20th February 2007 Archive

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Code

• An open API for networking technology? Futures Procurve's 'bold new security vision strategy'

Comms: Mobile

• Microsoft orders ROM removals Not meant for mortal man

Hardware: Storage

• When is a dollar not worth a dollar? When you're a UK company trying to buy US computer gear

Management: Financial News

• BT Rakes in new chair Bye-bye Bland
• SanDisk cuts 250 jobs on falling prices Memory problems

Management: Government

• Collar the lot of us! Blair adds whole UK to police suspect list You're on an identity parade. Forever.
• Tories attack ID card fingerprint plans 'We will abolish this costly plastic poll tax'

Management: Law

• Microsoft's dirty tricks archive vanishes What don't they want us to see?
• Sex offenders' register to include senders of indecent email You've got a SOPO

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Born again Business Intelligence Reg Reader Studies Are you ready to try it again?

Management: Small Biz

• Hacked eBay accounts give rise to conspiracy theories Roswell, the Kennedys and a hacker named Vladuz

Music and Media

• 'Hoax' stuns classical music world Joyce Hatto: the greatest pianist no-one has heard of
• Neteller waves goodbye to 250 staff House of Cards Drops the hammer
• The phony economics of Second Life Analysis What the business press didn't tell you

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• New Nikon camera for new Nikon user Manufacturer develops 'prosumer' demographic

News: PCs

• Microsoft + Toshiba = Portégé R400 First of the Vista native Portégé range is a looker...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Carphone Warehouse in pr0n demo outrage Dial 8008135 4ABJ
• Hampshire fights misguided HGV menace 'Do not follow sat nav. Very narrow lane'
• Police track 100mph urban joyrider YouTube biker questioned

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sirius, XM resort to FCC-baiting merger Oprah and Howard Stern in 'merger of equals'

Odds and Sods: Letters

• NHS barcodes cause daylight saving havoc Letters And should 'solutions' be banned?

Reviews: MP3 players

• iGo Boomtube portable speakers Review Less ghetto-blaster, more garden-groover
• Samsung YP-K3 digital audio player Review Nice curves, but does it have anything worthwhile inside the casing?

Science

• Larry Page unweaves the rainbow his coloured balls AAAS Dodgeballs
• Scotland to float 'world's biggest' wave farm £13m for Orkney green 'leccy plant

Science: Biology

• Video game vets make better surgeons Laparoscopy skills linked to gameplay experience

Security

• Laptop losses and phishing fruit salad The need for accurate risk assessment
• Windows Defender spyware-blocking under fire (again) Who tests the testers?

Security: Enterprise Security

• DDoS attacks deemed illegal in Sweden Bots operators face jailtime
• Snort bug is nothing to sniff at Watching the detectives
• Vista security overview: too little too late Review But some progress has been made

Security: ID

• Phish fighters floored by DDoS assault Botnet hits CastleCops under the belt

Software

• Cuba government to go open source Red hat revolution
• Logica offloads telecoms biz Ditching products, beefing services
• Microsoft's WGA changes today Genuine Advantage not proven