2nd August 2004 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Rio pitches Carbon player at iPod Mini Diamond, graphite or buckyball?
• Siemens touts Blackberry-based business phone SK65 sports rotate-out QWERTY keyboard

Comms: Networks

• ADSL migration made easier AOL, BT, Wanadoo etc co-operate
• Lycos Inc. flogged for $105m Korean portal in charge now

Hardware: Servers

• IBM eFuse to yield self-repairing, self-regulating CPUs Mighty Morphin' PowerPCs

Hardware: Storage

• Veritas makes Linux as strong as Solaris LinuxWorld Carly Fiorina's birthday port

Management

• Al-Qaeda cyber terrorist panics US Weapons of mass inconvenience

Management: Small Biz

• Etailers face tough times It's about price

Music and Media

• China terminates 700 sites in porn crackdown 220 people arrested too
• Net vigilantes target 419 sites 48-hour flash mob protest

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Beckham penalty outrage ball to tour UK Goooooal! for charity
• Captain Cyborg to risk all for science Heroic sacrifice to advance humanity

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple's Jobs undergoes cancer surgery Like the iMac, back to work in September

Personal: Peripherals

• It's OK to boil your memory card: official But don't crucify it, it'll break

Science

• Tropical storm delays Mercury mission Take-off put back 24 hours

Security

• Long-awaited IE patch (finally) arrives Praise be!

Security: Spam

• Anti-spam spamvertisers agree to quit Cynical pop-up campaign squashed

Software

• Sun turns WSJ into Novell buy spin machine Schwartz plays the press