14th December 2006 Archive

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Code

• Japan convicts P2P author Winny Me

Comms

• US broadcasters hatch plot to undermine YouTube Comment Journal: UGC site planned as direct competitor

Comms: Mobile

• China Mobile swoops on "3" Updated Politics forces Hutchison to sell UK and Italy?
• Microsoft may pay Zune tax twice New features, grey area
• Motorola not interested in 3G for All Can’t meet price, or see point

Hardware: Servers

• 'You'd have to be nuts' to think AMD can match our tick – Intel Eyeing Sun's Niagara flow

Hardware: Storage

• Symantec plugs vulnerabilities in NetBackup Holey night

Management: Financial News

• AOL Europe spins executive merry-go-round again Carlo, we barely knew you
• Barclaycard adds Oyster to credit cards First contact(less)
• BT Retail makes money hand over fist Guidance up
• Gambling impresario pushes fanciful Palestinian fund $1bn for peace
• HP and Microsoft in $300m love-in Bigger, better, more of the same
• Monster admits monstrous error Mistated results from 1997 to 2005...

Management: IT Director

• BT extends Fusion to small businesses One handset to do it all
• Government asked to investigate Christmas music torture Little Drummer Boy still at large
• OGCbs could double savings Up 71% already from 2003-04

Management: Law

• Dumpy Senate clears pretexting bill after show trial Silicon Justice Thanks House grunts

Music and Media

• B3ta man makes silly singing website It's for charity people
• Information Commissioner names and shames newspapers 'Lawbreaking' newspapers outed

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD posts Catalyst patch CrossFire DirectX video acceleration added
• Dell offers hush-hush overclockable mobile Core 2 Duo Exclusive But is the T7600G worth $275 more than the T7600?
• Samsung fusion memory to make phones '500% faster' Has eye on media, gaming handsets

News: Consoles

• Sony sticks by PS3 sales forecast 'Within our reach' to sell 6m by April 2007, prez states

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Gamers offered six-speaker 5.1 headset Stereo? Pah!
• PC Card slotable Bluetooth mouse ships in UK

News: Hardware Widow

• LG bags Prada for luxury phone fling Avant-garde design promised

News: Phones

• Apple iPhone to ship H1 2007, analyst claims Similar to earlier forecasts?

R&R: Books

• Agile Software Development Book review Agile as a way of life

Science: Space

• Save Earth from asteroidal doom And win $50k

Security: ID

• Phishing scams thrive in the UK Peers hear losses set to reach £45.7m for 2006
• Tagging firm Yougetitback to open US office Track your spectacles, PDA, wallet and keys

Servers/Storage

• Seagate founder Al Shugart is dead Heart problems