7th December 2005 Archive

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Comms: Networks

• Fibernet reports 'solid' quarter Which is nice
• Inmarsat fires up satellite broadband service In the BGANing...

Hardware: Servers

• All I want for Christmas is ... David Norfolk puts on his Santa virtualisation suit...
• Sun will be seeing double with Niagara II Exclusive 64 threads and counting

Information: Databases

• SQL Server 2005 Management Tools Good management tools are key to the effective use of a database in the enterprise.

Lifecycle: Manage

• IBM information management Comment Whither DB2?

Lifecycle: Plan

• CollabNet adds IP checker to software Code scan on aisle six, please

Management: Financial News

• .eu domains are go, go, go! Trademark owners get first dips after five years
• Apple sells 3m video downloads Run-rate rising, too
• Bookham axes 150 UK jobs Quick switch to China
• Google makes US brand top three Almost as good as Coke, say Americans
• Korean FTC hits Microsoft Redmond appealing, but won't pull
• Microsoft vows to fight South Korean antitrust ruling Give me bundling or give me death
• MS to pump $1.7bn into India More cash, more jobs
• Samsung sues Matsushita Panasonic plasma panel patent clash claim
• SanDisk to appeal STMicro patent clash win First, a second IP violation claim
• Songwriters challenge UK online royalty rate More, more, more. How do you like it ...

Management: IT Director

• Go Virtual to become Agile Getting just what you need from a virtual pot
• Xmas parties: avoid sex, drugs and booze Plus photocopiers, mistletoe and Bernard Manning

Management: Public Sector

• Small.biz grabs more UK public sector deals What the government wants ...

Market News

• UK Customs denies pressing banks to pull out of mobile sector Money-laundering moves

Music and Media

• Euro-publisher chief slates 'parasitic' search firms Can't find common ground with Google
• MEPs urged to reject data retention plan 'Irreversibly shift European civil liberties'
• So who is funding the CFIT and why? Meet Rob Hall, Canada's Mr Internet

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Japan triumphs with MP3 toilet seat The Apricot - now with bogcasting
• Podcast named 'Word of the Year' In the US, we hasten to add

Personal: Consoles

• Game sleuths close eBay Xbox 360 auction Seller not a Game store manager

Personal: PCs

• AMD, IBM 'stress' silicon for 65nm chips Technique boosts transistor performance 40 per cent

Personal: Peripherals

• Creative unveils Vision:M video iPod killer Zen kit
• Mobiles for dogs and other gadget goodies The latest dispatch from Gizmoville

Personal: Reviews

• Sony Ericsson Walkman W900 3G music phone Review Latest and greatest?

R&R: Opinion

• Microsoft Discovers Branch Office

Science

• Intel, Qinetiq tout quantum well transistor breakthrough 0.5V, 300GHz CPU, anyone?
• UK pumps €108m into Mars mission ExoMars to probe Red Planet

Security

• Sony opens up over another CD security hole Gropes for stop button on content-protected CDs

Security: Anti-Virus

• Security threats soar in 2005 Malchicks beget malware

Security: Spam

• Consumers improving security, but gaps remain Not quite as crap as before, in other words