17th May 2006 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Apple yanks key x86 Mac OS X open source code Compile-your-own kernels a PowerPC-only affair

Comms: Networks

• Govt messenger sacked for Kiwi LLU plan leak An 'abuse of trust'

Comms: Wireless

• BT backs city-wide Wi-Fi Come on you Gooners!

Hardware

• SOA Software adds pure-play string to its bow Strengthens armoury

Hardware: Servers

• Intel will carve off flash and communications units - analysts AMD here to stay

Hardware: Storage

• PA Semi heads to 16 cores on back of $50m boost Processor Forum TI to fab?

Information: Databases

• Object databases - alive and kicking? Comment New open mindedness in data storage

Management: Financial News

• EC wants more ecommerce VAT To stop US etailers eating more European babies
• Jessops lures Snapfish Boosting its online operation
• Merrill Lynch rehires world's greatest hardware guru Hedge trimmed from under The Loon

Management: Public Sector

• Rude councillor is appealing IT department not safe yet

Music and Media

• Banish those mislaid ex-offender blues with ID Card! Fixes broken governments, leaps tall buildings, dodges difficult questions...
• Protection from prying NSA eyes Comment A (Classified) proposal
• Why the Supreme Court sided with eBay No 'automatic right to injunction'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD unveils four dual-core Turion CPUs Digital Media XPress vs Intel's Digital Media Boost
• ATI unveils Radeon Xpress 1100 mobile chipset Faster graphics than the Xpress 200M
• ECS tips wink to ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Unannounced Socket AM2 chipset... announced

News: Consoles

• Xbox 360 plus HD DVD drive to beat Blu-ray PS3 on price? So say some retailers

News: PCs

• Sony pitches Blu-ray Vaio desktop for HD content creation RC204 to support 50GB BD-R/RE media

News: Phones

• Samsung ships first HSDPA phone you can buy Only in Korea, for now

News: iPod

• Mitsubishi presses play on iPod-inspired auto Hard drive?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Google swallows Pot Noodle in battle of UK's brands Search monolith is Brits' fave
• Segway inventor behind DARPA 'Baghdad skeet shoot' Applications of a dangerous mind

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• First review: Sky's HD box Tech Digest Even Elton John looked good

Reseller

• Big Blue claims channel targets Aims channel at small biz, and HP
• Calyx buys Matrix integration business £40.5m to unpick Matrix
• PC World slapped for wireless internet ad D'oh!

Reviews: Accessories

• Shure E3g sound-isolating earphones Review A word in your ear...

Science

• No flying car by 2010: official Deloitte crushes dream of millions

Science: Biology

• Norway besieged by bear army Crab submariner division too

Science: Physics

• Nuclear powered Blair drops radioactive bombshell Fall-out on atomic energy plans

Security

• Japanese power plant secrets leaked by virus Mystery malware and file sharing linked to third breach

Security: Anti-Virus

• Killjoy Trojan deletes warez and smut Vigilante malware

Security: Spam

• Blue Security calls it quits after attack by renegade spammer Folds spam fighting operation

Software

• eBay anti-virus pirates sued US pirates ahoy...

Software: Applications

• Schwartz spells out Sun's vision thing JavaOne 'Services' is the hardest word to say