13th September 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Aussies 'clueless about 3G' Where do they get this research?
• Mobile WiMAX - getting there very slowly Standards still all shook up
• Nokia unveils aggressive mobile email challenge Good to drive pitch to win all 650m corporate email accounts

Hardware: Storage

• Smut and personal data left on resold PCs Sex, spies and hard-disk drives

Management: Financial News

• 14,000 Telstra jobs at risk Telco denies union claims
• Computacenter profits down 70 per cent And change ain't temporary
• DCC issues IT distie profit warning Price deflation and difficult trading
• Deutsche Telekom hangs up on MTS From Russia with $1.2bn
• eBuyer 'fesses up to problems Inventory management system wasn't managing
• Good Technology confirms layoffs Exclusive Bad day for sales team
• HP conference moved to Florida From Big Easy to big Orange
• HP UK job cuts detailed 968 jobs to go...
• Intel cans $700m Indian plant - report Failed to curry favour with local government
• Meg Whitman's $2.6bn spam goof? Analysis Giving VoIP a bad name

Management: IT Director

• IT pros more aware of Sexual Offences Act 'No excuse for employers'

Management: Public Sector

• NHS staff oblivious to £6.2bn IT programme Never heard of it, mate

Music and Media

• Apple shot first, asked question later, say sued sites Trigger-happy lawyers
• EU stumps Clarke data retention plan Howzat!
• UK.gov ID card costings fit on back of (small) envelope Analysis Mathematics of the madhouse

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ballmer: 'I've never thrown a chair in my life' It was a table, then?
• Bloke called Pete seeks 1,999 namesakes Attempts record-breaking Pete concentration
• Google Earth threatens democracy Military hardware laid bare to Godless commies
• Man flogs dead horse on eBay Andalusian or Lipizzan? We have no idea
• Police extract stolen mobile from woman's posterior Another body cavity blagger cuffed

Odds and Sods: Letters

• ID cards and eBay and whiskers on kittens... Letters A few of your favourite things

Personal: Consoles

• Sony recalls 'millions' of PS2 power adaptors Overheating could lead to injury, company admits

Personal: PCs

• RM releases rugged classroom laptop Bash Street Kids-proof

Personal: Peripherals

• Intel 975X chipset to support SLi and CrossFire Nvidia and ATI's rival multi-GPU systems catered for, apparently

Personal: Reviews

• RealBasic 2005 for Mac, Windows and Linux Review Cross-platform development nirvana?

Personal: System Builder

• Albatron intros 'easy connect' Intel SLi mobo 'Pedal-less design'
• Chaintech denies mobo biz exit Launches new Intel-based board to prove it

Science

• Drunk, stoned mice shed light on addiction Nice work, if you can get it
• Executed Chinese prisoners skinned for collagen treatments Genuinely grim

Security

• Bot herder websites in internet take-down Dumbing down zombies
• Katrina: a tough lesson in security Pay attention, or pay the price
• Users play fast and loose with corporate PCs Risky business

Security: ID

• Businesses will have graded access to ID database That's OK then

Software: Applications

• Microsoft CRM RSS feeds on the books Challenging Salesforce.com?

Software: Operating Systems

• Gates previews Windows Vista and Office 12 Déjà vu all over again
• Novell spies MS Vista launch opportunity Time to migrate, says Linux outfit