2nd January 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• O2 late to start year Attempt to reduce network overload overloaded
• Tokyo to blanket Ginza with RFID tags Forlorn attempt to prevent visitors getting lost

Information

• Data modelling wars Comment Scuffles, at any rate

Management: Financial News

• Fight for Hutchinson Essar mobile intensifies Over 20 million Indian subscribers up for grabs
• Google steps in to the real world Successful trial selling newspaper ads points to corporeal future
• Second Nasdaq warning for BEA Easy come, easy go

Music and Media

• 419 'money launderer' caught at Schiphol Airport Police say companies were plundered
• Growing rumpus over Saddam execution footage Iraq investigates mobile phone video
• Kansas temperatures hit all-time low A chilly -5572 Celsius
• Microsoft accused of trying to buy bloggers Generous giving
• Saddam's YouTube smash Opinion User generated content at the gallows

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD behind ATI R600 spec, benchmark leak? Downed site said to have company links

News: Consoles

• Xbox 360 led US Xmas sales - just Beats Wii by a nose, early figures show

News: PCs

• eBayer offers OS X-booting Dell laptop One notebook, two operating systems

News: Smartphones

• Vodafone offers buyers Samsung BlackBerry-a-like SGH-i320 ships

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH 2006: Complete and utter detox Talkin' bout a resolution

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• A Brief History of Information Part 1 The word that means everything - and nothing

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• BBC peddles news filth to children British army photo shocker
• Katie Price and Peter Andre: the greatest album ever? 'Songs so emotional, I go weak at the sphincter'
• Singles charts goes digital Greetings, pop-pickers

R&R: Opinion

• The devil is in the details Editors blog Grabbing data quality by the tail

Reviews: Networking

• Novatel Merlin XU870 ExpressCard 34 'super 3G' datacard First UK Review High-speed net access for the hottest laptops

Science: Biology

• Scientists look to straighten homosexual sheep Gay rights campaigners slam US research

Security

• eBay cross verification bug AKA error 3005
• Google plugs GMail exploit Callback calamity
• Security firm erects threat-level aggregator Brown alert

Security: Anti-Virus

• Happy New Malware Worm posing as seasonal postcard crashes into in-boxes
• How to crash a Windows mobile using MMS Test code spotlights mobile malware menace

Security: Enterprise Security

• Wireless not worth hacking? Opinion Times have changed

Software

• Munich buys Windows 2000 used licenses Money for old code
• Why the Novell and Microsoft deal is good for Linux Industry comment All eyes on Linux

Software: Applications

• Germany and France split on Google-beater C'est la vie...