29th December 2006 Archive

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Code

• Uncle Mac takes A Cup of Cold Cocoa... A first diatribe from the Grumpy Old Man

Comms

• IWF reforms could pave way for UK net censorship Analysis Who is watching the watchers?

Comms: Mobile

• Bristol kids trip out for joint rolling mobile video 'Yeah but no but yeah but...anyone got any crisps?'

Management: Financial News

• Apple exonerates Apple That's OK, then
• BenQ Mobile files for insolvency Auf Wiedersehen?
• Google overtakes Technorati It's a bloggy shame
• PartyGaming buys two Don't bet against consolidation

Music and Media

• How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer Comment A Photo Journalist explains how
• Ryanair loses bitch site name-grab claim Fair criticism is fair criticism
• When Google sneezes, the internet gets flu Algorithms don't help solve the net's biggest problems

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Capra classic 'commie propaganda' FBI saw red over It's a Wonderful Life

R&R: Opinion

• Vintage Databases Just because it's old, don't think it doesn't work; nor that it's unpopular....

Science: Biology

• China deploys head-banging snakes for earthquake prediction Richter scales
• Chinese fire up glow-in-the-dark pig Fluorescent porker
• Gambling sites play double or quits House of Cards Non-Americans like poker, too
• NZ cancer doc stages smoking protest Nicotine-fuelled indignation

Science: Space

• Crossing final frontiers in space 2006 in review What did we learn in 2006, then?

Security

• US.gov looks to crypto to plug data leak holes Scrambling for safety