7th April 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Which? finds low awareness of DTV Call for action

Comms: Mobile

• Acer touts 'super 3G' notebook duo But full HSDPA likely to come later as a wireless-card upgrade
• Bling bling: Nokia models L'Amour collection I'm too sexy for this mobile
• Dublin firm to target African mobile users And launches PhoneBackUp at home
• Subs up at RIM Patent woes lifted
• Suffolk BlackBerry pickers pushed on gadget splurge How much!?
• Three-way targets cellphone parts market PAN-TI-NEC?

Comms: Networks

• Aussie PM airs Telstra sale doubts Won't be flogged at just any price
• New site launched for disconnected Wanadoo punters This is no LLU laughing matter
• Sky mulls 'free broadband' - report Broadband giveaway? Getaway...

Comms: VoIP

• Is VoIP ready for business? Concerns over robustness and reliability

Hardware

• How much is that Apple in the Windows? Comment A corporate view of the Boot Camp announcement

Management: Financial News

• BAE to flog Airbus stake UK jobs safe, company claims
• Europeans in .eu landrush frenzy Well, sort of
• Napster subscribers up, losses down Squaring the circle?
• Villa bet on 32Red for new sponsorship deal Double or quits?

Management: IT Director

• Sun sends SPARC team members packing Blasts Jupiter out of orbit

Management: Public Sector

• CRB opens the umbrella New database for criminal checks

Music and Media

• Police bust UK's largest 'DVD piracy' factory Five held for questioning
• Watchdog rules in favour of 'greediest man in Britain' Says we can expect privacy at home, not photographers

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD to focus on Turion brand for 65nm mobile CPUs? Only 90nm Mobile Athlon 64 X2s, it seems
• Nvidia shows 'best quality' twin-tuner TV card Analogue for the Americans; digital version for the UK coming soon?

News: Media players

• Sony schedules DVD/HDD recorder re-vamp Five new models in the pipeline

News: PCs

• Acer unveils world's second HD DVD laptop May ship with DVD support only, at first
• Asus unveils Dolby-driven laptops Dolby Digital Live on one, Home Theater on the other

News: Storage

• Liteon to ship slotload DVD writer External drive for notebooks

News: Useless... but Cool

• Firm pitches $2,800 64GB USB Flash disk Feeling flush?

News: iPod

• Podstar preps fiendish iPod Nano case 'I walked alone... my mind was blank...'

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Headcase Episode 13 A law unto himself

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Devil rabbit terrorises village 'We are dealing with a monster', admits shaken local
• Gmail in emergency lightning response shocker 'To hear a list of terrorist organisations, press 1...'
• Sun zinged by rent-a-quote analyst Economist phones friend of Dell, HP and IBM

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sky HD is here Geek TV Subscriptions up for grabs next week

R&R: Books

• Thinking in Java, new 4th Ed. Book review A new edition of an established classic, re-evaluated.

R&R: Opinion

• Subversion v. Perforce. Collabnet replies Hooks and scales

Science

• Air pollution will kill you eight months early Cheerful Defra report

Science: Biology

• Linguists have more white matter: official Brains asymmetrical, too

Security

• Warning over rogue anti-spyware app False alarm alert

Security: Enterprise Security

• Critical IE fix due Tuesday As more unpatched browser bugs arrive over the horizon

Security: ID

• German Postbank uses e-signatures to curb phishing Dotted line in the sand

Software: Applications

• Salesforce cheers one-month of uptime with outage We're so grea . . . aw crap