3rd November 2006 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Read novels on your mobile super-quick Software makes your brain recognise words by shape, not sound

Comms: VoIP

• SkypeIn not in right now Incoming calls routed nowhere

Hardware: Data Networking

• NAC's looming identity crisis Will persistence pay off for NAC vendors?

Hardware: Servers

• Sun CEO doesn't know what a bubble looks like They're round and full of profits, silly

Information: Databases

• Where do you store master data? Comment Questioning the hub-based approach

Management

• Employee privacy versus employer policy US court rulings cast doubt on privacy policy

Management: Public Sector

• Totalitarian threat looms Not just academic, say academics

Management: Reg Weekly

• Microsoft loves Linux, Vista licenses, CA boss goes to jail To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• BT flirts with Eircom SMEs Flaunts new all-in-one offering
• Imperial College launches new BioIncubator Bridging the gap between academia and the real world

Music and Media

• 'Sexist' Austrian urinals dumped on eBay Women's groups pissed at mouth-shaped porcelain
• 419ers cut to the chase No hard-luck stories from Minrada Subaja Rahul
• Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead - Peter Jenner Interview Clash, Pink Floyd manager lifts the lid
• Boots in Sarah Jessica Parker prophylactic shocker Don't want babies? Try this perfume
• Republicans post nuke cookbook on line Desperately seeking Iraqi WMD
• Spanish judge says downloading is legal CD man gets off scot free
• Suffering from bugger overflow? McAfee can help A nasty case of the typos
• UK touts itself as online gambling haven But will extradite to US if asked
• US prepares for killer prayer bead WMD attack 'Terrorist' planned airborne Pope-death...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Chips sellers lifted by September sales total High demand for DRAM
• Nvidia ships final ForceWare drivers for Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD PureVideo HD moves out of beta testing

News: Consoles

• Nintendo: 4m Wiis to ship by year's end Beat that, Sony
• Taiwan, Hong Kong to get PS3 before Europe Now that Lik-Sang's out of the way...

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Orange shouts about Bluetooth stereo loudspeakers A2DP-enabled
• Pure plays Marshall amp-styled digital radio The majesty of rock, the mystery of roll

News: Media players

• Aigo lifts sleeve, reveals MP4 wristwatch PMP Not for time-keepers

News: PCs

• Greeks says Asus media centre PC is a joke - literally Brandname brouhaha

News: iPod

• Apple ships second Red iPod Nano Blessed by Bono?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Data wiping hell Episode 37 Operation computer clean up

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• UK charity has minor attack of rebranding madness LogoWatch Faint whiff of joss-sticks...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Questions of legality: googly, genetic and Vulcan Letters The serious and the silly

Reseller

• Dell pulls rug from under resellers No more discounts

Reviews: iPod

• Apple iPod Shuffle 2G Preview Life's still random, just smaller...

Science

• Blair: science is not just for boffins PM says Brits must stand up for science
• MOD 'fesses up to car-molesting radar Norfolk mystery solved

Science: Biology

• Does TV watching in childhood trigger autism? The evil box
• Is it true that fewer boy babies are born in hard times? Survival of the fittest
• WHO issues bird flu warning, warns on Tamiflu research Virulence and resistance discussed
• Why do I have an extreme fear of needles? Needling fear!

Science: Space

• NASA confirms next year's Shuttle missions Readies final flight of 2006

Security

• Dismissal scam spam targets medical centre Spyware hides under pink slip
• FTC fines notorious adware firm $3m Hurrah!

Security: Anti-Virus

• Veeam monitors 64-bit VMware Russians release a Task Manager for 64-bit VMs
• Wikipedia Blaster 'fix' points to malware Achtung!

Security: Enterprise Security

• How a virus crashed Homeland Security Border chaos from Zotob outbreak 'avoidable'

Security: ID

• FBI-led probe nets phishing gang That's trawl folks

Servers/Storage

• Cryoserver goes titsup Email archiver melts away

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft loves SUSE Linux (true!) Sux to be Red Hat right now
• MS climbs down over Vista licensing Just in time for 30 November release