23rd September 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Punters tune in to mobile TV trial Is there no escaping Eastenders?

Comms: Networks

• Regulator eyes premium rate TV quizzes ICSTIS proposes new rules
• Telewest speeds up Scottish network London to follow soon

Comms: VoIP

• Dixons to launch net phone service FreeTalk? VoIPserve?
• VoIP's gonna be huge And don't telcos know it

Hardware: Servers

• Sun puts a plus on UltraSPARC servers Tagged for higher performance

Lifecycle: Execute

• Micro Focus migrates with Lift and Shift Mainframe to Wintel for COBOL jockeys

Lifecycle: Plan

• Larry's little man can't get a UK software patent 'Too much control over sales of computer programs'

Management: Financial News

• Oracle's Q1 disappoints on flat database sales Investors aren't hot-pluggable

Management: Public Sector

• Treasury slashes local e-gov budget Little cash, but 'fireworks' imminent

Management: Small Biz

• Small.biz lacks software licencing policy Where's the certificate? No idea mate

Music and Media

• Cyber-dissidents get 'how to' guide Freedom of expression-tastic
• Music exec: quit whining and dump Mac, Linux 'Get a decent CD player', folks
• Techies top cops' terror profile Allo allo allo - is that an RS-232 cable, sah?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: What the hell's Dutch lobster? Episode 29 And does it constitute an emergency?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ballmer's flying chair: the chilling truth It's much, much worse than we thought
• Intel staffers to sleep rough For charity, not because they're poorly paid, ahem
• Mobile users are bloody rude: official Brit workers suffer etiquette failure

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Martian snowboarders download imaginary nipples Letters Pearls of wisdom from our beloved readers

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Spot the black helicopter, win t-shirt Competition Reg throws down Google gauntlet

Personal

• Palm makes Q1 sales gains Better than last year, less so than last quarter
• Palm TX Wi-Fi PDA presented on web Z22 and Windows Treo pics leaked too

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo to cut 10% off DS price Hopes Nintendogs will pup up the volume

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple posts OS X security, iPod Shuffle updates Jobs'll fix it
• iPod Nano owners in screen scratch trauma Front panel scratches 'insanely easily'

Personal: Peripherals

• 2GB iPod Nano costs $100 to make - researcher Flash-based player deconstructed

Personal: Reviews

• Navman iCN 320 low-cost GPS navigator Review Too many corners cut?

Personal: System Builder

• ATI to launch next-gen Radeons on 5 October? Website timer suggests so
• DDR 2 demand 'disappointing' - analyst Not catching DDR as quickly as anticipated
• Nvidia brings forward GeForce Go 7800GTX debut Avoiding an ATI Radeon X1800 launch clash?

Science

• British scientist calls US climate sceptics 'loonies' Katrina, Rita et al. Global warming's smoking gun
• ESA grants Mars Express another (Martian) year A 23-month extension
• Glowing green sperm lights fertility research Warning: High hamster content
• US deploys satellite jamming tech Son of Star Wars tracks phantom menace

Security

• Symantec hooks anti-phishing firm WholeSecurity Behaviour-based blocking

Security: ID

• Beware eBay bearing Skype Comment Ominous security omens

Software: Applications

• Adobe CEO says bloated Microsoft has no heart Our publishing empire is safe