21st April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Orange and Microsoft push data at business Have a smartphone, here have another
• Phone DRM: the most expensive royalty operation ever Analysis And that's after the 'climbdown'
• Smart phones make inroads in business Converged devices on the rise
• US mobile carriers shun iTunes Analysis Playing the long game?

Comms: Networks

• Amenworld workers strike over proposed VIA sale Just say 'non'
• Bulldog to extend reach of unbundled broadband C&W to invest £190m in next gen network
• PlusNet racks up 100k broadband punters Appoints new COO

Comms: Wireless

• One and a half cheers for WiMAX Europe cautious over next-gen wireless tech

Hardware: Servers

• The dual-core x86 server era begins thanks to AMD Intel left with not so magical Unicore

Management: Financial News

• 20 busted in e-pharmacy takedown Bitter pill to swallow
• Colt takeover rumours 'unfounded' says boss That's that then
• Hynix makes $185m price-fixing confession to US DoJ Memory is all too good
• Investors unmoved by eBay results Double digit growth, but shares stagnant

Management: IT Director

• Outsourcing UK public sector services - the moral hazards Comment Providers should not have full ownership of intellectual property

Management: Public Sector

• General election debate misses purpose of ID cards What of the database?
• The M25 area road price plan - a power play from Mayor Ken? And tags get green light. Depending...
• TSA squanders millions of US tax dolllars Magic gizmos desperately wanted

Market News

• PC-WARE buys Austrian reseller Microsoft specialist adds another country to its bow

Music and Media

• Borland splits Together for Visual Studio .NET Don't expect VSTS plug-ins from partners this year
• Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter One file = three years
• Not as guilty as he looks? The Met chief, Labour and ID cards Analysis Spare a copper...
• Smile: you're under global surveillance Report details infrastructure, launches campaign
• Tridgell demos Bitkeeper interoperability Easier than you think

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• EU trade chief's 'side-trip' included Paul Allen's New Year party A private matter, no antitrust fluids exchanged...
• Pope gets emailed up pope@benny16.com
• Tories board hi-tech battle bus 'Roaming tactical unit' hits the road

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Optimize your Linux Performance Site offer Top tuning primer at 30% off

Personal: Consoles

• Playboy in PSP porn punt When Sony met Totty

Personal: PCs

• AMD plays catch up with dual-core desktop and notebook chip Intel wins where it barely counts

Personal: Peripherals

• More from Gizmoville Tech Digest The week's coolest gadgets

Reseller

• TSG secures £25m facility for takeover trail Lloyd TSB bankroll

Science

• Mine landfill for renewable energy, report Load of old rubbish
• NASA postpones Shuttle flight Safety first, ladies and gents
• Theorists dazzled by 'perfect' liquid Quarks + Gluons = new state of matter?

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Man executes Chrysler RoTM™ Newsflash Reg salutes NRA hero

Security

• Man unearths MoD secrets at rubbish dump Ditched laptop security breach

Security: Anti-Virus

• Apple's Big Virus The influence of the 'Mac culture'
• Peeping Tom Trojan suspect cuffed in Cyprus Knickers in a twist in Nicosia
• Warez site riddled with mobile malware Crack, crack your smartphone's dead

Security: ID

• Database misuse: who watches the watchers? We do

Software

• Ballmer: Interoperability, interoperability, interoperability CEO makes nice with Linux. Just