25th January 2007 Archive

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Code

• Is old code automatically good code? Teaching an old dog new tricks

Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Uniface goes Vista Venerable tool gets set for the future

Comms: Mobile

• 'We aren't waiting for Viviane Reding': Awayphone A local number for non-local people
• Mobile phones cause cancer...or not One result of 'borderline statistical significance'
• O2 decides not to reward prodigal sons New and old treated the same
• PlayTech goes mobile with Masabi Lose money on the move

Hardware

• Exec slaps HP with pretexting and Dell hunting charges Analysis While his ex-wife discloses HP’s TV sham

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco squishes bug trio SOS for IOS

Hardware: Servers

• Looking Forward: Power, Cooling, and the Data Centre Where energy efficiency meets cost efficiency
• User beware: Sun and Intel want to talk to you about Solaris Comment REALLY LOUDLY!!!

Management

• Managing the change to connected mobile working It's worth it

Management: Financial News

• Judge nixes former HP exec's racy claims 'And be quiet about it, you two'
• Microsoft pulls in record Q2 Deferred revenue? What deferred revenue!
• Phone biz booms, but Qualcomm rues Euro cabal Roundup Nokia rings ups the profits
• Siemens buys UGS and pays fine You win some, you lose some
• Symantec plans $200m worth of cuts Incredibly shrinking data center sales
• Telecom Italia espionage scandal deepens Former chairman denies illegal activity

Management: Law

• Cameras to watch cameras in Scotland Who watches the watchers who watch the watchers?
• Computer-based exam discriminated against blind candidate US company found liable under UK law
• Dutch consumer chief puts Apple through the mill Europe rises up against iTunes
• e-voting to be stripped bare at UCL event Just in time for May elections
• Fox sinks teeth into YouTube Subpoena demands name of Simpsons uploader
• Man dressed as The Joker gets ID card Batman beyond
• Subway sues ex-franchisee for trademark infringement Chooses High Court over WIPO

Music and Media

• 'Sir Cliff cost us copyright battle' - Motown boss Interview Plain talking
• Where's Wally / Waldo turns up on net search Now you don't see him, now you do

News: Consoles

• No 20GB PS3 for Europe, Sony reveals Launch date: 23 March
• Sony announces Euro PS3 game launch line-up

News: Phones

• More than 1bn phones shipped in 2006 - report Sony Ericsson slugs it out with Samsung

News: Smartphones

• HTC's Dopod to launch Athena UMPC-phone 'next week' Vendor spills beans

News: Storage

• Fujitsu hails HDD capacity breakthrough Patterned media technique evolves

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• BBC to launch immersive world for children Experiences second childhood, announces second life
• Paris Hilton laid bare on net Parisexposed.com dishes the dirt - at a price

Science

• US fires up crowd-roasting microwave gun 'Less than lethal' Silent Guardian unveiled

Science: Physics

• Scientists store whole image on a single photon Whoa...slow down there

Security: Anti-Virus

• Bug brokers offering higher bounties Buyers locking up flaws to increase their shelf life?

Security: Crime

• Massachusetts' top prosecutor laughs off credit card fraud Cheery news for would-be crooks
• Michigan treasurer falls for Nigerian scam 'Bilks' $1.9m

Software: Applications

• BT still 'not fulfilling' GPL BT says yes, Freedom Taskforce not impressed

Software: Enterprise

• Software company fails to prove it wrote its own software No experts in sight