2nd October 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Siemens creates hardship fund for BenQ workers Cancelling pay rises
• Software wails on mobile muggers Follow that screaming hoodie

Comms: Networks

• BT's musical Vision Telco signs up Sony BMG

Distribution

• Pioneer picks eSys for distie Brief Disk drives are go

Hardware: Data Networking

• PGP puts finger in network storage dyke Scrambling for security
• UK's superfast Uni network hobbled by Aberdeen collapse Updated Damnit, JANET

Lifecycle: Execute

• Progress Software: its challenges Comment Little and Large

Management: Financial News

• Alphacidal Capellas dives into Silver Lake Freshening up for next CEO run
• Eric Schmidt to address Tory conference Googling for policies?
• Gaming firms in freefall as US bans online betting War-on-terror's poker face

Management: IT Director

• New WEEE facility opens in Dublin Emerald Isle leads green initiative

Music and Media

• Airline passenger data talks stall Business as usual despite legal limbo
• DVD Jon opens Apple DRM for profit and pleasure With Jobs' blessing? Umm...
• Football video game wins European patent Kicks previous ruling into touch
• Nominet rides election storm Board members reinstated
• US government steps back from internet control Analysis But very slowly

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Ageia preps PCI Express games physics card PhysX SDK updated for Linux
• AMD schedules December for 65nm Athlon debut? New Semprons this month; new 90nm Athlons coming November
• ATI to take GPUs into the stream age Enterprise apps to run on games hardware, company hopes
• Intel invests $9.88m in PowerVR developer TI extends Imagination licensing deal too
• Nvidia's 'G80' to ship mid-November? DirectX-ready, sources claim

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sling pitches revamped net TV boxes Enters HD era

News: Mac

• Apple issues Mac OS X update Patching time again

News: Storage

• Sony to patch Blu-ray burners for BD-ROM playback One-off opportunity, says cheeky vendor
• Toshiba touts laptop-friendly HD DVD burner Slimline

News: iPod

• Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod go head-to-head on web Blogger posts side-by-side snaps
• Sony's next Flash Walkman details slip out Noise-suppressing headphones included

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Underwater gig for mellow Melua Record attempt, no less

Reseller

• BDE swallows The Systems Practice Sage resellers unite
• Tesco launches own-brand software Pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap

Reviews: Smartphones

• RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Review Slim, sexy yet still a BlackBerry

Science

• Job cuts loom at Los Alamos Lab Creative firings

Science: Biology

• US geneticists scoop Nobel Prize for Medicine Interfering with RNA

Science: Physics

• MIT promises safer, more efficient nuclear plants Tubular hells

Science: Space

• Australia and South Africa shortlisted for giant radio 'scope Square kilometre array, that is

Security

• EU.biz mired by complex security systems Suppliers, solutions, consoles, causing headaches

Security: Anti-Virus

• Virus-infected email hits rock bottom RIP: mass-mailing worms?

Servers/Storage

• Seagate preserves Maxtor brand for channel freshness

Software

• Google gets nostalgic with garage buy Goes back to its roots

Software: Operating Systems

• Vista hit by EC fears and McAfee ire EC probe extended, McAfee puts boot in