9th October 2006 Archive

This is the archive for The Register. You can browse articles by publication date, or enter a query into the search box.

< 8th October 2006 | October 2006 | 10th October 2006 >

Code

• Back to build, not buy Packaged analytics 'do not always scale'

Code: C++

• C++ Generic Coding vs. Java Frameworks Column Why are there so many things that C++ developers should do by hand?

Comms: Networks

• Biscit completes V21 swallow Scrapping for crumbs

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage V-phone hits UK streets It's mobile and, technically, it's a phone

Hardware: Data Networking

• 3Com tries to reverse fortunes with unified switch Opinion Do or die
• Securing your corporate database Spotting and blocking potential abuse
• You can have any dinghy you like, as long as it's beer Ionian Blog The final installment

Hardware: Storage

• Vendors support VMware consolidated backup Show of faith

Information

• Oracle buys hetero data specialist Here comes the Sunopsis

Management: Financial News

• Fired women of HP heap scorn on the dirty old men They did it to us behind our backs
• Google swallows YouTube for $1.65bn GooTube? YouGoog? Yougle?
• Investors were cheated by Murdoch buyout, MySpace founder says $580m sale price 'eye-popping theft'
• Patentmeister weighs in on Euro IP system EPLA just the ticket, says Pompidou

Management: IT Director

• Catholic Church bemoans call centre Bacchanalia Indian 'dens of iniquity'
• Youth, age and technology Comment A newer older generation

Management: Public Sector

• ID Cards to cost £5.4bn Home Office guesstimate
• Scotland to map intrusive noise In search of the quiet life

Music and Media

• Biotech firm fights to challenge 'bad patents' Landmark case could upend US law
• Bloggers unite! Governments ask for advice on future of net Have your say today
• Brit builder smashes balloon poodle bending world record 6.75 second triumph
• Byrne sprinkles biometric ID pixie dust over immigration 'issue' Magics 'new' data from old pilots

News: Phones

• LG decants burgundy red Chocolate phone Tasty

News: Smartphones

• Next-gen BlackBerry specs leak? RIM's 8800 detailed, apparently

News: Useless... but Cool

• Brits buzz off with OhMiBod iPod-driven vibrator NSFW She-bop

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Trekkie pays £308,000 for Enterprise model Set cheque book to stunned

Reseller

• BusinessSolve hotdesks into the channel Roll up resellers

Reviews: Smartphones

• Vodafone Palm Treo 750v smart phone Review The Windows Mobile Treo comes to the UK

Science

• UK's biggest wind farm is go Work to begin on 322MW project

Science: Physics

• North Korea detonates nuclear weapon Pyongyang walks it like it talks it
• Physics institute slams Reading over dept closure 'Ill-judged and precipitous'

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Washing machine attacks Icelander Reykjavík spin cycle of death

Science: Space

• Rover 'Opportunity' pictured from space NASA mission snaps NASA mission

Security: Anti-Virus

• Microsoft enters the anti-virus bear-pit Analysis Plus ça change

Security: Enterprise Security

• Chinese crackers attack US.gov Incoming!

Security: ID

• Internet crime: scarier than mugging? Gis your e-wallet or the WeeMee gets it

Software: Applications

• RFID software market 'poised to explode' There's gold in them there chips
• Salesforce ups developer tools Demand for on-demand...

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft Vista final beta released Get 'em while they're hot