18th April 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Mobile search focuses on smut Unless you've got a PDA...

Comms: Networks

• Eircom confirms takeover approach Babcock & Brown closes in
• EU mulls changes to telecoms 'universal service' 'Cos we now live in the 'Internet age'

Hardware

• Fitter IBM drives profit higher in Q1 Free of PCs and workers
• Paint-on lasers set to rescue silicon Smashing the bottleneck

Management: Financial News

• Amazon extends food offerings Food and snacks section extended
• Cendant appoints former CA exec Jeff Clarke Industry veteran joins travel firm
• Flextronics sells software biz Private equity group pays $900m
• Poker players flock to PartyGaming Revs up
• Symantec inherits $1bn tax bill from Veritas Plans to appeal

Music and Media

• Microsoft sues Dutch companies for illegal COA use Should Neelie intervene?
• UK car tracking database delayed to boost capacity While Yorkshire police plan handheld checks
• Wales and Sanger on Wikipedia Hey, Jimmy. Didn't you just edit me out of history?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD said to be researching 'reverse multi-threading' tech Multiple cores to appear as one?
• ATI rebuts 80nm GPU slip claim Migrating to smaller process as planned, apparently
• Nvidia touts 'flagship' GeForce Go 7900 GPUs As Toshiba revealed last month, ahem...
• Seagate doubles 15K drive capacity with perpendicular 300GB Cheetah 15K.5 ships

News: Consoles

• Ex-Gizmondo exec denies theft, drink-driving charges Eriksson charged, pleads not guilty

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony debuts DVD Walkman Same size as a disc case

News: Hi-Def

• Universal releases first HD DVD movie Serenity ships

News: Mac

• Intel Mac tricked into triple-boot config Chainloading time

News: PCs

• Dell unveils 'fastest' consumer laptop Glowing case for gamers

News: iPod

• Apple accused of patent infringement Burst.com files countersuit

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Internet embraces teledildonics Saddam Hussein boosts robosex industry

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Beginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional Cash'n'Carrion Get up to speed with top IT titles

Reviews: Cameras

• Casio Exilim Card EX-S600 6Mp camera Review Snapability or manual control?

Security

• All my personal details for chocolate? Go on then Infosec blog On social engineering, rootkits and Easter eggs
• European firms open to security attacks: McAfee But at least the board is paying attention

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS patch glitch cripples HP computers Inaccessible web sites a new feature

Security: ID

• Afghan market sells US military flash drives Bazaar security breach

Security: InfoSec

• Firefox under fire from multiple security bugs 21 reasons to update Mozilla software

Services

• India's Rolta hits London Stock Exchange Geo-mappers find their way to London

Software: Applications

• Microsoft’s purchase of ProClarity – the bigger picture Comment Deal leaves strong competition out there