20th January 2006 Archive

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Comms

• AOL UK to spend £120m on local loop unbundling Can now compete 'on a level playing field' with BT

Comms: Mobile

• Mobile phones don't cause brain tumours Handset usage doesn't increase cancer risk

Comms: Networks

• Pipex hosting service floored by electrical fault One in seven punters hit

Comms: VoIP

• Tesco VoIP service flawed, say rivals Not comparing apples and oranges

Hardware

• There's no such thing as an open source business Unless it uses Apache

Hardware: Data Networking

• 802.11n Wi-Fi spec nailed down, at last Broadcom already sampling compatible chips

Hardware: Servers

• Intel answers Itanium mystery with riddle One full Swope

Lifecycle: Plan

• Mistakes found in 98% of US patents Indian proofreaders to the rescue!

Management: Financial News

• Million $ pixel site faces legal threat Winner of eBay auction not happy
• Phones4U raves about '3G Christmas' Corners third of 3G sales
• Rambus Q4 income drops 35 per cent Despite record revenues
• UK splashes out £5bn on bumper e-Xmas Online spending continues to soar
• USwitch calls in advisors to prep sale Or maybe an IPO

Management: IT Director

• UK.gov loves computer contractors (true) Taking up private sector slack

Management: Public Sector

• Swindon goes large on outsourcing Gig worth up to £500m

Management: Small Biz

• ONS struggles to define ecommerce revenues Could do better, UK statisticians admit

Market News

• South Korea warns Japan over Hynix DRAM tax Will go to WTO if import levy imposed

Music and Media

• German court orders shutdown of Wikipedia Dispute over naming of dead hacker
• IT industry prepares for the worst over ID cards 'Don't blame us, blame government'
• Sex.com owner sells up to chase $65m damages Epic domain fight continues without domain
• US man kills himself 'live' on gamers' forum Controversy surrounds suicide

News: Mac

• Apple to open stores in Germany, reseller claims A '99.9 per cent probability'

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: 'Did you know..?' Episode 3 Yes, we did - we're Systems and Networks

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Vive la France! The Rotting Dog Blog No cheese, no monkeys, no surrender

Personal: PCs

• Acer to integrate 3G into notebooks HSDPA too, for even faster downloads
• AMD looks to quintuple CPU cache capacity Capacitorless memory could be the key
• ATI R580 GPU benchmarked Sample graphics board leaks out

Personal: Peripherals

• Motorola makes up for lost time with Kreatel buy Set-top maker buy puts Morotola in frame for full IPTV

Personal: Reviews

• Asus Extreme AX1800XT TOP Review Too late, too pricey?

Science

• New Horizons off to Pluto Successful launch for NASA mission

Security

• IT security a problem, says FBI It's done a survey

Security: ID

• Banks make it easy for scammers Too fat to act?

Software: Applications

• Eurovision Search contest: a search engine for Europe The winner is: Boom bang-a-bang