16th October 2006 Archive

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Hardware

• Cisco gains patent on 'triple play' Time to pay up, partners
• NEC packs up Packard Bell Hui buys veteran brand
• TomTom takes Garmin to court (again) Design issues

Market News

• Five arrested over D-Link router theft Rogue routers for sale online
• Samsung has bloody good quarter Confounds expectations

PC Builder

• Nvidia's three-GPU mobo spied on web Caters for visuals and physics
• Sapphire offers prizes for bare box-art lookalikes Get kit off, win kit

Security

• 419 scammers launch shipping sites Fake escrows on the rise
• Wired editor smokes out MySpace pedo Top-notch journalism
• Brits bin their identity as ID thieves prosper Just shred-it
• McAfee opens data-theft snooping service Bolt-on acquisition
• NK nukes: We're all (not) going to die Analysis The wrong monster
• Spyware infection prompts McDonalds MP3 recall Bitter aftertaste to Coke promo

Servers/Storage

• HSBC customers in cash machine hell Exclusive Accounts frozen, cards eaten
• McData offers $1.1m to keep CEO sweet Stick around, fella

Services

• iSoft costing Staffs hospital dear £16m hole in accounts

Software

• Larry Ellison's Linux nears release – pundit Not so stable but looks great in a Tux
• Mozilla brainstorms Firefox 3.0 Wish-list goes live