16th October 2003 Archive

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Channel

• Micron samples DDR 2 mobile DIMMs Getting ready for Centrino 2
• Prescott set for 90-100W power draw – Intel Comes clean on thermals
• Transmeta Q3 sales slump May halve again during Q4...

Comms: Mobile

• Gates: MS has 20m mobile market share, heads for 60% But despite appearances, he hasn't been inhaling...
• Sony to work with Intel on mobile music tech Pre-empting 'Napster for cellphones'?

Hardware: Data Networking

• IP convergence eat away at voice services cash cow Customer pressure

Hardware: Servers

• AMD re-iterates plan to offer multi-core Opterons K9 = K8 * 2?
• EDS and Opsware: bringing XML to the data centre Ready and waiting
• Sun gives glimpse of revised Solaris TCP/IP stack Fire Engine on the Software Express
• Sun struggles in Q1 Analysts hungry for blood

Music and Media

• Lime Wire launches legal content portal It's not all dodgy Metallica CD rips, you know
• Spammers struggle with words ^G.et^ a BUL"KY 'PO;L`E
• VeriSign sells off NetSol Keeps control of .com and .net, natch
• VeriSign's Site Finder is undead All your typos are belong to us (redux)

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• Health, Safety and… BOFH Episode 24 Who put that extinguisher there?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Intel's Grove blames unitease on TWHRUPBS Analysis Can we ping our HOEPGS to generate STPRAOUPBDZ in time?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• SunnComm CEO demands to be called a ‘laughing stock’ Letter Get it right

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple UK confirms iPod add-ons launch Commenting on unannounced product?

Security

• MS shores up five critical security holes First monthly patch
• Why Unpatched got unplugged IE vulns page 'outlived its usefulness'

Software

• Beefed-up firewall, new version of Update for XP SP2 Details of security 'secret sauce' emerge