31st October 2006 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Top firms' websites not ready for IE7 Browser trips up 13% of FTSE 100 company sites

Code: Scripting

• Zend signs PHP accord with Microsoft Tuning up for Windows Servers

Comms

• IPTV/VoD: The world that's on its way Industry comment Part one: Hitting the brakes before the crash

Comms: Mobile

• Handango bans raffle winner Use your prize quickly, or get thrown off the system

Comms: Networks

• Fast24 vapourises...again Hosting firm cuts off Suffolk ISP

Distribution

• Enta punters get loyalty card Brief Goes live tomorrow

Hardware

• Rackable sees red, despite sticky AMD Facebook, YouTube and AOL buying

Hardware: Servers

• Floridians to design first space-based supercomputer Hey, Dave, what are you doing?
• Liquid Computing's Opteron dynamo now more concrete Is the price right?
• Server vendors show Red Hat that Oracle is boss Analysis Peace, love and Larry

Information

• Purisma renames and updates Comment To 'hub' or not to 'hub'

Management: Financial News

• eMusic cuts quotas Cuts annual subs too
• Monster founder quits over options Exercises option to keep schtum
• Online advertising could net BBC £105m And a hell of a headache
• Schneider Electric fuses with APC $6.1bn deal the most exciting news in UPS - ever
• UK Gov woos online gambling firms 'We won't put you in prison'
• Wired buys Reddit, Google buys Jotspot Cash Register Inflating Bubble 2.0

Management: Small Biz

• Mature IT workers are valuable 'Grey' matter, er matters

Market News

• Recycle your IT waste for cash Saving the world...one cartridge at a time

Music and Media

• Airline security critic raided by Feds Don't even joke about it
• Comedy Central banned from Google's $1.6bn AV club YouTube going to the dogs . . . chasing their tails
• Fingerprint the expats! FCO plans phase two biometric passport Cross-Channel loophole to close by 2010
• Florida ballot terminals favor Republicans Even when voters don't
• Internet forum promises democracy to the masses IGF But the masses aren't convinced
• Moderation, frustration, and making people uncomfortable IGF blog An internet conference with no internet
• Recordings copyright set for extension In The City Congratulations, Sir Cliff
• Romanian witches look for help with English spellings Double, double, toil and trouble
• Russian hacking case can be heard in England, says judge Servers based in London

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD: Opteron CPUs now up to 47% cheaper Massive reductions

News: Consoles

• Hacker-friendly handheld console gets faster processor Twin-CPU unit upped to 275MHz
• Sony said to have slashed Japan's PS3 allocation More component shortages?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Gadget tunes in to FM via USB Bundles Snaptune

News: Mac

• Apple patches Windows-on-Mac app Boot Camp 1.1.2 marches in

News: PCs

• Bond bundle spied on Sony Vaio website Laptop, digicam, case to put 'em in
• Gateway offers overclocked Core 2 Extreme PCs Launched: pricey boxes for gamers

News: iPod

• Microsoft moots 2008 for Euro Zune debut No longer coming Zune...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• EULAs, RFID tagging and other Halloween horrors Letters It is a scary, scary world out there

Reseller

• Computerland still smug As a bug in a rug
• Microsoft goes for eBay pirates Avast there!

Science

• Scientists reveal link between Sahara and Amazon Dust to, er, rainforest, actually

Science: Space

• NASA greenlights Hubble rescue Servicing mission approved

Security: Enterprise Security

• 1,200 Dutch e-voting machines vulnerable to hacking Back to pencil and paper
• Domain resale market a 'haven' for phishers The lure of filthy lucre

Security: ID

• Code highlights e-passport eavesdropping risk What RFIDIOt chipped my passport?
• Skidy in Steam account reverse sting Brief You've been owned
• US ID thieves target kids ...as UK banks give crooks a helping hand

Security: Spam

• Bot nets likely behind jump in spam An uncommon surge