26th September 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Bluetooth SIG gets serious Chinese factory raided, 20,000 items seized
• Buy your piece of the .mobi internet today The net on your phone from 3pm
• Carphone Warehouse buys Aussie telco CPW goes down under
• Merging your landline and mobile Mobile Workshop We're really talking mobile convergence
• Mobile gaming initiative gains OMA backing Yet another attempt to standardise mobile gaming

Comms: Networks

• Boeing closes Connexion - and I thought they were just being rude! Comment Missing the boat

Hardware: Data Networking

• The haunting issue of latency Ionian Blog Unmasking The Ghost

Hardware: Servers

• Intel on top of the server world again IDF At least in terms of publicity
• Rackable and Intel scratch each other behind AMD's back IDF Feels like the first time

Information

• StreamBase touts a standard language for event processing Comment But is SQL the right starting point?

Information: Knowledge

• DIY and nearly BI Column A useful sub-set of BI for those who don't need the Full Monty

Management: Financial News

• Crash! Bang! MySpace! Wallop! Selective online disclosure
• Novell raises exec pay under shadow of delisting NASDAQ, Wells Fargo not happy bunnies
• US politicians go to bat for Microsoft Friends in high places
• Yahoo! shuts! for! Christmas! HR grinch mandates utilisation of floaters

Management: IT Director

• UK's top web retailers failing the disabled Accessibility report slaps wrist of online shops

Management: Public Sector

• Olympic Games committee shortlists IT firms Winner to be chosen next month

Music and Media

• AOL sued over search engine data release Privacy breach suit launched
• China going blogging mad 'Today, the great and handsome government...'
• Ebbers starts porridge Worldcom boss goes to prison
• Koreans power up 'small-sized fondling robot' What's it for? We haven't got the foggiest
• LimeWire slams RIAA members' 'illegal online cartel' Counterblast in counterclaim
• Three-year-old buys £9k car on eBay Spendthrift toddler hits the internet

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel fabs 80-core teraflop processor IDF Proof of concept
• Intel goes public with quad-core roadmap IDF Too hot for mobiles just yet
• Intel names new chips after failed Israeli political party IDF Bridge to controversy
• Intel's Otellini accelerates performance-per-Watt plan IDF First 45nm CPU designs to tape out next quarter
• Micron samples 1Gb DDR 3 chip 2Gb part coming early next year

News: Mac

• Apple equips iMac with next-gen Wi-Fi? Even more extreme AirPort Extreme
• Greenpeace wants Apple to clean up What, they're not made of organic hemp?

News: PCs

• Intel offers $1m for a Viiv-based Mac Mini killer IDF Someone else can make sexy systems, surely?
• Sony ships first EV-DO Rev A equipped laptop WAN, WLAN? Thank you, ma'am

News: Phones

• Nokia dials up Express Music phone family? Yoof-friendly design
• Nokia opens up on N75 multimedia flipper Music and video clamshell
• Nokia to ship 8GB hard drive music phone by year's end Updated Revamps N series handsets as Music Editions
• Nokia unwraps feature-filled N95 smart phone Everything on board but the kitchen sink

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Kid-only tone firm bids for the charts If only they could silence Justin Timberlake
• Scottish MPs cop an eyeful of Red Hot Wives Parliamentary porn teaser

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Stuff ID cards in Faraday cages Letters An alternative take on the week so far...

Science

• Britain became island in 24 hours Scientist proposes 'Biblical-style flood'
• NASA's trip to China is stirring things up Politics, morality, and military supremacy

Science: Biology

• Teddy bear slaughters 2,500 trout They look cute, but they can kill

Science: Space

• Private space rocket crashes in desert Commercial space race not quite up to speed

Security

• Malware lurks behind safety seal A question of TRUSTe
• Revenue and profits jump at Calyx UK market focus pays off

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS mulls emergency IE fix Out-of-band
• Trend Micro to kick butt on botnets BASE thinking

Security: ID

• California mulls RFID privacy law Scrambling for safety