12th May 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Men chattier than women Weird survey findings
• US mag reveals PalmOne LifeDrive specs Launch imminent

Comms: Networks

• AOL offers free email Whatever
• Dutch anti-piracy unit targets ISPs Name file-sharers or else

Comms: Wireless

• Boingo hops onto Boeing Connexion In-flight Wi-Fi roaming

Lifecycle: Manage

• IBM has moment of SOA clarity Think modular, not monolithic
• UK unis flaunt new computer science courses Fancy doing a degree in games development?

Management: Financial News

• Dell keeps double-digit growth groove going in Q1 On storage. On notebooks
• Future buys Cheatplanet.com for £4.6m US games sites
• Intel restates Q1 earnings. Upwards Tax burden reduced
• Napster's Q4 loss swells as costs surge Renting music ain't easy
• Travelocity buys Lastminute.com for £577m Hooks up with Travelocity

Management: IT Director

• BCS on renewed professional standards campaign To paraphrase: be reputable, join the BCS
• Dixons to outsource tech support to LogicaCMG 'Premature' says Dixons
• HP thins UK support contract - sends hundreds of jobs to India Exclusive Hurding to Bangalore

Management: Small Biz

• Police tackle Companies House database scam Anti-hijack campaign

Market News

• DDR 2 output jumps in April Almost half of the DRAM biz by year's end?

Music and Media

• Wired News hack in fake-sources brouhaha Comment Just a bit of harmless colour

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Need a brothel? Ask Google More UK map merriment

Odds and Sods: Site News

• TechnoDepot issues severe date warning Cash'n'Carrion Essential kit for harassed team leaders

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo 'Revolution' to take place mid-2006 Memory supplier spills the beans

Personal: PCs

• Hitachi ships 'world fastest' 100GB notebook HDD Watch out, Seagate
• Shuttle launches first Media Center barebones Small form-factor for the living room

Personal: System Builder

• Nvidia to launch G70 'at Computex' ATI said to be focusing on SLi-rival

Science

• Heat treatment straightens out MARSIS boom Sorted

Security

• Apple fixes critical iTunes bug MPEG-4 peril alert

Security: Enterprise Security

• UK.gov warns over VPN crypto flaw Remote access snooping risk prompts yellow alert

Security: Spam

• 419ers invade Skype chat Do these people never give up?
• Massachusetts fires legal broadside at spam gang ... as failed junk mailers escape FTC fine

Software

• MSN on the alert with MessageCast acquisition No figures made public

Software: Applications

• Next Microsoft Office due in 2006 Stop using Office 1997, won't you?

Software: Operating Systems

• Open source ahoy! Black Duck joins US Navy push