24th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• RIM faces US Blackberry injunction Case will continue while Supreme Court ponders

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco targets emergency staff with IP radio Sierra, Oscar, Delta, Oscar, Foxtrot, Foxtrot
• Marconi sale nears Bidders line up

Hardware: Servers

• DEC veterans prepare chip challenge for Intel, AMD, IBM and Sun PA Semi Powers up
• Intel delays and slows dual-core Itanium Quality issues and price/performance woes
• VMware sets partitioning software free . . . as in beer Look and touch but don't create

Management: Financial News

• Hynix slams Japan's 27.2% DRAM tax plan Inappropriate and unfair, apparently
• Virgin and Carphone Warehouse off to France Virtual operator deal

Management: IT Director

• Dutch plan for prison call centres slammed Cell phone operation
• Michigan PC glitch lets prisoners out early Database unlocking
• Novell job cuts by 31 October - reports Trick or...trick

Management: Small Biz

• IBM seeks mid-market relevance Quocirca’s Changing Channels Express Managed Services are go

Music and Media

• Guardian explains its vanishing ricin story Not totally convincingly...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Goodfellas voted top movie ever Citizen Kane relegated to sixth
• Aussies fine illegally-parked corpse Dead man in car gets parking ticket

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Biometric ID - are they counting on your fingers? Letters Readers give it the eyeball...
• Wikipedia: magic, monkeys and typewriters Letters Special We just 'Don't Get It'

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Original atomic keyring resurfaces Cash'n'Carrion Tritium-powered joy in pink and green

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple admits SuperDrive 8x media reliability glitch Problem acknowledged, but where's the solution?
• Apple sued over Nano scratches Would-be class action claims foul play

Personal: Peripherals

• NTL unveils Sky+ rival Tech Digest Cable guys get PVR

Personal: System Builder

• AMD slashes chip prices by up to 25% Desktop, mobile lines pruned too

Science

• Contamination delays Venus Express launch No new date from ESA yet
• Europe looks to adapt to climate change New climate programme launches today
• Hubble seeks breath of fresh air in lunar soil A far cry from the intergalactic deep-field

Security

• Met police hooks up with commonwealth to fight cybercrime Working groups aims to hit hackers for six
• Virus writers craft PnP botnet client Updated Zombie network fails to bite

Security: Enterprise Security

• Flaw finders score loyalty rewards from iDefense Sharing the bounty
• Most DNS servers 'wide open' to attack Wibbly Wobbly Web

Software

• BMC gets even more service oriented Which is nice

Software: Applications

• Office12 includes Business Intelligence Don't say bundled