2nd August 2006 Archive

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Comms

• AOL US offers free email Email for free? Gadzooks!
• Tiscali's email servers go on the blink No movement since Sunday, for some

Comms: Mobile

• Norwich turns on UK's largest Wi-Fi network Wi-Fi for all: Back of the net!
• Orange increases roaming charges And redefines world
• T-Mobile offers the internet for £1 a day Pre-Pay customers get mobile surfing

Comms: Networks

• PlusNet shares bounce on results Future's bright, but not Orange

Information

• Give me CMDB before I die Rather more than just a trendy new acronym

Information: Databases

• Pervasive scraps PostgresSQL support Customers stayed away in droves

Information: Knowledge

• On Hummingbird's takeover tussle Comment Symphony or Open Text?

Management: Financial News

• IBM gets all Webified SOA trifecta
• Verizon says Voda 'will keep shares' Good news for Sarin
• Will Apple put the fizz back in Coke music? New site to launch in Europe

Management: IT Director

• EDS to offshore 15,000 jobs Eyeing up cheaper workers
• VIA principals found not guilty of industrial espionage Taipei court clears president and chairwoman

Management: Public Sector

• Crash! Power spike takes out NHS servers NHS IT flounders while private sector flies

Music and Media

• Apple, BT smash lightspeed barrier Humanity faster than we knew
• Dell TV ad banned As ASA rules hole-in-the-head nothing to do with sex
• Email privacy in the workplace Comment Situation murky
• EMI blesses try before you buy Then your song explodes
• Feds dip their snouts back in EFF vs. AT&T wiretap case Valley Justice Cracking the 'classified mosaic'
• FTC slams Rambus' memory 'monopoly' Can we get a remedy?
• Survey: US becomes nation of cyberchondriacs Paging Dr Internet
• Women love gadgets, survey shows Even more than shoes

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel chip surplus drives up industry inventory It'll take some time to shift, warns market watcher
• Nvidia preparing mobile MCP61? Firm's single-chip integrated chipset coming to AMD's Socket S1

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony readies 7.2Mp slimline Cyber-shot T10 to feature 'high sensitivity' movie mode too

News: Mac

• Japanese Mac users get first OS X-friendly Blu-ray burner Toast 7 Titanium, Firewire on board
• Sonnet ships dual-CPU upgrade for G4 Power Macs Twin core

News: Phones

• Samsung brings slimline 'super 3G' clamshell to Europe Flip-phone
• Samsung to ship 'Moto-shaving' Ultra Edition slimlines next week 6.9mm thick

News: Storage

• Toshiba brings logical block addressing to Flash Cheaper PMPs for all. Apparently.

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Drop the SETI bias, butcher boy! Letter On the wingnut fringe
• Net neutrality - the great debacle Letters Er, debate

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Matthew Mellon A Correction

Reseller

• Resellers want the personal touch Marketing survey

Reviews: Mac

• Windows on Mac: BootCamp vs Parallels Desktop Review How to run the 'other' operating system...

Science: Physics

• Citizens to get superhero powers? Invisibility cloaks and walking up walls

Security: Enterprise Security

• ActiveX security faces storm before calm MS responds to more Moore flaws
• Intel plugs Centrino vulns Wi-Fi virus fears played down
• McAfee security bug bites deep Who guards the guards?
• Symantec highlights Windows Vista user vulnerabilities Access comes with privileges

Software

• Extremadura.gov switches onto Linux Software libre for Spanish junta

Software: Applications

• Microsoft wins battle for new judge in Eolas suit Interminable browser patent spat
• MS launches Live Spaces More social networking, more safety features

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft lights upgrade path to Windows Vista Business users to stay away in droves