21st March 2007 Archive

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Code

• Fortran developer John Backus dies Obituary Another founder of modern computing passes away

Comms: Mobile

• Euro roaming charges to fall 70% by summer Damn, I just dropped my phone in the Med
• Skype users to get PayPal Payments by VoIP
• Vodafone.net says 'sorry' Email down for five days

Comms: Networks

• A monkey hanger's guide to Net Neutrality El Reg goes Westminster
• Orange broadband down, but up again Yoyo fault fixed, ISP says
• Virgin Media 'front runner' in Pipex bidding war Ahead by a beard and some big teeth

Distribution

• Gateway denies talks with Acer Cows not going to market

Hardware: Data Networking

• Say hi to the internet-controlled car Knight Rider-style tech redefines war driving

Hardware: Servers

• SuperMicro unsheathes SuperBlade The energy efficient way to stuff 40 processors into a box?

Hardware: Storage

• Alaska and Dell team on $38bn bungle When storage specialists attack
• DLT tape reaching end of reel Quantum waves a white flag
• Nexsan shrink-wraps archiving A Centera for the rest of us...

Management: Financial News

• Adobe Q1 income up, revenue down Creative Suite will deliver sales fillip
• Oracle beats up on BEA Pinch Punch
• Palm purchased by Friday? Nokia, Moto among potential owners, it's said
• SanDisk and Hynix buddy up Friendship made in Flash

Management: Government

• Brown's Budget: cuts basic rate The man who would be king
• Brown's last Budget: predictions Hostages to fortune ahoy!

Management: Law

• Judge boots out Google delisting suit Parenting link dump told to lump it
• Neteller to pay up as feds ease up Hippie founders not quite off the hook
• RFID chips will force changes to ePrivacy Directive Widespread adoption causes a rethink
• Sportingbet set free in Louisiana Dicks at ease
• The Federation goes soft on file sharing Piracy group casts net towards corporates

Music and Media

• CD WOW! fined for contempt of court Grey skies turn black for music retailer
• Does MySpace really help artists? Column Doing the maths
• Fighting torture with copyright Column Moral musos work to rule
• US Patent Office says P2P threatens national security Drags kids into life of crime, too

News: Consoles

• Italian consumers taking PS3s home already Retailers ignore official launch schedule
• Mag bets on black Xbox 360 for April Clue in the date?
• UK cops clamp down on midnight PS3 launch Sony's big day faces disruption

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Kensington unpacks breast cancer benefit mouse

News: Mac

• Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac Time for a shiny white box?

News: Phones

• Samsung conjures up Gold, Brown Magic phones
• Second LG Shine phone to fold... literally

News: TV

• LG software update to fix frozen Aussie TVs Engineers to be sent door to door

News: iPod

• Apple TV goes on sale Not just for the HD buffs

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Hungarians demand ejection of Piresan immigrants Hold on a minute...
• Segways to invade Netherlands Promised land set to open gates

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Star Wars exhibition to land in London Our children must be told Greedo did not shoot first...

Reseller

• Arc completes MBO Heading for the City?
• HP installs Barre as EMEA channel chief PSG re-shuffle
• Most UK companies ignoring WEEE directive But so is the government so that's ok

Science

• Archaeologists sniff out world's oldest perfumes Chanel No. 4,000BC
• Lager-swilling boffins crack secret of darts Gaussian probability distribution points to better 'arrers'
• Two sailors die on UK nuclear sub Arctic accident aboard HMS Tireless
• US Navy refuses sonar details in whale lawsuit Opts for 'state secret' defence

Science: Biology

• Charity offers 'life size' virtual whale on web Blue screen of extinction
• NZ plans four-nippled sheep Too many lambs, not enough teats

Science: Space

• Falcon 1 finally claws way into space PayPal founder's budget rocket is go

Security

• MoD to stop using 'dumb' cluster weapons Self-destruct mechanisms now count as smart
• TV's cyber-jihad slot exposes al Qaeda's web ops. Or not Analysis Time for a 'losing to e-Qaeda' re-run, says 60 Minutes

Security: Crime

• Anatomy of an eBay scam Fraudster put through the paces
• Guilty plea in alleged internet steroid ring Drug sales over the net a booming business
• Man hijacks 90 eBay accounts Lax security, careless users

Security: ID

• Security flap as Scottish council loses USB key Red faces after local paper returns lost memory stick
• Six individuals suspected of using stolen TJX data Gaming consoles and big-screen TVs
• US wants all 10 fingerprints on entry Surrender your digits

Services

• Aspiring Capgemini workers fight for more pay HMRC profits not trickling down

Software: Operating Systems

• Novell's tiny regret in Microsoft deal Not invented here