17th January 2007 Archive

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Code

• A picture paints a thousand words Moving multimedia into the mainstream
• What makes a 5GL? Comment Impossible, but ...

Code: C++

• Vacuum firm wants to clean up with DIY robots Rolling your own gets easier

Comms

• New ITU head has no ambitions to run internet Megalomania denied

Comms: Mobile

• Carphone Warehouse reviews Big Brother sponsorship deal 'Clearly we are against racism'

Hardware: Servers

• Rackable gets racked by investors Q4 earnings miss mark
• Sun squares up to Oracle with Red Hat challenge Take Solaris, please

Management: Financial News

• Apple channels iPods for record Q1 run Pod-au-Plenty
• Brussels weighs up Intel action Neelie decides whether to put the boot in
• Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs? Column Yes but, no but
• Lost: 30,000 Bulldogs Pipex trading update shows punters unleashed

Management: Law

• Cisco's iPhone trademark also under threat in US Defective Declaration of Use?
• EC preps Intel antitrust charges - report Six-year probe drawing to a conclusion?
• Gambling enabler Neteller craps out Hippie Canuck founders busted as DOJ rampage continues
• Google erases British bases in Iraq Terrorists planned attacks using Google Earth, Army says
• Judge sentences 'hacker' PIs, clients BT tipped off by mis-billed customers
• MySpace passes age verification buck to parents Teen tabbing spyware
• Piratebay's sovereign ambitions blasted One Nation under a groove
• Prosecutions unlikely in water drinking contest death Radio station fires 10
• Wal-Mart ads pop up on Pirate Bay Oops

Management: Public Sector

• Info Commissioner: Too late to stop school fingerprinting Not that we really tried in the first place
• Survey shows data sharing intent Public sector ponders possibilities

Music and Media

• Joost - the new, new TV thing The Venice Project unveiled - we take a look
• Nepal, the new gambling mecca? Maybe not House of Cards Gambolling among the online gamblers

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel completes 45nm 'Wolfdale', 'Yorkfield' architecture 'Penryn' platform boots Vista, OS X, Linux
• Nvidia reportedly readying 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS Less memory for cheaper DirectX 10 cards
• Seagate ships 'world's fastest' hard drive 15,000rpm
• Tul preps Vista-friendly entry-level PowerColor cards Silent, PCIe, AGP X1550s

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Shoecam man accused of filming up women's skirts It's a wrap...
• Sony offers eBook reader leather-bound edition Valentine's Day special

News: Mac

• Apple's alleged 802.11n enabler fee: blame Enron etc. Sarbanes-Oxley Law imposes weird accountancy rules on Mac maker

News: PCs

• Dell debuts semi-rugged laptop for survivalists Commando line interface

News: Phones

• Vodafone starts McLaren Mercedes handset line

News: iPod

• Apple to license FairPlay DRM? Hi-Fi vendors queueing up

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Burger King rampage teen posts footage on YouTube Amateur sleuths finger wee ned tube

R&R: Opinion

• Survey shows hole in asset management market Centennial sees dollar signs

Reviews: Storage

• LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID 2TB entry-level NAS box Review Nice price, shame about the performance?

Security: Anti-Virus

• Worms own Symantec users Punishes sys admins too lazy to apply patch

Security: Enterprise Security

• Oracle blocks 51 security holes Patch bandwagon heralds busy week for DBAs

Security: ID

• AOL phishing fraudster found guilty Conman faces up to 101 years in jail
• Lottery fraudsters exploit 070 personal numbers You have to be in it to win it

Software: Operating Systems

• Of spooks, security and Vista Comment Where's my tinfoil hat?
• SCO punts on Novell bankruptcy claim Swerves the verge