24th July 2006 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Sun: We're happy with Eclipse, honest... Competition is a good thing

Comms: Mobile

• French regulators cap SMS charges Updated Vla! Chpr txtin...not in the UK though
• Microsoft's iPod killer - first photos Zune goes retro?
• Only one in seven switch off their phones during sex Leave on vibrate?
• Vodafone shareholders are revolting Sarin faces night of long knives

Hardware

• Google and the new punk era of IT Comment Unconventional wisdom

Management: Financial News

• AMD, ATI and the GPU Comment Breaking the monopoly
• OMG!!! MySpace goes titsup Teen angst

Management: Public Sector

• So farewell then, Child Support Agency Bad news for EDS? Not likely

Market News

• Morse withdraws from Germany Rear guard action to protect services

Music and Media

• 74,000 .eu domains suspended And phantom registrars sued
• Germans unhappy with TV tax for mobiles and PCs Telly everywhere
• Passport fees balloon by almost 30% A price 'that must be paid', Home Office says

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Abit recalls AN9 32X mobos Overheating risk, company admits
• AMD slashes prices by up to 61% CPUs axed too
• AMD Socket F Opterons due mid-August Two-week delay?
• AMD to buy ATI Cash'n'shares purchase totals $5.4bn
• ATI preps internal CrossFire connector 80nm X1650 XT first to get it?
• ATI readies Radeon X1950 Updated GDDR 4 on board, report claims

News: Consoles

• Nintendo ships 21m DS handhelds Key of the door

News: PCs

• Dell pledges free CPU upgrade to waiting XPS 700 buyers Conroe instead of Pentium D

News: Phones

• Nokia ships latest n-series smart phones N93 here at last

News: iPod

• Microsoft confirms Zune software, hardware family iTunes meets MySpace?

Science

• ESA offers grants for Space Butlins Orbital tourism is go in Europe
• Light goes faster in reverse Caution: physicists at play
• Stargazers ID imminent supernova For a given value of imminent, anyway

Science: Physics

• Los Alamos bets on 'creativity' to handle $200m of extra costs Efficiencies and imagination tested

Security

• PI arrested at hacker convention Prisoner theme gets real
• Unsolicited credit card push irks security researchers On tin snips and tin-foil hats
• Warning over Sky TV scam Two-part ruse

Security: Enterprise Security

• Ransomware getting harder to break The evolution of an 'uncrackable' threat