18th July 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Apple to muscle in on MVNO market? Have devices, will network
• Sproqit finally cranks out workgroup system Architecture gets Unisys, Ingram Micro thumbs-up
• Vodafone takes the fight to VoIP Voice rates will fall as battle hots up

Comms: Networks

• Bulldog faces Ofcom complaints Gripes continue
• Tele2 buys Versatel Triple play

Comms: VoIP

• The Cloud touts Skype Zones support The benefits of Boingo roaming deal

Distribution

• Enta and MAXDATA Disty deal for all products
• Exabyte buddies up to Northamber Tape disty deal

Hardware

• Kingston signs IBM for support Contract expansion

Hardware: Data Networking

• Time to turn on to power over Ethernet? Quocirca’s changing channels Old idea, new energy

Hardware: Servers

• DoD picks Opteron as weapon of mass simulation Up in HP's arms
• Intel slaps 'wide load' tag on new Itanium Coming to a Harmonious Competency Center near you
• VMware greets new dual-core chips with old world licensing Two for one

Management: Financial News

• $1 domains for the developing world And Swedish, Korean, Latvian... dot-orgs for the rest of us
• Amazon.com goes nuclear on Avis, Orbitz Patent infringement
• Apple iTunes sells half a billion songs Next 500m sold by end of year?
• Cisco sets age limit for board Retirement motion
• EC raids Dell in Intel anti-trust probe Channel really quite pleased
• Energis and C&W refuse to deny merger talk Game on
• Infineon memory boss quits Police raid, corruption allegations
• Sony Ericsson claims Q2 market share gain Phone shipments, revenues up
• TeleCity agrees £58m buyout Consolidating fragmentation apparently
• WinZip bought by VC Compression company feeling the squeeze

Management: Public Sector

• Typosquatters hijack US credit report site Be careful out there, warns privacy forum

Music and Media

• ICANN prez delivers internet vision Interview Paul Twomey gives forth
• Nigerian 419er jailed Email fraud ends in chokey
• No2ID pledge reaches 10,000 signature goal Take that, Mr. Clarke
• US gets jitters over in-flight mobes Comment Hi, I'm on the plane. Is Osama available?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Asbo teen ordered to get legless And to threaten public
• Compaq showpiece turns into giant God conduit Mark of Hurd?
• Google tracks Hitler to San Diego Black helicopter alert Führer bunkers down on US soil
• SAP seeks irrelevant executive Must travel without traveling and know nothing
• You Blew Me Up You Bastard Give it to bin Laden straight - posthumously

Personal: Reviews

• Orange SPV M500 smart phone First UK review 'Magician' restyled

Science

• China sends pig sperm to space No, really
• Germany backs ESA's mission to Mars Big cash injection, this one

Security

• Cost of US cyber attacks plummets But watch out for ID thieves
• Malware maelstrom menaces UK Post-St Swithin's deluge
• Sophos changes channel programme Survey leads to changes

Security: Enterprise Security

• McKinnon warns off fledgling hackers as hearing looms Don't do it kids, says NASA hacker
• MS probes Win XP SP2 kernel bug Crash risk dummy

Security: Spam

• Sophos service searches for zombie PCs Botnot