9th December 2005 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Mercury and BEA extend performance deal Application profiling

Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Simplified RUP debuts with Windows programmers Refining the process

Comms

• 'Are You Being Served?' Comment 'Scuze me while I p*** off Sky
• UK 'on target' for 1m unbundled lines in 2006 Bulk migration taking off too

Comms: Mobile

• MS punts 'sub-$300 PDA phone' plan Looking for vendors to pick up the tab
• NTL stands by £817m bid for Virgin Mobile 'Better value for all Virgin Mobile shareholders'

Comms: VoIP

• BT to spend £££s plugging VoIP Simplifies branding

Management: Financial News

• Click fraud suit changes hand 'These ad figures make no sense'
• Napster launches in Germany 1.5m songs available to rent or buy

Management: Public Sector

• Govt call centres fail to handle call numbers 119m calls ditched, say Lib Dems

Music and Media

• DfES to build index of the UK's kids - all 11 million of them How do you secure a multi-disciplinary information exchange system?
• Government pitches ID cards as fix for online ID fraud But not entirely convincingly...
• Publishers scrap over DTI ecommerce initiative extension Analysis Aggravated over aggregators
• Wikipedia waddles onto DVD and print in Germany Almost for free

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Beware the lie-detecting mouse Episode 34 Busted!

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Holy potato set to wow eBay Crucifix appears in humble spud

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Kick the Dog: a Reg flame special Letters The Rotting Dog gets roasted
• Software piracy: BSA walks the plank Letters Figures don't add up, cry readers

Personal: Consoles

• Sony still primed for Spring 2006 PS3 debut Launch to co-incide with Blu-ray roll-out?

Personal: Peripherals

• Apple to extinguish FireWire? Intel-based iBooks to be USB 2.0 only, website claims
• Creative restokes MP3 player patent threat Rattling sabre to speed negotiations

Reviews: Laptops

• Alienware Area-51 m5500 notebook Review Lacking that special Alienware 'something'?

Security

• Intel readies rootkit- rooting hardware System protection chips due 2008-09
• SonyBMG backtracks on buggy bug fix Wearing out the rewind button

Services

• Siemens to carve up services arm Pass the problem

Software

• Microsoft tackles pirate software firm See that there plank, me hearty...

Software: Applications

• The sophist and the open source baking farce Into the Valley Don't take the biscuit