21st June 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Airline passengers love inflight SMS, hate voice calls HELLO! I'M ON A PLANE!
• Nokia shifting to Linux as it joins with Apple to challenge Windows 2 Analysis Who's riding on whose coat-tails?

Comms: Networks

• Freedom2Surf unveils 8meg service LLU at work
• Rats fingered for knocking out NZ's phone network Pesky things
• Sky readies 'on-demand' PC content service You'll need your own broadband connection though
• Telewest trials webcast TV TV or not TV, that is the question

Comms: Wireless

• Moseley mops up Proxim’s assets Distress sale

Distribution

• Medea gains UK solus for HP optical media Also, new franchises for Azlan and Target

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco branches out into middleware Climbs up the application stack
• Orlando axes free muni Wi-Fi Not enough bloggers

Hardware: Servers

• HP's Mr Blade opens Intel's power envelope to all More Watts than you can shake an Opteron at

Lifecycle: Manage

• SOA ready for the masses? The jury's in

Management: Financial News

• Apple sued over iTunes - again Patent infringement claim

Management: IT Director

• LogicaCMG goes down the Tube Metronet's IT is outsourced

Management: Public Sector

• Open Source lab for local councils Testing, testing...

Management: Small Biz

• Employment Practices Data Protection Code: now consolidated Manual for employers
• PayPal goes after small biz PayPal for pros

Personal

• No more mister nice guy: EMI, Sony-BMG revisit CD copy protection Lack of Fairplay

Personal: Peripherals

• Blu-ray, HD DVD merger talks scrapped Parties can't agree

Personal: Reviews

• Navicore GPS for Symbian Review Take a trip with your smart phone

Science

• Blast off for solar-sail test craft Sun blows

Security: ID

• Even Bigger Brother ID card critics stage public meeting
• Unauthorised research opened door to MasterCard breach Comedy of errors

Security: Spam

• Microsoft sues German spammer For you deplored one, the spam war is over

Software

• EU jettisons software patent amendments Big business happy