25th October 2005 Archive

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Code: C++

• DeXtrous Delphi with DavidI Borland roadmap explained

Comms: Mobile

• Dutch introduce phones for kids Big daddy's watching you

Hardware: Data Networking

• Tiscali power glitch reaches across Europe Lights out at TINet

Hardware: Servers

• AMD flirts with channel via new, sexy portal Hopes to catch VARs and DMRs
• AMD nabs market share from Intel Saw higher shipments growth rates in Q3 too
• Fujitsu vows to carry Sun with four-core SPARC Jupiter rises in 2008
• St. Fister cured of Itanic wickedness The final miracle
• Sun's grid: lights on, no customers 14 months of utility computing vision

Hardware: Storage

• Storage vendors launch open source consortium Building on existing efforts

Management: Financial News

• Apple opens iTunes down under Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe et al ready for download
• Ericsson buys Marconi £1.2bn for assets and name
• Intel to pump $650m into US fab 300mm wafer output boost
• iPod chip maker Q3 revenues, income rocket PortalPlayer in the ascendant
• OFT OKs C&W's Energis buy No competition probe
• SpyMedia: More Austin Powers than James Bond Blows subscribers' cover in email
• VeriSign and ICANN strike monster net deal Verisign drops lawsuits, gets dotcom registry to 2012

Music and Media

• Hong Kong man convicted for movie sharing BitTorrent user found guilty
• Is it a passport, an ID card, or a fiddle? A minister explains Analysis We analyse McNulty's train of logic

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Abba crowned queens of Eurovision Waterloo best song ever: official
• CEOs should follow NBA and make geeks wear real clothes And ninethly Put your pants on, coders! Grow up!
• Merseyside mourns dead chicken Floral tributes for poultry foetus

Personal: Consoles

• IBM shows Xbox chip but won’t speak its name Three speedy cores

Personal: PCs

• Nvidia preps GeForce Go 7300 According to Asus...

Personal: System Builder

• Intel ships ATI-based mobo Just while it has no low-end chipsets of its own?

Science

• Brit-based sociologist testifies in Intelligent Design trial Argues case for ID's inclusion
• No winner in space elevator contest It's a rollover!
• Sweden champions the cow-powered train Bovine biogas
• Tropical storm Alpha triggers fatal floods Busy week for record-breaking storm

Security

• MS adopts stronger encryption for IE7 Code maker

Security: Enterprise Security

• Scramble to fix Skype security bug Hanging on the telephone
• VoIP security framework erected Talks about talk

Software: Applications

• Gluecode gets IBM makeover A fresher take on open source