8th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Wireless

• BMW brings Wi-Fi to London showrooms Beemer me up, Scotty
• BT gets the Bluephone blues Presses ahead with 'dud' project

Hardware: Servers

• HP, Sun and IBM ready to roll with dual-core Opteron gear Dell the single-core loner

Hardware: Storage

• The intelligent data storage imperative Analysis Information Lifecycle Management

Lifecycle: Manage

• ANT - trying not to be tiny in a big IPTV world analysis ANT music

Management: Financial News

• Borland to miss Q1 targets Slow closures blamed
• Dell projects more revenue growth No surprise there then
• Elpida slashes FY2004 income forecast Cash set aside against possible DoJ price-fix probe fines
• NHS squeezes Accenture margins Record sales though
• Rare Dell critics spotted circling over Austin Not extinct and inquisitive as all hell
• TSMC, UMC Q1 sales slide March revenues a sign for optimism?
• VeriSign responds to .net report criticisms Plus a brief rundown of what happens next

Management: IT Director

• MI5's computers will be over budget and under-powered Nothing to be Smiley about

Music and Media

• Napster users sharing passwords to save cash Even though Napster says they can't
• Promotional penis pops up on eBay Hard-up up Brit flogs member
• WTO rules in online gambling dispute Roll-up, roll-up, everyone's a winner in this game

Odds and Sods: About Us

• The Register publishes ABC ELECTRONIC audit Press release Walking it like we talk it

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Reg hack goes mad on Rockall - again More North Atlantic charity madness
• Blocking online cigarette sales threatens us all And ninethly My Aunt died so you can smoke cheap
• EFF honors EFF founder with EFF award 'Effing brilliant
• Parrot recruits Kipper A Monty Python PR department exclusive

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Atlas shifting, browser patching, patent filing madness Letters It's very silly today

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Those Gizmondo compo winners in full Competition You lucky, lucky people

Personal: Consoles

• Men like video games: official Sky also blue, sea wet, etc, etc
• Sony sells 600,000 US PSPs in first week Faster rate than Nintendo DS

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple signs 'widescreen iBook' contract More hints of HD-friendly kit to come?

Personal: Reviews

• Gizmondo handheld games console Review Time for Sony, Nintendo and Tapwave to tremble?

Personal: System Builder

• AMD 'on schedule' for 2006 65nm 300mm production Fab 36 pumping out test wafers as we speak

Science

• Europe will land on Mars in 2013 Funds permitting

Security

• Trojan leaps from bogus Windows Update site Risky business

Security: Enterprise Security

• DNS attacks attempt to mislead consumers Redirects to hacker-owned sites
• Further adjournment in 'DEC hacking' case Wheels of justice slowly turn

Security: Spam

• Nine years in slammer for US spammer Suspended on appeal

Software

• Eight patches lined up for MS April patch batch Yes, it's that time of the month

Software: Applications

• CA taps Concord for network management push Back to the future
• Informatica responds to IBM Federated queries market hots up