8th June 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Chicago hotel offers hope to CrackBerry addicts One-step cold turkey cure
• eBay 'sniping' tool: an i-mode mobile phone from O2 But what does O2 get out of it?
• Orange rebrand a declaration of quadruple play war Comment Europe's single players in jeopardy

Comms: Networks

• BBC closes out deal for showing UK TV over P2P Ground-breaking PACT
• C&W pulls out of residential broadband 150 jobs axed as Bulldog goes wholesale
• Carphone keeps 'close eye' on AOL UK Questions remain over sale plans
• Times TV goes live Oh look, another ad

Hardware: Servers

• Intel's server chip chief knocks Itanium, Gates and AMD One of these is not like the others

Hardware: Storage

• EMC shares tumble after Q2 investor briefing Consoles itself with nLayers retail therapy
• Mid-market storage wars redux EMC and IBM face off

Management: IT Director

• Oracle axes jobs in Dublin and Galway Finance staff face the chop

Management: Public Sector

• Home Office defends sharing DNA database Mi data es su data
• Prices slashed by e-auction Public sector saves on hardware

Management: Small Biz

• ID fraudsters pose as online businesses Bogus exchange listing scam

Music and Media

• 'Practical' problems could stymie AllofMP3.com lawsuit BPI could win case without stopping the music
• Billy Bragg prompts Myspace rethink All your content belongs to Rupert?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Laptop vendors to adopt desktop 'Conroe' chip? Computex 2006 Not likely to limit 'Merom' demand
• MSI makes 'first' upgradeable SLI graphic card Computex 2006 Novel application of Nvidia's MXM tech?
• Sapphire unleashes the Ultimate An albino assassin
• Socket F mobos sneak out at Computex Computex 2006 Ssh, don't tell AMD...

News: PCs

• Acer touts 'beyond the norm' monster 20.1in laptop Computex 2006 Readies bevvy of HD DVD-equipped notebooks

News: Smartphones

• Bring on the T-Mobile Sidekick III... on 26 June? Enough to terrify anyone in Paris Hilton's contact list

News: Storage

• Philips, Lite-on, BenQ prep Blu-ray drives Computex 2006 August debut for Europe
• Seagate touts revolutionary notebook HDDs Momentus offerings

News: Useless... but Cool

• AMD defines itself as the joker in the pack Computex 2006 Literally

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• American losers students prefer iPod to beer Kappa Delta iPod RULES!!!!
• Dell eyes chocolate cake as image booster Does frosting make our performance look better?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Your Al Gore review made us SPeW! Letters And our thoughts on Intel's emerging toys biz

Science

• Portugal builds world's biggest solar plant 11-megawatt sun trap

Security

• Top of the sops Which spyware foxed the most in May?

Security: Enterprise Security

• Firms still leaving door open to hackers Three in five put out the welcome mat to crackers
• Man accused of crashing UBS servers Bonus sedition
• Two charged with VoIP fraud Hacking returns to phreaking roots

Software

• Sage makes another buy Rapacious Geordie eats another firm

Software: Applications

• HP nearly goes ASP Looks to the LOB
• Microsoft product phones home every day Oh didn't we mention that in the licence?

Software: Operating Systems

• Vista Beta ready at last Get 'em while they're hot....