5th November 2002 Archive

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Channel

• DiData issues $100m convertible bond Share dilution looming
• Fayrewood upbeat on trading Looking up
• Personal Computer Science boss arrested in Oz SFO want Charles Forsyth back in the UK

Hardware

• Clic Linux for clustered environments Groupe France

Hardware: Storage

• Fujitsu admits 4.9 million (potentially) defective HDDs Blames Cirrus in court filing
• SAN security under the spotlight If you've networked your storage, you'd better start thinking about security

Management

• Logica CMG to cut 1,400 jobs Post hoc rationalisation

Management: e-Business

• AOL buddies up to enterprises with AIM release Security comes later
• Councils fall behind in race to deliver eGovt 'Skills crisis'
• Court ‘not persuaded’ C&W infringes Akamai patents So that's a no, then
• WorldCom black hole even more massive – court report Misstating the obvious

Music and Media

• Chinese province issues swipe IDs to Internet cafe users Monitor Lizards

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Comedian lifts lid on working for Amazon.com TUC offers free tickets
• IBM voids customer warranty on ‘toxic’ Thinkpad As you do

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Bogdanov brothers deny bogosity Letters And we believe 'em - but only in even-numbered universes
• I had a ‘spreadsheet for the mind’, but forgot where I left it… Letters Lotus eaters

Personal

• Handspring settles Lawsuits in Motion suit RIMmed
• Nokia goes head-to-head with Nintendo N-Gage

Security

• Mozilla riddled with security holes Playing catch up
• Scary movie 2.0 Computer virus slasher flick
• Sonera security staff held on snooping charges Riffling through staff's home phone records
• Symantec to extend security management portfolio A matter of policy

Security: Anti-Virus

• Braid fails to unpick the Web Korean email worm poses little risk

Software

• £40m software piracy ring smashed in Italy Biggest of its kind
• 'You're still guilty,' judge in Sun et al antitrust case tells MS MS fails to get 395 sins counted as irrelevant
• Java pet store hit ‘planned by MS’ – memo Dog eats Dog