3rd May 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Colt happy with paying top whack for spectrum C&W gloats over 'common sense' bid
• Kids texting not sleeping 2 tired to cnt shp

Comms: Networks

• Ad watchdog fingers Telewest Yet more confusion
• BT gets tough over broadband usage limits Someone's gotta pay
• Summer slot for Sky's broadband launch Details 'pretty soon'

Comms: VoIP

• Skype to enable 100-way confusion Skype 2.5 beta available now

Hardware

• Texas wants rich geeks, while AMD will settle for the poor WCIT Bidness is business

Hardware: Servers

• Cray places order for Opteron Helper FPGA supercomputer booster
• LinuxWorld Expo in Windows Server shocker Penguins sell out to Beast of Redmond

Hardware: Storage

• ADIC buy helps Quantum leap into enterprise $770m storage buy
• Sun illuminates new storage strategy Self-aware applications? Blimey

Information: Knowledge

• Buggy spreadsheets: Russian roulette for the corporation The chasm between common sense and computer programming

Lifecycle: Execute

• IT: – Still the Black Hole of the Balance Sheet? Measuring the cost of IT ownership could be misleading unless you can also measure the value being delivered.

Lifecycle: Manage

• Oracle taking BI seriously Comment But will it deliver on its promises?

Management

• £20,000 reward for software whistleblowers Stakes raised in BSA licensing offensive

Management: Public Sector

• Ballmer impressed by Intel's new laptop for the poor WCIT We care enough to talk
• Conservatives investigate government IT Respond to recent 'fiascos'
• Industry and academia line up to bash ID cards MPs hear 2009 roll-out unlikely
• Open source needs charitable help Brief And the community to pull together

Management: Small Biz

• RIM re-targets SMEs with free server software Cost of entry lowered

Music and Media

• Murdoch wants teenagers'... ...digital identities, says campaigner
• Tom Arnold - MSN's secret weapon against Google 'Lovably flawed'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD quad-core Opterons to gain L3 cache in 2008? Roadmap Gaining FB-DIMM support too, report suggests
• AMD reportedly 'delays' dual-core Turion debut One month closer to Merom...
• Intel ships 3.6GHz Pentium D 960 Don't mention it

News: Consoles

• UMD format's outlook 'bleak', warns analyst Content providers not responding to user interest

News: Mac

• MacBook owners plan mass whine about whining laptops Support call flood scheduled

News: PCs

• Sony shows summer Vaio laptops Speed, storage bump

News: Phones

• LG pours Chocolate into Europe Slimline KG800 handset goes on sale
• Nokia ships E61 'BlackBerry beater' E70 coming later this month

News: Smartphones

• T-Mobile Sidekick III piccy posted on web Third-gen Hiptop imminent?

News: iPod

• Apple wins right to retain fixed-price downloads Major labels drop insistence on variable pricing
• Nano-friendly Bluetooth stereo adaptor in pipeline iPod powered

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Elvis' first house hits $450k on eBay Uri Geller makes pitch for historic domicile
• Street scum-busting lamppost spotted in London Nazi 'camera-shout-pole' hits the capital

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Piracy reduces Hollywood to penury Sobbing stars down to last Learjet

Reviews: MP3 players

• SanDisk Sansa c150 2GB MP3 player UK Exclusive Can SanDisk swipe the iPod Shuffle's market share?

Security: Anti-Virus

• All quiet on the malware front Virus-ladened emails hit record low

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hackers libel Canadian PM on train signs Harper 'eats babies' taunt confuses commuters
• X marks the bug Linux component flaw deemed 'critical'

Security: Spam

• Renegade spammer targets junk mail registry Red mist over Blue Security

Services

• EDS results on track Services giant on course...

Software: Applications

• Microsoft and SAP do a Duet on Office Integration dance

Software: Operating Systems

• Gartner: More Windows Vista delays Falling out
• Linux hater/traitor turns to Windows Communist hackers laughed Shelley out of town?