31st March 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Cops launch handheld intelligence Local model of things to come

Comms: Networks

• Demon 'forgets' to bill customer for four years Admits cock-up, then sends in debt collectors
• Kingston Comms takeover talks end Shares slide
• Sat TV restored to Kiwiland, Oz What's that Skippy? Sky blames yesterday's solar eclipse for the outage?
• Tiscali UK on verge of 1m broadband punters Who cares, it's Friday...

Hardware

• ATI reports record quarter But income down year on year

Hardware: Servers

• NEC brings dual-core Xeon to Fault Tolerant crowd Up for anything

Information: Knowledge

• ILOG launches JRules 6 New industrial revolution

Management

• Russian laser chap lights up US TechScape Valentin Gapontsev, come on down

Management: Financial News

• AOL UK boss get Europe promotion Onwards and upwards

Management: IT Director

• Giving birth to a new breed of SLA Marrying IT and business

Management: Public Sector

• Falcon to fly for the Army £200m communications upgrade
• Unions to test Siemens' mettle Civil service decamps to India

Market News

• Infineon DRAM biz to spin off as Qimonda IPO at some point, presumably

Music and Media

• 'Tag all the foreigners' - possible ID card sales pitch emerges Comment Why settle for oppressed illegal workers when you can have oppressed legal ones instead?
• Crackdown on corporate P2P users in Britain Software pirates beware: FAST will get you

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia unveils mobile Quadro FX trio Yes, the ones Dell's already announced...

News: Hi-Def

• Rivals start to spin Blu-ray, HD DVD alternatives All the 'Versatile' disc technologies explained
• Toshiba HD DVD player ships in Japan Top of the range HD-XA1 goes on sale for around $935

News: PCs

• Intel unveils 'juggernaut' computer for rural India Heat and dust proof?

News: Phones

• Apple 'iPhone' coming tomorrow/delayed to 2007* Comment *Take your pick

News: TV

• LG sues Samsung for slander Alleges advertising dirty tricks

News: iPod

• Apple, Beatles case hinges on out-moded agreement Apple vs Apple Firms' 1991 deal says they're both right

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Dumping old crap Episode 12 Your room, your responsibility!

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Dr Who bandwagon starts to roll Geek TV New series starts 15 April
• Doctor Who stars sign for Season Three David Tennant and Billie Piper to return
• Man flogs wife's box on eBay NSFW Why? Too small...
• Naomi Campbell on mobile phone assault rap For the love of God, what model?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• All hail Grannemanus - Emperor of Security! Letters Benign dictator gets the popular vote

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Ecommerce Cash'n'Carrion And many more
• Click here for your custom-built Reg April Fool Pick the content you want - the way you want it

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• PowerColor X1900 XT 512MB Review PowerColour brings a price-competitive ATI Radeon X1900 XT to the market

Science

• Bush denies human-induced climate change Genius from the Crawford school of climatology

Science: Physics

• The mystery of the vanishing neutrinos Massive...but tiny

Security

• Hackers use BBC story to bait IE exploit Auntie abused

Security: ID

• Why phishing reels punters in User stupidity, natch

Services

• Phoenix profits better than expected What, no ashes pun?

Software

• IBM puts cash bounty on Exchange server converts Wanted: Migrated and alive

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft makes nice before the law It's all sweetness and light in Brussels