25th May 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Employee discontent grows at 4uBusiness Firm takes 'urgent action' to halt losses
• Germany to jam prisoners' mobile phones We're jammin' in the name of the law

Comms: Networks

• BT wins rights to show Premiership football Broadband TV service 'over the moon'

Hardware

• Restructure punishes Lenovo numbers Non China ops static or sliding

Hardware: Storage

• IBM makes long distance call with storage software Tune in your SAN

Information: Knowledge

• Salesforce.com welcomes CRM lapse It's a developer thing

Management: Financial News

• C&W pumps up broadband spend Profits down
• Ebay! cuddles! up! to! Yahoo! The! feeling's! mutual!
• Vonage floats, then bobs First day pains

Management: Public Sector

• Police database patch-up planned 'Aged' and 'collapsing' and waiting for Impact

Music and Media

• 419ers unleash pedigree bulldog attack Beware Cameroonians bearing puppies
• Eastbourne finally gets a Sexual Health Action Group Not before time
• Internet's first ever global forum outlines plans Athens meeting open to one and all
• Nominet racks up 5m .uk domains Hosepipebanbuster.co.uk's place in history
• TorrentSpy accuses MPAA of hacking Counteroffensive
• Users irked by Gmail glitch G spot hidden
• Yahoo! image search exposes school to porn Safe! Mode! Useless!

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel quad-core Clovertown to consume 'no more than 120W' 50 per cent more than 'Woodcrest'
• Nvidia 'world's fastest' graphics card specs leak out GeForce 7950 GX2 80% faster than the 7900 GTX, maker claims
• Nvidia grows Quadro NVS mobile GPU family Only multi-monitor, business-oriented PCs need apply

News: Cameras

• Canon joins exodus from film photography Will develop no more new film cameras

News: Consoles

• Nintendo to pitch Wii at under $250 Low Wii fee to drive demand

News: Mac

• MacBook motion sensor malarkey gets useful First there was MacSabre. Now welcome... SmacBook

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BBC extends retirement age to 2044 Back to work for you, old timer

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Interactive TV to capture MySpace generation MyNetworkTV becomes MySpaceTV
• Unbundling US channels will change the face of TV Comment À la carte pricing push

Science

• Junk science - the oil of the new web Comment Extraordinary delusions and the Wisdom of Chimps

Science: Biology

• Lab mice deaths cast doubt over RNAi Setback for powerful therapy?
• Videogames make better doctors: official Super stitch-up bros

Science: Physics

• International fusion project gets green light €10bn nuclear gamble

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Iraq grunts mourn loss of robot comrade 'Scooby Doo saved my life', sobs heartbroken US soldier

Security: Enterprise Security

• Dating site hack suspect charged No love lost
• Report security vulns at your peril From whistleblower to suspect ...
• Teen hack suspects charged over MySpace extortion bid In brief All your space belongs to us

Security: ID

• Lib Dems set up ID freedom campaign No 'decent reason' for ID cards

Services

• CSC UK staff face compulsory redundancies Cheap shots

Software: Applications

• Microsoft reveals rival to jpeg Windows Media Photo squeezes more from less
• Salesforce CEO champions Microsoft-free email We're so hosted, dude