30th August 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Oracle ready to save the mobile industry by reducing costs Which is nice
• Pipex WiMAX play to shake up UK market? Testing, testing

Comms: Networks

• Job cuts loom for Legend ISP reports 'downturn in trading'
• NZ to get next generation phone network You lucky people
• Orange offers cut-price broadband First move for Wanadoo's Orange makeover
• Powerline broadband on the up-and-up Convergence is key

Distribution

• Ingram Micro Europe talks up mobility campaign Dedicated business team

Hardware: Servers

• Fujitsu turns green over Opteron workstation AMD gabs all about it
• Ireland unveils supercomputing centre High end on the South Side

Lifecycle: Manage

• Parliament urged to restrain EPO's software patenting Campaigner calls on EU to send 'signal to the world'

Management: Financial News

• Intelsat picks up PanAmSat for $3.2bn Satellite love-in
• StorageTek shareholders cheer Sun buy Show us the money

Management: Small Biz

• IT contractors 'neglect insurance' Repeat after me: 'I am not an employee'

Music and Media

• eBay in bare-knuckle gypsy fight kerfuffle Gloves off in violent DVD punch-up
• UK.gov to ban violent porn Extreme measures

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Chinese go mental for nude web chat New net menace threatens society
• Reading council in audacious recycling initiative Ashes to ashes...
• Whining American eBays 'devil doll' 'Julie' conjures apocalypse and toxic mold

Personal: Consoles

• Infineon chips in with Xbox 360 security part MS' console a Trusted Platform?

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple books Freescale Wins commitment to supply, not necessarily to buy

Personal: Peripherals

• ATI predicts sales slide as margins collapse 'Disappointing and challenging'
• Creative Technology beats Apple on MP3 patent Play this, sucker
• Rio owner quits MP3 player market Not profitable enough, says D&M

Personal: System Builder

• ATI preps 'five' AMD Socket M2 chipsets But there's confusion over the release timing

Reseller

• Dixons buys Equanet Folding into PCWB

Science

• Diamonds lose 'world's hardest' title Squished C60 is tougher
• EU invests in stem cells for the real world Out of the lab, into the surgery

Security

• Spyware creator – and his customers – indicted Keylogging for stalkers
• Zotob arrests throws open trade in compromised PCs Diabl0-ical

Security: Anti-Virus

• Zotob suspects arrested in Turkey and Morocco Microsoft led hunt

Security: ID

• The many benefits of SSO Quocirca’s changing channels Single sign-on hits the mid-market
• UK Gov must meet biometric standards on ID cards Well, that's something

Software: Applications

• Censorware software fails to cut it No panacea for net ills

Software: Operating Systems

• Stolen Windows source code fence pleads guilty He's been a very naughty boy
• Windows Vista in your Christmas stocking? Not this year