10th October 2006 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• SpikeSource - an OSS innovation? Open source software is growing up....

Comms

• Internet Rangers take to the plains PFYs in waiting
• Vodafone's Kiwi buy points to change in strategy Embraces NZ telco and ISP

Comms: Mobile

• O2 coughs up new Ts and Cs to customers Next bill to clarify data collection changes

Comms: VoIP

• US using more mobiles than landlines And VoIP take-up forecast to take off

Comms: Wireless

• FTC issues competition guidelines for Muni Wi-Fi Judge and Executioner

Hardware

• Gartner predicts biggest change in PCs for a generation Well, for 20 years....

Hardware: Data Networking

• Big Blue goes Big Green for cooler datacentres Let's have a heating debate
• Force10 spreads the 10Gig goodness But is nice technology enough to beat Cisco?

Hardware: Storage

• In praise of FPGAs Building an active data warehouse appliance
• One Petabyte in a single volume Now that's what I call an archive!

Information: Knowledge

• Endeca blends BI into search Making sense of your search hits

Management

• Sun chief wants to blog his news to financial markets Makes plea to SEC chairman

Management: Financial News

• 'Moronic' video deal buys Google legal woes? Analysis So Sue Me
• Monster boss quits cos SEC investigation too tiring After 39 years he's had enough

Management: IT Director

• 'I didn't get where I am today without being spanked' Top US execs offer tips for business success

Management: Public Sector

• PeopleSoft whistleblower lands $17.3m jackpot Former employee exposed price gouging

Music and Media

• Blogging 'un-Christian' - shock The Confusion of Tongues
• Mandelson mulls WTO piracy case against China IP 'not respected enough'
• US and EU stitch up airline passenger data deal And data protection law

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD 65nm dual-core Turion laptop CPUs due Q2 2007? Smaller Mobile Semprons too
• EVGA touts 'fastest' GeForce 7950 GT-based board yet HDCP support built in
• Intel EOLs Pentium D 805 Low-end CPU marked for termination

News: Consoles

• Sunlight scuppers Nintendo Wii sensor? Overwhelmed by solar radiance

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sooloos sings praises of high-end lossless music system Multi-terabyte, RAID-protected song storage, anyone?

News: Phones

• Nokia shows off Aeon 'wearable' concept phone Take it apart, fix modules to your shirt
• O2 Jet talk-targeted frill-free phone flies in Ten-hour talk time, anyone?
• Vista-inspired Windows Mobile 6 spied on web 'Crossbow' screenshots leaked

News: Smartphones

• Market watcher forecasts bumper year for smart phones PDAs not selling so shabbily, either

News: Useless... but Cool

• BOFH-friendly billfold relives dot-matrix days I remember when...

News: iPod

• Belkin touts weather-proof iPod remote Rain won't stop play

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Bugged comets and forgetting your teeth Letters What bugged you, this week

R&R: Books

• Practices of an Agile Developer Book review A practical Agile book

Science

• 'Painful' job losses likely at Airbus A380 delays provoke 'cost-cutting measures'

Science: Space

• Hubble confirms planets are made from dust Don't tell Kim 'n' Aggie
• New telescope leaves 'killer' asteroids nowhere to hide UK boffins will hunt them down

Security

• MS revokes 'adware' distributor's community award Disavowed
• Swiss gov 'mulls' spyware to tap VoIP calls Paging Superintendent Trojan

Security: ID

• Chaos Computer Club condemns e-voting machine Flaws detected
• Info guardian to investigate call centre data leaks TV expose´ prompts ICO security probe

Security: Spam

• Spamhaus fights US court domain threat Black hole for blacklist 'unlikely'

Servers/Storage

• Alcatel fingers Eye-box Eye-eye for SMB servers

Software

• Ballmer sees PC future in web services world Rottweiler with bone
• CfH eyes NPfIT supplier catalogue Somewhere to go when things go wrong
• Ray Noorda is dead Suffered Alzheimer's for many years

Software: Applications

• IE7 to debut in October Ready or not?