14th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• MPEG LA cuts mobile phone DRM tax But far enough?

Comms: Networks

• Mesh Broadband 'ceases trading' Bedfordshire Council 'disappointed'
• Ofcom acts to combat 'slamming' Not good enough, says BT
• Watchdog fines prize call telco £100k You've won a Spanish cruise, honest

Comms: VoIP

• On AOL's VoIP service Analysis Cheap but not revolutionary

Comms: Wireless

• Frozen polar waste gets Wi-Fi hotspot Santa and elves said to be pleased
• Intel pledges to fix WiMAX mode muddle Analysis 802.16 mobile and fixed forms not compatible

Hardware

• Wyse changes ownership, appoints new boss Thin deal for thin clients

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco eyes the server with $250m Topspin buy Deep data center invasion

Hardware: Storage

• HDS goes multidimensional on ILM No more tiers - it's a storage matrix

Management: Financial News

• Amazon wins reprieve against Toysrus.com Injunction lifted
• Apple iTunes sales tally passes 350 million Analysis Half a billion downloads by June?
• Memory woes color AMD's Q1 red Adios, Spansion. Hello, dual-core Opteron
• Snook leaving Carphone Bye bye now
• Sun's Q3 revenue down. Again Conversations up

Management: IT Director

• IBM schtum on European jobs threat Nothing to see here. Move along please
• Infosys reports red-hot Q4 results Expects $2bn in revs in FY2006
• Swansea IT workers lose outsourcing fight Gapgemini selected for Swansea IT gig

Music and Media

• Clarke calls for ID cards after imagining huge poison terror ring Analysis Hunt for cream tubs of death continues
• Flakey Flickr goes down. Again The now you see it, now you don't photo website
• Labour promises 'voluntary' compulsory ID card You don't have to be confused to live here, but it helps
• Starbucks seeks to patent loyalty card A patent attorney and his donkey
• Torvalds knifes Tridgell Kernel source row turns nasty

Personal: PCs

• AMD dual-core desktops to be branded 'X2' Athlon 64 times two
• AMD expands Mobile Athlon 64 line-up Skips 3500+, 3600+, goes straight to 3700+
• AMD to 'cut' Socket 754 Sempron prices Paving the way for 'Palermo'?
• Sony to add Blu-ray and DSD to Vaio No shame about Ray

Personal: Reviews

• Acer TravelMate 8100 'Sonoma' notebook Review Feature-packed and fast - and a bargain too?
• Belkin iPod Digital Camera Link Review Cheaper than 40 gigs' worth of memory cards

Science

• NASA fuels up Discovery for tank-tests One step closer to lift-off

Security

• Beware of toxic blogs Plan 9 from cyberspace

Security: Enterprise Security

• It's official: ChoicePoint, LexisNexis rooted many times Calif disclosure law puts a stop to cover-ups
• Networks on yellow alert over ICMP flaw Industry reels from IP bug

Software: Operating Systems

• Patent injunction knocks Longhorn Smokin' Chimney
• SCO makes Unix revenue disappear in Q1 SCOsource can't crack five-figures