21st December 2006 Archive

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Comms

• BT Yahoo! customers stuck with old passwords Old version of SSL renders site untrusted
• Ofcom to get tough in 2007 New chief exec says time for generosity is over

Comms: Mobile

• Lufthansa shuts down internet access As Boeing phases out Connexion
• Mobile entertainment market will hit $38.1bn by 2011 Report predicts revenue surge
• Vodafone weighs up Indian acquisition To buy or not to buy?

Comms: Networks

• Blue vanishes into yonder and takes Telewest with it Failed router at Telehouse

Comms: Wireless

• Ofcom reserves spectrum for future inventions Forward planning

Hardware

• Fender bender crooks swipe $190K in chips Old school blag

Hardware: Data Networking

• No admin rights? No Wi-Fi, says D-Link Wireless networking is not for all

Hardware: Storage

• Japanese scientists cage light Breakthrough for quantum computing

Management: Financial News

• Global PC market growing But US static

Management: Public Sector

• UK government puts kybosh on NHS monkeys plan Aping a great idea

Management: Small Biz

• Companies to update websites and email footers before 2007 An aide memoire

Music and Media

• BAA website grounded by fog Adverse flying conditions
• NHS 'filth peddler' fights back NSFW Porn-based counter-attack
• US record labels file suit against Allofmp3.com Trying to stop the music
• WHSmith defuses Xmas crackers Explosive risk to under-16s

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD reportedly revising CPU performance ratings New numbering scheme for 'star' processors?
• Intel to drive down Core 2 Quad price in Q2 07? Anti-AMD action
• Sapphire preps 'quad-CrossFire capable' dual-GPU board Two ATI Radeon X1950 Pros on a single card, anyone?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Creative ships stylish wireless earphones From iPod to you, by Bluetooth

News: Smartphones

• HTC UMPC revealed on web Athena in all her glory

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Verisign signs on to movie download business Opens up puritanical video shop

Science: Space

• Astronomers spot weirdo gamma ray burst Baffled

Security

• PHP security under scrutiny PHP = pretty hard to protect?

Security: Enterprise Security

• Firefox update guards against critical flaws Patch issued, calamity averted

Security: Spam

• Spamty Claus is coming to town Inboxes to be spam-slammed over holiday season

Servers/Storage

• Seagate takes EVault $185m pressie for hard drive maker

Software: Applications

• Escape from Access DB The relational database that polarises programmers
• HP grabs Bitfone Mobile software coup
• Open sourcing Second Life Comment Would a virtual economy survive?

Software: Enterprise

• Novell's Allison quits in protest Sambas away
• Time to denationalise the software monopolies Analysis From utility to commodity

Software: Operating Systems

• Financial firms back Microsoft Linux deal Joining in on the SUSE Q