6th December 2005 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Hibernate Object Relational Mapping (Part 2) Second in a two-part series by Java Guru John Hunt

Comms: Mobile

• Bluetooth roadmap updated but UWB wars could scupper it Best survival plan, but ...
• Ericsson to babysit 3's UK phone network What's the hourly rate?

Comms: Networks

• Telewest coughs to email gremlins Keen to catch the blighters

Hardware: Servers

• At last, Sun unveils UltraSPARC revival Erie and Ontario refreshed by Niagara
• Sun opens Niagara chip design to world+dog Forces Oracle pricing refactorization
• Xen 3.0 ready to be hammered Have at it, boys

Hardware: Storage

• Brocade ends 2005 with a wheeze Next year more promising

Lifecycle: Execute

• More on IBM and SOA Comment Biggest change since client-server

Management

• Philips legend dies at 100 Influential

Management: Financial News

• Empire Online plays legal card in PartyGaming spat Lawyers spin wheel of fortune
• Future of AOL to be decided soon Oh yes it will, oh no it won't
• ITV swallows Friends Reunited Hello again
• Real rhapsodises over the net Real Deal
• Rhapsody 'preview' for Mac, Linux users Small carrot to tempt music subscribers

Management: IT Director

• Ofcom fingers Capgemini for IS deal Legacy systems-tastic

Management: Small Biz

• E-tailers must provide more information Taking stock

Music and Media

• Aussie Kazaa users told to stop using Kazaa Federal Court bans downloading it too, website says
• eBay UK takes down pirate software sales Microsoft cracks the whip
• EFF volunteers to lose important suit over Sony 'rootkit' Opinion Still securing precedents for the other side
• Hollywood bets on biometric DRM + P2P Exclusive Thumbs up, or thumbs down?
• Who owns your Wikipedia bio? Web's favourite RPG hits the headlines

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI unwraps first X1000-class mobile graphics chip Coming soon to a notebook near you

News: Mac

• Apple to open Sheffield this Saturday The Full Mac Monty

News: PCs

• UK vs US as vendors race to ship first dual-core laptop The Widow versus the Rock

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Al-Qaeda probes enemy on Google Earth So claims US Marine
• MP3 players could destroy planet: official Xmas data apocalypse risk
• Tesco unwraps musical Xmas sandwich Oh good, singing lunch

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Celine Dion fights mutant rats on Xbox 360 Letters Plus chavs - legitimate news?

Personal: Consoles

• Xbox 360 vs PS3 It's going to be all about the discs

Personal: Mac Channel

• Intel Macs 'due 6 June' Early 2006 launch date dashed?

Personal: Peripherals

• Panasonic promos 50GB Blu-ray Disc production pilot Dual-layer player

Personal: Reviews

• Sonnet iPod battery replacement pack Review How to revive a run-down iPod

Science

• Fujitsu preps carbon nanotube heat-sink Mobile phone base-station chips to run faster, cooler
• Taiwanese firm to open UFO research base Probing tree-felling alien visitation claims

Security: Spam

• Anatomy of a failed virus attack Analysis It happened to me
• Hosting firm cuts off VMT Scientific website Press releases mirrored by hype-spam

Software: Applications

• Red Hat designs rubber stamp for open source stacks Takes services to the service providers

Software: Operating Systems

• Novell hails pipsqueaking NHS deal On a Linux promise
• Unix support and licensing focus for 'minor' Windows release No need for Linux