3rd October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• BenQ-Siemens phone firm readies dual brand BenQ Mobile launched
• NeuStar agreement makes mobile roaming easier .gprs creepers
• US bill heralds end of walled gardens Analysis Market will kill them anyway

Comms: Networks

• NTL - Telewest merger is go End game
• Telefonica denies KPN merger talks Just rumours?

Hardware: Servers

• Dell's Anti-Solaris site no longer on Solaris Round Rock fires Sun, hires self for ad campaign
• HP buys bladeless blade server pioneer RLX Sue first, acquire later

Management: Financial News

• AMD licenses chip tech, lawsuit dropped Acacia still pursuing Intel, VIA
• Artists' managers, royalty collectors turn on iTunes Download payments too low, they claim
• Cisco finds Nemo In brief Persistence of memory
• Digital music revenues soar iTunes and co. takes $350m
• Job risk sours NTL/Telewest tie-up 'Rationalisation is likely'
• Judge sets AMD, Intel disclosure date AMD vs Intel Document hand-over
• Legend ISP is takeover target Prelim talks held
• Mistral axes 20 in shake-up Offices to shut too
• Symantec buys compliance firm BindView Agent-less tech ticks all the boxes

Music and Media

• BT calls for closure of BTIrelandsucks.com 'Bog off' says site owner
• EU inks airline data deal with Canada Passenger lists, please

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Star Wars tops movie music poll No honour for Showgirls, sadly
• How to dress like Darth Vader for less than $800 Force couture
• US school succumbs to paperless madness Books binned in favour of IT

Personal: Peripherals

• Gigabyte reinvents RAMdisk 4GB of SATA storage fashioned from DDR SDRAM
• Paramount backs Blu-ray HD DVD supporter ponders PlayStation 3

Personal: Reviews

• iRiver T30 1GB digital music player Review Flash player perfection?

Personal: System Builder

• Hynix speeds down NAND Flash roadmap 16Gb samples of iPod Nano-type RAM next month
• Toshiba to show slim HD DVD drive for laptops All today's formats supported - and tomorrow's?

Science

• ESA turns satellites to watch for droughts Water monitor
• Xena moon's Gabrielle More on the solar system's 10th planet

Security: Enterprise Security

• Backdoor Trojan targets Microsoft Access Zero day vuln gives hackers open access
• Political hackers deface Novell SUSE sites Nuked

Security: Spam

• MessageLabs branches out into web security HTTP blocker tech goes live

Software: Applications

• MS promises PDF support in Office 12 Well, now