11th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• HP UK 'leaks' next-gen wireless iPaq details Whoops...
• HTC 'to build' Palm's Windows-based Treo The brains behind its development too?
• Turf war brewing over Europe's 3G spectrum EC says 'open up'
• Will Europe fall in love with Qualcomm, now it owns Flarion 4G technology? Comment Or will it reject Flarion because it's Qualcomm?

Comms: Networks

• Ofcom mulls Bulldog probe ISP could scrap Autumn marketing push
• Telewest announces 10 meg broadband Follows NTL lead

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage ships £20 phone adaptor Cheaper way into VoIP

Distribution

• C2000 promotes Aldous to run volume marketing In re-org's wake

Lifecycle: Manage

• Alpha geeks wanted for beta testing Exclusive offer Be first to play with Microsoft's SQL Server 2005
• IBM: Desktop is next Linux frontier Beam me up, just differently
• Moglen on GPL 3.0 Pac Man stikes back
• Red Hat pushes Microsoft for patents statement It's not what you do...

Management: Financial News

• Contractors fear more BT job cuts 'Corrective action' in face of £25m IT overspend
• Creative plunges into the red And we're not talking about MP3 player cases...
• Gloomy Q3 outlook clouds Dell's Q2 Consumers and Feds blamed

Management: IT Director

• DTI confirms another six month wait for WEEE Landfill limbo
• Microsoft rifles ex-employee's (Windows) trashcan Smoking gun in Google poaching case?

Management: Small Biz

• VMware embraces Sun and even Solaris x86 Sees the light

Music and Media

• MP calls for updated laws to fight cyberjihadis The enemy is all around

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Chinese boffins provoke Oz speed camera kerfuffle Case binned after image algorithm cracked
• Delhi to RFID chip cows Fighting wandering sacred bovine fraud
• Girls prefer girly websites: official And blokes like it butch
• Trojan fights STDs Preventing personal infection

Personal: Consoles

• 'Grand Theft Auto' cop killer found guilty Gameplaying did not affect outcome

Personal: Mac Channel

• iPod fails to impress South Koreans Apple's MP3 market share 'under two per cent'

Personal: Peripherals

• Graphics card vendors pre-announce Nvidia GeForce 7800GT Update Jumping the Big F**king Gun

Personal: Reviews

• Brother MFC-620CN multi-function printer Review Jack-of-all-trades...

Personal: System Builder

• Samsung DRAM ouput shifts to DDR 2 Finally overtakes DDR 1

Reseller

• Black Box UK branch in MBO Wheeling out from Barrow
• Maxima buys Ringwood Consolidator

Science

• Melting Siberia threat to climate Lots of methane in them thar bogs
• NASA scrubs MRO launch, again Sounds soooo familiar

Security: ID

• Ofcom deregulates RFID in the UK Lack of interference

Security: Spam

• Fax-back phishing scam targets PayPal Retro racket

Software

• Glitch hits MS Patch Tuesday Oops

Software: Applications

• MS lochs down Scots Police deal But some OSS remains
• Symantec / Veritas gussies up high-end apps for Linux It's like Unix now