17th November 2006 Archive

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Code

• Keeping CodeGear was a no-brainer - sez Borland Comment Borland changes mind? Deja vu all over again

Comms

• AOL appoints first UK MD Jonesco a-go-go
• RTL tipped to bid for ITV German media group to snatch NTL deal?

Comms: Mobile

• Are carriers learning to love dual-mode? Nuvoiz sees flat-rate tariffs pushing voice calls onto Wi-Fi
• Mobile 2.0: The phone-in show Show report Never mind the quality, feel the width
• Through the (walled) garden gate... Analysis How much is stuff you've already bought worth?

Hardware

• MS London Tube crash: all is revealed Letter An insider sets us straight

Hardware: Servers

• Hippy geeks threaten supercomputing masculinity SC06 My cluster is greener than yours
• McNealy: Sun can solve global warming Give us servers and nuclear power

Hardware: Storage

• IBM extends NetApp line Fills hole in SMB range

Management: Financial News

• HP results shrug off scandal Not just an ink/pretexting giant
• Online gambling now billion dollar three-card monte Analysis The wrong ass

Management: IT Director

• Foreigners, geeks and teachers harm UK IT BCS slings some mud
• NAO gets loved up on gov IT Takes pet projects for walk in the sun
• Telstra, NatWest admit DNS problems Start of winter flu season?

Management: Reg Weekly

• Dell buys reseller, BT buys PlusNet and everyone buys HP To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• PC World gets down to business 50,000 products available online

Music and Media

• Aussie drunk driver threatens cops with snake Slippery customer
• Brit jailed for 'web rage' Chatroom row led to serious beating
• Cancel ID cards, un-ban the hunt, and resign - Tony B's e-petitions Press red button for e-government. Not.
• Panic in Sadville! Hard lessons for Second Life citizens
• Peaceniks work up to Global Orgasm NSFW Mass coming together on 22 December
• Sex with dead deer not illegal, lawyer argues Wisconsin case hinges on definition of 'animal'
• Site names missing child abuse offenders Most unwanted
• UMG sues MySpace Pay up, Rupert
• Would-be kidnapper shoots self in 'nads Bit of a balls-up off

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD accused of patent violation Opti files lawsuit
• AMD's chipset naming scheme: details emerge ATI codenames to the fore
• OCZ spins memory cooler for overclockers Clip it on yer DIMMs

News: Consoles

• eBayer bids $89m for PS3 Going loco
• Man shot while queuing to buy PlayStation 3 Americans go postal for PS3
• Video game critics' bandwagon rolls backwards EU commissioner goes walkabout

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson readies RAZR-killer? More likely gunning for Samsung's market share

News: Smartphones

• Symbol readies slimmer corporate PDA phone? Exclusive MC35 said to offer VoIP, push-to-talk, optional Wi-Fi

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: When non-IT people make IT decisions Episode 39 Brace for impact

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Pervhunt site point to Page 3 lovelies 'Hilarious' prank stopped at source

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Jedis use taser guns to shoot down the Queen's speech Letters And the spoof that spoofed you all

Reviews: iPod

• Gear4 BluEye iPod-phone adaptor Review FM radio and player remote control too

Science: Biology

• Do humans have a compass in their nose? Homing pigeons humans
• Who knows what there is to know about the nose? Nosey parker

Science: Space

• Giant Colonel Sanders visible from space Welcome to our planet - have some chicken

Security

• Security firm Guidance settles FTC breach charges Negligence rebuke

Security: Enterprise Security

• Trusted Computing readies anti-malware specs Software spec will help apps leverage TPM security chips

Security: ID

• 'Blagging' info thieves fined £14,800 Married couple sold info to private eyes
• Shock, horror, outrage - biometric passport data snooped, again Insecurity as a design feature...

Software: Applications

• Google draws in iRows Whatever floats your boat

Software: Operating Systems

• Open Source - it isn't just about being nice Letter Freedom matters