3rd June 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Intel shifts Manitoba Finally secures mobile phone customer
• Virgin trials mobile TV It's gonna be big - unlike the screens

Comms: Wireless

• BT inks new Wi-Fi roaming deals Have lappy, will travel

Hardware: Servers

• Sun critics hear the sound of two garbage trucks colliding Analysis Is StorageTek buy a waste?
• Sun exits blade server market . . . for now Out of orbit

Management: Financial News

• Message storm knocks NYSE offline Early close for trading floor
• Saucy sites to get .xxx TLD Phwoooooaaarr!

Management: Small Biz

• SMEs tempted with BT tech support Not outsourced, not offshored

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Blocking the chutney ferret Episode 18 Advanced Bayesian filtering

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Sharp unshackles 65-inch LCD beast Big TV and a price tag to match

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Netscape fans giggle at broken IE Letters And we fillet a frog
• Vive la France! cry Reg readers Stern response Otto gets a slapping

Personal: Consoles

• Sony tries to choke off UK PSP imports Thin grey line

Personal: PCs

• Dell red-faced over salesman's Lenovo jibes Cultural re-education for Austin's finest
• Intel: We're all office warriors now Claims victory after victory for new designs

Science

• 'Nazi nuke' sketch unearthed Proof of Hitler's nuclear capability?
• EU experts scrap over GM maize Deadlock in approval vote
• Phoenix to rise on 2007 Mars mission Checking for life, etc
• Power lines linked to childhood leukaemia Or is it just wonky stats?
• Russia rattles sabre over space weapons Will take 'adequate retaliatory measures'

Security

• Hackers plot to create massive botnet It's raining malware
• Trojan poses as Osama capture pics More viral dirty tricks

Services

• VoIP confuses punters Huh?

Software

• Black is white in Longhorn compatibility land .NET Framework shenanigans

Software: Applications

• Microsoft adopts XML for Office formats Openness and interoperability promised

Software: Operating Systems

• Hack can upgrade XP Home to XP Pro Lite Two byte freebie