20th September 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Acer launches compact VGA Wi-Fi PocketPC The n300 family debuts
• O2 i-mode launch is 'imminent' NEC lets slip the dogs of PR
• Verizon embeds 3G for Wi-Fi challenge EV-DO hunkers down into notebooks

Comms: Networks

• Competition to drive down telecoms costs It's tough out there
• Trade bodies ask EC to stop broadband regulation review 'Massive extension of regulation'

Management: Financial News

• Apple CEO blasts 'greedy' music labels Push up prices: encourage piracy
• Baidu appeals music download court ruling EMI compensation claim
• HP throws scandal-dogged Peregrine a future $425m buy-out
• Put up or shut up, Friends Reunited tells bidders Imposes deadline
• US e-sales to rocket Say analysts

Management: Public Sector

• eGovernment 'ignoring' poor, unemployed, homeless Don't give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses
• Regulators call for global data protection law They would say that, wouldn't they?

Management: Small Biz

• Cisco targets small.biz with networking bundle Staying ahead of the 3Coms

Music and Media

• Million pixel student makes £32k That'll do for starters

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Google Earth threatens democracy - again More secrets laid bare to Godless commies

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Solar flare menaces scamming lungfish Letters Plus Symantec, Opera and hackers

PC Builder

• Nvidia GeForce Go 7800GTX to launch '29 September' Borrows Intel's 'performance per watt' message

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple's Intel Mac 'on track' - Jobs Steaming into the station early?

Personal: System Builder

• ATI pitches for PC-TV convergence Tune into Avivo
• Intel tweaks 65nm process to blitz leakage But there's a catch...
• Nvidia ships GeForce 6150, 6100 North Bridges er... GPUs When is an integrated graphics engine not integrated?
• Toshiba preps Cell mobo for developers Reference board, processors to ship after PS3 debuts

Reseller

• Compel maintains return to form Turnover and profit up
• MS sues eight US resellers over hookie software Customers dobbed them

Science

• Ancient meteorites tell tales of early solar system Smashing
• Of technicolour lungfish The colourful world of living fossils
• Scientists tout diamond-coated implants How many carats was that?

Security: Spam

• Phishers trawl for victims in Europe Jeux sans frontières
• Spam map Googles junk mail proxies Botnets ahoy

Software

• Akimbi automates application testing pools Taking humans out
• EC moots more charges against Microsoft Bundling-related, apparently

Software: Applications

• Opera gives away ad-free browser No strings attached
• Oracle promises 'lifetime support' for bought-in customers Holdouts welcome
• Siebel is done deal, Oracle says Hurdles? What hurdles?