27th October 2005 Archive

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Hardware

• Sun freezes hell, gets IBM to sell Solaris on blades Shiver me servers

Market News

• Baby Bells emulsify back into AT&T Competition, US-style
• Chip start-up Montalvo looks to speed mobile devices Shhh. Don't tell
• Falling margins, prices push Maxtor into the red Q3 reverses Q2 trend
• Microsoft deals out round two of executive shuffle Don't get too comfortable
• North Carolina buys more jobs with handouts to Chinese Lenovo warms to millions in tax breaks
• Shareholders call Sun management to heel Rewards-based system
• Vodafone UK deploys mobile-vending machine Manchester trial for Quickphone kiosk

PC Builder

• AMD prunes Athlon 64 prices Up to 20 per cent off
• Intel to ship VT P4s on '13 November' And a faster Celeron for Xmas
• Samsung samples GDDR 4 chips Ultra-fast graphics memory coming next year

Reseller

• Calyx makes its move into the UK market £2.5m foothold

Security

• BBC suspends Blackberry network after mixed-up emails 'Obscure bug' blamed for e-crossed lines
• Malware authors unleash bird flu-themed Trojan Sick twist to social engineering
• Rules for RFID chips in US passports Toothbrush, travel soap, clean underwear, new passport?
• UK launches major net security awareness campaign Joe Public invited to Get Safe Online
• Web defacer sentenced, facing deportation Still that NASA business though...

Software

• Red Hat CEO decries open source pretenders Desktop Linux is like teenage sex