30th November 2005 Archive

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Comms

• Ofcom rules on broadband charges What else does 16p buy you these days?

Comms: Mobile

• Mio GPS smart phone to ship mid-December A701 launched at last

Comms: Networks

• UK hit by BT broadband network snafu 'Major service outage' floors evening surfers

Distribution

• C2000 finds sales head Briefly New man for new post

Hardware: Servers

• HP carves up Itanium boxes for the holidays Have a slice or 250
• IBM wants Solaris to Linux converts Port-O-Party

Management: Financial News

• NASDAQ reprieve for Mercury Dodging the drop
• Sage ups profits and revenues Solid accounts from accountants...
• TDC gives the nod to $12bn take-over Another telecoms saga

Music and Media

• ICANN faces monopoly action God and UN next...
• It's official: Diebold election bugware can't be trusted The company implies as much
• New Orleans gets free Wi-Fi Monster Mesh

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Asus revs 'fastest R520' graphics card Radeon X1800 XT core hits 700MHz
• Card makers punt Nvidia 6600 DDR 2 boards Duelling graphics cards
• Intel to 'drop Pentium name' with Merom, Conroe debut Retired after 12 years?
• Intel's 'Yonah' benchmarked Upcoming 65nm mobile chip acquits itself well

News: iPod

• Griffin offers to end tangled earphone misery No more bother for iPod Shuffle users

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• El Salvador cops cuff naked tunnelling blaggers Hot excavation action
• Gillingham FC auctioned on eBay notfittoweartheshirt
• Plymouth to Dakar rally: On your marks... Charity rally heads for Africa
• UK wows world with computerised butter dish Marlon Brando would have loved it

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg loves Scotland - true So, where's the Saltire, eh?
• Stob joins The Reg Veteran satirist finds web home

Personal: Consoles

• Amazon.co.uk restricts orders for Xbox 360 I can only have one? But I ordered 20!

Personal: PCs

• Intel ponders Oregon fab upgrade Gains Israel grant too
• Intel recruits TiVo to Viiv cause Big names line up behind Intel marketing dollars... er... home PC platform

Personal: Peripherals

• Blu-ray set for Spring 06 debut Format's supporters to say more next month
• Taiwan's Blu-ray, HD DVD rival goes mass-market FVD players enter volume production

Personal: Reviews

• Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe twin x16 SLI mobo Review

R&R: Books

• Beyond Java Book review Not everybody is convinced that Java, or even C#, are the languages of the future

Science

• French carry out first face transplant Disfigured woman gets 'hybrid' visage
• Royal Society president warns on fundaMentalists That's you, George

Security

• Sony's DRM woes worsen World + Dog queues to give Sony shoeing...

Security: Spam

• Phishing email poses as IRS tax refund Your check's in our account
• Sober storms November virus chart FBI investigation ruse dupes thousands

Software

• Former exec and start-ups criticize 'Byzantine' Microsoft Beware the next IBM

Software: Applications

• Citrix moving up in the world Analysis: Strategic status at last?
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 has landed Praise be
• Sun continues great software giveway Free, as in you pay for services

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft proud to hand over Vista 'features' early Too bad the OS is late