3rd September 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Dial-a-Phone hitches ride on Comet High Street mobe supply deal

Comms: Networks

• BT examines broadband price cuts Small ISPs' wholesale misery relieved?

Comms: Wireless

• Wi-Fi Alliance moots security set-up standard Laying down the law on WPA Wizards
• Wi-Fi overseer to debut QoS standard 8 Sept Ten products to sport Wi-Fi Multimedia brand next week

Management

• Dell, prisoner of the Beast of Redmond Linspire chief lashes out
• IBM pays up for NY pollution Homeowners get compensation

Management: Financial News

• Acclaim files for bankruptcy Games up for sale
• Global chip sales slow on inventory build-up No reason to panic, says trade body
• Lucent in line for giant tax rebate Brown envelope contains good news, for once
• Nortel delays filing accounts (again) Figuring it all out
• Oxfam releases download album for Darfur REM, Faithless and David Gray give it up for charity

Management: IT Director

• Dixons seeks 1,000 new recruits Hooks up with Jobcentres to plug gap
• National Savings jobs to India to cost UK £25m, says union 'Squandering taxpayers' money'
• On the skive? Then visit eBay Join the crowd

Management: Public Sector

• Customs gets new IT head Not grey and boring shock
• Socitm pushes softer skills for e-gov Strategy before technology

Music and Media

• LAPD nabs pirates, 12,000 counterfeit DVDs Suspect spotted in routine traffic stop
• Porn dialler fraudsters find lucrative loophole Legal side-step fleeces punters

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• RAF sergeant bought stripes on eBay NCOs without insignia due to cost-cutting bungle

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Does SP2 cause bovine lesbianism? Letters And El Reg consoles cuckolded husband

Personal: PCs

• IBM recalls 500,000 melting notebook adapters Fire in the hole

Personal: Peripherals

• HP builds inkjet R&D centre in Ireland €21m investment

Science

• Aussie boffins probe lesbian cows Cattle worriers to explain bovine girl-on-girl
• Brits to demo world's largest computing grid Equivalent to 100,000 boy racer PCs

Security: Anti-Virus

• Prevx releases free intrusion prevention software Update Closing the window of exposure

Security: Enterprise Security

• Old PCs are goldmine for data thieves Don't forget to wipe

Security: Spam

• Spammers embrace email authentication Junk mail tsunami continues unabated