1st November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Is the WiMAX-4G train leaving without Intel? WiMAX World Qualcomm and start-ups steal the show
• RIM unveils Intel-based Blackberry 8700c to ship in three weeks' time
• Vodafone blackout cuts calls to Orange Network spookiness

Comms: Networks

• Bulldog makes fresh start No longer in the doghouse
• Sri Lanka blocks South Pacific in rogue dialer crackdown Cut off the usual suspects

Distribution

• Juniper's pan-Euro disty deal InTechnology in the frame..

Hardware: Servers

• Dell ends four-way, dual-core chip boycott All hail Paxville MP
• HP hopes users warm to Itanium blade servers Unix adventure
• Intel shoves dual-core Xeon MP out the door AMD's lead shrinks a tad

Lifecycle: Execute

• SOA? It’s A People Thing Don’t get so excited about the technology

Lifecycle: Plan

• SCO lodges 'infringing' code with court But we can't see it yet?

Management: Financial News

• AOL founder finally prised out of Time Warner Case to spend more time with Carly
• Compel to tell AGM it's on track Looking good
• Morse suffers poor first half But confident on year
• Union demands assurances over O2 jobs The man from Telefonica, he say...
• US telco mergers get FCC rubber stamp Time to move on
• Voda flogs Swedish operation After all, it makes sense

Management: IT Director

• AA call centre staff get toilet checks Pitstops not fast enough...

Market News

• Dell stays mum on job cuts Speaks in smoky riddles

Music and Media

• Google revs up its scanners Brrrm, brrrm

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Bank-robbing witch foiled by magic dye pack Hallowe'en blag goes up in purple smoke
• Jesus appears in Romanian wardrobe Pilgrims flock to furniture simulacrum
• Reseller posts Splinter Cell game unlock code Chaos Theory cock-up

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'Replace CEOs with cans of beets' FoTW Dress good, or become Gateway
• Asteroid hunters text government over toilet sanctions Letters Er, that'll be your letters

PC Builder

• AMD trims Opteron prices One-way server chips get cheaper

Personal: Consoles

• Sony offers iTunes-like PSP media tool PSP vs iPod

Personal: Peripherals

• Pretec readies smallest USB Flash drive yet Honey, I shrunk the storage

Personal: Reviews

• Creative Zen Vision personal video player Review Outclassed by PSP?

Personal: System Builder

• AMD, IBM to develop 32nm, 22nm chip making tech Official announcement months after details leaked
• Nvidia wrestles desktop graphics lead from ATI Intel ahead of both, almost everywhere else

Reseller

• BT Ireland tipped to buy networking outfit All quiet on Cara deal

Science

• Could yoghurt save us from MRSA? Superbug not a big dairy fan
• German boffins snap hi-res rat brain activity Unique brain-chip interface
• Green light for Venus mission launch New launch date slated
• Hubble spies two maybe-moons orbiting Pluto Confirmation to follow in February
• Stem cell hopefuls swamp Korean research website 'I wish I could walk again'

Security

• Removing Sony's CD 'rootkit' kills Windows More fun with digital audio

Security: Anti-Virus

• October breaks malware production records Variants on a theme

Security: Enterprise Security

• Shout goes out over PHP security bugs The script's a killer

Software

• Web hosted, ad-supported Windows: streaming to your PC .NET done - now let's get Google

Software: Applications

• Google blinks on office suite World gasps
• Opera takes to the sky with Thales deal In-flight entertainment, Norwegian-style
• Oracle offers free beta Free as in beer...

Software: Operating Systems

• Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.3 Major Tiger update