22nd April 2005 Archive

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Hardware: Servers

• Boston jumps on Opteron bandwagon Resigns from Intel-only camp

Lifecycle: Manage

• Borland open sources JBuilder Take our R&D costs, please

Management: Financial News

• Asia boosts Nokia earnings Rosier outlook
• Credit card firms push cybersecurity Countdown
• Freescale earnings grow post-restructure Business picking up
• Nasdaq swoops for $1.9bn Instinet Keeping pace with NYSE
• One.Tel hoovers up RedNet for £5m B2B ISP snapped up
• Q1 brings nothing but good news for Google Results almost absurdly healthy
• Qwest makes final offer for MCI Take it or leave it
• World Cup ticket draw results in Reg campaign to blag tickets starts here

Management: IT Director

• Bean counters love the fluffy side of IT Soft benefits, not cold hard cash
• Email destroys the mind faster than marijuana - study Are we feeling munchy?
• Managing spreadsheet fraud Do managers know how much errors cost?

Management: Public Sector

• .EU will be live by Jan '06 Make a note in your diaries
• Cardiff tops broadband electoral poll Election 2005 Get a load of this swing-o-meter

Music and Media

• Porn swallows 20% of NZ police IT capacity People like us
• UK police tackle mounting internet porn caseload Computer forensics units take the strain

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• The Boss is dead - long live The Boss Episode 13 The BOFH school of management

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Sniping bloggers can keep America safe from terrorists and cats! And ninethly 'Snogging' militia is crucial
• Surrey man claims $10k Moore's law bounty Dave's floor saves Moore's law

Odds and Sods: Letters

• The mysterious link between security, laptops and rubbish dumps Letters No, really

Personal: PCs

• AMD: dual-core not for gamers... yet Waiting for dualie-friendly titles - or Athlon FX stocks to sell?

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Sex android begats Armageddon machine We're all going to die. Here's why

Security: Anti-Virus

• MP3 zapping malware worms onto P2P network Vigilante virus

Security: ID

• AOL seeks to block phishing sites 'We're trying to cut the lines before a phisher can reel them in'
• Privacy watchdog warns job seekers to beware Would you like a job transferring our newly-aquired money?

Software

• AMD tells software companies to re-think dual core Be warned: This is just the beginning

Software: Operating Systems

• Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it Microsoft cranks up hype machine
• Tridgell drops Bitkeeper bombshell Open for all