30th June 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Intel prunes pre-Grantsdale P4 chipset prices But 'unlikely' to boost i8x5 demand
• JVC buys BIOS-based system testing tool Ultra-X signs major vendor

Comms: Mobile

• M&S boss claims mobile phone records accessed All is fair in love and takeovers
• Motorola smart phone to offer 1.3Mp cam, Bluetooth MPx220 coming in Q3
• O2 drops pager service End of the line

Comms: Networks

• BT coughs to broadband ad blunder It was all a 'mistake'
• BT Retail cuts cost of DSL, caps users Oh well

Comms: Wireless

• Orange France preps big Wi-Fi push Another 1,500 hotspots
• Wi-Fi finds no space on the forecourt Limited potential for wireless and mobile payment solutions

Hardware

• Expat offshore firms slammed as 'unpatriotic' US critics attack outwardly mobile villians

Hardware: Data Networking

• Nortel flogs factories to Flextronics Switch firm's staff switch firms

Hardware: Servers

• AMD 'penetrates' Dell - again Fading rumour fire restoked by analyst
• Sun axes core support professionals Tie a BluePrint ribbon

Hardware: Storage

• Western Digital sues Cornice Second suit in a week for 1in HDD maker

Management: Financial News

• Amazon bids adieu to French jobs Le downsizing et la centralisation
• Cisco buys software backup firm LAN-like data access over the WAN
• Commodore challenges Apple digital music dominance Vic-20 reborn as MP3 player
• France Telecom faces payback time EC closes in
• Lastminute buys German doppelganger Takes out rival
• SEC accuses Siebel of careless talk Unfair disclosure?
• Virgin will float next month Let's go fly a kite

Music and Media

• BT cuts off dialler scammers Pull the plug first, ask questions later...
• German dialler scammers hijack signatures Sign here for premium-rate porn
• MPs demand big stick for hackers Two years' hard time, to be exact
• The porn must go on - US Supreme Court For now ...
• This is what is happening to Iraq's Internet domain Analysis ICANN's head reveals all
• UK police nab 11 in Net gun crackdown Operation Bembridge begins with dawn raids

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH peers through the proxy mirror Episode 21 And finds something illegal, even in Leeds...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Your query will destroy our database - DoJ Open government closed for business

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Cyber appliances, deadly mobiles and free beer Letters: Satan's PR campaign off to a good start

Science

• Europe sees nano-electronics as 'future oil' Eyes on the prize

Security

• Learn computer forensics at Bradford University Tracking the binary baddies

Security: Anti-Virus

• Hungarian virus writer avoids jail Two years' probation for Laszlo K

Security: Enterprise Security

• Malware attacks IE users via pop-ups Oh dear
• There is no anti-spyware silver bullet Plenty of base metal about though, consultants warn

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft makes peace with Massachusetts Anti-trust suit settled
• US court waves through Microsoft DoJ settlement Massachusetts is unhappy