10th November 2006 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Eclipse dreams up new schemes of disruption First five years was a warm up

Comms

• IPTV/VoD: The world that's on its way Industry comment Part three: We're only 1% of the way there

Comms: Mobile

• Voda lays bare broadband bundle 8Mb and UK calls for £25 a month

Comms: Networks

• UPC Ireland grows broadband customers by 20% And invests almost €1bn in upgrading its network

Hardware: Servers

• IBM rolls in Clover with Dell Big Blue brings forth five quads – servers, that is
• NEC adds VoIP to thin clients Prefers VMware to Citrix for virtual PCs

Hardware: Storage

• Sun polishes off St. Pauli Girl blade Niagara box with a nice rack

Management: Financial News

• Hornby rescues Airfix £2.6m deal saves plastic Spitfire for Britain
• ITV-NTL merger talks confirmed The Branson Factor

Management: Reg Weekly

• Linux gets loved up while BBC gets trashed To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• Web touts face £5,000 fines And hacking penalties raised

Music and Media

• BBC in Radio 4 messageboard punch-up Freedom of speech curtailed, licencepayers claim
• Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit Don't do it, and fix the passports ASAP, apparently...
• BPI lobbies Gowers for a 'private right to copy' Rip your own CDs legally
• Bush taps ex-CIA man to head DoD Analysis 'Heckuva job, Rummy'
• Covert coppers reach for surveillance lead ICO looks on
• Democrats win majority in US Senate Analysis A clean sweep
• Former Bond girl in laptop-lobbing outrage WSA Flying hardware hit OAPs, police allege
• Googling yourself fitter? Medical study needs health warning
• IBM boss parachutes into virtual Devil's Island Careful where you land, Sam
• Pennsylvania court says viewing child porn 'not illegal' Cache loophole
• The myth of the home-bake terror nuke 'cookbooks' Analysis Who needs Iraqi A-bomb plans anyway?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD: Don't blame Dell for our problems We screwed up all on our own

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Dessert storm Episode 38 Guerrilla warfare

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Alien pope abductors want open Wi-Fi access Letters Chewing the cud

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Reg unveils a new look bookshop Site News Nip, tuck

Reviews: Phones

• SMC WSKP100 Skype phone Review Another white Skype Wi-Fi phone

Science

• Britain wide open to alien invasion Actual aliens this time, not an enlarged EU
• UK science minister steps down Updated Will pursue charity and business interests

Science: Biology

• Does eating fish improve brain function? Oh my, Omega-3
• How can objects in the same room be different temperatures? Conductors versus insulators
• What is a Cro-Magnon man? Indistinguishable descendants
• Why are some people more attractive to mosquitos? Buzz off

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Humans taste of bacon, says gourmet robot RoTM Hmmm, delicious

Science: Space

• Cassini snaps extra-terrestrial hurricane Saturn's swirling storm
• Set the TiVo: NASA plans HDTV broadcast from space Beyond-sky TV

Security

• Trojan pervert jailed for child abuse Spyware scumbag sent down

Security: Enterprise Security

• MS preps six fixes for November Patch Tuesday Deliver us from XML exploit

Software

• Software developer asks Lords to hear patent appeal Last chance saloon

Software: Applications

• Outlook takes 136 years to sync email Be patient, be veeery patient

Software: Operating Systems

• Free software still legal - judge Silicon Justice GPL passes bizarro world anti-trust test
• Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man Shuttleworth rounds Sun
• Security rivals tried to 'castrate' Vista - Gates OS keeps its cojones