13th October 2006 Archive

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Comms

• Europe's IT sector outpacing telecoms And growth gap may become a chasm
• Rooney scores! Sadly only his domain name

Comms: Mobile

• HMRC poo-poos tax on BlackBerries Shame...
• Nokia and T-Mobile USA pin their hopes on mobile Web 2.0 Analysis Play to pay
• PalmSource name consigned to the Dustbin of History Access all areas
• Sony Ericsson deaf to P990i woes Updated Complaints outsourced to limbo

Comms: Networks

• FCC pulls AT&T-BellSouth merger vote (again) Political hot potato

Comms: VoIP

• Ireland off the hook As EC ponders action against other Euro telcos
• SMC seeks Cloud cover for Euro Skype phone Free calls from any Wi-Fi hotspot
• Telefonica Germany gears up for quad play assault Scene set for VoIP invasion

Hardware

• D-Link calls for Brits to help find stolen routers 7,000 go walkies

Hardware: Storage

• Dell kills Overland storage tie-up Thanks for the hard work
• Sun turns to EMC and HP for help selling storage Virtual tape good to go too

Information: Databases

• Migrating Access to SQL made (almost) easy Very useful, apart from the dumb bits

Management: Financial News

• AMD waves the Maple Leaf for Canadian regulators O ATI, we stand on guard for thee
• EU launches online gambling restrictions probe Jeux sans frontiers
• HP's Hurd appoints old mate to ethics officer HP ethics boss...irony-free zone
• Sportingbet flogs US arm for $1 But keeps European and Australian businesses

Management: Public Sector

• EU e-Borders spending to rise Eats into public sector IT budget

Management: Reg Weekly

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Music and Media

• Bombless dirty bomber pleads guilty, press spreads the fallout Major terror probe nets improbable mastermind...
• Can you pimp an inflatable sex doll? South Korean cops ponder plastic prozzie poser
• Florida judge orders copy of Bully for review Free speech implications
• Vietnamese death row prisoner escapes the chop By getting pregnant
• Yahoo!'s pyramid scheme collapses Guardians of Mexican heritage say no to laser beam time capsule

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Sapphire out to shock with overclocked Toxic cards Radeon X1950 XTX on board
• US DoJ probes SRAM pricing cartel claim? Cypress, Samsung say they'll co-operate

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Moto ships battery-based battery recharger Recharge your mobile on the fly
• Sony launches Walkman, wireless accessory cornucopia Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to beam out music

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson 'Q's up Bond-branded camera phones 'You expect me to talk?'

News: iPod

• Red iPod Nano ships Updated Charity's US launch official too

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Let the games begin Episode 34 'Building the perfect games beast on the company dime'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Collective intelligence consultants feel Reg readers' lash Letters Culling recommended
• Students protest balluting Vista? Letters Getting bibilical on blogs

Reseller

• The Danes are coming... And they're looking for resellers

Reviews: Phones

• Netgear SPH101 Wi-Fi Skype phone Review VoIP without a PC

Science: Biology

• Can stun guns and tasers cause death? Danger: high voltage
• Norwegian museum champions gay animals 'It is not against nature'
• Taliban monster dope plants defy Canadian military Fireproof Afghan marijuana
• Why do we doodle? Senseless scribbling or individual insight?

Science: Space

• Hubble pictures an emerging super galaxy Little galaxies trapped in the Spiderweb
• NASA to test space airbags Not the Bulgarian kind

Security

• MS to pull security teams under Windows umbrella After Vista

Software

• Apple in code search profanity outrage NSFW 'Register the f**king window class'
• Siemens Business Services rejigged again It's like Trotsky's permanent revolution...

Software: Applications

• Oracle to provide clearer vulnerability ratings In at number one it's the latest Buffer Overflow...

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft tells EC it will ship Vista EC says: On your head be it