25th August 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Three UK & Ireland enjoy healthy results Revenue and customer base on the up

Comms: VoIP

• Fugitive CEO tracked down to Sri Lanka after Skype call Ceylon so long

Hardware: Servers

• Is that a VMware CTO and Transmeta CEO at your start-up? Spot the executive

Information: Databases

• Visual Studio's lifecycle database tool goes live It's Data Dude

Lifecycle: Manage

• CA and Cybermation and workload automation Comment Let's see what the two can do

Management: Financial News

• iSoft lives to restate another day Long-awaited results show massive loss

Management: IT Director

• Email archiving moves to the mainstream Quocirca's changing channels Keeping everything 'on the record'

Management: Public Sector

• Data proposal prompts legal warning UK law change could violate human rights

Management: Reg Weekly

• Sickly health providers, lawyers, and why the Taliban are barred from eBay To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• AOL big four media deal tramples long tail Comment All the content you want. Repeated
• Canadians enjoy winter sun on Google Earth Two seasons for the price of one in Edmonton
• EU may be powerless to stop US snooping But what about the Belgians?
• Manchester 'DIY devil bomber' kept explosive in family fridge No evidence of intent to harm, says police source

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• VIA to ship its first DirectX 9 Intel-oriented IGP next month? P4M900 finally makes it to market

News: Hi-Def

• Hollywood demands 64-bit PCs for HD DVD, Blu-ray playback? If you want to use Windows Media Player, certainly

News: Mac

• Apple gearing up to ship Conroe-based Macs? Circumstantial evidence

News: PCs

• Asus announces GPS-equipped UMPC Biometric security, too

News: Phones

• Vertu Constellation to be observed in October? Stellar street

News: Storage

• Iomega ships 320GB eSATA hard drive High-speed interface
• Plextor preps 'world's smallest' external DVD writer Bus-powered

News: iPod

• Toshiba's Zune-branded player made public 'Hello from Seattle...'

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Paris Hilton jumps the shark Brit pensioner 10 times more popular

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Reg hacks eat babies' souls FoTW While inciting terrorism, naturally
• Permission to DNA test French Elvis? Letters Not without our trusty bacteriophages

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• Pioneer BDR-101A internal Blu-ray disc burner Review Europe gets its first retail BD-R/RE drive

Science: Biology

• What conditions disqualify you from donating blood? Safety while saving lives
• What is diptheria? Atichoo!
• What is the seven year itch? Are relationships doomed at seven years?
• What makes a good swimmer? Freestyle

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS finally patches IE patch If at first you don't succeed...
• Pentagon hacker says charges have been manufactured Claims US arguments 'falsely constructed'

Security: ID

• Phishing frauds target adult webcam site iFoes

Software: Applications

• Are Google's glory days behind it? Interview Colly Myers on the rise of AQA
• IE 7 release closes on finishing post MS lays the groundwork for final browser release