16th November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Symbian touts 131% jump in smart-phone shipments All thanks to Nokia, of course...
• Toilet-disposed mobiles menace Helsinki's sewers Tech down the pan

Comms: Networks

• Caudwell Comms gets new MD All part of the induction process
• Wanadoo defiant as BT wins 'dear Ben' ad row Standing up for consumers
• Wholesale broadband costs fall again Little by little, bit by bit

Distribution

• Bell Micro to buy German distie Abandons Sweden

Hardware: Data Networking

• Enterasys goes private in $386m buy-out Tanks for the memories

Hardware: Servers

• Cray celebrates Opteron joy SC05 Can the good feelings last?

Hardware: Storage

• Sun goes storage mad with upcoming Opteron kit Exclusive I/O thumper

Lifecycle: Plan

• Patents database posted for developers Open source safety

Management: Financial News

• Apple's iPod, iTunes 'big in Japan' Market share up to 60 per cent, apparently
• Infineon board favours DRAM unit IPO - report Not to be sold to Nanya, Micron after all?
• Voracious Oracle eats two more firms ID and access control for all

Management: IT Director

• Offshoring fears hit US college computing enrollments CA World Study to avoid McJob, says CA exec
• Saint Bob Geldof blows gasket at email Tell me why I don't like Outlook

Management: Small Biz

• 'Honest' card scam hits e-traders Customer denial fraud

Music and Media

• Court rejects UK web lotto game patent appeal No 'relevant technical effect'
• Digital download markets: cut up and segregated Comment How Australian digital download providers turned back the clock
• Home Office issues net child protection guidelines ISPs take note
• Sony pulls rootkit DRM CDs Exchange program to follow
• Tunisian Internet control lambasted at opening of World Summit Extraordinary statements
• US wins net governance battle Retains control over main arms

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD paints white-box notebook vision Speed time to market
• Intel's secret logos revealed Dual-core = 'Duo', apparently

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Flash inventor wins innovation award Next: Marconi honoured for work in radio
• Swiss driver attacks Gatso with pick-axe Then throws it off cliff

Personal: PCs

• AMD clears fog from roadmap Quad-core CPUs in 2007, next-gen architecture in 2008

Science

• Dione and Tethys pose for Cassini Saturn's rings also make an appearance
• Stem cell researchers want watchdogs for human tests Safety and ethics paramount
• Vietnam plans human bird-flu vaccine trials Also identifies new strains

Security

• Tory contender in laptop theft flap Sticks and stones

Security: Anti-Virus

• Bavarian police have spooky Sober moment Worm warning predicted text exactly

Security: Enterprise Security

• CA debuts desktop password reset tech CA World Forget me not

Security: Spam

• Software company 'sorry' for murdered schoolboy email 'Offensive and distressing' rules ASA

Software: Applications

• Microsoft searching enterprise for success Never mind Google, watch out for IBM
• More self configuration planned for DB2 'Viper' SQL Server? Wassthat?
• Will IBM buy BI? Analysis MayBI

Software: Operating Systems

• Windows Server thrashes Novell's Linux So says MS-funded reliability survey