8th August 2006 Archive

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Code

• Borland enlists Turboman for Windows tools Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it's a brand strategy!

Comms

• NTL:Telewest blames customer losses on competition Revenues up:losses up too

Comms: Mobile

• Camera phones linked to SA bank theft muggings Snap, bang, wallop...
• Mobile internet is still a turn-off Give us maps not blogs
• Monstermob confirms takeover bid Tumbling shares bounce on approach

Comms: Networks

• Broadband makes e-potatoes of us all Webstreaming to kill the video star?
• Imagine and Nortel team up in telecoms deal SMBs to benefit from combined offering

Hardware: Storage

• Brocade chomps McData Swallows $713m McNugget whole

Information: Knowledge

• IBM gets handle on unstructured data Almaden incarnates search and BI

Management

• Collaboration and communication - is more better? Comment It's a nasty world out there...

Management: Financial News

• PayPal UK confirms double-dipping error All fixed now

Management: IT Director

• IBM wins in US pensions plan appeal Big Blue didn't discriminate against old greys

Management: Public Sector

• iSoft probe gets formal Evidence of irregularities for FY 2004, 2005
• MP says NHS IT should be flushed Leaked report backs sceptics

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Time to tap the Tech Barometer Reg Reader Studies Forecast is for goodie bags

Music and Media

• Reg saves doctored war pics for posterity Shocking photos exposed

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Asus and Gigabyte to merge mobo manufacturing ops Unnamed JV to go into action early next year
• MSI preps Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI Not just an ATI gig

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony's first Mylo Forgotten Tech Who remembers the Clié-friendly My Life Online?

News: Mac

• Microsoft pulls plug on Virtual PC development Not seen as rival to BootCamp, VMware et al

News: PCs

• Designer punts 'perfect' portable workstation Fold-up unit with 17in screen, keyboard, graphics tablet

News: Phones

• Nokia buys Loudeye to kickstart iTunes rival New owner for Peter Gabriel's old download company

News: Smartphones

• Sony touts handheld Skype, Wi-Fi communicator VoIP, IM and web over Wi-Fi

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Southern pansies tool up with Harrier purchase Letters The better to get refunds from PayPal?

R&R: Books

• Top 10 technoculture books for the beach Tech Digest Much more fun than Wayne Rooney's bio anyhow...

R&R: Stob

• Out of the (C++) loop Stob Goto considered risible

Reviews: iPod

• Mavizen Blueye mobile phone adaptor for iPod Exclusive Preview Auto-pause your music when you take a call

Science: Biology

• Drug trial guinea pig faces new medical battle Diagnosed with cancer

Security

• Phishing Trojan plays ping-pong with captured data Hide and seek

Security: Anti-Virus

• AOL releases free anti-virus tool Helping Joe Public avoid the pox

Security: Enterprise Security

• Tips to prevent data loss Curbing the epidemic

Security: ID

• AOL apologises over search data 'screw-up' So sorry

Software: Operating Systems

• Whatever happened to... Mac OS X Leopard? Comment Spotty debut - but what's to come?