6th December 2006 Archive

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Comms

• ICSTIS launches a child's guide to premium rate services And a new code of practice

Comms: Mobile

• Carphone Warehouse makes up with Vodafone At least for existing customers
• Child catcher handset launched in UK Order now and have your kids tracked by Christmas
• Mobile phones safe to use, says study No 'evidence of risk' of cancer

Hardware: Data Networking

• BT gets into transformation game Now we can all be 21^st century boys
• Feel as though you've missed the SaaS bandwagon? Quocirca's changing channels Don't worry, it's moving slow enough you can jump on

Hardware: Servers

• Azul opens 768-core diner with Vega 2 Humble and willing to talk about it
• SCO's web site shows signs of life Cluster Watch: Day 6 Almost fully functional

Hardware: Storage

• Storage revs up in third quarter Unless you're HP
• Sun accused of copyright fraud StorageTek sued

Information

• Rational desktop tools tweaked for SOA More process

Management: Financial News

• Brown hits contractors in pre-Budget speech And pirates, and call centre staff
• Gowers: crack down on pirates But legalise home taping
• Novell profitable as revenue drops Flat new year
• Yahoo! restructures! Says goodbye! to chief operating officer

Management: IT Director

• Christmas decorations scupper Wi-Fi What a load of baubles
• UN reports on dismal state of web accessibility 97% of websites fall short of guidelines

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI lost graphics market share to Nvidia in Q3 Reaction to AMD acquisition?

News: PCs

• Nvidia Quadro FX 3500M debuts in Dell workstation GPU line's core clock increased

News: Smartphones

• i-mate roadmap reveals slick quad-band communicator Media phone too

News: Useless... but Cool

• Buffalo bullish over skinny scrollwheel mouse Ergonomically egregious?
• Superheroes: protect your hidden HQ by... er... USB Evil Geniuses beware

News: iPod

• iPod Shuffle sprouts dock-defeating Bud Accessory heaven

Reviews: Laptops

• Dell Inspiron 6400 Core 2 Duo laptop Review An inspired Inspiron?

Science: Space

• Liquid water thrives beneath Mars surface - NASA 'Squirting Gun'

Security

• Christmas shopping: Vista over XP? Security pros have their say
• Windows Trojan masquerades as Vista hack Pirates sink 'selves

Security: Enterprise Security

• Romanian hacker disrupts NASA communications Lost in space
• Unpatched Word flaw menaces civilisation Not just Windows - Mac too

Security: ID

• Heathrow gets fingerprint scanners Limited trial