5th August 2003 Archive

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Channel

• AMD must focus on cost to beat Intel – report 90nm or bust
• AMD unveils Opteron 246 Almost a week after IBM did...
• Analyst won't be surprised if IBM buys AMD Neither would we, but we don't think it'll happen
• SITA bags Eland Buys Irish integrator
• SoC designs threatened by PalmChip bus patent Prior art challenge

Comms: Mobile

• BestBuy database said to list new Palms The mystical world of model numbers
• BT boffins develop SMS ‘with feelings’ Sub-Text
• Cellphone maps for pedestrians m-spatial shows Vodafone where to go
• Power saving for phones – Intel's way Power down for XScale
• Vodafone buys Project Telecom Founders trouser £100m

Comms: Networks

• Telewest unveils wireless BB pack Home Roam

Comms: Wireless

• Wi-Fi to be embedded in 95% of notebooks by 2005 Just in time for enterprise WLAN roll-outs

Hardware

• JDA saves (some of) Engage from the knackers Bolt-on
• SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU Good scrubbings don't come cheap
• Whither Informatica? Analytics rethink

Hardware: Data Networking

• MCI returns fire at AT&T 'Malicious fabrications'

Hardware: Servers

• HP unleashes Linux cluster army Servers unite
• SuSE and IBM secure Linux for the Feds Open source lockdown

Hardware: Storage

• StorageNetworks goes to the wall Dismembered

Management

• Lastminute hits profit again Splendid
• MSN junks Monster.com for Career Builder Bit of a trend
• Union preps legal action as job fears loom at Direct Line Recognition wanted

Music and Media

• File swappers ignore RIAA threats Don't know, don't care
• Meet the ‘transhumanists’ behind the Pentagon terror casino Rumsfeld's gurus?
• UK birth certificates to morph into your life story, and more? The 'through life record' to provide 'focal point' for interested parties

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Innovation Blue is the Colour LogoWatch Branding is the Game

Personal

• ATI unveils All-in-Wonder 9600 Pro Reg Kit Watch Plus: Addonics' DVD copier, D-Link's tri-mode WLAN kit
• Bumper Q1 masks Nintendo GameCube gloom Stellar GBA performance

Security

• Britain: a nation of cyber snoopers Sneaky buggers
• nCipher edges closer to break even Cash mountain
• Soaraway censorware Filter Fish