17th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Palm gets a grip on BlackBerry In brief RIM's wireless email hits Treo
• US ambassador nails Bulgarian mobile thief GPS fingers airport culprit
• US looks for firmer digital TV deadline Auction must raise at least $5bn

Comms: Networks

• Bulldog mauls BT over 'disappointing' BB unbundling All's fair in LLU and war
• Of mass market telco TV Analysis The route to market for UK ISPs
• Wanadoo toasts unbundled broadband with 8 meg service Le LLU est arrivé

Hardware: Storage

• Cheap DLT pitched to outpace DAT Can 320GB for under $1000 revive DLT's ailing image?
• Start-up promises era of grand log collection Honest Abe would be proud

Management: Financial News

• BEA acquires more stack It’s about business not software
• BT named as Friends Reunited bidder Touching base with ex-punters
• Missing assets prompt probe into Granville accounts Time/Tiny administrators said to be seeking £8m
• Money firms sniffing around NTL/Telewest Heaven scent
• Murdoch closes in on Easynet Moving in for the kill
• OFT probe could scupper C&W/Energis deal Caudwell presses for investigation
• Regulators clear ATI chairman of insider trading Case slammed shut
• Yahoo! latest to court AOL In brief More suitors than Saville Row

Management: IT Director

• Swansea IT workers fear job losses Lustre rubs off 'golden guarantees'

Music and Media

• How Clarke is fiddling the £30 'affordable' ID card Analysis Home Office figures right, apart from all the numbers
• Minister's shock claim: ID scheme to check 13 biometrics This little piggy failed the scan test, this little piggy tried again...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 2% of gamers are hermaphrodite: official Or alien, possibly
• BBC launches Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood: laughs meet paranoia
• Boffin tackles toast soldier nightmare No more boiled-egg-based trauma
• Bored geek seeks girl for Antigua jolly Wanna top and tail with me? Click here
• Email makes you fat Sport England combats electronic obesity menace
• MS logo allowed in German TV election coverage Objections ignored
• Text 'addict' on the mend 'gt wll sn'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• The Blooker Prize: Small Pieces, Partially Digested Letters Right. Who flarted?

Personal: Peripherals

• Martian robot trundles into Gizmoville Tech Digest Kitastic

Science

• ESA readies Venus Express for launch Mission to unravel mysteries of our 'evil twin'

Security: Enterprise Security

• Glitch afflicts critical MS patch Look before you leap
• Shared music abuse bug hits iTunes You CAN stop the music
• Web 2.0 worm downs MySpace Angle bracket defenses breached

Security: ID

• Millions of UK households at risk of ID theft Beware the phantom bin raider