20th May 2005 Archive

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Code: Scripting

• Oracle teams up with Zend for PHP love-in Which is nice

Comms: Networks

• Kingston flogs Omnetica France Au revoir
• UK phone scammers yet to pay fines That's not ACE

Comms: VoIP

• Cost of net phone calls may rise Price pressure follows 911 ruling
• Vonage UK opens for business VoIP kit goes on sale in 136 Staples stores

Lifecycle: Manage

• Open source search engine trawls free code Koders goes FOSS hunting

Management: Financial News

• Ask Jeeves buys Excite Europe Excited? Nah, us neither
• Eidos board quits SCi in charge

Music and Media

• Google catches Portalitis But we don't think it's serious
• Lycos Germany bins IP address data Legal threat prompts action
• Skype coughs to phone number cock-up Numbers already allocated

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Lucky in computing... Episode 16 ...unlucky in love. Sigh

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• iPod Health Warnings - view the best Competition We have a winner
• Steve Jobs: smoke and mirrors or iCon? Review The book he tried to ban
• US gov seeks space billboard ban Updated The sky's the limit

Odds and Sods: Letters

• New fangled weather haters labelled Luddites Letters And everyone hates ticket touts

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple recalls notebook batteries - again Another year, another faulty LG Chem powerpack

Personal: Reviews

• ATI X600 Pro All-in-Wonder Review Tour-de-force or tour-de-farce?

Science

• Huge iceberg menaces Antarctica Collision with ice tongue imminent
• Scientists hail stem cell breakthrough Therapeutic cloning advance
• UK docs demand live liver transplants Pressing need

Security

• MS UK recruits FBI man New head of security
• Windows file permissions: more is less Too complex by half

Security: Anti-Virus

• Sober reloaded German government alert over Monday botnet update

Security: Enterprise Security

• Feds botch wireless security Open to attack, claims report
• LAND attack threat 'not significant', says Microsoft French alert doesn't stack up to much, apparently
• Yahoo! chat bug gives scope for mischief Remote disconnect risk

Software

• Microsoft takes strimmer to purchase agreements Less paperwork, same money

Software: Applications

• Software as service: read the small print Think 'contract', says Gartner