12th January 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• AT&T razes the Cingular brand Branding iron
• Cisco on brink of losing iPhone name in Europe Legal loophole
• Falling margins spell doom for carrier diversification Telcos should stick to their knitting
• iPhone locked down, Apple confirms We approve the apps, OK?
• Mobile operators lose millions to SIM boxes But it's all their own fault
• O2 ties up with Gandalf One ringtone to rule them all

Comms: Networks

• Carphone celebrates bumper Christmas Time to get unbundling

Hardware

• Dell accused of selling defective notebooks - again Motherboards conveniently go kaput after warranty expires
• Print is dead, long live the printer Comment Dot that in yer matrix

Hardware: Storage

• EMC's Insignia brand here to stay, despite layoffs Until it isn't

Information: Databases

• Searching for consumers Embedded DBs cover most consumer devices

Lifecycle: Manage

• Free Vista test Can you do Vista?

Management: Financial News

• AMD stuffed in Christmas run-up Intel clear out bites it in the ASP
• Feds scrutinize backdated options awarded Steve Jobs Bogus grant date, non-existent meeting
• SAP takes a tumble Targets missed
• SGI hermit crabs over to Sunnyvale Thanks for the memories, Mountain View

Management: IT Director

• Email marketing abuse is rife among top UK companies 31% break anti-spam laws

Management: Public Sector

• Don't rush into Vista, schools told Becta counsels caution

Management: Reg Weekly

• iPhone frenzy, Vista ahoy and SAP To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• HP snoop cops a plea Evidence for the prosecution
• Spods find God ... in Sadville Plus: the first plea for corporate welfare
• The Pirate Bay plans to buy Sealand Pirates get sea base
• UK to review school fingerprinting Leave them kids alone, as they say

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ECS touts top-of-the-line Nvidia graphics cards for Vista GeForce 8800 based
• Kingston ships 1.2GHz DDR 2 DIMMs Fastest available?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Bill Gates: a man and his music devices Video report A Las Vegas legend performs
• CES 2007: all the stories, all the goodies

News: TV

• CES in five minutes Video report Save yourself an air-fare - it's all here...

Odds and Sods

• You are f**king negative arsehole!!! FoTW An enraged Machead writes

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: It's a funny old world isn't it? Episode 2 Adventure time!

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'We've reinvented the phone ... as a wheelbarrow' Letters Feel those paradigms shift
• Gay sheep face neutral net censorship plot Letters iPhone, uPhone, we all phone together

Odds and Sods: Site News

• The Reg is recruiting Vulture seeks editorial threesome

R&R: Opinion

• Confering developers Two talkfests for your diary

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• Abit KN9 SLI Socket AM2 motherboard Review SLI for less

Science

• Gates Foundation launches investment review Good money for unethical companies?

Science: Space

• Comet McNaught prepares show for Soho Nice ion-tail, eh?
• Supernova topples Pillars of Creation A while before we'll see it

Security

• Bullseye of Oracle patches due Tuesday Forewarned is forearmed
• Contract killer spam scam hits the net Mercenary

Security: Enterprise Security

• Man-in-the-Middle phishing kit netted Sinister haul

Software

• EC throws money at OSS quality control How 'good' is good?