16th March 2007 Archive

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Code

• HP models security and trust Pitching at security soup to nuts

Comms

• Google phone - it's for real Think referrals

Comms: Mobile

• Exam cheats get gadgety Turn over your mobiles now

Comms: Networks

• BT announces escape route for Biscit customers MACs available on special helpline next week
• Will Net Neutrality kill Web 2.0? Rerouting round the net

Comms: VoIP

• Skype does directory enquiries and dirty chat lines Value-added VoIP

Comms: Wireless

• Cingular escapees win $160 each California claws back $18.5m for unfair termination payments

Distribution

• Prosecutors swoop on Cisco reseller fraud (again) SMARTNet dragnet widens

Hardware

• CeBIT 2007: The package These are a few of my favourite things
• CeBIT clips vulture's wing CeBIT blog As furry purple letters spell trouble
• Headphone wearing dinobots will raise our children CeBIT FSC's research reveals society's ideal digital home

Information: Knowledge

• Microsoft moves further into the Content Intelligence space Comment BPIO is go

Lifecycle: Execute

• Blog: Housebuilding as a metaphor for software development Software is a thing called Comfort

Management: Financial News

• Apple to unbackdate (some) stock options Tax pity on the peons

Management: Government

• Tax credits portal to reopen in 2008 Troubled system resurrected

Management: Law

• Cricinfo bats against Sky in copyright dispute Simulation could be hit for six, expert says
• Domain tasting makes WIPO sick Speculative registration a threat to brand owners
• NZ council sues self and wins And loses

Management: Reg Weekly

• The devil is in the data sharing To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• RSA unwraps small business authentication appliance Network bouncer
• SMEs still in dark over WEEE Red tape should be mainly suppliers' problem, though
• The top 25 UK web 2.0 start ups Tech Digest Watch out Silicon Valley - the Brits are coming!
• Why did your emplyees ejactulate into my grandmother's milkshake? McDonald's responds to customer query

Music and Media

• Beeb shuts down Jam education website Internet no place for free stuff, says EC
• Sony unveils a 3D MySpace with games Socialise in your PS3

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Mio marches on with new GPS launches CeBIT Four new personal navigation products announced

News: PCs

• Acer sends mini PC into the living room CeBIT

News: Phones

• Readers win with Reg Hardware

News: TV

• Rock rolls out Meivo VoD HD TV Vista inside

News: iPod

• iLuv woos with DVD-playing add-on screen for iPod

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The new geek on the block Episode 10 Defending the sanctity of the computer room

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• HP Sauce goes Dutch Unsavoury end to UK production
• Wiki elevated to Oxford English Dictionary Read it and weep

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Elton John menaces Tobago Could turn island gay, archdeacon claims
• Plastic surgeon sucks out belly dancer's buttock £12,000 damages for half-arsed liposuction

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Liberty, equality and Big Brotherhood Letters Anyone for Wang seasoning?

Reseller

• Horizon digests year of feasting Burp
• Phoenix makes tentative offer for ICM Conditions apply

Reviews: UMPCs

• Ubiquio 701 ultra-mobile PC Review The UMPC finally beats the laptop?

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Carnivore ATM bites Florida kiddie RoTM Firefighters battle rogue cash machine for four hours

Science: Space

• Martian pole capped by planet swamping ice sheet There's ice in them thar hills

Security: Enterprise Security

• MySpace-hosted malware exploits QuickTime flaw French band wants to know its fans better
• Researchers take internet back to the drawing board Schtop, this internet is not ready...

Security: Spyware

• Old adware habits hard to break for AT&T and Travelocity Still defiling net

Software

• Ballmer says Google growth strategy 'insane' Tech world amazed by relative politeness