10th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• DDoS by mobile phone: is it a goer? SMS flurry worry
• Mobile phone insurance 'waste of money' Night follows day shock

Comms: Networks

• Ex-subscriber accuses PlusNet of 'paranoia' Legal exchange over 'email database' claims
• Ofcom waves through wholesale line rental Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Hardware: Servers

• Intel emerges from innovation sabbatical with a case of Paxville Dual-cores and a Hot Carl
• Supermicro begins 'Ask, Don't Tell' Opteron drive Out of the closet with friends

Lifecycle: Execute

• Mercury suite talks BTO And we are not talking Bachman Turner Overdrive

Management: Financial News

• Apple and Samsung could face Korea flash memory probe Flash prices...
• Ericsson set to buy Marconi According to reports...
• Governments make net grab - Podcast Exclusive WSIS all about
• IXEurope buys German datacentre Too much excitement for one day
• Oracle buys Finnish developer Larry's list still getting shorter...
• Oz investor swallows €400m slice of Eircom Crumbs
• RIM refused rehearing in BlackBerry case No, says Court of Appeals
• Wanted: new chairman of incumbent telco Please apply in confidence to BT
• We'll index the world by 2310, says Google Uhuh...
• We're just getting revved up, Ballmer tells Irish Dublin jolly for jovial Steve

Management: Public Sector

• Wales sold on online procurement Substantial savings

Music and Media

• Porn and gore man arrested GI Jane man collared for 'obscenity'

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Airstrike rocks Smurf village Death from the skies in Unicef advert
• Ballmer to bid for GOO61E licence plate? Yes, and then beat f**king Eric Schmidt with it
• Crack-crazed squirrels terrorise South London Be afraid
• Shanghai takes big stick to net slang No more 'konglong' for you, sunshine
• SMS kettle: best invention ever? Er, probably not

Odds and Sods: Site News

• NO2ID: the big t-shirt restock Cash'n'Carrion Battle the ID card with cotton apparel

Science

• Humans prime suspects in lynx extinction Should we bring back the wild cats?
• Japanese supersonic airliner is go Successful test
• Stanford wins the DARPA challenge Better result than last year

Security

• MS security bundling plan causes waves Symantec assists EU 'reconnaissance probe'

Security: Enterprise Security

• Chip and PIN gets loved up UK preps for Valentine's Day sign over

Security: Spam

• Anti-spam user authentication is 'worse than useless' Trivial to break

Software: Applications

• Google Sun (Office) not a threat, says MS 'Just download the software'