19th July 2006 Archive

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Code

• Zen and the art of software configuration management Comment Less is more

Comms: Mobile

• EU sues France over illegal France Telecom aid The mother of all tax breaks
• mBlox fined over misleading spam Blames Carphone Warehouse and Stealthnet
• SK nixes LG 3G license Government boots out CEO for heel-dragging

Comms: Networks

• Ofcom ends BT price controls Update: Free to float, or sink...

Distribution

• Storage resellers called to show some Bakbone CMS spiffs up for a Harley
• Wick Hill wins Ultimaco gig UK exclusive

Hardware: Storage

• Iomega blesses second-generation Rev drive Doubles capacity to 70GB
• Samsung ramps up 1GB Flash chip output Touts 8GB package

Management: Financial News

• Apple soars on iPod sales You love 'em, Apple loves 'em
• BetonSports stops taking bets But where's the founder gone?
• easyGroup wins easy.com appeal An 'easy' day at the office
• Intel tops Q2 profit collapse with pessimistic forecast From bad to bad
• LogicaCMG hails IT outsourcing wins Offshore banking business
• Microsoft discovers secret to impressing Wall Street Obfuscation
• Software! miss! sours! Yahoo! Numbers look flat
• Stoic Napster troubled by Grecian formula The rise and rise of eMusic
• UK online sales top Germany Billions spent online last year

Management: IT Director

• IT girls calendar provokes unholy e-rumpus Screen Goddess site hit by DoS attack

Management: Public Sector

• Doctors attack NHS IT system Patient confidentiality at risk, say concerned sawbones
• NAO says HMRC over-sweetened IT suppliers Millions paid in aid - but systems still failed

Management: Small Biz

• BT and Sage collaborate to track call costs Talking telephone numbers

Music and Media

• Child abuse downloaders could lose UK payment cards Ripped up
• Chinese black helicopters circle Google Earth Mystery military project wows the crowd
• Indian bloggers switched off Government blamed
• MySpace to songwriters: sell more shirts Rupert won't pay
• Nordic file sharers form pressure group 'Don't touch our internets!'
• Old net geezers play trip-you-up Comment Neutrality! Nyah!
• YouTube wanders into copyright mire Big issues loom as US news service sues

News: Consoles

• Sony production partners punching out PS3s? Taiwanese sources say 'yes'

News: Hi-Def

• Sony, Samsung show off Blu-ray PC kit Burning passion

News: PCs

• Dell Falls for AMD - analyst Santa not so kind to Intel

News: Storage

• Sony preps 'PC-less' DVD burners Straight from camcorder to disc

News: iPod

• Future iPods to morph into games consoles? Rumour mill spins on alleged Nintendo, Nvidia deals

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Garage door remote triggers man's erection Hard luck for implant chap

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Even greater errrror massages of our time You sent us your favourites

Reviews: GPS

• CoPilot Live 6 for Symbian Review Sat Nav for your Series 60 phone

Science

• UK ponders personal carbon allowances Putting the cart before the low-emission horse, say Greens

Science: Biology

• Bush to veto stem cell bill 'The simple answer is he thinks murder's wrong'
• RFID chips could aid surgical litter-bugs Medics demand small spongeworthy wand

Science: Physics

• Earth's writhing magnetic field could aid fusion research Null points for ESA's Cluster

Science: Space

• China eyes Red Planet Extends space exploration plans

Security: Enterprise Security

• Oracle unleashes security horde Fixes for 65-strong swarm of bugs
• Symantec: Vista probably 'less stable' than XP Beta blockers

Security: Spam

• Online fraudsters love webmail - true Easier to block accounts linked to spamming than fraud

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft gets hands on Winternals A fine fellow