24th August 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Nvidia 'nForce 4' details leak In addition to what Nvidia has already said itself

Comms: Mobile

• Intel readies Centrino Wi-Fi update 802.11a support coming Thursday?
• Say goodbye, then hello to AT&T phones Mobile brand reverts to the mother ship

Comms: Networks

• DQ prices up, service down One year on and deregulation disappoints
• Ship's anchor cuts cable to Sri Lanka Internet and phone services hit
• Tiscali Norway flogged Simple as that
• Wanadoo UK punts 1Mb ADSL for £18 It's a 'basic right' apparently

Comms: Wireless

• Fujitsu preps 'early 2005' single-chip WiMAX part Fee, fo, PHY, MAC

Hardware: Servers

• Intel pledges to bring Itanic down to Xeon price-point EM64T a stand-in until the real anti-AMD64 kit arrives
• Investors back PolyServe's Linux cluster hopes with $20m Too little, too late?

Management: Financial News

• Shares fall on Arm takeover Nice fit, but too expensive, reckons City

Management: Small Biz

• DTI urges small.biz to embrace digital Huge commercial opportunities

Music and Media

• More red ink spills all over online college music scene Ruckus challenges Napster for losses
• MS to 'quietly launch' iTunes rival this week Janus DRM tech due too
• Police cuff 'international computer piracy gang' Arrests in five countries

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: How do you deal with authority? Episode 27 The Bastard wants to know

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Reg readers name BSA antipiracy weasel Poll result The people have spoken
• Games outfit catches rebranding cold LogoWatch Unpleasant, but not fatal

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Luddite Reg readers want flat weather, please Letters Oh, and don't be mean to spamvertised sites

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Clueless about networking? Click here Site Offer 30% off 'First-Step' guides

Science

• Beagle 2 team none the wiser on failure What went wrong on Red Planet? No idea
• US throws $1bn at unmanned attack aircraft DARPA funding for Northrop Grumman's X-47B

Security: Spam

• US tops junk mail Dirty Dozen - again Star-spangled Spammer