25th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Networks

• All of Scotland to get broadband You lucky, lucky people
• PlusNet ditches fair usage policy Uh huh...

Hardware: Storage

• Veritas CEO stays silent on Symantec dreams Veritas Vision User show is 'the wrong audience'

Lifecycle: Manage

• Forgent sues Microsoft over JPEG patents Back to court

Management: Financial News

• Bono ditches Lara Croft Eidos sale falls through
• Creative income falls on iPod-minced margins Sales up, though
• Datatec updates earnings Might make some apparently
• DoubleClick goes private Sold for $1bn
• Full-year profits up 58% at Wipro Out-sourcery
• Google offers banner ads Extending reach...
• MCI dumps Verizon, cuddles up to Qwest Plenty more telcos in the sea
• World Cup 2006 organisers clash with eBay.de eBayers, for you the ticket bidding war is over

Management: IT Director

• Hushmail hit by DNS attack Defacers pharm secure mail service

Management: Public Sector

• Open source makes school appointment Report to pave way for greater OSS use in UK schools

Management: Small Biz

• BCC wants business tax rates frozen Election 2005 Oh, that general election...

Music and Media

• Yahoo! hands over dead man's email Soldier's parents inherit his inbox

Personal: Consoles

• Amazon puts back UK Sony PSP debut - again Exclusive Autumn availability?

Personal: Mac Channel

• Newspaper shows Mac OS X running on Intel box Sort of

Personal: PCs

• HP tops out in Asia Beats China's Lenovo to Number One

Personal: Peripherals

• ATI top-end GPUs to win back 'channel leadership' R520, RV530, RV515 to take on Nvidia
• MS to demo Flash-HDD hybrid drive Notebook Power Preservation Society

Personal: Reviews

• Sony DSC-T7 digital camera Review Nice gadget, shame about the pics?

Science

• Astronomers spy hot spots on neutron stars No, not that kind of hot spot...

Security: Anti-Virus

• PC-cillin killed my PC Update Trend Micro so sorry

Security: ID

• Gemplus snaps up e-document firm Setec Astronomy

Software

• 64 bit Windows ready to go Worth the wait?
• Software patent directive back in motion Continental drift

Software: Applications

• Sun updates Java Enterprise In brief Identity manager arrives...