28th November 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Orange debuts new Blackberry flavour French to get 8700f first

Comms: Networks

• Iceland left in the cold after cable cut Rats and diggers love broadband cable lines

Comms: VoIP

• Google tests click-to-call Google to harness awesome power of the call centre

Hardware: Servers

• MS goes fishing, hooks Cray co-founder Supercomputer boffin bolsters MS line-up...
• Stratus and NEC to make strong servers together Tolerant to a fault

Management: Financial News

• Legend takeover talks result due soon Might happen, might not...
• PlusNet swallows Metronet Job cuts not ruled out
• Software group wants role in EC MS case Open sourcers line up to give MS a shoeing

Management: Public Sector

• Government websites fail to meet standards Elderly, disabled not being served

Market News

• DiData buys African telco provider Picks up Plessey

Music and Media

• EC outlines anti-terror database measures VIS, SIS and EURODAC

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• $200K Lego brick blagger suspect nabbed Enough bricks to build his own jail
• BBC pulls plug on Dalek lesbian romp flick NSFW Abducted by the Daleks off eBay
• Ex FEMA honcho turns pro with disaster consulting outfit The avian flu pandemic should be a breeze
• Saddam's uniform pops up on net The 'ultimate artifact' says auction outfit
• Singaporean boffins test chicken-hugging e-suit Net-controlled tactile experience
• Vote now for the worst corporate anthem - ever! Poll Warning: this is not for the faint-hearted

Personal: Consoles

• Report points to Xbox 360 shortage Europeans scrap over just 300,000 boxes

Science

• Japanese asteroid probe hits paydirt Well probably...
• Romantic love quickly dies Brain chemicals - not amoré - linked to passion
• SETI@Home goes BOINC Hunt for ET folded into distributed computing project

Security

• NHTCU warns over Sober worm Cyber-blitz enters second week

Security: Enterprise Security

• Trademark dispute prompts Purple Sun rebranding Somewhere the Sun don't shine

Software: Applications

• Techscape: A Wordwise veteran Interview Moir of a technologist or an entrepreneur