8th February 2006 Archive

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Comms

• BT repackages Fusion batphone for business Firms need to tick boxes

Comms: Mobile

• An all-island Ireland O2 abolishes cross-border roaming charges
• T-Mobile ticked off for 'net wherever you are' claim Wanadoo 8Mb complaints also upheld

Comms: Networks

• Aramiska Ltd to hold creditors' meeting Notice is hereby given...

Hardware

• RM wins £6.4m contract Firm to provide Solihull ICT

Hardware: Servers

• IBM goes networking and chip mad with new blade lineup Cell sampling
• Intel activates VT for Xeon MP Virtualisation support enabled with BIOS update
• SGI warns that bankruptcy might be year-end option Starts 3D 'For Sale' sign design
• SWsoft takes Linux server slicer to eleven Microsoft code still at ten

Management: Financial News

• Amazon goes shopping for developers Web services in the basket
• Borland rides Segue on trip out of IDE biz It's all about quality
• Chambers hails 'solid' Cisco quarter He would, wouldn't he?
• Micron cuts Scottish jobs Change in direction puts up to 134 on street
• Overstock 'staunches bleeding' in 2005 with expanding loss Patient needs rehabilitation
• Vint Cerf condemns two-tier internet Dumb idea is dumb says man

Management: IT Director

• Symantec reels in Relicore for data centre push Ch-ch-ch-changes

Management: Public Sector

• Fujitsu sues CSC It's so funny how they don't talk anymore
• Walsall lost trust in Fujitsu Brinksmanship scuppered flagship deal

Music and Media

• France rules in favour of P2P But only for personal use...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• CeBIT to demo AMD Socket M2-equipped mobos Show to host formal launch too?
• Nvidia touts multi-monitor notebook graphics chip Calling all call centres

News: PCs

• 'Santa Rosa' Centrino systems due March 2007 Release pushed back to give 'Napa' more room, sources claim
• Curry's 'latest AMD CPU' ad misled viewers £499 PC did not contain £595 processor
• Sony readies mainstream all-in-one media PC Viiv who?

News: Phones

• Motorola unveils 'thinnest' slider phone Still thicker than the SLVR
• Symbian slashes smart-phone OS fees Software could cost vendors just $2.50 a unit

News: Smartphones

• Fujitsu Siemens 3G PDA phone 3GSM debut confirmed Launches the Pocket Loox C550 in the meantime

News: iPod

• iPod chip maker plans Wi-Fi, Bluetooth support PortalPlayer goes wireless

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Trekkie turns flat into Starship Voyager Declared bankrupt rather than insane...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• GPL v3.0: Linus replies Born fair

R&R: Books

• Tantalising tomes from the Reg bookshop Cash'n'Carrion Choice cuts - Feb 8

Reviews: Cameras

• Panasonic DMC-FZ30 Review Massive zoom range

Science

• Fossett finally flying Record bid is go!
• Hwang Woo-suk accuser questioned Prosecutors harvest evidence

Security

• Apple's in the eye of flaw finders The year of the OS X exploit?
• Russian keyloggers hit bank customers French banks lose €1m

Security: Anti-Virus

• Disaffected Avecho workers kicked offline Ex-avecho.com is a dead parrot

Security: Enterprise Security

• Spanish hacker jailed for two years Dos años for DDoS desperado

Software

• Dell tools up with Google MSN loses a bundle

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft details Windows anti-virus pricing The rising cost of security