7th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Eminem sues over ringtones Er, can you hear the difference?

Distribution

• FSC signs up channel vets for enterprise push SPARC plugs
• Ingram Micro loves mobility, true Get Mobile, Stay Connected

Information

• IBM touts information as as service Comment It's a data management thing

Management

• Ex-PeopleSoft CEO lands on Salesforce.com's board We'll get you, Larry - this time!

Management: Financial News

• AOL and MSN 'chatting again' It's OK to talk
• C&W hammered as UK revenues fall In a right old spin
• MCI take-over gets thumbs-up The shareholders, they say 'yes'
• Third party sniffing round NTL/Telewest - WSJ Right-o
• VeriSign buys Weblogs.com for $2.3m Premium services planned

Management: Public Sector

• Info Commissioner to crack down on FOI shirkers Commissioner limbers up for July review

Market News

• AMD welcomes new Irish procurement rules Ireland and Austria fall into line with EU ruling

Music and Media

• ISP should not identify blogger - court Victory for free speech on the internet - for Americans
• Six Things you need to know about Bubble 2.0 Web 2.0 We follow the money

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Are you a bored web techie? Join al-Qaeda Ossie places internet small ad
• Artificial dog's testicle wins Ig Nobel Prize Scientific bo**ocks honoured
• Aussies launch SMS Bible 'In da Bginnin God cre8d...'
• For God's sake don't say 'rabbit' Curse of the Were-Underground-Mutton hits Portland screens
• Telkom Kenya unhappy about disappearing cables Copper-hungry vandals blamed

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Clippy to help with weather forecasts? Letters And everything you read online is true

Personal: Consoles

• Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 line-up Is that all there is?

Personal: Peripherals

• Gizmoville acquires taste for pizza-flavoured laptops Tech Digest Delicious

Science

• Astronomers probe mystery of short GRBs That's Gamma Ray Bursts, to you
• Great white shark's oceanic adventure From Cape Town to Oz, and back again
• New flight control problem for Japan's asteroid probe All a question of attitude
• Shuttle Endeavour ends two-year hibernation Powered up

Security: Anti-Virus

• Malware turns PSP into expensive brick Trojan warez
• Pair jailed over virus plot Worm conspiracy

Security: Enterprise Security

• Dutch smash 100,000-strong zombie army DDoS attacks and Paypal fraud

Security: Spam

• China purges spam SMS 'Hidden dirt' for the off

Software: Operating Systems

• Reg readers take the Dell 'Open-source PC' challenge Freedom is just another word for nothing to buy