9th November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• O2 to offer UK 'super 3G' data network by Q3 06 Genuine broadband download speeds
• Palm chief denies Palm OS pull-back Windows Mobile will build on Palm OS business, not replace it

Comms: Networks

• Easynet ISP cranks broadband to 22 meg Sky's the limit
• Ofcom demands greater cuts to line rental charges Looking after the pennies

Comms: Wireless

• xMax - wireless voodoo? Remarkable claims for WiMAX-busting system

Distribution

• DCC keeps the faith Irish distie stays positive

Information: Knowledge

• Operational BI for the masses Comment Power users to the People!

Lifecycle: Execute

• Microsoft takes on enterprise - again Norfolk and Banks watch from the safety of London

Lifecycle: Manage

• Why Yahoo! should call Identify Comment Hello, stock pickers!

Management: Financial News

• Caudwell to flog entire phone business Phones4U? or U? Or U...?
• France Telecom fined €80m in broadband access row Plans to appeal
• HP job cuts hit factory staff Where do you want to go today? India or the Czech Republic?
• Movie downloading? You'll have to wait Analysis European market will trail music for some time
• Swisscom confirms Eircom acquisition talks In brief High-speed merger mania
• Transmeta profit warning clouds positive Q3 Net loss coming in Q4

Management: IT Director

• Dell UK slammed for 'hiring and firing' lifestyle Redundos
• SuSE co-founder leaves Novell 'Not the company I founded'

Music and Media

• Dell embraces AMD chips for courtroom duty? Opinion Anti-trust Athlon mystery
• Grokster to be reborn by year's end Mashboxx merger pulls P2Per's fat out of fire
• Sony digital boss - rootkit ignorance is bliss But IT Depts beg to differ
• US court rules for 'gripe website' owner Disgruntled customer's right to free speech

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Boffins debunk cow-tipping myth Not possible, even when drunk
• Cambodian backwater in euthanasia website rumpus Come to sunny Kampot - then kill yourself
• Darkness singer buys own album on eBay Spandex panted frontman plugs leak
• Dennis Thatcher has bequeathed you £950k Lads from Lagos find new line of attack
• DRM maker denies plans to shatter iPod users' eardrums Sunncomm misses 250 decibel joke

PC Builder

• Intel 975X chipset slips out 'early' Chip giant restarts low-end chipset production, too
• Nvidia GeForce 7200, 7600 due 'Feb, March 2006' Big CeBIT splash?
• Re-marked Intel CPUs surface in China In Brief Not all they purport to be

Personal

• Bill Gates' lunchbox on eBay Tech Digest Get your MS powered sandwich container

Personal: Consoles

• MS has three months to ship 3m Xbox 360s CFO's proud prediction

Personal: Reviews

• Sony Ericsson Walkman W550i music phone Review Entertaining and stylish

Science

• Defra gets interested in climate change Have you prepared? Well have you?
• Dover school board booted out in elections But Kansas mandates teaching of intelligent design
• Lichens love life in space Could they survive on Mars?
• Venus Express is on its way Heading sunwards

Security: Enterprise Security

• Automatic graylisting of unwanted software Maximum security, minimal effort
• Critical MS patch fixes graphics bugs Cracked rendering

Security: ID

• Bogus Baron BOFH banged up Phoney peer gets 21 months' imprisonment
• Home Office 'confident' of ID card costs KPMG report on programme estimates published
• Liberty Alliance pushes authentication standard ID-SAFE combination

Security: Spam

• Mystery over 'hidden booty' in email scam trial Francis-Macrae takes stand, refuses to spill the beans

Services

• Capgemini revs up ten per cent Outsourcing gets the credit...

Software

• Gates memo warns of future threats Where's our bloody leaked email?

Software: Applications

• IBM targets brand conscious with search Takes pain out of reading blogs
• Software testers become 'rock stars' for Microsoft Bum note on VSTS?