6th July 2006 Archive

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Code

• Poland triumphs in Google contest Gratuluje Tomasz!

Comms: Mobile

• EasyMobile.nl flops Sir Stelios packs his clogs
• O2 to slash monthly prices Step away from the new contract...'til next week
• Wanna know how to win the mobile TV war? Comment Open standards and competition, Nokia says

Comms: Networks

• Does IPTV need more technological miracles? Comment Or is customer service the answer?

Hardware

• Commissioner says MS fines inevitable €2.5m a day still pending
• HP trims real estate holdings in favor of IP-enabled cafes Looking and feeling common

Hardware: Servers

• SGI to emerge from bankruptcy cocoon in September Servers made with less debt
• Sun to replace excuses with loads of Opteron gear Exclusive Meet the new servers

Management

• Northgate expects education bonanza Even after its HQ exploded

Management: IT Director

• Borland CFO quits Predicts better Q2
• Irish IT spending to rise in 2006 Big biz leads the charge

Music and Media

• Apple sued in widening stock option probe Dot.com scandal claims more scalps
• Cops spot-fine Goth £80 for upsetting weapons detector Worried of Arsenal...
• Drowning in data - complexity's threat to terror investigations Analysis Knowing everything, except what happened?
• England declares Cristiano Ronaldo national emergency True patriots rally round Ecuadorian flag
• ICO issues first website enforcement order Search site breaches data protection laws
• Yahoo! China unaware of lawsuit Plans music download service

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD's Socket AM2 to support Socket AM3 CPUs But not vice versa, it seems
• GeCube ships HDCP-compliant graphics cards HD TV ready

News: Consoles

• MS Xbox PMP won't make iPod RIP Analysis Can MS succeed where Creative, Sony, iRiver et al have failed? Er... No

News: Phones

• LG readies pink, white Chocolate phones Numerous 'unique' flavours planned

News: Useless... but Cool

• Yes! It's the USB missile launcher! Kim Jong-il's favourite computer toy?

News: iPod

• Nat Semi tells ejected employees to return freebie iPods Music player for business, not pleasure

Odds and Sods

• Oz Big Brother outrage prompts law change TV rules extended to webcasts

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• MasterCard succumbs to rebranding madness LogoWatch Whalesong, joss-sticks, etc etc

R&R: Opinion

• A postcard from Citrix iForum Citrix devoteees experience Edinburgh

Science: Biology

• Stem cells from dry cells Comment Ethics is a place east of London

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Men to lose battle with robots Women will be fine, though

Science: Space

• Cassini unravelling origins of Saturn's rings Cosmic hoops

Security

• Malware crosses 200,000 milestone Fear of a bot planet
• Malware targets security research tool The curious case of the Gattman virus

Security: ID

• Stolen VA laptop sold off 'back of a truck' Data recovery

Software

• Microsoft dragged into accepting ODF Keeps its distance

Software: Applications

• Sun eyes open source 'stacks' Solaris and PostgreSQL love in