26th April 2006 Archive

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Code

• Borland wants to be a Red Hat for developers Lead generation

Comms: Mobile

• Eleven new UK GSM mobile carriers Hold on, who on earth is CyberPress?

Comms: Networks

• BT hits back at Carphone dig It's getting ugly
• Plusnet in cut-price broadband bundle Matches Carmoan, kinda
• TalkTalk slapped for 'free' calls ad ASA calls foul

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage hooks up with The Cloud VoIP does Wi-Fi

Hardware

• Oracle extends 'lifetime' promise 'No forced upgrades'

Hardware: Servers

• Commission rejects MS server claims and demo MS v EC Day three: Commission puts the boot in

Management: Financial News

• Hoberman packs his bags Moves away from Lastminute.com
• Ingram solid in Q1 despite Euro softness Sets Q2 guidance
• Rambus awarded $306.5m in Hynix patent case One case down...

Management: IT Director

• British employment law challenges offshoring Service providers up in arms over TUPE changes

Management: Public Sector

• Council takes initiative on identity Rolls out regional smart cards
• Suffolk becomes 'face of government IT' Job description: Watmore's instrument on earth

Music and Media

• Arms hawks land on EU security board Subsidies unleashed for civil surveillance
• Aussies to get pseudo-ID Card Monkey see, monkey do
• Forensic felonies New law clamps down on PIs
• Getting off the UK DNA database: ACPO explains how Or not...

News: PCs

• Evesham has graphic plan for notebooks Voyager goes dual core

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Airbus proposes cost-saving 'standing class', says NYT How do you get 853 people into an A380?
• NY subway w*nker gets two years' probation NSFW Flashing perv gets off lightly
• US clamps down on violent supermodels Air rage Dane expelled

Reseller

• Esteem buys Scots ACCESS Sun in the North

Science: Biology

• Chinese clone BSE-resistant calf Unmad cow

Science: Space

• Space Muslims face weightless search for Mecca ISS prayer poser

Security: Enterprise Security

• PGP unfazed by MS disk encryption Infosec 'C'mon then!'

Security: InfoSec

• Where have all the dolly birds gone? Infosec blog Show stopper

Security: Spam

• Phishing goes international Infosec The lingua franca of fraud
• We'll buy smut if you send us the spam Infosec Users get dirty

Software: Applications

• Database and support duo take on Oracle Getting heavy
• Europe's plan to hunt down pirates Four years in the brig for you, me hearty
• MDM may change your life…or not Comment Breakthrough technology or just another acronym?

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft talks up interoperability MS v EC Day three: MS describes world where everything works