1st November 2006 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• IBM targets Microsoft .NET developers Collaboration battle
• Sun puts enterprise muscle into NetBeans More beef

Comms

• Level 3 floored by robbery Trick or treat? OK, trick it is...

Comms: Mobile

• Virgin USA launches new audio services Fun, but not world changing

Comms: Networks

• AOL Europe gets new head Thompson steps down after eight months

Distribution

• Softek signs distie agreement Brief Authentication is us

Hardware: Data Networking

• Azzurri buys virtual network firm Sirocom Brief Convergence

Hardware: Servers

• Image-conscious IBM wants to service thin clients Put your fat PC on a virtual diet
• Intel set to show off 'Footballers' Wives' four-core line Hot, pricey and too fast for their own good

Hardware: Storage

• Hitachi punts Frankenstein storage Flash memory hybrids for 2007
• HP slices into storage In Brief Punting direct attached 'blades'

Lifecycle: Execute

• A policies primer You may think you won't need them, but you probably will

Management

• S&P updates ratings method for exchanges and clearing houses Technology jumps up the analysis rankings

Management: Financial News

• European expansion on the cards for 3V £20m investment puts disposable credit on the High Street
• Halloween bomb thrown at PayPal's HQ Shattered Windows, no-one hurt
• Kazaa pays off the music publishers 'Substantial sum'
• MySpace tries to block unauthorised tunes You and whose army?
• PayPal claims 15m UK users Lots of eBayers

Management: Public Sector

• Data failings threaten NHS payments Trial system blighted with inaccuracies
• Reid fires starting gun in spook toys arms race Civil society called up

Music and Media

• Chinese democracy campaigner attacks Yahoo! snitchers Stop! Ratting! Out! Dissidents!
• Fearmeister Reid fakes his terror figures Unfit for arithmetic...
• Government turns down request for FOI data Access denied
• Smart loses battle with ComReg As firm is sold for €1

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD releases ATI Catalyst update Tweaks galore
• HIS targets Radeon X1300 card at pre-Express PCI users Passive cooling
• Intel, AMD squeeze other x86 chip makers Arch-rivals both grew market share in Q3
• Samsung squashes 16 Flash chips into one Multi-die stacking enhanced for cheaper MP3 players
• US DoJ SRAM probe turns to Sony European Commission gets in on the act too

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Mystic mixes media player and VoIP phone All-in-one

News: PCs

• Sony launches 'world's lightest' laptop in Japan Well, lightest 12.1in machine...
• Windows Firewall exploit overhyped Nothing to see here, please move along

News: Wireless

• CE giants punt wireless rival to HDMI WiHD to tread on Wi-Fi toes too?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Stupid aul' Reg hack has tin ear Correction Irish PM does talk like Lucky the Leprechaun
• United Nations Internet forum goes titsup It's a dog's life online

Odds and Sods: Radio RTFM

• Welcome to RTFM: the Reg audio experience Download your pilot programme here

Reseller

• Apple sinks its teeth into Scotland City of Smiles and Chelsea grins gets Apple shop
• Logicalis gets new boss Brief Ian Cook gets the job

Security: Anti-Virus

• VXers target online video Contaminated codecs

Security: Spam

• Net forum produces anti-spam plan IGF OECD at heart of global fight against evil email

Software

• Open standards group to beat Microsoft at its own game IGF Government lobbying, here we come

Software: Applications

• Eleventh-hour name change for Microsoft database Vista-style clarity

Software: Operating Systems

• Vista delayed by 18,000 years Official