5th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• ARM pitches Cortex-A8 CPU at 65nm era Focus on media and security
• EC warns on roaming Still too expensive

Comms: Networks

• Ofcom continues phone slamming investigation Slowly does it

Comms: Wireless

• 100 people to trial WiMAX for BT Belfast and Birmingham fingered

Hardware: Servers

• Sun lines Opteron kit up for grid and HP users Sends in Itanic lifeboat

Lifecycle: Plan

• Microsoft FAT patent rejected - again On a technicality

Management: Public Sector

• £27m carrot dangling for Scots broadband Wot, no stick?
• E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines 'Black box that only a regulator can understand'

Music and Media

• 'p2p is leagal its already bought its in the air' Morality lessons from today's youth
• Consumer body bemoans harsher Euro IP laws Copyrights and responsibilities
• EU to follow Google's lead with online library Our heritage, but whose net?
• FIPR warns of danger of criminalising IP breaches Let's keep things civil
• Thank you. Did you mean to say 'get me an R&D team?' If so, say 'Yes' Yahoo! vs Nuance - judge declines injunction

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Doctor Who to transmat onto PSP Daleks invade UMD
• BBC blew $375k on bbc.com And for what?
• Peter Jackson to appear on Halo movie credits More for the poster than the creative input?

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple calls press to 'video iPod launch' Movie-themed invite goes out

Personal: PCs

• Chavez heralds el cheapo 'Bolivarian PC' Cheap oil, now cheap computing

Personal: Peripherals

• Microsoft eyes disposable, play-once DVDs Better for MS' DRM dreams than the environment

Personal: Reviews

• Pentax Option S55 5mp digicam Review Could do better?

Personal: System Builder

• ATI finally unwraps Radeon X1000 GPU series Some still not shipping, though
• Nvidia G72 due 'early 06' 90nm die shrink

Science

• Creationism and evolution can co-exist, says cardinal Darwin gets thumbs-up (again) from the Catholic church
• Envisat could track coral bleaching Climate change canary
• UK Met Office to simplify weather forecasts How are they going to do that?

Security: Enterprise Security

• 'DEC hacking' trial opens Accused gives evidence

Software

• Brit Prof will oversee Microsoft for EC Brussels' trustee
• Business leaders team up to fight piracy Talk the talk, walk the plank
• Linux on desktop is a diverse market - really Move along, no monopoly here

Software: Operating Systems

• Read Microsoft's Linux reports, says Novell Get all the propaganda, er, facts