19th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Mio preps Bluetooth GPS PocketPC Successor to the 168 series?
• Orange reveals M5000 3G smart phone But where's the Wi-Fi?

Comms: Networks

• Regulator limits BT wholesale network charges £100m-a-year savings, maybe

Hardware: Servers

• Sun's Opteron Becky Boxes to arrive next month Exclusive Right on time

Management: Financial News

• Apple reshuffles China chiefs Senior heads roll
• Google wants $4bn more Going shopping?
• Salesforce.com claims 300,000 subscribers CRM of the crop
• World's greatest hardware guru retires The Loon finds his hedge
• Yahoo! to keep music prices low Tightens screw on Napster, Real and co.

Management: IT Director

• Apple extends iMac G5 warranties Cover for power and video problems

Management: Public Sector

• Massive IT overhaul in prospect for UK schools De-Capitation?

Management: Small Biz

• Costs outweigh security concerns for small.biz Not entirely surprising

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Drunk gravity Episode 24 E=mc² + beer - work

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Anarchist clown cuffed after virtual dragnet Krusty the bicycle thief snared on net
• Bond's Lotus Esprit voted top movie car The Car Which Outacted Roger Moore
• China cracks down on cavorting net floozie 'Hibiscus' nipped in bud
• Man mugs online game characters Sells virtual goodies for cash

Odds and Sods: Letters

• The mysteries of shootings, volcanoes and flying spaghetti monsters Letters Paging Mr. Hubbard...

Personal: Peripherals

• ATI to drop Down Under next week Australian gardeners beware

Personal: Reviews

• Hermstedt Hifidelio wireless music centre Review Time to scrap that PC music hub?

Science

• Cambridge engineers moot 'silent' plane Handy
• NASA berated for poor attitude to safety And Shuttle's launch delayed again

Security: Enterprise Security

• Exploit for unpatched IE vuln fuels hacker fears Brace for impact
• Finnish security exec arrested over bank hack Wi oh WiFi
• Secure Computing snaffles Cyberguard Bride becomes bridegroom
• SHA-1 compromised further Crypto researchers point the way to feasible attack

Software: Applications

• ESB project planned by Apache Exclusive Strategy or sucker?

Software: Operating Systems

• Apple patch fiasco invites trouble It's just a matter of time...
• Microsoft winning big in local government Shift from mainframe to Windows
• Windows Vista P2P engine causes concern Just testing, says MS