4th November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Disney to target kids mobile services in Europe Tinkerbell ringtones
• T-Mobile offers own-brand HTC Wizard in UK Satellite navigation pack optional
• TechScape: Of RIM, NTP and BlackBerry Squash Rant Patently obvious

Comms: Networks

• 186k buying another company Receives financial backing too
• Local loop unbundling 'showing signs of improvement' Might be a blip, might not

Comms: Wireless

• Nintendo readies Euro Wi-Fi gamezone Free online play for DS owners

Hardware: Servers

• Sun commits to 4,6 and 8 core 'green' Niagara Exclusive Cool, hot box coming
• Sun employs scout to do dirty work on Rock chips Niagara gets TCP/IP speed up
• Tandem, NUMA vets unveil server start-up Hitting Unix with x86

Management: Financial News

• Autonomy coughs up $500m for Verity And that's the truth
• Movie download services quietly working on licensing Just how much is not enough
• NTL trims losses Revenues slip ahead of Telewest deal
• Overstock's customer service line hangs up on consumers Call centers go dead for the holidays
• UK online sales rocket In brief Must be all those Reg t-shirts...

Management: IT Director

• Microsoft’s brand calls to US workers eyeing India return Into the Valley Google gets the scraps

Music and Media

• Microsoft to digitise 100,000 books Partnership with the British Library
• US man seeks movie plotline patent Audacious plan for zombie script

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Doctor Who set to return on Xmas Day Tardis to land during Children in Need too
• Hilary Duff World promises hot, hot extras New kids' site with added woof
• Dutch dentist amputates own finger No IT angle, but definitely digital
• German IT outfit bans whining One more moan and you're out
• Google discovers true meaning of 'titsup' More word verification silliness
• Online family trees in Sweden illegal? Reverse racism
• Say hello to the virtual weatherman METman

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Geeks agree - 'We need to dress better' Stern response Thanks, Otto
• PETA protests SCO's cruelty to vocabulary Letters And you spend time getting back to your rootkits

PC Builder

• AMD expands initial Socket M2 line-up Readies dual-core Athlon FX-62, too

Personal

• iPod Nano - the new furry dice? Tech Digest Gadgets galore

Personal: PCs

• Nokia Linux-based web tablet on sale at last Wireless browsing, yes. Telephony, no.

Personal: Peripherals

• Dutch drop €3.28 per gig levy on MP3 players Latest 'iPod' tax not much better

Science

• US researchers tout HIV test-on-a-chip Very useful in the field

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Lizard Army fuses woman with black helicopter neoLuddite Resistance Army at Defcon 'Warwick'

Security

• Solitary patch for MS Nov Patch Tuesday It's all so quiet
• World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit Rootkit beets spyware

Security: Enterprise Security

• Websense makes hash of MS classification Mistook downloads for doobies

Security: Spam

• Suspected bot master busted First America

Software: Applications

• France and China share open source middleware love It's an ObjectWeb thing

Software: Operating Systems

• Linspire will replace Windows with crippled Linux - cheap You're in good hands