13th March 2006 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• And the winners of the (UK bit of the) Imagine Cup are ... What happened in your drug-induced coma

Comms: Mobile

• Mobile TV gets thumbs up Trialists 'happy to pay' for the service

Comms: Networks

• Sprinklers blamed for Level 3 'leak' Data centre flooded

Lifecycle: Manage

• When 'enterprise' is self-defeating Solutions for end-users - who would have thought?

Management: Financial News

• eBay buys into meetup Networking is the new networking...
• Gent quits Voda Denies 'whispering campaign'
• Panicked analyst ravaged by AMD chip pricing fears 'Raging Buy' flips to 'Apocalypse Near'

Management: IT Director

• Women improve your performance If you become like them

Management: Small Biz

• BT, Skype woo SMEs If telecoms be the food of love, play on
• Dell sells file server to man with two PCs You've heard of direct selling...

Music and Media

• Compulsory and centralised - UK picks hardest sell for ID cards Study finds scheme design hits public's hot buttons
• Met police warned on blogs 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, what have we got here then?
• Net blows CIA agents' cover Felix Leiter fingered by data aggregators

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel marks Pentium D 920 for termination Chip giant 'absolutely will not stop' until part is EOL'd
• VIA ships C7-M ULV with Intel-like model numbers ULV for UMPC, says VIA

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony readies PSP-friendly MemoryStick video recorder A VCR for the solid-state storage era?

News: Hi-Def

• Telewest TVDrive HDTV-enabled PVR Review HD and more from the cable co

News: Mac

• Apple drops 20in iMac G5 Still a few available in the US, apparently

News: PCs

• Gateway UK unveils dual-core desktop Latest laptops ship too

News: TV

• Samsung to bring HD Ready CRT TV to Europe Better picture than an LCD - and much cheaper too

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 419er mugged by rubbers Elastic human tragedy, send cash ASAP
• CIA offers studies in inteligence Marvelous
• DEA dragnet hunts fugitive Larry Ellison Distribution of cocaine rap shocker

Odds and Sods: Site News

• London SMEs: get yer free MCP training here Site offer Free exams, too

Reseller

• Mobiles ring changes for dealers Less hardware, more data...

Reviews: Networking

• Freecom FSG-3 Storage Gateway Review More than your average NAS box

Science

• Ariane 5 launches; doesn't explode Enormous rocket fires up Hot Bird
• British Rail flying saucer unearthed Scotched by the wrong kind of space-snow?
• Google lands on Mars Fuelled by LSD, it appears
• NASA relieved as probe makes orbit Dodges the 'Mars curse'
• Twitchers in a flap over elusive pecker 'Very rare' bird actually extinct all along?

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Man survives satanic BMW crash-and-burn Accelerator jammed at 135mph

Security

• Virtual rootkits create stealth risk MS researchers grapple with phantom malware

Security: Enterprise Security

• End point security attracts new vendors Quocirca's changing channels Start-up securing market share

Security: ID

• Citibank ATM fraud 'just tip of iceberg' - analyst PIN block card scam fears grow

Security: Spam

• Email marketing firm settles data mining lawsuit Datran gets blitzed by Spitzer
• More sign against AOL's email tax Ground...swell...