3rd November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Booming 3G demand lifts Qualcomm R&D tops a billion
• HTC preps media-centric 3G phone High-speed data support too?
• Nokia misses N-Gage sales target by miles Aimed for 6m, sold 2m

Comms: Networks

• Carphone confirms local loop plans 1,000 exchanges targeted
• Video Networks expands broadband network Coming to city near you

Comms: VoIP

• MS buys Swiss VoIP outfit 'Breaking down the silos of communication'

Hardware

• Plasmon parades Operation RAID Channel recruitment

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco protects routers against 'Black Hat' bug Double plus bad

Hardware: Servers

• AMD begins fully-buffered blade attack on Intel Precious, precious watts
• Opteron Madness forces Dell to market IBM servers It has come to this

Hardware: Storage

• ADIC's modular midrange SMI-S Cut-down enterprise library heads straight for LTO-3.

Management: Financial News

• 'Exploratory' talks on AOL future, says TW Not just 'rumour and speculation'
• Apple stock rockets Record high achieved
• Disposable credit card attracts 10,000 Irish users Plastic Paddies
• Microsoft nabs wee FolderShare Windows Live lives
• Nude Brits shop while drunk Completely BLOTO online
• PartyGaming weighs odds on Empire takeover Flushed out
• Potential suitor courts Eircom You dancin'? You askin?
• Staff cuts and accelerated spin-out for Novell Must try harder
• Vodafone to increase Vodacom stake Emerging markets

Management: IT Director

• Five months at Oracle enough for CFO Revolving door ordered for exec's office

Management: Public Sector

• Political challenge to state's Office ruling Microsoft - in or out?

Market News

• Algorithms no match for sales craft, Dell discovers Axes flop CE division

Music and Media

• Teen escapes email bombing charge Loophole in UK hacker law exposed

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Bird flu seagull actually pissed Swedish false alarm

PC Builder

• Governments agree to end multi-chip import duties Cheaper chips
• S3 launches Chome S20 GPUs High clock speeds, low power consumption

Personal: Peripherals

• Asus preps 'silent' Radeon 1600XT card Monster heatsink ahoy!
• Sanyo pitches 'ready to use' rechargeable batteries Better than dry cells

Personal: Reviews

• Toshiba Qosmio G20 Media Center notebook Review Cinema on the move?

Science

• Mars Express up and running And slim hope for student satellite
• Milky Way's black hole exposed in study Smaller and denser than we thought
• Rabid vampire bats menace Brazil 23 dead in 'unusually serious' spate of attacks

Security

• Crypto gurus hash out future At least 300,000 years to go
• Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned When bad software happens to good people
• Sony to offer patch for 'rootkit' DRM Updated Fix removes cloaking, but not the 'rootkit'

Security: Anti-Virus

• Harmless Oracle worm raises security fears Them thar varmints is coming after our databases

Services

• BT Ireland confirms Cara buyout Dusted and done

Software: Applications

• Firefox gains ground on IE Alternative browser crosses one in 10 milestone
• SolarMetric buy makes BEA more persistent Keeping up with the competition