2nd February 2007 Archive

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Code

• A PC to call your own... Column Now Old Grumpy goes for a (Micro)soft target
• Programming pioneer dies Obituary A tribute to Ada's Jean Ichbiah

Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Vista and music still chums PR spin starts FUD about FUD

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Bull lets out NovaForge Users get a DIY option

Comms: VoIP

• Michael Robertson on VoIP wars and Net Neutrality Backpackers rejoice

Distribution

• Tech Data goes mobile Joint venture for Euro mobile market

Hardware: Servers

• Investors hammer Rackable back near IPO level All yesterday's parties

Management: Government

• Florida chucks touch-screen balloting Learns that technology is no panacea

Management: IT Director

• Blogs, wikis and the 'long tail' Comment Channeling the wisdom of the crowd
• Internet users play tag with online content: study Folksonomies

Management: Law

• Academic turns up volume on CCTV Bill proposal Analysis Dragging the cameras out of the data shadows
• Intel unzips Java jeans Intel-brand Indonesian trousers off the shelves
• Mooninite terrorists brought to justice Comment Bostonians can sleep safely in their beds
• Torex Retail fraud investigation stool pigeon sings Suspended chief exec reported own firm
• US investigators tool up as pressure on Siemens grows Two new investigations
• Web campaign secures Iranian teen's release Online donations do the trick for Nazanin Fatehi

Management: Public Sector

• School fingerprinter repents "We should address parents' concerns"
• Scottish NHS in cervical smear security blunder Launch put on ice
• Yorkshire takes schools web filtering open source Thinking of the children

Management: Reg Weekly

• Oiled up Joker crashes Vista party To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• Channel 4 pulls 'wank week' Loses wood over Celebrity Big Brother cock-up
• Officials sued for $3m for disciplining MySpace spoofers Bloodied principal, muzzled students
• Wikipedia defends Reality Let's have a show of hands

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD 690 chipset family 'to launch this month' Moles forecast
• Intel won't launch 45nm desktop CPUs until 2008? Fabbed in 2007, out the following year, roadmap leak suggests

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sling seeks SlingPlayer Palm testers

News: Hi-Def

• Blu-ray media sales set to shoot past HD DVD purchases PlayStation 3 driving demand?

News: PCs

• Shuttle shouts up Vista-friendly SFF PCs

News: Phones

• Broadcom squeezes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM onto one-die phone chip

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• The Bastard guide to work from work Episode 5 Like working from home, but different

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Giant babies kill the floppy disk Letters And rocket-powered cars

Reviews

• Valentine's Day Gadget Gift Round-up... for her Reg Hardware's second round-up of cool kit. This time, prezzies for the lady in your life...

Science

• IPCC report: no surprises, not much hope either The climate is a-changin'

Science: Physics

• Congressmen flaunt Los Alamos Lab bashing comedy routines Why did the classified paper cross the road?

Security: Crime

• Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics Who needs a backdoor when users leave the Windows open?

Security: Spam

• Dutch botnet herder fined €75K for sending 9bn spams X marks the pest

Software

• Romania: Software piracy made us what we are today Thank-you, Mr Gates
• Vista: did you miss it? A whole week of Vista, right here, right now