16th September 2005 Archive

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Comms

• Govt pledges help for digital TV switchover No household should be 'deprived of TV'

Comms: Mobile

• T-mobile customers stuck in Walled Garden External email? Er, not quite

Management: Financial News

• LogicaCMG may buy Unilog for €73 per share In brief 'Advanced discussions'

Management: IT Director

• BCS embraces professional contractors Big hug for PCG
• MS shuts up on number of women engineers Yes, no, maybe...
• Zurich in talks with Capita 'Potential business relationship'

Market News

• Intel invests in 200mm-wafer fab capacity $345m destined for two US plants

Music and Media

• A Million Nation States of One fears Google Balkanization Blog Tab or no Blog Tab?
• Email slip show Clarke's softer side Not exactly cotton wool-like, though
• Estonia phone scammers fined £100k ACE!
• Finnish gov will not criminalise MP3 players - officials May ban copy-protection circumvention, though
• RIAA calls time on P2Pers Block infringement or shut down or else...
• Swedish MP3 player maker refuses to pay levy Totally unfair

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Bloody computer room tourists! Episode 28 To your left, our air conditioning server...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 30,000 volt synthetic jacket menaces Oz Static discharge apparel alert
• Chinese film warns of teenage net dangers Rebels without a clue
• Predict next terror attack, win t-shirt Bombs earn prizes at 'sick' website

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Securing the world for lost, bio-diesel car drivers Letters And did we mention The Ashes?

PC Builder

• ATI ships Radeon X800 GTO Final fling before R5xx?

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo shows 'Revolutionary' console controller Will consumers see the point and click?
• Xbox chipper jailed and fined When the mod-chips are down...

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple 'readies' dual-core Power Mac G5s IBM chip to drive series before Intel switch - report

Personal: Peripherals

• Toshiba touts fuel cell-equipped MP3 players Won't ship until 2007, though

Science

• ESA launches Mars Express investigation Why is the broken bit broken?
• Open access to research worth £1.5bn a year Academic cries freedom
• TechScape: Vint Cerf mulls the future Interview It's bright. Sort of

Security: Enterprise Security

• Key clicks betray passwords, typed text Big audio dynamite

Security: ID

• Arrest made in Berkeley laptop theft case As new campus data security breach hits Ohio college
• Typing: music to fraudsters' ears From keyboarding to frauding
• US banks lose $50bn to phantom fraudsters The Keyzer Soze effect

Security: Spam

• Hackers are all B'stards now Comment Crime? What crime?

Software

• Microsoft issues HPC, web server challenge to Linux Imitation, not innovation, the sincerest form of flattery?
• Salesforce.com's new application shop Software as a service