27th October 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Billing provider behind Fon de-cloaks, attacks MVNO enterprises Meet BlueTab

Comms: Networks

• BT promises to improve local loop services for rivals Ofcom acts...
• Tandberg's troubled third quarter ends surprisingly upbeat Three week turnaround

Comms: VoIP

• Skype users hang on for free calls Promotion gone wrong

Hardware

• Altiris makes security location-aware Lock up your ports and limit your apps

Hardware: Servers

• Sun turns in another Q1 loss But what goes up must go up

Hardware: Storage

• BitTorrent embeds download manager P2P that bypasses the PC

Management: Financial News

• Takeover gossip boosts Marvell shares Spreading rumors for fun and profit

Management: IT Director

• Orange reports on the workplace of 2016 It might be quite grim, apparently
• Red Hat promises to keep charging customers double Take your fork and shove it, Oracle
• UK promises care record 'opt-out' - again Doctors will explain it to patients
• Vista vouchers, a Reg round-up We make the calls so you don't have to

Management: Public Sector

• UK students get 10Gig backbone Just think how many MP3s you could get over that...

Management: Reg Weekly

• Verisign scraps padlocks and Larry storms into Linux To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• Anti-scam website hit by DDOS attacks Help needed...
• BitTorrent man jailed for five months D-Elited
• Is Google legal? Analysis Big in Belgium
• Kim Jong-Il: 'mad as cheese' Patten spills beans at security conference

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Foundry punches out 65nm GPUs for Nvidia Gearing up for 2007 introduction?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Samsung all a-glow over brighter phone display 33 per cent more light intensity, no more power taken
• TomTom to track phones for real-time traffic info More responsive, better coverage than RDS?
• UK to expand battery recycling scheme Drop-off points to be opened in 33 stores

News: Mac

• Apple cures MacBook shutdown... maybe Firmware update
• Apple to ship 15.4in MacBook next May? Production contract signed, analyst claims
• How to make your MacBook Pro run cooler smcFanControl to the rescue

News: PCs

• Shuttle ships gamer-friendly SFF PC A well-specced XPC P2 3700G doesn't come cheap, though

News: Smartphones

• 'Mars', 'Jupiter' launches planned by O2, Asus Carrier's new XDA partner revealed

News: iPod

• Meizu's marvelous Mini Player is Europe-bound Small and sexy

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Goes virtual Episode 36 Why not to put all your blades in one basket

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Naomi Campbell bailed over alleged assault WSA Ten hours in the cells for battling supermodel
• Wrinklies find Sadville Third Age seeks Second Life

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Identity, voting and missing fingers Letters With added nuclear zing

Reviews: PCs

• Evesham Mini PC Review Tiny desktop powered by Core 2 Duo

Science

• BBC abandons science TV And falls into singularity-shaped hole

Science: Biology

• Can you judge someone's personality by the shape of their ears? You know what they say about big ears...
• Does drinking alcohol really keep you warm? Four for the road
• Extra anus kills four-legged chicken 'I think he got glugged up'
• What is a fistula? Abnormal connections
• What is a post-lumbar puncture headache? Spinal tap blues

Science: Space

• Ex-Microsoft man is next space tourist First 'nerd' in space, he says

Security: Enterprise Security

• Dozy drivers fail to notice rudery Do visitors to Crawley expect to be insulted?
• Hacker hijinks impinge on US mid-term elections Kissing babies, spreading worms, and linking to dodgy MySpace profiles
• Security firm punctures Vista's Patchguard Analysis Bun fight over kernel protection lumbers on

Security: ID

• EU moots 'deep background' checks for racist-free border controls The biometric meritocracy

Security: Spam

• Australian spammer fined A$5.5m Fair dinkum

Software

• Appeal court ruling sets marker on UK software patents Kicked into touch

Software: Operating Systems

• Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon Disguised price rise for PC builders
• Bug causes another delay to Vista RTM slips back a week