12th September 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• 3 shifts phones through Xtra-vision video stores X-clusive
• Being mobile in a secure and managed fashion More heated debate
• Business jets get inflight 3G Prole class to follow suit
• The NFC revolution is running late Not going to change the world...yet

Distribution

• Nortel in SMB reseller draft Tel me more

Hardware: Data Networking

• Intel sends networking chip biz to Cortina Still purging
• Symantec and Juniper to snoop networks together Inspired by Cisco and Microsoft

Management: Financial News

• Crazy Frog leaps into deal with Murdoch News Corp to buy Jamba
• Feds investigate the HP way World + dog joins in
• Freescale bidding war declared Hot chips, cold cash
• Germans hand EC evidence on Intel AMD vs Intel All Markt up
• HP chairman apologises, promises to go (sort of) Dunn-leading

Management: IT Director

• HP 'leaker' shows himself the door Dunnygate

Management: Public Sector

• CSC eyes NPfIT cluster Looks to feed on Accenture scraps
• Teenagers wary of new children's database Confidentiality and security concerns

Music and Media

• Attempt to redefine .eu rules fails over sex.eu case What's in a name?
• Beijing Big Brother gets bigger New laws tighten grip on media, technology
• Crowdstorm: faith-based shopping The wisdom of badgers
• Penis-pump driver crashes into bus 'Auto-sex' Slovak pile-up

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• HDMI video editing on the cheap Blackmagic for high definition video

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Logitech touchscreen Harmony Automated bliss in the home

News: Mac

• Encore processor upgrade for Apple G4 For those not ready to retire

News: Phones

• i-mate touts two new handsets Make way for SPL and JAQ

News: Smartphones

• Palm, Vodafone to ship 3G Treo 750v on 2 October

News: Storage

• WD launches new external 2.5in hard drives As well as new internal 2.5in SATA drives

News: iPod

• Apple goes iPod mad Now with movies and battery life
• iPods now doubling as alcohol breathalysers For late nights out
• ViewSonic teases with 'made for iPod' displays 19 and 22in widescreen models coming soon

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Blind driver ordered to take extended test Also banned for three years, naturally

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• eMusic debuts across Europe Knives being sharpened for iTunes
• Peter Jackson: please call The Dambusters 617 Squadron wants a chat
• What if Apple held a movie party, but only Disney came? Comment It's No-Showtime

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Chickens and guinea pigs menace civil liberties Letters Or was that the EU?

Reseller

• Computacenter turns the corner Turnover down but profits up

Science

• Climate change heads for the Supreme Court Politics, science and the law
• Stop press: Planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy data! Catastrophic mass extinction horizon synchronicity

Science: Biology

• Steve Irwin fans turn on stingrays 'Revenge attacks' suspected in 10 ray deaths

Science: Space

• Atlantis crew loses nuts on space walk Sounds worse than it is
• Exploding meteor wows NZ Sonic boom, purple and red flames, the works
• Scientists probe causes of solar flares Solar-B to launch next week

Security: ID

• Bank fined $50m for buying drivers' data Payout strengthens anti-stalker law