20th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Nokia ups the heat in its battle with BREW Harnessing developers

Hardware: Servers

• SGI sees red Couldn't close the deals, says Bishop
• The evolution of the data center We need management software that spans the common platforms

Lifecycle: Manage

• Rival web services specs destined for OASIS Reliability comes double

Management: Financial News

• Administrators take over at ITM Group Investors refuse further support
• Amazon books deal with Marks & Sparks Warning: Gag-free story, nothing funny here, promise
• Computacenter issues profit warning Low margins to blame
• Net ads work - sometimes That's what they say
• PC World found guilty of selling old computers as new 'Shop worn' kit was secondhand
• UK teens fail to embrace net porn UK's 'web-savvy' rating suffers accordingly
• Yahoo! growth! slows! Profit almost as large as CEO's bank balance

Management: IT Director

• Nicer bosses retain more (female) staff What a shocker

Music and Media

• Congress legalizes DVD censorship Child-friendly content wants to be free
• Macrovision DRM patents challenge fails Plans licences elsewhere
• Privacy groups slam US passport technology American tracking
• Tech blogger cybersquats God's Rottweiler BenedictXVI.com
• You're going to be taxed for music and love it! Book review The Future of Music is now

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Denzel Washington fights theatre mobe menace Verily, sirrah, thy accurs'd phone ringeth
• eBayer pleads guilty to 'anthrax' scare Coughs to 'stupid, foolish act'
• Microsoft patents 911 Or 999 if you're in the UK, or...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Desktop Linux, hidden mobile phones and Prince Harry Letters Most mixed bag ever
• EFF founder must be cheered for founding EFF - EFF Founder Letters He made it. Now it made him

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple UK's Bullring store to open for Tiger Brum deal

Science

• Boffins five quarks short of a sub-atomic particle No joy in pentaquark hunt
• Giant iceberg slams into glacial tongue Continental traffic police are en route

Security

• Privacy from the trenches How the public are inured to data breaches

Security: Enterprise Security

• WiPhishing hack risk warning More tales of wireless security paranoia

Software: Applications

• Less Office, more family for Microsoft DSI program Microsoft outlines management roadmap
• Why do people hate Oracle? Comment Is Oracle vulnerable?