31st March 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Naomi Campbell 'beat assistant with PDA' The make? Read on...
• Orange touts 'Great for Music' handsets Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone not among them

Comms: Networks

• BT tempts UK biz with 2Meg broadband Consumer service dressed in a business suit, says rival
• Tele2 increases prices for early morning calls Why pay more?

Distribution

• Toshiba hit for $465m in a Flash Range war brews after Lexar award

Lifecycle: Manage

• MercExchange shrugs off eBay patent setback eBay's speculation "Rank"
• UKUUG seeks open source award entries Go on, blow your own trumpet

Management

• HP makes Hurd the $20m man Cash register king hears bonuses go Ker-ching!

Management: Financial News

• Game for a takeover? Retailer in talks
• iVillage buys out Tesco Assumes control of UK site
• Qwest soap opera continues Revised bid or hostile takeover?
• Shopping.com sets out stall in France On Kelkoo's home turf
• Thus cautious on outlook Trading update

Management: IT Director

• EDS to UK gov - give us our £13m CSA spat won't die

Management: Public Sector

• Public IT must be accessible: EC Reading frames it as a business issue

Market News

• Lenovo raises $350m for IBM PC takeover Turns to US private equity

Music and Media

• Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam Google objects to CNET staffer's Adsense-bait
• Denic damns 'errors' in .net report Serious questions raised
• ICANN imposes $2 internet tax Future plans revealed with new .travel and .jobs domains
• Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood disgust Hollywood vs P2P It's a morality thing
• Woman rebrands as GoldenPalace.com The eBayer formerly known as Terri Ilagan

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Eccleston quits as Dr Who 2 gets green light 'The time has come, but the moment has been prepared for'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Technology, morality, juries and politics Letters A heady mix

Personal: Consoles

• Gizmondo wins major UK retail backers Territories shared out

Personal: Mac Channel

• UK Mac reseller offers PowerBook G5 teaser True to typo

Personal: PCs

• Toshiba, Elpida prep 'industry's fastest' DRAM XDR outing

Personal: Reviews

• Sapphire Radeon X800 PCI Express Review Best balance between budget and performance?

Security

• US intel agencies 'incompetent' Chasing the wrong targets, and doing it poorly

Security: Spam

• Lawsuits drive 'Spam King' Richter to bankruptcy Brought to knees by MS and Spitzer

Software

• Microsoft encourages app-swapping councils The Newham effect
• MS shows mercy to Blaster teen Swaps fine for extra community service

Software: Applications

• Intel 'backs' Bertelsmann P2P project Have you been GNABbed?

Software: Operating Systems

• Deutsche Bahn dumps Intel, pumps SUSE onto IBM mainframe Consolidated statement
• Microsoft RTMs Windows Server 2003 SP1 Long time coming