9th June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• EC relaunches Intel antitrust probe New evidence means a 'fresh' investigation
• Scottish dealer jailed for chip VAT fraud Gets porridge...

Comms: Mobile

• Medion MDPPC250 PocketPC GPS Bundle Reg review Best value PDA-based GPS rig yet?
• Nokia takes bullet for hijack victim Anti-killer mobile app?
• PalmOne blinds Treo smartphone for Sprint I am not a camera
• PC Card maker touts 'seamless' Wi-Fi, 3G access Option card to ship through Swisscom

Comms: Networks

• BT to trial fibre-to-the-home Details trials of 21CN

Comms: Wireless

• Czechs indulge in Wi-Fi swapping Europe in Brief Hotspot action hots up
• Report raps Wi-Fi providers for 'location inflation' Multiple location - multiple location-counting schemes

Hardware: Data Networking

• BT to save £1bn a year with IP network Five Year Plan

Hardware: Storage

• Storage buoys InTechnology Sales up, losses down

Lifecycle: Manage

• SCO trumps Sun's open source Solaris bid Sun trumps SCO by not knowing its own plans

Management: Financial News

• Airlines ground online ticket price gouging Postcode discrimination eliminated, EC asserts
• Beatles mull online music store Will we still love them when they're 64? Not long to go now...
• Sony - BMG wedding hit by EC spoiler Competition concerns remain...

Management: IT Director

• IT workers' morale hits rock-bottom Cheer up, worse things happen at sea
• Norwich Union axes 950 IT jobs Insurer offers tea and sympathy, little else

Music and Media

• Commissioner 'increasingly alarmed' by ID card scheme Thomas gives evidence
• German fined €8000 for Kazaa uploads More cases pending across Europe
• Global P2P jihad claims success Winning the file-sharing war?
• Paedophiles face credit card blacklist Fiscal attack
• Police to monitor chat rooms International co-operation in paedo crackdown

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Amazon turns camcorder on shaven nudists You bought the kit, now read the book

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Join the software development revolution Site Offer XP and UP guides at 30% off

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple launches liquid-cooled G5 Mac Power Mac family goes fully dual-processor
• Apple rebuked over G5 speed-lead claim - again 'Not justified', rules UK watchdog
• Apple security patch problems fixed What to do if the update appears to leave holes open
• Apple: no 3GHz G5 'any time soon' Broken promise

Personal: PCs

• AMD bags Chinese giant Lenovo embraces Athlon

Science

• UK chemists detect air fingerprints I love the smell of VOC in the morning
• World safe from nanobot 'grey goo' U-turn by prophet of doom Eric Drexler

Security: Anti-Virus

• The Wi-Fi explosion: a virus writer's dream Opinion Perfect stealth

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS hatches June patch batch Moderate risk

Software: Applications

• Oracle discounts revealed in court Depends how much competition there is...
• The curse of MSN strikes another MS VP It was five years ago today... 9 June 1999

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft confirms EC appeal 'Significant new obligations'