9th March 2007 Archive

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Code

• Driving on the right side of the code Column Test-driven development
• HP goes lifecycle modelling The model behind SAP's SOA

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Management 'scared' by open source EclipseCon Suits petrified of covert open-source developers

Comms: Mobile

• Orange votes for Big Brother sponsorship It's a phone-in vote on phone-in voting
• Palm hires iPod guru Take that, Apple

Comms: Networks

• Breathe scoops up Biscit assets Smooth migration promised
• Last month's root-server attack revisited Net safe thanks to technology called Anycast

Hardware: Servers

• How many VMs are on your LAN – and how sure are you? Server sprawl is virtually back
• HP crosses blades with IBM Not so much a Cold War, more a Cooling War
• New OpenSolaris distribution for developers Comment Sun launches products for web infrastructure on Solaris 10

Management

• Act on accessibility now, before it hurts Comment You could be next in the firing line
• Employers liable for workplace homophobic abuse Company stumps up £118,000 after 'cream puff' slur
• Tech industry outlines women's day initiatives Launches F_email

Management: Financial News

• Airbus falls to first ever loss Delayed A380 blamed

Management: Government

• Britain's Tories love open source (true) All aboard the Osbornesource bandwagon!

Management: Law

• Former Wipro salesman sues for £1m in commission Says it didn't shell out for outsourcing deal
• Gateway duo found guilty of ancient securities fraud How not to hit the numbers
• Wife of Chinese cyber-dissident sues Yahoo! Cyber-lick spittle urged to apologise

Management: Public Sector

• School email's out across UK School's been blown to pieces

Management: Reg Weekly

• Virgin threatens Sky while Skype founder goes mile high To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• IT outsourcing not catching on with small.biz Why are they missing the boat?

Music and Media

• Blog boy Scoble crippled by BBQ crisis SXSW Phone loss induced twittering
• How to Save Internet Radio Opinion Start transmission...
• Vultures circle South by Southwest SXSW The internet, like, rocks

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel powers down four-core Xeon Sun stroked

News: Consoles

• Sony to bring 'PS2-less' PS3 to US, Japan? Europe just the first step, newspaper suggests

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• MedTab fulfils Xerox predictions It's not a tablet, OK, it's a pad
• Sony unwraps shot-sharing Wi-Fi digicam

News: Hardware Widow

• Russians ready Tsar-studded Nokia 8800 I'm Lenin on a lampost at the corner of the street...

News: Mac

• Apple 'MacBook Mini' to lose HDD, gain Flash? Premium product
• PC World Wintel boxes suffer from Mac envy Even the Vista-friendly ones

News: Phones

• O2 offers smart-phone buyers Graphite

News: Storage

• SanDisk downplays SDHC card speed ratings

News: iPod

• Arcam announces audiophile iPod dock

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The wild porn chase Episode 9 Ensuring data safety

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Man claims to have made love to over 30 cars Website shows how to really pop the trunk
• Trio suspended for putting 'vagina' into Monologues Talking out of your..oh, wait
• Yahoo! red-faced! over! curry! blog! ripoff! Blames its out-saucer

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Beam-me-up-Scotty's home town plans memorial It's a still life Jim, but not as we know it

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Borat scares foreigners with text messages Letters While making love to his car
• If surgery was like Wikipedia... And other Cult Horrors...

R&R: Opinion

• F5 expands DevCentral Free up developer communities

Reviews: Accessories

• Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD USB TV tuner Review Digital telly on the move

Science

• EC agrees to cut carbon, fumbles renewables deal Making progress
• Google Earth raises hell with Mount Hitler name slip Technical accident enrages local mayor

Science: Biology

• Aliens shun GM crops Lizards love organic

Security

• MS skips March Patch Tuesday Nothing to see here, please move along
• Symantec buys compliance firm Brit-run start-up snapped up

Software

• Daylight saving bug in Java eclipses Sun Déjà vu
• Friendly fire mixup: MS identifies Windows as Mac Updated Virtual intruder disarmed
• Microsoft admits WGA update phones home Click cancel to continue