12th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Networks

• Mixed messages over cheap broadband offer Huh?

Management: Financial News

• Claranet to buy VIA NET.WORKS Lays down big depost
• Fibernet dips on tough outlook Revs up, losses down
• Google.co.uk goes local How Google wants to get even closer to its customers
• HMV swaps digital music partners Signs MusicNet
• HP hit with a Moody... Agency cuts rating
• Indies plan assault on UK singles chart It ain't secure, and we're gonna prove it
• New wave of lawsuits to hit 'illegal song-swappers' IFPI lashes out

Management: IT Director

• Ethernet forum plots death of SONET Telco-grade Ethernet standard unveiled
• Government IT contracts can make you cry: official EDS and CSA bring a tear to the eye

Management: Public Sector

• Bush Admin demands more banking data A piecemeal approach to Total Information Awareness
• Cash-for-votes site launched 'X' marks the spot
• IFPI drafts 'code of conduct' for ISPs Just another day in the fight against copyright infringement

Music and Media

• eBayers demand money for old rope Approx 1 metre, used
• UK to use passports to build national fingerprint database ID card scheme, or parliament, not needed, apparently...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Introducing the 'Matrix' laptop-triggered landmine WLAN killing system bound for Iraq

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple: Mac OS X 10.4 to ship 29 April Cue thousands more bad Tiger puns...
• EU's data retention laws could be illegal Bureaucratic hiccough

Personal: PCs

• Intel offers $10,000 for safe return of missing Moore's Law Looked behind the sofa cushions, guys?
• Intel touts Celeron M for WinCE Banias for set-top boxes
• VIA uploads graphics core driver source code Calling Linux users

Personal: Reviews

• Apple iPod Mini 6GB Review Best iPod yet? Best MP3 player yet?

Science

• Met Office powers up new supercomputer Many, many, many flops
• Nanotech's grand challenge is sustainable development Big things expected of small science
• Physicists freeze light, propose optical CPUs Chilling out at Harvard

Security

• Ibas buys computer forensics rival Vogon No hideous poetry involved, thankfully

Security: Anti-Virus

• Italian smut virus scammer jailed for 14 months Pronto pronto

Security: Spam

• Netizens learning to tolerate spam - study Part of the fabric of life

Software

• Bully Oracle beats SAP to Retek And for just $670m
• China goes native on procurement Local software for local people

Software: Applications

• BMC apologizes for poor Q4 with massive job cuts 12 per cent of staff sent off