3rd November 2005 Archive

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Hardware

• ADIC's modular midrange SMI-S Cut-down enterprise library heads straight for LTO-3.
• AMD begins fully-buffered blade attack on Intel Precious, precious watts
• Opteron Madness forces Dell to market IBM servers It has come to this
• Plasmon parades Operation RAID Channel recruitment
• Sanyo pitches 'ready to use' rechargeable batteries Better than dry cells

Market News

• Algorithms no match for sales craft, Dell discovers Axes flop CE division
• Five months at Oracle enough for CFO Revolving door ordered for exec's office
• Microsoft nabs wee FolderShare Windows Live lives
• SolarMetric buy makes BEA more persistent Keeping up with the competition

Odds and Sods

• Nude Brits shop while drunk Completely BLOTO online

PC Builder

• Asus preps 'silent' Radeon 1600XT card Monster heatsink ahoy!
• Governments agree to end multi-chip import duties Cheaper chips
• S3 launches Chome S20 GPUs High clock speeds, low power consumption

Security

• Crypto gurus hash out future At least 300,000 years to go
• Harmless Oracle worm raises security fears Them thar varmints is coming after our databases
• Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned When bad software happens to good people
• Sony to offer patch for 'rootkit' DRM Updated Fix removes cloaking, but not the 'rootkit'

Services

• BT Ireland confirms Cara buyout Dusted and done
• Disposable credit card attracts 10,000 Irish users Plastic Paddies

Software

• Firefox gains ground on IE Alternative browser crosses one in 10 milestone
• Political challenge to state's Office ruling Microsoft - in or out?