Less than bullish for Q4

Cisco chief executive John Chambers said the networking giant had beaten expectations for the third quarter, ending 29 April 2006, but it isn't increasing estimates for the current quarter.…

Band plays on

Novell has been juggling the numbers in its latest effort to gain a toehold on business desktops against Microsoft's Office and integrated server software.…

The essentials of professional networked media

Book review Everything is software. Increasingly, the devices we live by (whether routers and switches, or just DVD recorders and music systems) are computers running specialised embedded software. This is generally known as "convergence", which is a term usually used in the context of VoIP telephony, although this is just a small part of the whole picture.…

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Navel gazing

Human navel gazing probably started with the Neanderthals 50,000 years ago and hasn’t stopped since. Our belly button does not heal over because there is nothing between it and our stomach except a few thin layers of skin.…

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The number of complaints about dodgy premium rate services (PRS) is still on the slide, according to industry regulator ICSTIS.…

iPod 'addict' under fire from aggressive lawsuit

A US worker, dismissed over allegations that he spent his time at work listening to his iPod and making personal calls instead of building business, is being sued by his former employer for lost profits.…

Verizon waves the shroud

So-called "network neutrality" legislation hampers innovation and harms business and the public, Verizon's chief spokesperson said this week.…

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IVCAFs IBM and Gartner

With IBM and Gartner preparing to evangelize SOAs at the analyst's Symposium and IT/expo next week, Microsoft has got off to an early start by announcing an architecture targeting developers and integrators in financial services.…

And you thought Clippy was annoying

An irritating interface could be just one of the factors that hurts uptake of Windows Vista in the enterprise, challenging Microsoft's ambitious rollout goals.…

It could be yours in just 20 mins

Thieves with laptops are able to steal cars in around 20 minutes by breaking the software locks used in modern keyless entry systems.…

Will talk Big Blue into submission

A group of open source software vendors have teamed up with the hopes of ending the systems management dominance enjoyed by the likes of IBM, HP, BMC and CA. The companies today have formed the Open Management Consortium (OMC), hoping to get out the message that open source management tools have matured to the point where they can compete with proprietary packages.…

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Techie meat is murder

The German cannibal who ate a computer engineer has had his sentence extended to lifetime imprisonment for murder, Bloomberg reports. His victim had replied to a posting seeking a "well-built male" for "slaughter and consumption".…

Try it and we may chuck you off the network, warns carrier

T-Mobile UK has taken against Skype and other VoIP applications - at least as far as its new Web 'n' Walk Professional mobile internet access airtime package goes. According to the company's service terms and conditions, it's none too keen on instant messaging either.…

Little Tom has big fight on his hands

Scientologist Tom Cruise has taken the owner of TomCruise.com to domain name arbitrator WIPO to win it back.…

E-economy class syndrome

A programmer has warned how a marathon 12 hour sit gave him a blood clot that could have killed him. Chris Simmons, 42, was rushed to Bristol Royal Infirmary after a thrombosis travelled to to his lung.…

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Little sympathy for sobbing rockers

Letters Pity if you will the poor old Red Hot Chili Peppers - reduced to making a tearful appeal to fans not to download illegal copies of their new album, Stadium Arcadium, released today:…

An easy-to-use networked back-up drive for home or the office

Review With more and more data ending up on your PC, from your music collection to your photo library, not to mention work and applications, it's more important than ever to keep your computer backed up. Hard drives fail, they get dropped, they get nicked. Most of us would be made pretty miserable if our data went up the Swanee too...…

'Never mind love, stick the kettle on'

Half of women in the IT industry believe they're not paid as much as men.…

Jamaican jailed after failing to fool US customs

A Jamaica man who tried to surgically replace his fingerprints with skin from his feet in a failed bid to enter the US illegally has been jailed for 13 months.…

Revolving door social housing girlband hawk mobile TV doc

Oh. My. God. Epoch-defining news out of the Sugababes camp. The girls have signed a deal with O2 to allow the great unhosed the chance to download reality TV-style episodes from their super-exciting lives to mobile phones.…

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