26th July 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• 3 goes live in Ireland Video phone-tastic
• 3 signs up Sony Ericsson Three becomes four
• Eircom to buy Meteor for €420m Return to Irish mobile market
• Motorola unveils would-be Blackberry beater Go to the back of the Q
• Nokia, Symbian boom as smart phone sales rocket But PDA sales stutter
• Vodafone kicks Beckham into touch Midfielder sent to the bench

Comms: Networks

• BT hits back at Bulldog jibes Blame game continues as punters lose out
• Ofcom sent 135 Bulldog complaints Time for regulator to act

Hardware

• IBM's z9 mainframe monster roars to life 54 processors of goodness
• New Vista name, old Windows problem for Microsoft How to make an upgrade make sense
• TI reaps wireless boom And increases dividend

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco pays $97m to pump networks full of its DNA Sheer intelligence

Lifecycle: Manage

• Software user did not acquire ownership, says court What's yours is mine?

Management: Financial News

• Amazon delivers shipshape Q2 No nasty surprises this time
• CA aims to curb spam with Qurb Liked IT so much it bought the company
• Game adds on Addon Acquires French retailer
• MS website trumpets 'pyramid' company Quest for gold turns nasty
• PlusNet posts improved numbers BB numbers up too

Management: IT Director

• IT jobs on the up Go west young man, go west...
• Leeds Council aims for IT integration nirvana And Hackney wants your bids

Management: Public Sector

• UK overseas passports go biometric from 2006 No fingerprints, just faces

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Vanishing HQs, trendy hearing aids and buying Office 2003 Letters You think we're hallucinating (again)

Personal

• GTA porn row - whose responsibility is it? Analysis Give me some sugar, honey

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple updates iBook, Mac Mini More for your money

Personal: PCs

• AMD to raise Athlon prices? Balancing August Sempron price cuts
• Dell leaked email shows channel plans Direct threat haunts dealers
• Intel plans $3bn 300mm-wafer fab in Arizona First 45nm production plant
• Intel quietly ships Pentium M 778 Celeron M 380, too
• Time shutters stores Shop closure only temporary

Personal: Reviews

• Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition gaming PC Review Impressive... most impressive

Science

• Shuttle actually lifts off Hooray!
• US army gets raygun for Iraq Set phasers to roast..

Security: Enterprise Security

• Firms warned over SAP flaw Action stations

Security: Spam

• Russian spammer murdered Bludgeoned to death

Software

• Fakers beware: no more MS updates for you WGA goes live

Software: Applications

• Oh, the 'maturing' middleware market The downs of getting old
• Student in '£250m' software piracy scam walks free Gumshoes unravel trade in counterfeit IBM code