10th May 2005 Archive

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Comms: VoIP

• Parents blame Vonage over girl’s death 911 failure

Hardware: Storage

• Toshiba slams Blu-ray/ HD DVD convergence claims 'Unfounded and erroneous'

Management: Financial News

• Apple iTunes sales sail past 400m Nordic boost
• Apple updates iTunes Music Stores open in more countries, too
• Consumer growth floats NTL's boat Revs up, losses down etc
• Dell seen as long-term risk to Cisco Speck on the horizon
• Is Siemens phone biz Korea bound? Watch Pantech, say sources...
• NTL flogs Irish cableco Telewest merger step closer
• Power outage floors eBay Service restored
• Sage ups H1 profits Lives up to 'boring' tag

Management: Public Sector

• News on new eminister due 'shortly' Dippy appointments

Market News

• TSMC, UMC April sales slump Optimistic for second half?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Fun on the daily commute with Wi-Fi and hacked PSPs Letters Oh, and The Register en Esperanto estas confusing

Personal: PCs

• Consumer sales and laptops fuel UK market growth Business sales slow

Personal: Peripherals

• Jessops hit as digital camera sales bomb Smile and say 'cheese'

Personal: Reviews

• Epson P-2000 Multimedia Storage Viewer Review The photographer's ideal media player?

Personal: System Builder

• AMD steals Q1 market share from Intel VIA, Transmeta did too
• Shuttle debuts Media Center barebone PC Black is the new black

Reseller

• VGASTORE opens doors Video editing for the masses

Science

• MARSIS experiment hit by delay Boom time

Security: Anti-Virus

• Car virus myth debunked Rumour crushed
• Trend Micro boosts anti-spyware defences with Intermute buy Sign of the times

Security: Enterprise Security

• Cisco source code theft part of 'mega-hack' Root cause analysis

Software

• Microsoft fortifies monthly patches with interim advisories Which is nice
• Symantec false alert floors Macs Anti-virus cure causes more harm than disease

Software: Applications

• Scansoft and Nuance plan $221m merger If you want to merge, say 'yes' after the tone

Software: Operating Systems

• Multi-tier 'virtual' development is go Comment VMware Workstation 5
• Sun acquires oldSCO for $25m Tarantella travels to Santa Clara