18th September 2006 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Red Hat wraps up JBoss combo to go Apps stack up

Comms

• Telecom Italia buys AOL Germany Benvenuto caloroso

Comms: Mobile

• Cellcos' 4G club opens doors to vendors Talking bout the n-n-next generation
• Corporate culture and mobile email Mobile Workshop Mobile Security Poll
• MetroPCS and Leap worry cellco giants as AWS auction ends Range wars

Hardware

• RM named preferred bidder Stoke-on-Trent schools project

Hardware: Data Networking

• Intel serves up light chips Zap! Pow! Fast!
• Salty sea dog scales the mountains of Ithaca Blog To BGAN at the beginning...

Hardware: Servers

• Sun exec going off-grid? Rumours of Singer's swansong

Hardware: Storage

• EMC adds some Network Intelligence to security line RSA fully on board too

Management: Financial News

• Napster hoists 'For Sale or For Partner' sign Can we offer you a cute logo and losses?

Management: IT Director

• Water company sunk by burst pipe Severn Trent IT dives into the disaster recovery abyss

Management: Public Sector

• DTI keeps eye on iSoft Care home

Management: Small Biz

• Sales agency wins rights to database in High Court Well-insulated contacts

Market News

• New VAT regime for Christmas HMRC promises light touch for honest late starters

Music and Media

• Banned spy novel published on net Ex-MI6 officer defies UK government on blog
• Daleks prepare invasion of Google Earth Interdimensional portal menaces Netherlands
• Google and Apple in iTV content talks iCouch potatoes
• Google News faces €1m fine in Brussels If it's Tuesday, this must be the Belgian courts
• Internet head honchos prepare for election Nominet and ICANN: worlds apart.
• Warner Music embraces YouTube False dawn, or new era for bandwidth benefactor?
• Wikipedia founder forks Wikipedia More experts, less fiddling?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Seagate HDD demo points to 275GB iPod-class drives Flash who?
• TDK samples 32GB Flash disk HDD alternative

News: Hi-Def

• Boffins attempt to patent dual-format HD DVD, Blu-ray combo disc Mix'n'match optical media

News: Phones

• Sierra ships Sprint's EV-DO Rev A mobile data card 3.1Mbps AirCard 595 goes out to carrier

News: Useless... but Cool

• UK firm readies iPod-oriented video spectacles As predicted by Blake's 7...

News: iPod

• SanDisk readies Rhapsody-branded music player Anti-iTunes, Zune manoeuvre

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Game over and over again Classic video games dusted off for new exhibition

Reseller

• Logicalis slaps UK computing, networking divisions together End-to-end appointments

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT graphics chip Review Can Nvidia's top-end single-GPU board cut it?

Reviews: iPod

• Apple's second-generation iPod Nano More a remixed re-issue than a bold new album?

Science

• Arms manufacturer loads lead-free bullets Traditional variety 'pose a risk to people', warns BAE Systems

Science: Biology

• Evangelists oppose Leakey's fossil exhibition Not evidence for evolution, just interesting creatures

Science: Space

• El Reg to launch space payload Competition Yes, but what, exactly?
• Ansari blasts off in Russia rocket First Iranian in space
• Cassini spots ethane clouds on Titan Snowing at the poles
• NASA reports mystery 'bad smell' on space station Whoever smelt it dealt it
• UK uni rocket payload test hits 105,600ft Balloon flight success for budget von Brauns

Security

• Web vulns top security threat index Analysis On the up-and-up

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hacking probe clouds Swedish election result Shocking viking hacking
• Warnings grow over unpatched IE flaw Stop us if you've heard this before

Security: Spam

• Spamhaus repels DDoS attack Spam wars

Software: Applications

• Adobe builds web conferencing into Acrobat Rounds up the collaborators with V.8