6th September 2005 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Peloton getting closer for Borland Releasing JBuilder 2006

Comms: Mobile

• France Telecom rejigs business structure NExT!

Comms: VoIP

• Skype honeypot snares dirty IMers NSFW Hot bloke-on-bloke chat action

Hardware: Servers

• Microsoft cripples 'Longhorn' Server for Itanium Three tasks only for sales-challenged chip

Hardware: Storage

• Fire, cockup and virus calamity vex storage managers Wrong week to stop sniffing glue

Management: Financial News

• Coke to sell virtual stuff with the 'real thing' I'd like to buy the worldwide web
• FriendsReunited in sale talks Clicks into cash?
• Poker shares dip Market won't bet on cards...
• SurfControl hits trough Security firm in sales slump

Management: IT Director

• Ashes interest could bowl over computer networks Owzat then?
• BCS hits 50,000 members A thousand new members a month?
• Demand for IT staff falls Nobody wants you...
• Fired pizza-loving programmer wins prize SimplyFired

Management: Public Sector

• Digital divide is self-repairing, says UK gov Good, let's all go down the pub then
• UK.gov ditches 'Big Brother'-style e-voting What a shambles, say Tories

Music and Media

• Dutch ISPs sue government for wiretapping costs Too expensive

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Airbus secures $1.5bn China deal In brief 'Hugely important'
• Thong-wearing fireman escapes axe No IT angle, but plenty of helmet and chopper
• Vibrating buttocks key to driver alertness Tactile warnings cut crashes

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Are you scared of iPods, penguins, terrorists or Daleks? Letters Danger, every way you turn

Personal: Consoles

• Sony PSP sets UK console sales record More than double Nintendo's initial DS shipments

Personal: Peripherals

• Samsung to play safe with dual HD DVD/Blu-ray rig Can't beat 'em, join 'em
• Sony shows 8x DVD+R dual-layer drive And Mitsubishi flips its discs

Personal: Reviews

• Sapphire Pure Innovation PI-A9RX480 mobo Review Overclocker's dream - or too expensive?

Personal: System Builder

• Gigabyte unveils 'less hazardous' Opteron mobo RoHS, RoHS, RoHS your boat
• Intel EOLs 533MHz FSB Xeon CPUs Goodbyeee

Science

• Saturn's rings are mighty weird More Cassini holiday snaps
• Speedy cannibal pulsar caught in the act One companion star, to go

Security: Anti-Virus

• Intel hands Czech firm millions for virus protection Díky moc

Software

• FSF moots patent retaliation clause for next GPL Final say goes to Stallman, though

Software: Applications

• Munich's Linux migration heads south for the winter Delayed until 2006