface Analysis Points to the next stage in the PDA's - and the PC's - evolution
• Police quell Bangladesh mobe riot Cut-price phone promotion ends in anarchy

Comms: Networks

• 16 scammers fined £1.3m Premium rate watchdog acts
• BT faces fading market share One.Tel 'dismantling BT's line rental monopoly'
• Coming months 'critical for LLU' OTA speaks

Hardware: Servers

• AMD to bring forward dual-core Opteron debut? Two-core chips coming as server chip turns two...

Hardware: Storage

• Deficient Veritas delays year-end fiscal report This feels so familiar

Lifecycle: Manage

• Another approach to federated query On Callixa and data agents

Management

• Ex-ATI CEO insider trading hearing postponed Other accused settle with Ontario Securities Commission

Management: Financial News

• Intel heeds Japanese antitrust probe warning But denies accusations
• Qwest ups bid for MCI - yet again That's it
• Transmeta replaces CEO amid major restructure Big Sony deal boosts tech licensing play

Management: Public Sector

• New UK agency to target net paedophiles Co-ordinated assault

Music and Media

• .Net report slammed again Chairman of key committee demands investigation
• BBC throws strop at 'Ceefax Google' Dutch website lets users browse Auntie content
• German court to examine Lufthansa attack June swoon
• Security and interop issues cause EU biometric passport delays Begs for deadline extension

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Apple founder Jobs joins IKEA April Fool Special From flatpack to backpack - we reveal the designs
• April Fool rages at El Reg FoTW This is a beauty
• Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq 1 April exclusive In harm's way
• Cisco to merge with Nabisco April Fool special Cracker-packet giant forged in San Luis Obispo
• Tempel-1: iceberg or galactic rubber ball? April Fool special Deep Impact team ponders comet's composition
• Why Fiorina wasn't the right man for the HP CEO post And ninethly Hurd is a cut above

Personal: Mac Channel

• 'White Bud' guerilla targets one iPod at a time Save a life - and stop crime

Personal: Reviews

• HP iPaq hx2750 PocketPC Review Fingerprint security, anyone?

Science

• IVF clinics may tag embryos My first RFID
• UK commission rejects infant DNA profiling 'Ethical, legal and social concerns'

Security

• Hardware is secure (false) Voodoo security lambasted

Security: ID

• MS takes rod to phishers 117 John Doe lawsuits against scammers
• Privacy 'Dark Ages' force activist rethink Resistance isn’t futile
• US regulators take action over ID theft Daddy was a bank phisher

Software: Operating Systems

• Red Hat Q4 sales soar Profit kicker
• Samba, Soccer and Open Source Comment Brazil's cheap PC initiative