7th January 2003 Archive

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Channel

• Hynix slams Micron ‘double talk’ The strongest weakest company in the world

Comms: Mobile

• AT&T chops 3,500 staff, turns to Covad for DSL Management bears brunt for once
• Compromise fends off PNC Telecom collapse Out on Manoeuvres
• Hutchison 3G signs The Link That's the High Street covered
• Microsoft preps software for CDMA handsets Home run
• Sendo sues Microsoft over ‘secret plan’ MS 'stole' our technology
• Swingeing fines imposed on Dutch mobile networks KPN, Vodafone, O2 to appeal
• Taiwan flocks to MS Smartphone standard Is this why Sendo is so cross?
• UK gets 802.11g Easier migration to high-speed wireless?
• Vodafone says no plan to sell Verizon stake Puts stay put

Comms: Networks

• Liberty Broadband goes tits up Liquidators called in
• Virgin.net, Demon, etc, cut broadband fees Wholesale bandwagon jumping

Hardware

• PeopleSoft rolls out more v.8.8 apps Inhuman resources

Hardware: Storage

• McData hikes guidance – hugely Tearing at Brocade fabric

Management

• Disgraced Cisco exec gets five years jail Fall from grace
• Hynix rescued for third time (to the tune of $4bn) Get out of debtor's prison
• IBM outsources eServer xSeries production Sanmina-SCI takes it on
• Spitzer's “cure” doesn't fix Wall Street pestilence Letters Sell out
• UK job cuts as HP outsources support to India 20 ex-Compaq staffers face the axe
• US investors sue C&W over secret £1.5bn liability Didn't take long

Music and Media

• DVLA fails in reverse domain name hijack Bloody nose for Govt bully boy
• Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons Captchas
• ICANN mulls over Verisign land grab Grapples with int'l domain service
• Net porn policeman jailed for 18 months Once started, couldn't stop
• Network Solutions Inc returns from the dead VeriSign Spins Out Registrar
• Telewest to charge for tech support Nowt fur free
• UK's corporate Web sites ‘wallowing in mediocrity’ No lessons learnt

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• RIAA invites comments Defacement opens DIY PR pipeline

Personal

• Intel Masters games tourney is ‘shambles’ Attendees less than whelmed
• Nintendo updates GBA Game Boy Advance Advance
• San Francisco bans Segways on sidewalks, bike paths Start walking
• Will this notebook survive if I jump up and down on it? Don't try this at home

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple reopens browser wars with Safari Better bundles
• PowerBook family grows, top and bottom Home on the range

Security

• California disclosure law has national reach Guarding against ID theft
• Coming to a PC near you soon: Spamwars Game on
• Mitnick wins ham radio license fight Mast Head
• Shell recovers slip after spilling applicants' details URL regret it if your Web forms are insecure
• The Briscoe Syndrome No court order required

Security: Anti-Virus

• In computer disease, there is no Edward Jenner Lessons from the Laboratory
• Unhappy new Yaha Virus variant spreads over the holidays

Software

• 2003: the year of Asian Linux Newsforge teases the trends
• All your Cubase are belong to US Pinnacle buys Steinberg
• DVD Jon is free – official DeCSS verdict vanquishes MPAA
• Greece, Denmark (and no-one else) make EC copyright deadline Slow coach to European DMCA
• Living with Red Hat 8 as a productivity client Winertia finally vanquished...
• MS to license Media Player 9 for Linux, others? Don't all rush at once...
• Windows comes to Nynorsk Obscure language group comes up trumps