10th April 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Air France says 'oui' to in-flight text messaging But 'non' to voice calls...
• Band hope ringtone will get them to Number One Jimmy Saville would be spinning in his grave if he were dead
• HSBC joins Morse's mobile ATM network First Direct and HSBC sign up

Comms: Networks

• Anticipation grows for Carphone 'free' broadband offer Steady now
• BT inks rock concert TV deal The Who?
• Faults system blamed for Wanadoo LLU woes Your fault, their fault, the fault system's fault...
• IDC forecasts internet video surge $1.7bn industry by 2010
• Man clobbered with £126 trillion phone bill Makes BT's £616k cock-up look like small beer
• Publican receives £600k BT phone bill Ooops, says BT

Comms: VoIP

• UK SMEs clueless about VoIP 'Like cutting bread with a spoon'

Hardware: Servers

• Red Hat buys JBoss Start-up sold for cash

Management: Financial News

• CSC UK bodycount to hit 1200 Any volunteers?
• Google buys Orion algorithm Israeli student hits G-spot
• Telstra sale decided this month International road show...

Management: Public Sector

• Council website usage on the up Socitm report

Music and Media

• Heads spy on teachers Trust no one
• Info commissioner issues guidance on database trading Data protection obligations

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD raises Athlon 64 prices Adds 3GHz Opteron 2xx, 8xx series chips too
• ATI SB600 South Bridge to debut in May Next-gen chipsets coming sooner than expected?
• Transmeta begins second year working for Sony Helping out Microsoft, too, don't forget

News: Consoles

• Ex-Gizmondo exec arrested in California Stolen car allegations
• Nintendo vs Sony Who is winning the handheld war?

News: Mac

• iMac boots Windows Vista, survives to tell tale Ends up without Mac OS X, though...

News: Phones

• O2 unveils Wi-Fi smart phone XDA IQ makes its debut

News: iPod

• Logitech unrolls cylindrical iPod-friendly speaker unit Audio on the move or on the shelf

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Her Maj sent first email in 1976 Gawd bless yer, e-ma'am

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Terminator 4 is go - with or without Arnie I probably won't be back
• Granny floors intruder with TV karate moves Battling Romanian septuagenarian

R&R: Opinion

• Databases in academia University research isn't always up on the latest in business IT

Reseller

• Horizon buys SAP house EPC does enterprise integration of its own

Reviews: Handhelds

• Orange SPV M600 PDA phone Review Windows Mobile push email comes to Orange

Science

• MoD opens doors on counter-terrorism lab Collaboration to out-tech terror

Science: Biology

• Science lines creationism up for a chinning Royal Society webcast set to agitate UK God Squad

Science: Space

• Uranus has a dusty blue ring Boffins take a close look with high-power telescope

Security

• Sudoku used as bait for adware download Give 'em the old Yazzle Dazzle

Security: Enterprise Security

• IBM bakes security into chips In brief Secure Blue

Security: InfoSec

• Fear sells. Read the report Infosec blog Hackers grapple with Mephistophelean plumbing

Software: Applications

• Hidden warranties in open source software Licences yet to be tested in court

Software: Operating Systems

• 'Red Hat wraps Linux in sh*t,' says new exec JBoss CEO lobotomized