30th January 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Verizon turned down iPhone's advances We're just not meant for each other

Hardware: Servers

• You'll have SCO to kick around for another year Survival code

Management

• Outsourcing won't save you money Demand for cheap labour is driving salaries up

Management: IT Director

• Tech industry most trusted in Ireland: survey Government doesn't fare so well

Management: Law

• EU Parliament votes today on new IP laws Updated Will downloaders go to jail?

Management: Public Sector

• Boffins boot up shoe database Footwear archive to track crims
• ICO approves council tax data share And issues disclosure 'guidance'
• UK procurement contract review drags on Still none the wiser

Music and Media

• My big, fat, lily-white Second Life NSFW Column Would any black resident please stand up?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD Fusion to target laptops at first Performance-per-Watt pitch
• Intel said to have Extreme-brand laptop CPU in the pipeline Targeting gaming notebooks
• Intel to take axe to Core 2 Quad pricing on 22 April? Core 2 Duo line-up adjustment due then too, it's claimed
• Sapphire unveils AMD's unannounced X1950 GT Underclocked X1950 Pro arrives

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Samsung unveils spin-screen camera-cum-media player

News: Mac

• Apple posts $2 802.11n Wi-Fi patch Update free with upcoming base-station box

News: PCs

• BeOS: the Mac OS X might-have-been Forgotten Tech The multimedia OS that debuted years before Vista

News: iPod

• Apple colours iPod Shuffle line-up Blue, green, pink and orange models added

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Paris: 'stop exposing me' Looks to pull website displaying her personal bits
• Swedes to open embassy in Second Life Virtual 'House of Sweden'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Smut, trademarks and Orville's lament Letters And just quis custardies Destiny Welles?

R&R: Books

• Acquiring Code Craft Book review How to be crafty, and good, at coding

Reviews: Desktops

• Evesham Solar Storm Windows Vista PC Review Evesham ships its latest Core 2 Duo rig. Guess what, it runs Vista

Science: Biology

• 'Hobbit' islanders given species claim boost Brain strain

Science: Space

• Hubble's main camera dies a death Advanced camera shall survey no more

Security

• Surfcontrol finding channel waters choppy Especially on the western side of the Atlantic

Security: Spam

• South Korea collars 'spam' duo No dog puns, please

Services

• Getronics hands apps development to India MindTree gears for expansion

Software

• Microsoft researcher Jim Gray lost at sea Pacific search
• Vista launches to muted applause MS says the 'Wow' starts now - audience says ssshhh...

Software: Applications

• Firefox 2.0: happier browsing, but secure? Review The jury's still out
• Vista and British Library put da Vinci online Digitised notebooks freely available for six months

Software: Enterprise

• MySQL bites Oracle before Oracle bites it Gets your retaliation in first