29th July 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Mark/Space brings Windows smart phone sync to Mac Fixes Tiger glitch, too

Distribution

• Ingram Micro sales well up in Q2 Further growth in Q3
• Tills ring for Bell in Q2 Despite bum note in Europe

Hardware

• Sun pimps GMC's data center with JES McNealy rides custom van to 1m user mark

Hardware: Data Networking

• Settlement reached in Cisco flaw dispute 'Cisco has a gazillion dollars and he is an unemployed guy'
• TechScape: Vint Cerf on how the internet was born Interview The man himself recollects...

Hardware: Servers

• Dell gets its bundle on for Exchange upgrades Buy now before support ends
• Intel pitches Pentium M-based 'Sossaman' server chip Low wattage
• Intel revamps server chip nomenclature Think Series not GHz
• Iwill readies 64GB two-way Opteron mobo DIMMtastic
• SGI closes painful 2005 with a thud Massive restructuring underway

Hardware: Storage

• Maxtor back in the black Sales shift to SCSI drives up margins, ASP

Management: Financial News

• iPass Q2 profits slide 26.7 per cent Tricky-to-judge shift from dial-up access to broadband
• MS nixes Google hire Phoney war
• NEC rejects AMD subpoena demands AMD vs Intel Chip maker's requests are 'vague, overly broad, unduly burdensome'
• Quantum eyes Tiny brand Talks slated for next week
• Zopa – the bank that likes to say 'Hello There!' Giving banks the peer-to-peer treatment

Management: IT Director

• Love, love your sysadmin, do Party on, it's sysadmin day

Market News

• DHL hit in massive IT heist Lights out as blaggers nick lorry loads of goodies

Music and Media

• Microsoft blogger: 'My toolbar vanished too!' The Scoble Email
• The Swedish keep sharing Anti-piracy law toothless

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: A white van man called Algernon Episode 22 Codeword: Echelon

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Hitachi feeds 5,000 with miracle plum mountain Good Lord!
• Horny Brits plug into internet vibrator Net-controlled remote rumpy-pumpy

Odds and Sods: Letters

• War driver fine offends Reg readers Letters While raunchy cartoons get censored and sued

Personal: Peripherals

• HP and Apple end iPod affair Hurd dashes Fiorina's reselling dream
• Imagination launches PowerVR SGX Unified shader architecture for mobiles
• Is your printer spying on you? Tech tracking spooks EFF
• Olive conducts Symphony for classical music fans Wi-Fi meets hi-fi

Security

• Phishing attacks soar as viral onslaught wanes Coarse phishing

Security: Anti-Virus

• Sophos bug highlights wider anti-virus flaws Window of vulnerability

Software

• Ballmer - No blockbuster takeovers Thinks big with small M&A targets

Software: Applications

• Sybase to acquire Extended Systems Will pay $71.3m for middleware, big Euro customer base
• Windows Genuine Advantage cracked Short cuts