14th July 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• easyMobile wins 'bad faith' domain case against Carphone 'Laughable' apparently
• In case of emergency, dial 'ICE' Simple and smart idea for your mobile
• Orange UK launches smart phones M500 for business, C550 for pleasure
• PalmOne regains old handle Eyes multi-OS future?
• TransFlash becomes MicroSD Memory card body adopts SanDisk spec
• Voda's Scottish 3G network wobbles Not that you'd notice

Comms: Networks

• Ebbers weeps as sentence handed down 25 years for $11bn WorldCom fraud
• ISPA contacts Bulldog over spike in customer complaints 'Customer service issues'

Distribution

• Azlan puts planets into orbit Gonna make you a star-e-ar-e-ar
• C2000 extends credit lines for SME resellers £11.5m bonanza

Hardware: Servers

• AMD shrugs off Intel shackles for ace Q2 Chips up. Flash down

Hardware: Storage

• HDS intros midsize storage controller Good Lord!
• Microsoft's 'Chimney' stuffed by TCP/IP settlement Alacritech - one of many

Management: Financial News

• US legal music downloads up 187% CDs ripped, so online buying starting in earnest?

Management: IT Director

• Dell: why Customer Care had to die Forums full of people with problems - now all gone!

Management: Public Sector

• Lawyer pegged for key role in Homeland Security revamp Ex-NSA bod get DHS policy czar nomination

Music and Media

• Oz ISP, employee and principal held liable for copyright breaches Analysis Money well spent
• Oz music hyperlinker guilty of copyright infringement Linking amounted to piracy, says judge
• UK ministers push for data retention Put worries about cost and liberty aside

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ditch the remote, get a robot Bone idle? Click here says Philips
• Hillary Clinton demands GTA smut enquiry Grand Theft Auto menaces family values
• Kiwi punts pornographic citrus fruit Juicy NZ auction site action
• MP3 is ten years old today The file extension, not the format
• One third of Americans believe in ghosts Spooky survey
• One third of surveyees lie in surveys: survey While 30% of US believes in haunted medical labs

Personal: Peripherals

• Slot machines in 3D? No glasses

Personal: Reviews

• Samsung SPP-2040 dye-sub photo printer Review Stitch this, inket...

Science

• Michael J. Fox makes stem cell plea Doc Hollywood backs research bill
• One in three medical studies is dodgy Results exaggerated, or just flat out wrong
• Planetary three-sun baffles boffins It shouldn't happen to an astrophysicist
• Shuttle grounded Here we go again...

Security

• VeriSign snags iDefense for $40m Managed security services play

Security: Enterprise Security

• Desktop port proliferation a security risk? Oh no! Not the desktop port proliferation!
• Flaws in BT chat sites expose users Oh dear

Services

• Morse flogs French business for €1 (and then some) Upbeat trading update