28th October 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• MIT and Nokia open joint research facility Surprise! It's all about mobile devices
• Mobile data a rip-off says email software vendor OpenHand wags a finger
• Palm kicks off Euro 3G smart-phone R&D drive Irish centre to develop carrier apps and more
• PDA shipment slide continued through Q3 Ray of light at the low end?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Level 3/Cogent agree new traffic deal End of the end of the peer show

Hardware: Servers

• Intel's Xeon chip kill is result of chaos in India Exclusive Server chief leaves India and Intel behind

Hardware: Storage

• WD Q1 nets increased income More hard drives sold, with better margins

Management: Financial News

• eBay scam gang face sentencing Husband and wife scammers
• Microsoft warns that Korea may have to do without Windows Veiled threat or confession?
• Phone, chip makers demand EC Qualcomm probe WCDMA 3G technology licencing abuse allegations made
• Sales up but profits down at Ingram Micro Peaks and troughs
• Sex.com thief arrested Stephen Cohen nabbed after five years on the run
• Verizon's MCI deal gets Washington green light Thank god that's over
• Wall Street puzzled by Microsoft's performance Be careful who you compare yourself to

Management: IT Director

• Hounslow outsources revenue and benefits £50m contract award announced

Management: Public Sector

• Unspinning the government by text message RU vtng 2dy?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Dutch Big Brother mum quits show Suffers attack of good sense
• Girls: fancy an SMS-fired Bluetooth vibrator? NSFW Well, by an amazing coincidence...
• Janet Jackson in net strip shocker Nude sunbathing clip hits web

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Biometric monkeys get Imperial about student satellites Letters And why not?

Personal: Consoles

• Florida ponders violent game distribution limits Not for sale or rental to kids

Personal: Reviews

• Palm TX Wi-Fi PDA Review Back in black

Science

• Court squashes strawberry scent trade mark bid The sweet smell of legal failure
• Manchester boffins hunt tropical storms in Darwin Why does it always rain on me?

Security

• Anti-Spyware definitions finalised Cover blown

Security: ID

• Info Commissioner criticises ID Cards Bill Privacy and Data Protection concerns

Software: Applications

• Visual Studio and SQL Server '05 step closer Close, close, closer