4th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Bank of America sells flagpoles as cellular masts 'Urgent need'
• T-Mobile to cut tariffs - report Shells fly as price war hots up

Comms: Networks

• Smug BT crows about broadband numbers 5m milestone passed

Hardware: Servers

• Fujitsu expected to deliver Itanium giant Can it sell one?

Lifecycle: Manage

• Open source databases - a sword that cuts both ways? Plus c'est la même chose

Management

• Meet hi-tech white van businessman £250k mobile office
• Microsoft Business Solutions gets new UK head Channel man for MBS division...

Management: Financial News

• A cashpoint that gives you verbals 'You have insufficient funds to get drunk. Go home'
• Google's Gmail grows again Inboxes double but still not open to all
• Hutchison hit by 3G costs But not all bad news...
• McAfee sees accounting weakness Another tech company that can't keep the books
• MCI mulls latest Qwest offer More sweeteners than Tate & Lyle
• Microsoft takeover bid goes to court Groove takeover not so groovy...
• Redstone buys Xpert for £25.5m One-stop telecoms shop
• UK Wi-Fi network nabs German WISP Third-biggest WLAN player
• World Cup tickets will contain RFID chips 'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go

Management: Public Sector

• Gov.uk backs open source drive Tackling obstacles

Management: Small Biz

• US to embrace VoIP 27m VoIPers by 2009

Music and Media

• .Net report was fudged Telcordia’s bitter history with key bidder
• Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger Sometimes you might not want such great security...
• Civil liberty group pans EU biometrics plans Commerce ahead of privacy
• Do you like sex and rock music? eBayer makes Glastonbury offer you can refuse

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• MS moves Switzerland to Russia The power of Windows Server System

Personal: PCs

• NEC swaps PCs for trees Green is big in Japan
• World chip sales down in February Short month

Personal: Peripherals

• Matsushita, LG calm plasma patent clash Out-of-court settlement agreed, apparently

Personal: Reviews

• Dell Latitude D410 sub-notebook Review Pint-sized performer?
• Hitachi predicts super-drives Size doesn't matter as long as its small

Personal: System Builder

• ATI to announce R520 'in June' Sapphire rep names the date
• JVC unveils first one-side, two-layer DVD-RW disc Double the capacity (almost)
• Rambus offers to quadruple DRAM data access speeds Cradle of parallelisation

Security

• Join Microsoft. Save the world Redmond cruises for rough trade at hacker convention
• Three quarters of corporate PCs shun SP2 Holding back as 12 April deadline looms
• Trojan phishing suspect hauled in Stole millions (allegedly)

Security: Anti-Virus

• Text me and I'll reply with a virus More mobile malware madness

Security: Enterprise Security

• Database rootkit menace looms Check against delivery
• Hacking Google for fun and profit Mayhem, mischief and Xmas lights

Software

• PalmSource sees red as device sales decline PDAs less popular than they were a year ago

Software: Operating Systems

• Sun's OpenSolaris marketing term has an advisory board Product on the way