29th September 2006 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Reg Dev-ers go EuroOSCON 2006 Another Tuesday in Belgium

Comms

• TalkTalk customers break contract shackles Carphone capitulates on complaints

Comms: Mobile

• T-Mobile dumps VoIP restrictions Web 'n' Walk grasps the nettle next week

Comms: Wireless

• WiMAX Club formed to undermine 3G and GSM telcos Comment Insurgency by wannabe telcos

Hardware: Data Networking

• IBM cool water technology sucked up by Panduit Make friends with your plumber
• Juniper grows secure branch boxes Changing the risk model for remote offices
• Unwired Australia spearheads new WiMAX roaming alliance Australasian operators set up 'spectrum club'

Management: Financial News

• HP buys VoodooPC Woo Woo That Voodoo That You Do So Well
• Internet advertising shoots past estimates US spend reaches $7.9bn
• Music industry settles digital royalties quarrel The eight percenters
• Options review over-shadows RIM sunny Q2 Backdating to the Future
• UKbetting buys Ritz Club Closed down Wednesday, bought Friday
• Verizon sues alleged HP fraudsters Dunn whines

Management: Public Sector

• Accenture escapes £1bn penalty for NHS walk-out It's 'been delivering'

Management: Reg Weekly

• Intel sees the future, HP wants to forget the past, and Apple's not green To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• Apple's talks with Nordic regulators positive Search for pan-Scandy peace
• Low-tech anthrax still deadly? FBI research widens suspect list Analysis 'Weaponised' theory undermined
• Morpheus maker loses US case Streamcast downcast
• Swedish pirates plan pan-European electoral assault Arr me hearty, let's unite

News: Hardware Widow

• Sony colours Vaio C series for Cosmo crowd Love a (Mandarina) Duck

News: PCs

• Battery recall spreads like wild, er fire Toshiba, Dell, IBM. Who's next?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Pulling a computer survey swifty Episode 32 Five grand for your silence

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Lawsuits, rocky planets and bratwurst for everyone Letters Podpodpod Podpodpod

R&R: Books

• Java EE and .NET Interoperability Book review Coping strategies for co-existence

Reseller

• Kingston buys Smart421 Hull's never dull

Reviews: Networking

• Sling Media SlingBox networkable TV tuner Review

Science

• Do Artificial Intelligence Chatbots look like their programmers? It's Reg vs Rollo
• Smart cars save lives EU teams with industry to promote safety tech

Science: Biology

• Can flossing your teeth prevent a heart attack? Care or coronary
• Can your hair turn white as a result of shock? And could it do so overnight?
• What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium? Pesky pathogens
• Why are people so often in denial? What you don't accept can't hurt you

Science: Physics

• Reading Uni to close physics department Future of science in the hands of teenagers

Science: Space

• ESA outlines Earth research plans Understanding our impact
• Space tourist, ISS crew land safely But the pesky oxygen generator is on the blink again

Security

• Irish software to detect airline threats Hazard IQ to 'restore faith in air travel'

Security: Anti-Virus

• CA offers 'insurance' against viral infection Only in America
• Warcraft gamers locked out after Trojan attack Keylog catastrophe

Security: ID

• HP 'routinely' uses email tracking Web bug uncovered under Congressional spotlight
• No2ID refuseniks host comedy extravaganza There's nothing funny about Hitler

Software

• Commissioner says EU patent doubts 'legitimate' McCreevy calls for consensus