8th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• AOL buys wireless firm Wildseed, you make my...
• Nokia and Ollila's legacy Analysis Kallasvuo takes on Zander in battle of handset titans

Comms: Networks

• London Internet Exchange cuts ISP charges The LINX effect
• Madasafish ribs Wanadoo over broadband speed Letter writing copycats
• NTL goes large with 10 meg broadband Need for speed

Comms: VoIP

• Who will buy Skype? Yahoo!? or Google? or Rupert Murdoch? Never mind the quality, feel the width!

Comms: Wireless

• Intel throws weight behind US municipal metrozones Analysis New model could put key telecoms services back in public ownership

Hardware: Data Networking

• Marconi confirms bid talks Huawei fingered

Lifecycle: Manage

• IBM open sources enterprise search Takes unstructured approach

Management: Financial News

• Cisco 'eyes' Nokia network biz Been here before
• Friends Reunited ponders sale Looking for a new best friend?
• HSBC facing '£19m' loss on Granville collapse Gloomy prospects for unsecured creditors
• iTunes Japan shifts 1m songs in four days Music download frenzy
• Oz legit downloads fail, and fail again Analysis The complacency, the expense
• UK firm offers legal video downloads Testing the water
• Yahoo! launches self-service ads Anything Google do ...

Management: Public Sector

• ID cards: Home Office pursued over LSE rebuttal Wrong tree, wrong bark
• Public sector e-biz push threatens small firms 20,000 London jobs on the line, Newham claims

Management: Small Biz

• UK workers hate work, office customs and each other It's official

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Sun lounger towel annexation declared illegal No IT angle, but good news for irate Brit tourists
• Two straight Canadian blokes to marry Smart tax move

Personal: Consoles

• Sony sues Lik-Sang - again This time it's about Europe-bound PSP exports
• UK to get Xbox 360 on '25 November' 'Highly-placed' mole spills beans

Personal: PCs

• Dell goes SLi for next XPS gaming PC Twin GeForce 7800 GTX cards on board
• Intel aligns key old-style Centrino EOL dates 400MHz FSB CPUs, chipsets for the chop
• Intel's 'Yonah' to supersede 'Dothan' Q2 06 Roadmap Dual-core drive revealed

Personal: Peripherals

• Dixons says goodbye to 35mm cameras Digital only from now on, sort of...

Personal: Reviews

• Acer Ferrari 4000 notebook Review Getting Turion right

Science

• Clouds scupper Shuttle landing attempt Try again tomorrow

Security

• Security download must clearly disclose adware Advertising.com settles FTC complaint

Security: Anti-Virus

• Microsoft quells Vista virus concerns Written out of the script

Security: Enterprise Security

• OS exploits are 'old hat' Analysis Cisco Black Hat talk illustrates wider security risks
• Security still underfunded Comment Hire someone complex

Security: ID

• The CardSystems blame game Comment Don't shoot me, I'm only the consultant