11th October 2006 Archive

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Comms

• AOL UK finds a home in Carphone Warehouse £370m, 2 million customers, one brand (slightly used)

Comms: Mobile

• Broadcom wins a round in war against Qualcomm Sort of
• Ericsson goes green Cell towers powered by biofuel to connect Nigeria
• NFC completes Smart Posters standard And Nokia takes its trials to Finland
• Nokia adds Orb for go-anywhere TV But for one phone only

Comms: Networks

• DoJ waves through AT&T-Bell South deal It's alive! Ma Bell waits for FCC blessing

Comms: VoIP

• Ad watchdog slaps The Link's wrists Unfair comparison with BT

Hardware: Storage

• Brocade-McData: nothing to see here, Mr FTC Updated FAN-tastic future together?
• SEC procrastinating on Brocade fine? Bring me the head of Steve Jobs

Management

• GS1 - simplifying the supply chain Comment I am not a number!

Management: Financial News

• Dunn editorial officially ends the 'HP Way' Opinion Dysfunctional and proud of it
• HCL squeezes Indian software engineers Unions helpless but hopeful
• Microsoft SCO conspiracy theory quashed (again) But Redmond's black helicopters never took off
• Options scandal claims CNET, McAfee chiefs Fat cream formula turns sour for five more

Management: IT Director

• MIT opens Junk Science Institute Management consultants on the march
• Of IBM's systems management initiative Comment Wrong premise, says Gustin Partners' Cormac O'Reilly

Management: Public Sector

• CBI calls for better procurement And new 'technology innovation' agency

Market News

• Carousel fraud slows down again Second month in a row

Music and Media

• Apple's NY Fifth Avenue store is an 'insult to Islam' Ka'ba lookalike ruffles feathers
• Cyberterror sim scares pants off of Wired smarty Electronic Pearl Harbor's enduring echo...
• Gitmo - another Brit idea commercialised by the US? Blunkettwatch Demon diarist tells of HMG's post-9/11 planning
• Moller flogs flying car on eBay M400X Skycar prototype, one careful owner
• Slashdot in Yahoo! IM black helicopter moment YouTube urls blocked?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD quad-core Opteron will support FB-DIMM Updated architecture to boost memory, virtualisation, multimedia
• Intel 'Bearlake' South Bridge to offer fast data recovery tech? Rapid Recover Technology
• Intel readies Merom-based Celeron Ms for Q1 '07? Low-voltage Core 2 Duos too, it's claimed
• Intel to follow 'Santa Rosa' Centrino with 'Montevina' Only supporting DDR 3, for better power consumption?
• PCI Express 2.0 final draft spec published Version 0.9 sent to PCI-SIG members

News: PCs

• Microsoft posts Windows XP Home Edition security fixes System software updat
• Spam Cube to take anti-spam gadget worldwide Hardware hammers unwanted emails

News: Phones

• Samsung ships 10Mp camera phone to Korea It's a satellite telly receiver too

News: Smartphones

• Bloggers bamboozled by 'Sony Ericsson DVB-H phone' The groovy gadget that wasn't

News: Storage

• I-O Data touts double-speed ToteBag USB Flash drive Fast

News: iPod

• Belkin tunes into Bluetooth for iPod song sender TuneStage wireless stereo transmitter updated

R&R: Opinion

• BEA touts an 'enterprise MySpace' Social software could be what SOA actually needs

Reviews

• Reg Hardware is hiring Site News Wanted: Reviews Editor, Reporter. Fit the bill?

Reviews: Cameras

• Ricoh Caplio R5 7.2Mp compact digital camera Review 7.1x optical zoom in a compact format

Science: Biology

• Brummie clubber killed by bovine TB Six infected in nightclub outbreak
• Technicolour Colombian finch declared new species Gorrión-montes de los Yariguíes, come on down

Security

• It's the information, stupid Symantec unwraps Security 2.0 strategy

Security: Enterprise Security

• Patch Tuesday - and other days of the week Industry comment Viral Wednesday
• Windows Update glitches derail Patch Tuesday Ten fixes, six critical, await triage

Security: ID

• Police search for UK victims of US ID theft But wary Brits think email warnings are hoax

Software

• Java for Vista is rock solid, says Sun PC builders, come on down!
• Microsoft Germany CEO quits over strategy Differences with Redmond
• ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman Suspected of estranged wife's murder
• Symantec, Accenture couple on outsourcing A secure and loving relationship

Software: Applications

• Accenture previews intelligent home technology Mirror, mirror on the wall...
• Eudora morphs into Thunderbird Mozilla Foundation has new baby
• Founder Augustin to abandon VA Thanks for the name changes
• Google mixes up letters and numbers Writely, meet Spreadsheets