15th December 2004 Archive

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Channel

• Sun must acquire Red Hat or Novell - analyst Analysis If it knows what's good for it

Comms: Mobile

• Atheros unveils 'world first' Wi-Fi access-point-on-a-chip Cheaper base-stations ahoy
• Nextel Sprints into mega merger The wallflower of telecoms gets hitched
• Wireless broadband comes to South Korea Fastest WAN in the Far East

Hardware: Servers

• Dell UK stung by bungled server sale Customers are revolting
• HP sends Itanic boat people to Intel Marketing dollars over manpower

Management: Financial News

• Don't use Google desktop search in your business, warns Gartner Well, hang on there, let's give them a chance
• Excite rises again like a turkey from the ashes Will this be third time lucky for dotcom boom darling?
• It came from the vaults! Google seeks to open the library Digitization project raises hopes and concerns
• Microsoft halted in phonetic domain crusade Mocosoft a step too far in IP madness
• Q3 chip stockpile bigger than thought - researcher Excess inventory topped $1.6bn
• RIM infringed NTP patents, appeal court rules But RIM can continue selling product anyway

Management: IT Director

• Business PCs riddled with porn Majority of companies discipline staff

Management: Public Sector

• BT faces £4.5m NHS claim over broadband delays Contract penalties

Management: Small Biz

• Businesses failing to recognise cybercrime dangers IT security not a high enough priority

Music and Media

• Apple iPod out of tune with Real's Harmony But how come no one noticed until now?
• Blunkett hands in cards after prints found on visa Clarke gets black spot
• Cryptography Research wants piracy speed bump on HD DVDs Analysis The rush is on
• Dutch raid eDonkey sites, seize servers No more mister nice guy
• Europe kicks UK out of biometric passport club Like we need compelling to fingerprint ourselves...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Ratty pilots worry sci-fi fans Letters And cheap tinsel worries wifi fans

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo preps DS media module Add-on to bring PSP-like movie, music playback to console
• Sony PSP takes off on schedule First run sold out in a day

Personal: Peripherals

• NEC licenses Honeywell LCD tech Legal action yields first public result

Personal: Reviews

• iRiver N10 512MB Flash MP3 player Review Dedicated follower of fashion?

Personal: System Builder

• Intel 'to cut' Celeron D, Grantsdale prices Trimming here, trimming there
• Nvidia apes ATI to revive mid-1990s AGP feature Separated at birth: TurboCache and HyperMemory

Science

• NASA throws Deep Impact spacecraft at comet Cosmic darts

Security: Anti-Virus

• Polyglot virus is Xmas party pooper Zafi-D turns PCs into zombies

Security: Enterprise Security

• Five important fixes in MS December patch batch Buffer overflow bugs, mostly
• Free data-wipe tools for *nix systems Making data hygiene easy

Software: Applications

• Mainframe Catalogs: the untold story Registries and catalogs - a comparison