19th December 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Gmail goes mobile Big account, small screen

Comms: Networks

• 'Chav' caps banned from easyInternetCafe Oi! Lout! Nooooooo!
• Pipex rejigs SME sales team 'Overall headcount will not be reduced'
• Private investors sniff around NTL/Telewest Cablecos a go-go

Management: Financial News

• Carphone swallows Onetel, Tele2 It's good to Talk Talk

Music and Media

• $10m for a Wikipedia for grown-ups Co-founder's new venture has experts - and it's going to use them
• Action on song lyric websites is misguided Comment Says online sheet music retailer
• Warner Chappell backtracks over PearLyrics legal threat Waxes lyrical

News: Hi-Def

• HP goes HD DVD Blu-ray no longer the 'superior format'

News: PCs

• EU slaps import duty on large LCD screens Puts squeeze on 19 inches plus

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Chile and Peru fight merciless hacker war Official websites hit as fish crisis escalates
• Festive trouser pump wafts into eBay While invisible Xmas tree wows the crowd
• NZ devil Santas terrorise Auckland When St Nick goes bad

Personal: PCs

• Dell recalls 35,000 notebook batteries Fire hazard
• Gates joins PC as 'person' of year Bonage à trois

R&R: Books

• Cash'n'Carrion opens tech bookstore to online masses Cash'n'Carrion Choice cuts
• How Pixar's graphics gods made Lucas and Jobs look really smart Book review DroidMaker

Science

• US scramjet hits Mach 5 Jet fuel-powered test flight

Security: Anti-Virus

• UK shelters from smut Trojan blitz Danger BXP

Security: Enterprise Security

• Update glitch spins out IE7 beta testers Wibbly wobbly web pages

Security: ID

• Terror phone clone scam exposed Rogers bill probe unveils abuse

Software: Applications

• Hosted CRM: prepare your boat to be floated Quocirca's Changing Channels Exciting 2006 ahead
• MS pulls plug on Mac IE No more downloads after January 2006