17th August 2005 Archive

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Code: Scripting

• Microsoft switches on to LAMP More secure than open source?

Comms: Mobile

• Toshiba is latest to claim perpendicular HDD first Just in time for the fifth-generation iPod

Comms: Wireless

• Sprint + Nextel = golden age of broadband? High hopes for big merger

Management: Financial News

• HP takes tax hit, but sales up No nasty surprises
• Symantec snaps up compliance specialist Sygate All about endpoints

Management: Small Biz

• Techscape: RFP is not the one for me Jumping through the hoops

Market News

• Four found guilty of £40m VAT fraud Mobile phone scam

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Man builds Viking longboat from 15 million lolly sticks All good charitable fun

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg science and telecoms move house Site news New sections for your reading pleasure
• Software Testing: a practical insight Site offer 30% off this and other titles

PC Builder

• Evesham goes a bundle with Bullguard Security package

Personal

• Toshiba unveils 1GHz 65nm media processor Can be customised into a million varieties, apparently

Personal: Consoles

• Nintendo's Game Boy Micro to arrive early November US debut in September

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple scraps 'Return Of The Twitchers' ad campaign Remake cancelled
• US iBook sale ends in pandemonium Sobbing children crushed in laptop stampede

Personal: PCs

• Customers slap Dell for lousy support Almost as bad as HP - survey
• Greenpeace calls for technology detox Electronic waste is polluting China, India
• UK.gov IT procurement to be discrimination-free Vendor- or platform-specific IT tenders nixed

Personal: Peripherals

• ATI R520 to debut 'early September' Higher-end parts due October, report claims
• Blu-ray secures Universal Music backing Sony's would-be standard endorsed by BenQ too

Science

• Cosmonaut clocks up record 748 days in space Cumulative, not all in one go
• Harvard goes hunting for life's origins Causes a ruckus, stateside
• Relationships like atomic nuclei, says physicist Weak partnerships decay. Sigh
• Volcanic activity did for the dinosaurs Asteroid simply the last straw, study suggests

Security

• Cockney suits abuse f**king email Gawd blimey guv'nor, yer firm's a bleedin' mess

Security: Anti-Virus

• Adobe warns over PDF peril In brief Cross platform vuln menaces mankind
• Plug and Play pandemonium Worms based on MS vuln attack world+dog

Software: Applications

• Avid trumpets facial animation breakthrough Immediate empathy for less
• JBoss welcomes BEA immigrants Migrate here