15th September 2006 Archive

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Code

• Line up for parallelism It could be the way of the future

Comms: Mobile

• Apple iPhone 'on track' for early '07 intro, mole claims Echoes analyst's allegation
• Arnie terminates drivers with hands-on cell phones Keeping California safe - but not yet
• Mobile phones drive down costs Leeds opts for BT fusion
• Mobile TV, too good to give away? Finally: a use for that unlimited data tariff

Comms: Networks

• Broadband report highlights 'two-speed' Europe Nothing rotten in Denmark
• Little Murdoch's 'scary' warning to BT Who's the Daddy?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Legend Docklands sinks customers Legendary snafu

Hardware: Servers

• PC market slows but outlook positive: IDC Q2 forces down full year forecast
• Red Hat takes Xen baby step In brief A timid little guy

Hardware: Storage

• 50 years of the hard drive Comment Amazing, but ...

Management: Financial News

• Apple fan runs iTunes movie marathon Comment 30-minute download? Pah!
• Freescale sells itself for $17.6bn cash – or more Who knows, maybe something better will come along
• Investors betting against Sportingbet extradition Chairman falls on his sword
• Journalists’ society condemns HP snooping Hacked off
• Tired of linking, Yahoo! starts! making! the! news! Scooportal
• Toshiba puts Lexar royalties spat to bed Cost: $288m

Management: Reg Weekly

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Market News

• Macs in better service than PCs shocker And everyone better than PC World

Music and Media

• Canadian shootings linked to website, videogames The blame game
• Digital rights activists take aim at EU data laws See you in court
• eBayer lays claim to net's dullest video For sale: one washing machine, working...
• Jealous ex used MySpace to plot hit: police New tools, old jobs
• Nominet solves rogue domain seller problem Transfer price reduction removes incentive.
• SWIFT stalled EU probe of US snooping Stuck between a rock and a hard place
• The iPod's Achilles Heel? It's er... Reader's Digest Analysis Zune, eMusic, and subscriptions
• Universal to upload lawsuits to YouTube, MySpace? Royalties, please
• What the anarchist blogger case means to the rest of you globules Valley Justice Gonna burn this city

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI readies 80nm desktop GPUs for October?
• Lite-On to ship HD DVD drive next year Blu-ray Disc supporter backs rival format too

News: Consoles

• Man makes Xbox 360 laptop First mod that's actually useful?
• Nintendo: Wii to come to Europe on 8 December Pricing, games details announced

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• JVC constructs 'pulsating sphere' near-ideal audio source Looks a bit Blakes 7 though...

News: Hi-Def

• Toshiba readies revised HD DVD players Samsung plans Blu-ray machine update too

News: Mac

• Apple marches out Boot Camp update Core 2 Duo-based Mac support

News: Phones

• Trolltech prices up coder-friendly Linux phone Greenphone not cheap

News: iPod

• MS intros Zune music service, Wi-Fi song sharing Tight-lipped on prices, availability

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Brits ignore bloke trapped down manhole Good show
• Witchdoctor orders Serb to have sex with hedgehog Sonic pin ball

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• JK Rowling holds on tight to Harry Where’s a Nimbus 2000 when you need one?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Reg hack 'retarded and needs help' FoTW 'All you UK fags are like that'
• Censorship, naughty teens, biometrics and butt-plugs Letters Intriguing, no?

Reviews: Desktops

• Shuttle XPC SD37P2 CrossFire-ready SFF PC Review Small yet powerful?

Science: Biology

• Are there people with no sense of smell? Scentsory loss
• Why does natural selection take so long to get results? Survival of the fittest
• Why isn't pubic hair the same colour as hair on your head? Got you by the short and curlies

Science: Space

• Milky Way's spiral was a late addition Galactic home improvement
• Virgin Galactic goes Starck raving bonkers LogoWatch 'Earth to Richard Branson, over...'

Security

• Mozilla security takes axe to redundant code Slim is in

Security: ID

• Mistakes in identity Breaking up your identity can be good for security

Security: Spam

• Anti-spam crusaders slapped with $11.7m judgement Spamhaus unfazed by 'unenforceable' ruling
• Spammers feel the pinch from Feds Sanctions against botnet operators

Software: Applications

• MS flirts with online Works The rumour mill churneth