18th July 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Cingular claims US first with HSDPA handset Data-tastic
• My mobile is...a...um... Consumers unaware of their phone's make and model
• Where's my 3.5G handset? Dearth of devices hampers growth of next-gen technology

Comms: Networks

• Sky crashes into free broadband Murdoch's on the line for you

Hardware: Data Networking

• Microsoft and Nortel unite on communications Can you hear me now, Steve?

Hardware: Servers

• Intel hopes users see more than double with Montecito Tired of me, myself and HP
• Microsoft buddies up with open source rival - true Moment of Xen or weakness?

Hardware: Storage

• Flash drives to rule laptop market (one day) Solid state of affairs

Information: Databases

• Multivalued datatypes considered harmful How dangerous can a data type be?

Management: Financial News

• Server misfire dampens IBM's Q2 Profits up, hardware stuck
• UK gambling boss arrested in Dallas Faces racketeering charges

Management: IT Director

• Suited phoneys vs honourable technocrats Comment Tales from the airshow

Management: Public Sector

• DTI backs unmanned aircraft programme Tech eye for the public service guy

Management: Small Biz

• Brussels to send 'crats into the real world The coup de grâce for a struggling SME?
• The UK office: hotbed of Bacchanalian lust Work-based rumpy-pumpy epidemic
• Turn off the aircon and take off your clothes UK unions' heatbusting call

Music and Media

• Curse of Blunkett strikes Home Office minister Government mounts live test of 'fool-proof' ID system
• Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth Children, the country's future... lab rats

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD plans July, October price cuts - report Just like Intel, apparently
• Intel to cut Celeron D prices in July, October? Model number 360 coming in August
• Intel to fork 'Conroe' Low-end E4000 series to join mainstream E6000 line-up
• Judge slashes Rambus damages award Hynix should pay $133.6m not $306.5m, court suggests

News: Media players

• Sony unveils 1080p HD LCD TV, 80GB twin-tuner DVR Freeview bonanza

News: Smartphones

• Fujitsu Siemens unveils 'lightest, smallest' sat nav box Pocket Loox N100 series unveiled

News: Storage

• SanDisk preps 4GB SDHC memory card Bundles USB adaptor

News: Useless... but Cool

• Yes! It's the all-out nuclear war USB hub! Bad day at work? Then destroy the planet

News: iPod

• Apple to announce movie rentals next month? Last-minute developers conference keynote unveiling

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Channel 4 to televise UK's first 'Masturbate-a-thon' NSFW US degeneracy crosses the Pond
• Monster roadsigns block Channel Five Good news for Bucks residents

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Moving airbases, codebreaking and supermodel behaviour Letters Miracles aplenty

On the Job: Salary and Employment

• Anyone for Cider? Imagine Cup A taste of our preferred development tool

PC Builder

• Elonex: the end of an era Analysis IP riches sustain founders

Reviews: Storage

• LaCie Safe 250GB biometric hard drive World Exclusive Review Fingerprint security

Science: Biology

• All forms of life wound up by same key Studies unravel DNA replication

Science: Space

• Discovery touches down in Florida NASA prepping for next mission

Security

• Google-based malware search tool surfaces Malicious code mining fails to undermine society

Security: Enterprise Security

• Open source blamed for malware development Sauce for the goose

Software

• Microsoft keelhauls 26 pirates Files suit against resellers