5th June 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Voda dogged by reports of shareholder revolt Not happy

Comms: Networks

• Line unbundling nears 500,000 milestone Splendid
• Thus group sells off Dutch Demon ISP to get UK-focused

Distribution

• Unipalm changes name Computerlinks conquers all

Hardware: Servers

• VMware goes way beyond the VM Microsoft can only dream

Hardware: Storage

• PGP launches network storage crypto Data scrambler

Management: Financial News

• YouTube gets an upgrade Everyone's a channel now

Management: IT Director

• Intel liable for busy worker's depression 'Company clearly had resources to help'
• World Cup by broadband endangers networks BBC imposes penalty on UK PLC

Management: Public Sector

• Call centre surveillance trained on police Assisted 'death by KPI'?

Music and Media

• 9/11 conspiracy movie taken off the web Copyright infringement claims
• BBC seeks webcam footie pundits 'Well, Gary, the lads gave it 110 per cent, but...'
• Journalists' union calls for boycott of Yahoo! That'll hurt 'em...
• MPs call for DRM warning labels Smoking this CD while pregnant...
• Pirate Bay resurfaces, while protesters walk the street The hunt continues
• Taiwanese man spends three months in net cafe Then drops dead
• UK island seeks beer-loving monarch Unusual situation vacant
• UK podcasters push for better licensing Music Alliance urged to tweak rule book

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ECS heralds 'Broadwater' mobos Computex 2006 Confirms no IDE on ICH8 South Bridge?

News: PCs

• Samsung to swap Intel for AMD in next UMPC? Desperate to get the price down, a company insider claims
• VIA to push thin-client concept at big business Computex 2006 Low-power processor play

News: Storage

• Toshiba touts 200GB notebook drive Perpendicular recording boosts laptop storage

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Aussie council deploys Barry Manilow sonic weapon Merciless assault on tearaways

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Film triggers global warming to Al Gore Review An Inconvenient Spiel

Science: Biology

• Government mulls mind expanding drugs, man Soma time

Security

• Containing the employee IT threat Quocirca's changing channels Monitor and control

Security: Enterprise Security

• Cybersecurity contests go national Those dratted kids
• Firefox vuln fails to imperil World Cup Just update it

Security: ID

• Councils give identity fraudsters a helping hand Con-servatory application

Security: Spam

• Contrite former spammer touts anti-spam services Poacher turned gamekeeper
• Phishers aim to hook MySpace users Anti-social networking

Software

• English Judge OKs software patent case Says has 'real prospect of success'

Software: Applications

• Microsoft and Adobe get the lawyers out Portable legal document format