16th June 2006 Archive

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Code

• Hacking your vacuum cleaner Turn a Roomba into, well, anything

Comms: Networks

• France first in MS IPTV rollout Comment But will the long-awaited service impress?
• Nortel weakened by failure of Huawei venture Comment Has it missed the boat?

Comms: VoIP

• Consumers to flock to VoIP All change
• Tiscali unveils VoIP service VoIPtastic

Lifecycle: Execute

• CMDB standards wrangle 'Big Six' shun top down approach

Management

• Boy George tries to squeeze into US patent shoes Opinion Osborne wants EU to be more like US

Management: Financial News

• Oracle busts through own forecasts for Q4 Can't they get software to predict this stuff properly?

Management: Public Sector

• Bring back Bichard Blair resists call to reconvene inquiry team
• Mealy-mouthed NAO pampers NHS IT Avoids key questions
• NHS IT cost doubled to £12.4bn 'But it's not over budget'

Management: Reg Weekly

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Music and Media

• Yahoo! worst in China You! can! censor! the! internet!

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI denies 80nm problems No news is good news
• VIA socket-479 CPU appears in Japan Works with Intel chipsets

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Acer MP-500 breaks cover in Germany Waiting game may be over, but was it worth it?
• Mio launches C210 Sat Nav in Brussels And it's cheap, very cheap
• What's Boomtube? Yup, speakers in a tube Go on, annoy people who are lazing in the park

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Dr Bastard's lab challenge Episode 20 Mickey Mouse inventions

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• The US soccer team will always stink And ninthly Thomas Friedman's mustache knows it

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sky viewers show Motty the red button Tech Digest Footie fans go interactive

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Developing world malware writers throw a sickie Letters As seen on Google Earth

R&R: Opinion

• NetSuite seeks ISVs Editors' Blog Your business, their problem

Reviews: MP3 players

• JVC Alneo XA-F57 'basic' MP3 player Review Low in features, but not in price

Science: Biology

• Do lie detector tests really work? Polygraph probe
• Is long life related to where you live? A recipe for longevity
• Stem cell trigger pinpointed The protein that turns back time
• What cultures don't share Western economic values? Alternative ideals
• What is a Chinese restaurant headache? Heady issues

Science: Space

• Boulder boffins reveal secret of gas giants' moons Neptune still a puzzle, though

Security

• A lesson in spyware Simple concept?
• Welsh email filterer can use 'spam' in trademark Hormel grip on pork meat slips

Services

• Powergen pulls plug on Indian call centres Responds to customer complaints