19th October 2006 Archive

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Comms

• BT Vision gains speed with new content deal Drops tasters to encourage punters to bite
• Ofcom changes premium rate rules Clears up 'ambiguities' by creating more confusion

Comms: Mobile

• Nokia maintains spot as mobile top dog Bounds along in spite of profit dips
• O2 cuts roaming charges ahead of regulation But only to Spain...for now
• Web 2.0 vs mobile phones Symbian Show Sketch Dad drunk at Disco

Comms: VoIP

• eBay/PayPal ring up profit Skype revs up too
• IP phone man's Vonage hell Number carousel let user see other punters' credit details
• UK.gov conference centre goes VoIP Free calls to other Verizon customers too

Hardware

• Intel to bring vPro tech to laptops with Centrino Pro? Business-friendly 'Santa Rosa' strand

Hardware: Data Networking

• Juniper's Q3 profit remains a mystery Prefers to discuss modest revenue hike
• Silver Peak climbs to new record Storage Expo It's ice-axes at dawn for WAN acceleration rivals

Hardware: Storage

• Brits keep it simple in Somerset Storage Expo Tape libraries with no fuss
• Hard drives get even harder Storage Expo Baydel flashes it, Texas Mem Sys RAMs it home
• No, not that Boston Storage Expo Fat iSCSI, Flashy NAS, and it's British too. Kind of...
• Storage Expo: who's excited? Blog ZZ Top on snowboards

Management

• Risk management that deals with the imperfect world Introducing the intangible element

Management: Financial News

• Blacklisted AllofMP3 slams 'capricious' Visa and Mastercard 'Patently erroneous and without legal merit'
• HP knocks Dell off PC pedestal without trying Round Rock's shame
• MacBooks, iPods power Apple's fourth quarter Intel effect due any day
• Rivers of gold flow through Google's Q3 Fattens up on ads bonanza

Management: IT Director

• Fiorina plays ingenue in media show trial Je ne regrette rien... well, maybe just one thing

Management: Public Sector

• Ryan's ID express still waiting for a platform Chuffing away

Music and Media

• CNET hack severs ties with Second Life CEO after Reg probe Off resume but still puffing
• Death threats force art website to close A dangerous business
• Highways Agency deploys giant street-cleaning magnet Road users spared metallic waste hazard
• Swedish file sharers fined No house searches needed
• Ugandan demonstrates how not to recycle munitions Hey, let's melt this shell down for scrap...
• UK police share data to foil child abuse Track and trace
• Universal sues video sharing sites But YouTube escapes action

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI: all our GPUs will be 80nm by July 2007 And then it'll release 65nm parts...
• Feds allege Samsung, Hynix execs fixed DRAM prices Hefty fines, jail terms if convicted
• Intel cans second-generation Centrino chips 'Sonoma' demise signalled

News: Consoles

• Ex-Gizmondo exec on trial for Ferrari theft Embezzlement and drunken driving too
• PS3 delays, burning batteries undermine Sony profits Giant slashes full-year earnings forecast

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Logitech picks up Slim Devices for $20m Squeezebox acquired by mouse maker

News: Hardware Widow

• Vertu talks up mobile telephone for toffs If you have to ask how much it is, you're too common to own one

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson kit in demand as world phone sales surge Beats Nokia et al on growth, profitability

Reviews: Phones

• Mobiboo UTstarcom F3000 Wi-Fi VoIP phone Review It flips, it SIPs

Science: Biology

• Flying stingray stabs Florida man One-foot barb in chest after boat attack
• Researchers launch digital Darwin archive A natural selection
• Tech-dependence turns humans into pets - prediction Fat, anti-social, and over here

Science: Physics

• Scientists stitch up cloaking device Romulan? Or maybe Harry Potter?

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Lizard Alliance targets Turkish PM RoTM While Germans field test pig-gutting robot

Science: Space

• US stakes claim on space New policy just slightly territorial

Security

• Microsoft promises more info for security firms Battle by briefing continues

Security: Enterprise Security

• Information disclosure bug blights IE7 release Plus ça change
• Opera hit by buffer overflow glitch Big links crash browser

Servers/Storage

• Hitachi pays out in patent dispute with employee Optical disillusion

Software: Applications

• IE7 unleashed ...as researchers identify first bug
• ModSecurity 2.0 hits the streets Interview Ivan Ristic explains what's hot about the new release