2nd March 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Aircraft mobile ban ought to stay - study Turn that phone off before we all...
• Cellcos prepare for IM onslaught Shut out portals to whip up ARPU

Comms: Networks

• BT bumps broadband speed up In brief Except for 150 steam-driven exchanges

Hardware: Servers

• Solaris ported to Itanium? Anything for good marketing

Management: Financial News

• Photo standards war The next round begins at PMA

Management: Public Sector

• Auditor applauds Walsall But what lessons learned?
• Improvements to council websites 'slowing' Get your Better Connected results here
• OSA pushes open source New site for local authorities

Management: Small Biz

• Small.biz ill-equipped for IT threats Risk-e business

Market News

• Europe's PC retailers pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap Sales surge
• Hynix staffers to plead guilty to DRAM price-fix charges $250,000 fines, jail terms all round

Music and Media

• iTunes' long march to market share DMF Behind the numbers

News: Consoles

• Gun clip found near ex-Gizmondo exec's crashed Ferrari Plot thickens

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• MS to unfold Origami at CeBIT? Updated Revelation date moved to 9 March

News: Mac

• Apple update fixes 'critical' security bug Rumble in the jungle

News: PCs

• HP, Gateway sign $47m patent pact Long-running legal dispute over
• LG ships multimedia sub-notebook Tiny TX Express strikes a chord

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• MS in geek sex hard sell shocker Old-school NZ Office ad - pure filth
• Schizophrenic 419er moves to Isle of Wight As you do
• Scots deploy snow-busting remote technical assistant Aberdeenshire battles Arctic freeze
• The Google menu exposed What's eating the search giant

PC Builder

• AMD calls on Skype for Intel anti-trust evidence AMD vs Intel VoIP firm gets subpoena

Reseller

• Morse continues services shift Revs down, profits up
• Overland Storage romances resellers Incentives on margins

Reviews: Media players

• Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 network music player Review Computer-to-stereo music streaming goes mainstream

Science

• Pentagon to enslave shark-kind Uncle Sam mobilises remote control fish

Security

• Softek launches message archiving service Deal to distribute Global Relay system
• US.gov probes Sourcefire acquisition Check Point under foreign investments microscope

Security: Enterprise Security

• US man faces five years for hacking supervisor's PC Hacking for fun not profit