14th March 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Ofcom rules out broadband USO It's 'undesirable' apparently

Comms: Mobile

• Orange kicks off HSDPA trial in France Okey dokey
• Razr returns to US strs In brief GSM model bug fixed?
• Sprint and AT&T to do battle over enterprise services Comment Race for multinational integration projects
• Three ends cross-border roaming charges The news just gets better for Ireland

Hardware: Servers

• Fujitsu and Tyan flex their Opteron eight-packs A 7U blade and a space heater
• Red Hat enters state of Xen Races SuSE to slice the penguin
• Red Hat OS update goes to 64 CPUs and beyond Penguin put on steroid regimen
• Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends Exclusive Marriage made in crypto

Lifecycle: Plan

• Java Bytecode patent allowed in UK law Invention 'new and inventive'

Management: Financial News

• Computacenter saw revenues, profits down in 2005 But says reasons to be cheerful
• Gent well cheesed off by Voda row - report Fires off letter to execs
• HP takes 12 'one-time' charges in a row Rivals in awe of layoff lifestyle

Management: IT Director

• BSI in breach of own disabled advice Standard setter, set thyself
• Hitachi wants European consultants Like there's any going spare
• How your IT department is breaking data protection laws Comment Grid-tools a dream in a compliance nightmare

Management: Public Sector

• Rochdale outsources IT in £200m deal 15-year contract to generate jobs in Lancashire

Management: Small Biz

• Fraud falling under Chip and PIN Plastic protecting UK consumers
• MS tweaks Software Assurance again Prices frozen

Music and Media

• Blanket digital licence fails in France Carry on pirates, carry on DRM
• Class action for music downloads Too expensive
• FTC retains children’s online privacy protection rule If it ain't broke, don't fix it
• Gambling Code of Practice released Strict procedures for online operators
• Google and DOJ back in court today Nine o'clock sharp...
• Google cuts data deal with DoJ Everyone's a winner
• ID cards are compulsory No they're not. Yes they are. No they're not...
• Met police make free with Oysters Travel information a-go-go
• Mozilla's Google millions - a tax dodge? Transparency? We've heard of it
• Murdoch tunes in to iPod generation Bigs up digital future

News: Cameras

• Olympus recalls 1.2m film cameras Last nail in the coffin for 35mm?

News: Consoles

• Ex-Gizmondo team form ads-for-airtime phone firm Xero Mobile applies Smart Adds approach

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• WD brings external hard drive biz to book Hardback-shaped disk

News: PCs

• Intel to hop on third-world-PC bandwagon Better to use old machines first?

News: Phones

• D-Link shows off 'first' clamshell Wi-Fi VoIP phone TelTel on board, not Skype

News: TV

• World LCD TV sales overtake CRT revenues More CRTs were shipped, though

News: Useless... but Cool

• MSI takes a shine to solar-powered MP3 players Demo'd at sunny CeBIT

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Norwegians plumb in beer-dispensing kitchen sink Turn water into ale
• WTF is a 'lappy'? Poll Click here to kill/save techy barbarism

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Readers exorcise satanic BMW Letters A very German postbag

Reviews: MP3 players

• Samsung YP-Z5 MP3 player First UK Review Can it size up to Apple's iPod Nano?

Science

• Greenhouse gas hits record high Portents of potential planetary peril
• King Tut's neighbours: broken pots 'Undisturbed tomb' actually a dynastic Co-op

Security: Anti-Virus

• McAfee ate my system False positive creates havoc

Security: Enterprise Security

• Dutch blaggers explode ATMs You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off

Security: ID

• Passport data checks go live Scheme the basis for ID Cards?
• Phishing fraudsters offer cash reward Poll axed
• US cops collar ATM fraud ring You're nicked