9th August 2006 Archive

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Code: Scripting

• Accessing DB2 UDB with PHP (Part 2) Tutorial Using PHP with IBM's DB2 universal database

Comms: Mobile

• Orange mobile network goes AWOL Updated Pops out for a KitKat
• Vodafone customers to pay extra for Extra Mobeco pulls MMS from cut price pack

Comms: Networks

• ICSTIS speaks out on latest Big Brother voting furore 'Please leave us alone'
• US football through the Net Neutrality looking glass FCC, big cable, and net newts again

Hardware

• Social enterprise deal for HP and Curam Team up to take SEM to the public sector

Hardware: Data Networking

• Sprint makes $3bn WiMax play Drafts in Intel, Motorola and Samsung as cheerleaders

Information: Databases

• Sybase touts distributed data integration Suite success

Management: Financial News

• Borland on black track, says CEO Balls in the air
• Cisco turns up profits despite set top box buy Sales rise set to cheer investors
• Sainsbury's cans DVD rentals Not pukka

Music and Media

• Babycare guru demands closure of 'defamatory' site Mum's the word
• Chinese man trademarks Zidane headbutt Mark up for grabs for $125,000
• Lords rule on 'grossly offensive' phone calls Man's messages to local MP 'insulting and perjorative'
• Three quizzed in Royal phone tap probe Noise on the wire

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Logitech revamps wireless music kit with full remote control Four-room ready too

News: Mac

• Parallels updates Mac OS X virtualisation tool Pleades Vista, 'fast' 3D support

News: PCs

• Dell exec confirms AMD notebooks for October AMD agrees

News: Smartphones

• T-Mobile Germany unveils 'super 3G' Vario II Fast-download smartphone

News: iPod

• Sony shuffles Sports Walkman brand into iPod era Tube-like DAP gets jogger-friendly features
• UK retailer touts ultra-slim monolith MP3 player 2001 inspired?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Dead geeks depend on the kindness of strangers Into the Valley Will a wooden Jobs be so lucky?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Idioms wilt as heatwave humour drought worsens Letters The Vest is the Best

PC Builder

• Elonex creditors back administration Unsecured creditors will get less than 20 per cent

Reviews: Smartphones

• Sony Ericsson M600i smart phone Review Sony Ericsson challenges RIM's BlackBerry

Science: Physics

• Cheshire's particle accelerator gets £2m cash injection Putting Britian on the science map, DTI says

Science: Space

• Boffins sketch solution to bulging moon problem Use them new-fangled Computerers? Lawks, no, sir...

Security

• Barclays to launch two-factor authentication Card readers secure online banking
• Brits adopt 'safe surfing' habits Confidence grows but viruses remain a problem
• MS releases dirty dozen Nine critical fixes star in August Patch Tuesday update

Security: Enterprise Security

• US Senator claims campaign site 'hacked' Or something

Software

• Sage still taking buyer's medicine Goes to Florida for £297m surgical graft

Software: Applications

• IBM moves further into applications Comment Swallows Webify

Software: Operating Systems

• Windows Live suffering from 'paralysis,' says Microsoft Ex Technorati RSS feeder walks