12th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Cabir mobile worm gives track fans the run around Minor outbreak at Athletics championship
• iTunes to yield 5% of Apple's revenues in 2006 Analyst does his sums
• Vodafone customers suffer mystery number blockage No calls to 07800 for you lot

Hardware: Servers

• Intel to ship Xeon 5000 dual-cores this year? Could be worried about Opteron

Lifecycle: Manage

• Perens: Torvalds' patent pool is useless Spitting in the wind

Management: Financial News

• Amazon pays $40m in patent settlement Settles Soverain claims
• AMD pursues NEC, Fujistu AMD vs Intel Yet more subpoenas sent
• Chief beancounter gets five years for WorldCom fraud 'Regrets', I've had a few, but then again...
• Deadline set for C&W's Energis take-over Agree by Monday or deal is off
• HP buys Scitex super-wide printer ops for $230m It’s a Vision Thing
• Nvidia reports Q2 income jump Despite sequential sales dip
• Sun to shed around 1,000 jobs UK will be affected

Management: Public Sector

• Gov.UK preps ID card contracts Home Office indicates high-level IT requirements

Music and Media

• £200K card skimming gang caged Four go down for four years each
• Court revives high-profile wiretap prosecution Service provider snooping loophole ties lawyers in knots
• Google Print put on pause There's no such thing as a free scan
• Lawyer vows to prove link between video games and murder 'Blood on the hands' of Rockstar, Sony et al, says Thompson

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• The name's BOFH - James BOFH Episode 23 OOF

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Britney to drop sprog on live TV? If Kevin Federline gets his wicked way
• NZ man held in Oz rabbit bestiality dragnet No IT content, but contains traces of cannabis

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Technology in schools: for fun, education, hacking & explusion Letters And we visit the 1950s

Personal: Mac Channel

• Mac users demand 'slow SuperDrive' fix Petitioners claim 2x performance on 8x-rated drive

Personal: PCs

• Intel to detail next-gen chip design Conroe to debut at Intel Developer Forum?

Personal: Reviews

• AMD Athlon X2 3800+ dual-core CPU Review Entry-level two-core champion?

Personal: System Builder

• Intel 'preps' Pentium 4 6xx price cuts Paving the way for VT-enabled versions

Science

• Scientists blame balloons for climate change debate The case for global warming just got stronger
• Shuttle flights are gone 'til November At the earliest

Security: ID

• NY enacts security breaches disclosure law Firms obliged to own up to gaffes

Software

• Lloyd's taking on open source IP risk Exclusive Blue blood for new blood

Software: Operating Systems

• Wide open Vistas beckon for Microsoft in Germany Bags trademark rights