24th August 2006 Archive

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Code

• Echo2 versus GWT Another toolkit that hides AJAX's implementation details

Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Judge slaps Microsoft with $25m fine top-up Says 'no' to retrial

Comms: Mobile

• Europeans' mobile love affair continues And Nokia still top dog

Comms: Networks

• Rumours persist about AT&T's U-verse service Comment IPTV catastrophe - hype or horror?
• Welsh Assembly to be investigated over RIBS contract EC to probe 'unlawful behaviour' claims

Distribution

• Europe wallops Tech Data Charges wipe out profits in Q2
• Fayrewood buffeted in first half Considering options - not the nice kind

Hardware: Servers

• Lack of love for Intel's 'Tulsa' chip bruises egos Come on, guys, this chip is great

Information: Databases

• Oracle buys realtime analytics assets Boosts middleware and BI

Information: Knowledge

• Settting the radar on Visual Sciences Comment BI matchmaking

Management: Financial News

• Amazon leak offers sneak peek at new video service Unbox-ed early

Management: IT Director

• Union boss proposes ethical offshoring Pay your employees after you sack them

Management: Public Sector

• NHS provider looking critical iSoft faces FSA probe

Music and Media

• China bans strippers at funerals 'Obscene performances' clampdown

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD reckons 40% server share is achievable Not until 2009, though

News: Cameras

• Canon unveils its first dust-busting digital SLR EOS 400D gets 10Mp sensor, too

News: Consoles

• Sony to show 27 playable PS3 games next month GPS unit for PSP, too

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• El Reg unleashes turbocharged search engine Goggle
• Dell quietly switches off own-brand MP3 player line DJ Ditty dropped to make room for Sandisk, Creative kit
• Logitech spins 'revolutionary' free-wheeling mouse No more clicky, sticky scroll wheels

News: Hardware Widow

• BenQ aims to pull with 'mauve sensation' lady-phone 'Shimmering luxury'

News: Mac

• 'Hindenbook' returns to burn Apple users It's not just Dell in battery hell

News: PCs

• Fujitsu Siemens kicks off football club coloured laptop line In a league of their own?

News: Smartphones

• T-Mobile UK introduces latest phone-like BlackBerry Carrier takes on 7130g

News: Storage

• Lite-on reveals external Blu-ray Disc writer Reschedules internal drive's ship date

News: iPod

• Apple pays $100m to settle iPod patent clash lawsuits Small change for Creative

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Japanese do u-turn over naked Britney Pregnant chanteuse will grace Tokyo metro
• Ving Rhames and I are born to be stars... Separated at birth

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg unleashes turbocharged search engine Now with added va-va-voom

Science

• Aztecs sacrificed and ate 550 captives Skeletons bear witness to ritual slaughter
• Digger breaks own speed record Hits 350mph and still not in top gear
• Ozone hole stable, possibly on the mend Put the giant darning needle away, Ma

Science: Space

• Ansari prize founder heads for space Lucky break
• Pluto booted out of league of planets Then there were eight
• Royal Society awards Hawking Copley medal Took it to space, first

Security

• Intel Wi-Fi update ate my CPU cycles Memory leak glitch
• Plane passenger tells security penis pump is bomb Embarrassment leads to disorderly conduct rap
• Unpatched enterprise security bugs proliferate 175 0-day vulns menace mankind

Security: Anti-Virus

• Microsoft flaw fix opens users to attack Patching the patch

Security: ID

• Pizza fraudsters get a slice of the action Telephone redirect ruse hits California

Software: Applications

• MS fits Messenger with sex police panic button Dirty talk 911