29th April 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• INM sells stake in iTouch for €100m 'Very attractive' return on investment

Hardware: Data Networking

• BT completes Radianz buy-out Nuff said

Hardware: Storage

• Backup tapes are backdoor for ID thieves Tales from the encrypt

Information: Knowledge

• Monarch triumphs over anarchy Extracting individual facts

Lifecycle: Manage

• Fortinet settles GPL violation lawsuit Latest in a long line of settlements

Management: Financial News

• e-ad spend on the up 'Firing on all cylinders' apparently
• Ingram goes mooney over June quarter Asia boosts solid Q1
• Job fears haunt Marconi 'Devastating blow'
• Microsoft does well in third quarter Promises to try harder, though
• NCR's Q1 goes the way of the Hurd Gone but not forgotten
• Sun shares surge on 'joke' that firm will go private Hedge-fund hilarity

Management: IT Director

• Dell ready to go on India hiring binge Mike Dehli shows offshore love
• eBay's Whitman, Omidyar settle share spinning suit Flipping and spinning
• Head teachers fingered in email snooping row Information Commissioner asked to investigate

Market News

• eXpansys swallows MobilePlanet US expansion

Music and Media

• Porn-surfing Norwegians awarded $40k Unfairly dismissed, court rules

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Let the games begin Episode 14 Heads will roll

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 'You are racist chavscum' bellows irate reader FoTW Ooh dear, oh dear, oh dear
• Flying car totals Basingstoke house Aerobatic BMW takes to the skies - briefly
• Google redraws world according to George Bush Sinister goings-on at UK map operation

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Fusing the desktop with non standard kgs Letters Science special

Odds and Sods: Site News

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Review Mostly harmless

Personal: Mac Channel

• PC dealer sues Apple over Tiger Alleges Mac OS X 10.4 brandname infringes trademark

Personal: PCs

• Intel kills 64-bit Pentium 4s Update Workstation and server parts EOL'd
• Intel's Eastern focus prompts concern in English channel ISS Don't forget us

Personal: Reviews

• ATI HyperMemory vs Nvidia TurboCache Review Mano a mano

Science

• Beer makes you clever: official Grain brain gain
• Shuttle grounded until July Nagging worries about debris

Security

• Florida Uni on brown alert after hack attack IT hits the fan

Security: Anti-Virus

• Trojan attack exploits Google typos Mind your language

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft sharpens Longhorn for SMEs This time we really mean it
• MontaVista Linux phones heading for US and Europe From server to handsets - the struggle continues