7th February 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Network operators to create mobile search engine Desperately seeking revenue
• Vodafone moves into MySpace Teenage angst on Vodafone Live!

Comms: Networks

• IPTV: Creating a flexible network core The practicalities of next generation services
• PlusNet goofs on passwords Hole in forum software

Comms: VoIP

• Truphone starts talking to Google VoIP interoperability a go-go

Comms: Wireless

• iPass adds T-Mobile and Inmarsat to global network 3G fills the little gaps, while satellite fills the big ones

Hardware

• Acer tries to drag up PC ASPs The price isn't right

Hardware: Data Networking

• 10GBase-T: overheated and out of spec? New silicon means less power, more range, Solarflare says

Hardware: Servers

• AMD counters Intel with Opterons in all sizes Four-core coming
• EMC tries to appease investors with VMware IPO Follows our advice
• Sun stuns with on-time arrival of Niagara III Out of Africa and the labs

Management: Financial News

• Cisco pumps up the profits Great quarter
• IBM hits Lenovo with $123m stock sale shocker You didn't get our email?
• Samsung settles DRAM price-fixing lawsuit Agrees to cough up $90m

Management: Government

• Replace your broken biometric passport? Just say no... Analysis How can they tell with no readers, anyway?
• UK to jail data thieves for two years Cyber bullies put in their place

Management: IT Director

• Met Office crashes at mention of snow Website buried in bandwidth blizzard

Management: Law

• Austrian police bust international child abuse ring 2,360 suspects
• MGM floored over Wargames.com David 1 : Goliath 0
• PC World in non-misleading TV ad shocker What in the world?
• Third letter bomb at DVLA Updated Mad motorist? Mad, as in angry...
• US surveillance of soldiers' blogs sparks lawsuit Rock the Kasbah

Market News

• Nine charged with massive VAT fraud £250m scam

Music and Media

• Norwegian regulator gives Steve Jobs cool response Do your job, Jobs

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD rolls out top-of-the-line Opterons Prices slashed by up to 30 per cent too
• Asus flows in water-cooled GeForce 8800 GTX Overclocked, of course
• OCZ goes for gold Vista-ready RAM

News: Consoles

• Dell denies handheld games console plan Just evaluating technologies
• Nintendo patents games console phone Wii Remote-like handset

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Telecom Italia set to launch 'cellular book' Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy, anyone?

News: PCs

• Acer out to push laptop prices up

News: Phones

• LG shows Shine in Europe Chocolate follow-up launched in London
• Nokia goes Communicator crazy E-series expands

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• eBay in gearbox sex doll snap shocker NSFW 'Modded at rear' but box unaffected

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Amazon unboxes films for TiVo Digital downloads direct to the living room

Reviews: PCs

• Shuttle XPC X200M mini PC Review Shuttle revises its small form-factor X100 by... um... removing the AMD GPU

Science: Space

• Love triangle astronaut released on bail Nappy-wearing mission was 'completely out of character'

Security

• PHP security from the inside Stefan Esser gets set for the month of PHP bugs

Security: Anti-Virus

• Symantec: Microsoft conflict of interest is damaging internet RSA Lack of consumer confidence

Security: Crime

• Cybercrime? Forget it Police too snowed under to cope
• Letter bombs: an expert writes Analysis Reg UXB man delivers the facts

Security: Enterprise Security

• DDoSers bombard Military root server (and more) Flooded for 12 hours
• Firefox popup exploit allows file snooping Pop goes the weasel

Security: ID

• ID theft fears as VA loses another hard disc Security breach veterans do it again