1st September 2006 Archive

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Code

• Sun gives hint of things to come in Studio Takes feedback

Hardware

• Gateway board dismisses eMachines founder's buy-back offer Not good for shareholders

Hardware: Storage

• HP, EMC slug it out for storage number 1 'Where shall we store the cash?'

Information: Databases

• Another way of tackling integration The purpose of repurposing

Management

• Chinese giant to buy Irish Upstart Technology exchange

Management: Financial News

• Cameron prepares to do Blair on India Foreigners, give us your business...please
• Foxconn retreats from reporter witch hunt Apple does the right thing?
• Oracle plays campaign funding by the book The best politicians money can buy

Management: IT Director

• Multinationals test small town Indians Economic necessity begets equality

Management: Public Sector

• Scotland's emergency care summary springs to life Health e-record

Management: Reg Weekly

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Music and Media

• Bragg makes MySpace admission 'We'd never actually read the Ts and Cs'
• The rights, wrongs and Rights of digital images Illustrating a point
• Tomkitten's first poop immortalised A work of art
• Zimbabwe debates 'oppressive' bugging laws If you thought RIPA was bad...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Hitachi spins up DVR-friendly perpendicular HDD IFA 06 Consumer electronics oriented

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony preps widescreen sat nav units IFA 06 Irate drivers to favour new Nav-U's gesture control?

News: Hi-Def

• Blu-ray Disc launch line-up revealed to Europeans IFA 06 The usual suspects - but not the movie of the same name...
• Pioneer to ship dual-layer Blu-ray burner next year IFA 06

News: PCs

• Dell laptop detonates in UK home Went up 'like fireworks', family claims

News: Phones

• LG shows off skinny HSDPA clamshell IFA 06 Out by Xmas
• Linksys ships Wi-Fi VoIP phone in Europe IFA 06 WIP330 crosses the pond
• Philips calls up PC-free Skype phone IFA 06 DECT for VoIP

News: Storage

• Pretec unwraps 8GB SD card IFA 06 FAT32-formatted whopper

News: Useless... but Cool

• Animatronic Skype phones get lippy Meet the Verballs

News: iPod

• Apple settles iTunes UI patent spat Agreement reached out of court
• Samsung readies rival digital music service to iTunes IFA 06 K5 player due next month
• SanDisk to ship low-end colour-screen MP3 player in October IFA 06 Sansa c200 series unveiled

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Out on the lash Episode 29 Smooth operators

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Banning things, thought crimes, and dangerous guitarring Letters And the new airport etiquette

R&R: Opinion

• IBM maps the future with ODIS Making what could happen less of a guess

Science: Biology

• Internet DNA test kits could land you three years Analysis Unless you work for UK.gov
• What is a Confessing Sam? Guilty until proven innocent
• What is the purpose of tickling? Stop it, I love it
• Why do you sometimes shiver when you wee? Shiver wee timbers!
• Why do your hands turn white when you wash the dishes? Shrivelling skin

Security: Enterprise Security

• 'Video-hams' tap into insecure surveillance cams i-Spy

Security: ID

• Airport crackdown means mountain of unclaimed mobiles Travellers apathetic about lost kit

Software: Applications

• Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 unleashed Edging towards release