13th May 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Gates backs Dell iPod skepticism Windows v Mac all over again?
• O2 trials mobile TV UK mass market test
• Orange blasted for extinguishing Wildfire Campaign gathers momentum
• W3C punts mobile web Comment So what?

Hardware: Servers

• Grid computing: a real-world solution? Analysis It appears so
• Sun plays hide and seek with key Solaris 10 goodies ZFS and Janus go missing

Lifecycle: Manage

• EII - it's all go out there Enterprise information integration news
• Nvidia G70 to appear at E3 Inside a PS3 or on its own?

Management: Financial News

• Nvidia posts record revenues Highest profits for three years, too
• UK flies broadband flag for Tiscali Splendid

Management: IT Director

• Disney greenlights outsourcing of 1,000 IT staffers Team Rodent meets Big Blue

Management: Public Sector

• Dippy makeover sees return of DTI Eminister named too
• MS unfazed by OSS schools report Anomalous primaries

Market News

• Judge imposes US Renesas chip sales ban Translogic patent infringed, court rules

Music and Media

• Gloves off in Dutch anti-piracy punch-up ISPs fight back

Odds and Sods

• Cornell Uni develops apocalypse cube Laser pulse rifles at the ready

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPod And ninethly Sister Strangelove made a man out of me

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Adventurous squirrels swap passwords for coffee beans Letters Or did we read that wrong?

Personal: Consoles

• MS unwraps Xbox 360 Shipping around the world next holiday season

Personal: Reviews

• Garmin iQue M5 GPS PocketPC Review The best GPS/PDA combo currently available?

Personal: System Builder

• Intel may get boost from robust Taiwan PC market Notebooks galore
• Intel: next-gen dual-cores not NetBurst Going back to Pentium III, sort of

Science

• Sun spits out tiny squirt of plasma Smallest ever coronal mass ejection

Security

• Resto & pub webcams expose us to pervs, snoops Smile! Your alibi is being ruined

Security: Enterprise Security

• F5 picks up Watchfire's app firewall biz Under new 0wn3rship
• Firefox loses its shine Spate of vulns raises security questions
• Google puts the brake on Web Accelerator Cache from chaos
• I know what you downloaded from Freenet Exclusive Anonymous P2P network open to easy forensic attack
• MS punts all-in-one security and backup service OneCare to rule them all

Software

• Ballmer and McNealy interoperate on ID IBM becomes the new Microsoft
• Microsoft streamlines licensing Pay the same, just know why you're paying