21st June 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Cambridge-MIT comms tie-up gets corporate Research will have to justify itself

Comms: Mobile

• Rain, missiles and high def TVs SEK2006 And don't forget the robots...

Comms: Networks

• Lycos.com tunes in to net TV Web-tastic

Hardware: Servers

• Linux kernel goes Niagara Deluge of support

Hardware: Storage

• Seagate amazed by its own regulatory compliance Mono-p-olice clear desks before summer hols
• Sun announces its latest NAS solution Comment 5320 builds on recent company momentum

Management: Financial News

• Apple moves on movie downloads iMovies by the end of the year?
• Coke to close UK music download site Lost its fizz
• HP speeds up reorg, scraps operations unit Independence movement

Management: IT Director

• A third of EU citizens lack basic computer skills They're the lucky ones
• Ballmer's right hand man waves goodbye to Microsoft Surprise departure

Management: Public Sector

• OGCbs strikes IT agreements New framework to reduce public sector costs

Music and Media

• Dutch MP3 ruling hit by conflict of interest claims Judges linked to rights holders
• Notes from Seoul SEK2006 Football, jelly fish and football

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Matrox ships four-panel display card Thin-client friendly
• MS seeks 'Direct Physics' coder Physics-on-GPU standard on the way?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Creative unveils Zen V Plus Compact black iPod Nano rival
• Mio extends GPS sat nav line-up Bigger, more capacious

News: Hi-Def

• Samsung moots dual Blu-ray HD DVD player Again

News: PCs

• Sony unveils 'no compromise' sub-notebook 11.1in, 16:9 display perfect for DVDs, apparently
• T-Mobile HSDPA links to go live in August Carrier pledges 20Mbps downloads by decade's end

News: Phones

• Asus readies remote-control phone Manipulate presentations by Bluetooth
• World Cup Camera Phone Contest! Competition He shoots...he scores...

Reseller

• DSGi to flog The Link to O2 That'll be £30m, ta

Reviews: Smartphones

• Nokia N80 3G phone Review Wi-Fi, 3G and three megapixels

Science

• UK gov pleads with retailers for climate change help Your plasma telly = potential global catastrophe

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Carnegie Mellon's robotics whiz oddly trapped in the past RoboBiz Seeing Red
• US Army pleads for help making robots safe RoboBiz Tons of gear – few answers

Security

• Insecurity rife in technology, media and telecoms Consultants expose chattering farces
• Phishing with Rachna Dhamija Interview The human factor
• Unauthorised apps bigger threat than malware Chart ranks enemies within

Software: Applications

• Opera 9 is go Die Browsermaus