4th November 2003 Archive

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Channel

• AMD Athlon FX-53 to counter Intel P4EE? Straight from the source's mouth
• Elpida samples 2GB DDR 2 module ECC support for servers
• IT ads ‘selling impossible dreams’ – Which? You mean this PC won't get rid of piles?

Comms: Mobile

• Developing mobile apps on Series 90 Briefing

Comms: Networks

• Oftel unlikely to demand broadband cost cuts – report Doesn't want to 'rock the boat'
• RIAA and DirecTV file more suits Drag thousands to court

Hardware: Data Networking

• Skype won’t make it, says WSJ columnist Zennstrom replies

Hardware: Servers

• G5 cluster secures elite spot for Apple, IBM I'll swap my Big Mac for your Green Destiny
• IBM marries Opteron and Xeon in cluster Blade troubles
• Sun shares jump on Youngjohns The Loon responds

Management

• Carphone Warehouse to create 1,000 jobs Profits up
• Court waves through Worldcom bankruptcy plan And with one bound MCI was free
• Orange outage hits 10,300 punters No signal, no nuffink

Management: Small Biz

• IT contractor wins IR35 case Worth a pint or two?

Music and Media

• E-voting vendor sued for DMCA takedown Never mind the ballots

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• How to recognise a geek Institute of Physics Survey (seriously, folks)
• IBM minimizing ROI – what it means to you Reader revolt

Personal

• Microsoft looks to SiS for Xbox 2 I/O chips Joins IBM, ATI
• Nintendo sales surge on US price cut How long will they stay that way?

Personal: Mac Channel

• MusicMatch issues official support curse for iPod users iTunes - meet Recycle Bin
• Panther bitten by second data damaging bug FileVault to blame this time

Security

• Israeli man charged with hacking Mossad Spy hard
• Security fears over UK 'snooper's charter' UK.gov to spy on Joe Public, pass data overseas
• Sex and the City worms promise illicit thrills Mildly irritating
• VeriSign unveils flash new site seal Mark of Trust marketing ploy
• WorldPay floored by malicious attack DDoS attack?

Security: Anti-Virus

• Telia blocks spam-sending Zombie PCs Trojans nipped in the bud

Software

• Consumer Linux? Just ask my 90 year old father, says Red Hat CEO But there's a point here struggling to be heard
• Novell bags SuSE for $210m IBM invests $50m too
• Red Hat pulls plugs on Red Hat Linux product line Does this mean there's a vacancy?