3rd March 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Ofcom publishes media literacy audit Noo meejuh

Hardware: Servers

• HP and Oracle committed to Itanic CEO love

Management: Financial News

• RIM puts $613m settlement in motion CrackBerry dealer pays NTP
• Schmidt says Google could hit a hundred billion A hundred billion of what?

Management: IT Director

• Euro unions eye Indian closed shop Our offshore brothers
• SGI kicks off new era by firing 12% of its staff Nice to meet you. Here's a pink slip

Music and Media

• DoJ 'to probe music download pricing' Spitzer enquiry proving fruitful?
• Dotcom contract 'undermines' ICANN's integrity Board member lashes out at decision
• European Digital Library is go EC studies copyright issues of putting 6m books online
• How the digital revolution screwed songwriters. Twice. DMF Slicing the pie
• Permanent Pat Act a done deal as Senate caves Signed, sealed, delivered next week
• The big DRM mistake Comment It just doesn't make sense...
• UK monolingualism spurs Amazon shift to Ireland Another kick in the teeth for Slough

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Korea may probe Samsung, Hynix price-fix claims Local Fair Trade Commission ponders move
• World chips sales beat seasonal downturn Traditional decline lower than anticipated
• XGI turns away from desktop graphics - report ATI out to acquire it?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Intel to unveil ultra-mobile PC on 7 March Intel Developer Forum opening salvo?

News: Mac

• PCs not dull, admits Apple UK Even though Apple US says they are...

News: PCs

• Intel cuts Q1 sales forecast Cites 'slight' market share loss
• Nvidia posts H.264 HD video decode tool PureVideo Decoder available at three price-points

News: Useless... but Cool

• US Robotics flies in Skype-branded speakerphone Voip-tastic

News: iPod

• Next-gen video iPod to launch 'March/April' With a 4in display, apparently

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: A change in tone Episode 9 Insert this, way up

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Oscars in HD? Geek TV Maybe next year...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Meet Mickey and Daffy: Pluto's new moons Letters Plus: pedants form queue to kick El Reg
• Mexicans are not smart or fragrant enough to defeat the Asian peril Stern response Defeatist doom

Science

• Science reporting in sensationalism shocker! Daily Mail takes a whipping
• Telescopes: 'worthless' The cost of budget flights
• US jury convicts animal rights extremists SHAC attack

Security

• 'Keylogger text' spooks Symantec Boo to a (Norton) ghost

Software

• Homeland Security report tracks down rogue open source code Coverity does the numbers
• Microsoft lashes out at EU 'conspiracy' Infamy. They've all got it infamy
• Office formats alliance opens for business Spreading the word