16th January 2007 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Microsoft picks IBM top brain Grey matter land grab

Comms

• Skype boys christen video venture Start-up formerly known as Venice Project

Comms: Mobile

• 3 culls roaming charges Make yourself at home
• Apple's iPhone: theoretical risks of unreleased handset Symantec stokes Apple hype engine
• US man badly burned by self-combusting cell phone Mobile provokes serious fire
• US Navy seeks help in developing e-warfare systems Come jam with me

Comms: Networks

• 1and1 says problems are over And relax...

Hardware: Servers

• HP gets denser, faster... With nanowire chip advance

Hardware: Storage

• IBM offers storage kit to tiddlers How low end can you go?

Lifecycle: Execute

• SAP in Salesforce.com thunder-stealing exercise Competitors any day, now

Management: Financial News

• Intel makes income disappear in Q4 Copperfieldian quarter
• Symantec blames deferrals for missing Q3 target Analyst says there's more to it
• Transmeta clocks another CEO Crudele's Rule

Management: Law

• Page 3 girl in net sex vid shocker Keeley Hazell a 'sobbing wreck' after leak
• Pretexting banned in the US Privacy gets its Act together

Music and Media

• Netflix puts the Net into Flix Instant playback for 1,000 movies, TV progs
• Sundance shorts debut on iTunes iFilms
• Tradedoubler shareholders snub AOL's $900m bid Has the world gone completely mad?
• Water drinking death contest show taken off air Fatality over Wii to be investigated

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Gigabyte, Asus JV pitches 'next-gen' gaming mobo Quad-everything

News: Consoles

• Sony PS3 sales pass 2m mark... two weeks late Still on course to sell 6m by April?
• UK consumers bought 200,000 Nintendo Wiis over Xmas Even more DS consoles sold

News: Mac

• Apple has toxic core: Greenpeace Still not green enough for greenies
• Apple to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software? Want faster Wi-Fi? Then cough up

News: PCs

• AOpen readies Car PC for Mitsubishi motors Voice-activated navigation, entertainment centre

News: Phones

• Apple attacks iPhone UI emulators Look'n'feel wars... round 99

News: Storage

• Sony readies CompactFlash card line Ready for digital SLRs

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Woolworths punts must-have kids' book for £99m Plus £2.74 delivery, naturally

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Celebrity Big Brother in racism rumpus Ofcom probes 2,000 viewer complaints
• Beatles lyrics auctioned for $300,000 While My Wallet Gently Weeps
• Naomi Campbell up before the beak Updated Pleads guilty to 'reckless assault'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• You've left your prints all over that flaming Mac Letters And is this your crispy mole?

R&R: Books

• Do you own these bookshelf must-haves? CashnCarrion Programming classics

Reseller

• Hamsard picks up the rest of CSF Buys services biz
• Scottish IT firms hit by Dell effect Staff jumping ship

Science

• Scientists bring forward nuclear holocaust The Final Countdown

Science: Biology

• Japan confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak Nationwide farm inspections ordered

Science: Space

• Japan scales back lunar ambitions Spaceship fails MOT

Security

• Trojans fuel ID theft boom Phishing season

Security: Crime

• Cattle branding comes to the 21st Century High-tech tattoo more than a pretty picture
• X-ray exposes ring-swallowing thief With this ring, I thee nick