11th November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Asus GPS PDAs hit UK streets this month Windows Mobile 5.0 included
• Emmys to honour mobile content Small, small screen awards
• Tinfoil hats attract mind-control signals, boffins learn Government conspiracy suspected

Comms: Networks

• BBC film exposes phone scam misery Makes uncomfortable viewing
• Plusnet turns to Tiscali for LLU Unbundled broadband on trial

Management: Financial News

• C&W absorbs Energis £600m deal done
• Dell slows down in third quarter PC sales tank
• Google marks Armistice Day Makes amends for St George's Day outrage
• PartyGaming grabs MultiPoker.com House is getting fuller
• SMS.co.uk sale fails to attract winning bid :-(
• Yahoo! pulls! out! of! race! for! AOL! Thanks! for! telling! us!

Management: IT Director

• Good work so far on efficiency.gov, more to be done Des Browne talks gains

Music and Media

• US DoJ offers to jail copyright infringers Attorney General floats tough new law
• What is Web 2.0? You redefine the paradigm Friday Poll Results Collective intelligence - It's not just for badgers

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Hi Honey I'm home Episode 30 The Bastard returns from his travels

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 419ers ejected from Gaza Strip Ah, bless
• BBC unwraps new series' Cybermen 'I know that object'
• Big Google is much worse than Big Oil And ninethly Tell your senator
• Copper supplies drugs to schoolgirl, 10 Accidentally, but still...
• Don't fancy being tagged? Wear a skirt Fashion-conscious teen avoids 'stupid' accessory
• Kelly Brook nude beach romp splashes onto net Attempted movie cover-up fails
• Pensioners in drunken elk terror ordeal Armed police defend old people's home

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Darkness falls on despairing (and bogus) IT pros Letters And we witness a catastrophic sense of humour failure

PC Builder

• ATI to ship chipset updates 'by end of year' Coming sooner than expected?

Personal

• Apple's lockdown patent lacks method and apparatus Something funny happened on the way to the USPTO

Personal: Mac Channel

• Mac anti-rip code surfaces on Sony BMG CD Kernel extensions installed

Personal: Peripherals

• Apple quietly bundles anti-scratch case with iPod Nano Now you can keep it with your keys
• Club 3D ships 'fastest' Radeon X1800 XT-based board Goes like the proverbial off a shovel, apparently
• Iomega touts anti-shock micro HDD Credit card-sized
• Just in from Gizmoville Tech Digest Samsung's mobile frenzy and more

Science

• Bird flu flamingo culled in Kuwait First H5N1 case hits Middle East
• Boeing 777 breaks non-stop flight record 11,664 nautical miles in 22 hours

Security

• Court restrains US spyware outfit 600 blogs hit by free download scam
• Sony BMG faces digital-rights seige Ripped over anti-rip rootkit

Software: Applications

• Busy signal at 911? Emergency callers left hanging on