6th February 2006 Archive

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Comms

• BT suspends SMS trial amid data protection fears Admits service 'might be a concern'
• Bulldog faces uncertain future Retail ISP could become wholesale LLUo

Comms: Mobile

• Greece rocked by mobile phone tapping scandal Olympic Games-Gate

Hardware: Servers

• Getting virtual clients managed Softricity now talking SMS
• IBM and Freescale really commit to Power They're not bitter

Hardware: Storage

• Big EMC says small is beautiful Insignia means cheap

Information

• Informatica buys Similarity Comment Now to dominate?

Management: Financial News

• Autonomy beats the Street Strong fourth quarter
• BMW and Ricoh Germany delisted from Google Cloaked in suspicion
• BT mum on Pipex buy-out rumours Telco tight-lipped over WiMAX plans

Music and Media

• Four-year 'limited patent' proposed But critics sceptical
• If Linus snubs new GPL, is that it for 'open source'? Analysis Torvalds doesn't care. Trouble looms...
• Lords restrict terror website censorship plans Amendment squeezes through by one vote
• Warez pirates caught by Operation Jolly Roger RISCISO indictment handed down

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI launches mobile workstation GPU with 12 pixel engines Mobility FireGL V5200 = Mobility Radeon X1600?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• VW preps Google Earth-based in-car sat nav rig But will it fly?
• WD offers 120GB pocket external drive Bus-powered

News: Networking

• Evesham readies RAID-enabled home music store Rebadges Roku network music player too

News: PCs

• Ergo preps pink PC for breast cancer charity Benefits Genesis Appeal

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson to ship iPod-styled 3G email phone in Q2 Slimline handset pitching for Blackberry business

News: Smartphones

• Compal to fab Fujitsu-Siemens' 3G handhelds Pocket Loox T810, T830 production partner selected, paper claims

News: Useless... but Cool

• Kiwis craft first iPod-integrating bed

News: iPod

• Dell drops out of HDD MP3 player biz Took a month for anyone to notice...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Go home - it's National Sickie Day Last one out, turn the lights off...
• UK footie fans warm to Deportivo Wanka E-commerce shirt boost for Peruvian team

R&R: Stob

• Good enough for kids Stob How the BBC's GCSE site makes IT up

Reviews: Phones

• Motorola SLVR L7 music phone Review Where's iTunes, Moto?

Science

• Google shifts Greenwich Meridian Hey, where'd my longitude go?
• Man torches self in Hwang Woo-suk protest Grisly end for stem cell supporter

Security: Anti-Virus

• Kama Sutra a wet blanket Damp squib

Security: Spam

• AOL and Yahoo! to charge for emails War against spammers

Software

• French cops ditch IE Flic off MS
• Linux users demand Photoshop And iTunes, Novell poll shows