12th January 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Carphone to unveil LLU plans in March Can't wait

Comms: Mobile

• BT Movio trial a success, says BT TV service to be launched later this year
• Intel backs RIM in Supreme Court appeal bid US patent law's territorial limits 'crying out for clarification'

Comms: Wireless

• Next-gen Wi-Fi groups vote for single spec Final 802.11n proposal could be sent to IEEE next week

Distribution

• Europe victory over frozen VAT ECJ rules on Bond House case

Hardware: Servers

• IBM, Sony, Toshiba start work on 32nm Cell Enter second half of 10-year R&D partnership
• Sun and Apple almost merged three times – Bill Joy Your iPod is an answering machine – McNealy
• Sun founders confess all during walk down workstation lane Into the Valley Future is either bright or executable

Information: Knowledge

• A brief look at Trillium's Discovery 5.0 Beyond profiling

Management: Financial News

• February meeting on future of internet Internet Governance Forum takes shape
• France Telecom warns of sales slowdown Hit by VoIP and increased competition
• Pixel-flogging student makes a million Can you believe it...?
• Siebel beats the Street for the last time Goes to Oracle a winner

Management: Public Sector

• MPs demand wireless internet Tories take latté faire approach

Music and Media

• Body scanner debuts at London's Paddington Four-week trial for terror-busting gadget
• IBM looks to patent new system for patenting patents Still the king
• Tories slam penalties for evading 'voluntary' ID cards Except it's not true - yet
• Wiretapping, FISA, and the NSA I always feel like somebody's watching me..

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia to launch GeForce 7900 GTX 'at CeBIT' G71 not coming until March, moles claim

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Boffins breed fluorescent pig Best glow-in-the-dark porker yet
• UK IT worker sitcom heads for C4 Satirist Morris lords over basement geeks

Personal: Consoles

• MS: Blu-ray on Xbox 360 'possible' If you can add one external drive (HD DVD), you can add another (BD)

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple downplays iTunes 'spyware' fears Track selection monitored but not stored, apparently
• Après le keynote, le gulp Analysis Was the MacBook launched too soon?
• MS to ship Mac Office of five years 'minimum' Official agreement reached with Apple

Personal: Peripherals

• CES 2006: top ten gadgets The hottest Vegas showstoppers since Liberace
• Griffin touts 'most advanced' iPod dock yet Turns portable player into home media centre
• Nikon to end film camera production Digital SLRs are the place to be, apparently

Personal: Reviews

• Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi Core Duo notebook Review The dual-core notebook other vendors have to beat?

Reseller

• SCC makes Italian move Picks up IBM subsidiary

Science

• Bird flu stoppable, says WHO Quick action will save lives
• Hermaphrodite polar bears sound pollution alert Flame retardants enter Arctic food chain
• Situations vacant for eagle-eyed stardust spotters Stardust@home is now recruiting
• South Korea joins Galileo Satnav family welcomes new member
• Tearful Hwang Woo-suk apologises Will spend life undoing stem cell 'wrongdoing'

Security

• Windows support program bent to fit In a security fix

Security: Anti-Virus

• Symantec fixes 'rootkit' bug in Systemworks Hide and seek

Software

• Robert Fripp records soundtrack for Vista Prog rocker pops down to Redmond
• Software standards put technology in its place It's all about business

Software: Applications

• Thunderbird is go Father - I'm picking up some odd transmissions