24th March 2006 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Expressing yourself in Java: Regular Expressions They can be rather opaque, but also extremely powerful

Comms

• May launch for Sky HD £300 for the box and £10 a month to subscribe

Comms: Mobile

• T-Mobile to make mobile net service 'unlimited' Fair Usage Policy applies

Comms: Networks

• Plusnet inks LLU deal with Tiscali Exciting, no?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Alcatel, Lucent confirm 'merger of equals' talks Do you take this networking giant to be...

Lifecycle: Execute

• Fujitsu stacks up SOA Could Japan congeal SOA hot air?

Management: Financial News

• Jobs dumps Apple stock In brief Vested? Sell!

Management: IT Director

• Microsoft re-org elevates Office chief Can't make up its mind

Management: Public Sector

• NHS IT probe useless For the NHS, anyway, says expert

Market News

• Global IT spending to rise 6.3 per cent in 2006: IDC Large ones all round

Music and Media

• China breaks up illicit gaming and piracy networks Smack down
• Flock fellow flees I'm flocking off
• Lessig blesses DRM It's open source DRM, so it's good. Huh?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia wins more Sony contracts Expected to generate more revenue than the PS3 GPU deal
• Toshiba defeats Hynix in Tokyo court Toshiba 1, Hynix 0

News: Consoles

• Sony says PS3 will be region-free Games, certainly; movies... maybe

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Bluedelta extends SmartSCART AV connector Even more SCART, S-video and RCA ports

News: Phones

• RIM's 3G Blackberry launch imminent Vodafone has the gig, apparently

News: Smartphones

• Palm sales up, shipments down Buoyed by smart-phone shift

News: iPod

• Universal launches movie downloads... at DVD prices Analysis Defining the market dynamics before Apple can?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Clear and present danger Episode 11 When loop pile carpet attacks

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BBC kicks off HD balls in May Geek TV Plus the best of this weekend's telly
• Brits dial up naked phone calls That's when they're not nodding off
• Need some corporate lift music? Click here Fool/money/parted
• Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker Our mistake is YOUR problem

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'ARRRRRGH!!!! GRRrrrrrr!!!!! RAAWWRRR!!!!! ... Dummy' FoTW Primal Scream Therapy
• Podcast licensing, my arse Letters And you can shove your RFID up your...

Reseller

• E-commerce not relevant, say SMEs Too expensive too
• PC World de-commissions sales floor Group hugs instead of arm-twisting

Reviews: Laptops

• Asus W2Vc 17in widescreen notebook Review A stylish aluminium clad 17in notebook from Asus...

Science

• Cassini beams back dazzling photo album 'Ave that, Ansel Adams
• IBM plots 'chip on a molecule' Silicon on borrowed time?

Security

• Trojan intercepts bank tokens TAN marks exposed

Security: Enterprise Security

• Feds nix Check Point's Sourcefire bid $255m deal sunk
• Fidelity lost HP's employee data to impress HP We'll show you

Software: Applications

• Microsoft won't open up Office till January Roadmap leads to wintry Vista
• Mozilla Thunderbird wrecked my relationship Open source - the new homewrecker