2nd December 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Orange unveils new 'Calling Tunes' service Gotta pay that French fine somehow

Lifecycle: Execute

• What's it all about, ALF Serena is sponsoring a new Eclipse project called ALF

Management: Financial News

• ATI, Nvidia, SIS gain from Intel's chipset famine Chip giant's fortunes to reverse in Q2 2006, apparently
• Fibernet gets a nibble 'Unlikely to lead to an offer'
• IBM to be 2005's fastest-growing chip maker PowerPC provider still a long way behind AMD, Intel
• Restructuring costs drive Novell into the red Profit restructured off P&L

Management: IT Director

• UK firm fined £5k for fly-tipped computer kit 'A cavalier attitude to waste'

Music and Media

• Read the letter that won the internet governance battle Condoleezza Rice's missive to the EU
• Son of the £300 ID card - the £290 ID scheme propaganda DVD Home Office venture rocks entertainment world...
• Warez servers in Germany confiscated 6 terabytes

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia to out-sell ATI in 2005 - analyst Reverses 2004 situation
• US media tries to block AMD-vs-Intel gagging orders AMD vs Intel Jumping the gun

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: the PFY goes AWOL Episode 33 Wasn't he just in the tape safe?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Cop cautions two-year-old driver 2.5mph speed merchant had no tax or MOT
• Intel CEO goes clumping with Jobs, Charles and Camilla Puts Grove under review too
• Inventor deploys hoodie-busting sonic weapon Suck on Mosquito, teen ne'er-do-well
• Youths strap hamster to rocket Fatal results captured on camera phone

Odds and Sods: Letters

• MS anti-virus beta. Hmmm... Letters Plus, Otto and Rotting Dog cop a shoeing

Personal: PCs

• WidowPC races to ship first dual-core notebook Will the Sting sing?

Personal: Peripherals

• Griffin ships sound-isolating iPod 'phones You what?

Reseller

• Non-execs reject Computacenter buy-out bid Founders offer rejected

Science

• Alaska man plans 20-ton domestic cyclotron Locals none too happy
• Bats fingered for Ebola deaths Central African vector
• UK gets £100m stem cell boost Government doubles cash injection

Security

• Zone Labs sued over spyware classification 180solutions on warpath

Security: Anti-Virus

• Anti-virus scanner added to Google Gmail Don't be evil

Security: Enterprise Security

• Podcast hijacked by 'extortionist' Give us the dosh or the RSS feed dies
• Sunbelt rescues Kerio Firewall from oblivion White knight

Software

• SOA means change - and keep changing SOA generates buzz phrases - some are even useful...
• Sun wants to be the Badger in Web 2.0 Comment Why this isn't a good idea

Software: Applications

• Year zero for Sun's recovery . . . again Analysis Goodbye software, goodbye revenue