15th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Chinese eye $100 wireless laptop Crucial for rural broadband deployment
• Mobile war smoulders around internet UI Casualties expected as race hots up

Management

• 'Employees first' ruling nixed after appeal Legal wrangling

Management: Financial News

• Bid for O2 dead, or just sleeping? Deutsche Telekom and KPN call off talks
• eBay UK trading to hit £4bn We're in the money
• Energis rubbishes Thus bid Clock ticking
• Judge clarifies Google AdWords ruling in the US 'Likelihood of confusion'
• Thus throws hat into Energis ring And Thus Spake, err, Thus

Management: IT Director

• Want women in IT? Make maths mandatory Surprising research results

Management: Small Biz

• Cheques 'extinct by 2025' A drawn-out affair
• Sony dips toe into SMB market Quocirca's changing channels 'Sony 1' programme woos resellers

Music and Media

• Korean rhetoric of hate immortalised on web 'You black-hearted running dog!'
• RIAA admits CD-R more a threat than P2P Paving ground for mass anti-rip CD roll-out?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Brits steal carloads of F**king Austrian roadsigns No IT angle and certainly NSFW
• Taser absolved of stun gun death liability Shares up after Arizona ruling

Personal: Consoles

• US games software giants target UK mod-chip supplier Exclusive Seller 'prepared to fight'
• Violent video games do not cause aggression No evidence, academic report suggests

Personal: PCs

• Intel slashes Pentium 4 6xx prices Up to 34 per cent off

Personal: System Builder

• Nvidia preps 'C51 Intel Edition' AMD version due 20 September, say moles

Science

• Scientists invent pee-powered battery Are you taking a sample?
• UK hit by sperm donor crisis Not enough coming forward and coming

Security: Anti-Virus

• Flaw on Tuesday, worm by Sunday VXer wastes no time exploiting latest MS vuln

Security: Spam

• Bulk mailer convicted of data theft scam Information inflation

Software: Applications

• Firefox loses ground to IE Blip on the road?