23rd March 2007 Archive

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Code

• Pundits rate Ajax, evaluate ALM incumbents Comment Works in progress

Comms: Networks

• BT foxed by Chicago area code change Cut off customers Illinoyed
• Ofcom learns lessons from Biscit fallout Analysis New migration rules get first dunk
• Tim Berners Lee goes postal on spam The Greatest Living Briton explodes

Hardware

• Fancy three: the Brits get the latest PlayStation Register Hardware The week's hottest personal technology stories
• Only you can prevent airline battery fires US Department of Transportation: battery safety is fun!
• Relisys back in administration Further details pending...

Hardware: Data Networking

• 3Com quarterly loss narrows Consolidation helps revenue rise

Hardware: Servers

• Mitac buys Tyan Server merger

Hardware: Storage

• HP's Neoview appliance – think fridge Warehouse soup to nuts in a (big) box
• The SANs of Mars Imaging the Red Planet at 2GB a time

Lifecycle: Execute

• SCA and SDO go to OASIS OSOA spec’s now ready to be standards

Management: Financial News

• Repetitive HP grabs another Flickr clone Tabblo's photo cubes love pricey ink

Management: Government

• Commons to eye surveillance society ID cards still in question

Management: Law

• British man in webcam 'suicide' Chatroom users witness hanging
• Feds claim VoIP for their own Silicon Justice For the time being, anyway . . .
• Ideas behind computer games can be copied UK's Court of Appeal ruling
• Ireland pounces on school fingerprinters Issues guidance
• New criminal investigation into Ohio elections Those voting machines, what a hoot
• Premium-rate phone operators will soon need a lottery licence It's a game of chance
• SAP disses Oracle grand scale theft claims See you in court
• University snubs RIAA We're not doing your work for you

Management: Reg Weekly

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Music and Media

• Carling Weekend festival goers get the blues Thousands of online ticket orders cancelled
• Microsoft shutters video sharing site Copyright problems? Who'd have thought?
• Web 2.0 firms lobby for £100m gravy train Analysis They play - you pay

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD to axe prices in April? Market watcher forecasts cuts
• Intel EOLs mobile Core, Celeron CPUs Prunes past-their-prime processors

News: Consoles

• PS3 hits UK Small turnout gets hugely rewarded
• PS3 in the UK: complete coverage It's all here
• Ten battles the PS3 must fight to win the next-gen console war It's the games, stupid

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Apple TV does work with (some) SD TVs Updated Myth shattered

News: Phones

• Nokia attempts to patent rotating numeric pad Dial A for Any Angle

News: iPod

• Apple TV undressed on web Parts exposed

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The PFY punts for porn Episode 11 Isn't that the only purpose of podcasts?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Mother Superior: MySpace or school, your choice We predict smaller class sizes
• Sumo insurgents menace US forces in Iraq Fox News picture shocker
• Tinfoil bag blaggers lift women's panties Security sensors thwarted in bold Jersey City heist
• Vigilante attack sheep guard British village Ruthless 'pack' trained and ready to kill
• War Museum to stage camouflage expo It's just over...where'd it go?

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Rocket launch scares pirated nipples onto sheep Letters RIAA plans to sewe

R&R: Opinion

• Appliances not the enemy The `fridge’ won’t take your job
• Postcard from QCON An agile conference

Reviews: Consoles

• Sony PlayStation 3 Review It's arrived. Finally. Was it worth the wait?

Science

• US nuke boffins rubbish polygraph testing Lie-detectors the biggest lie of all

Science: Biology

• Booze worse than Speed or Acid shocker Lancet calls for drugs reclassification

Security

• Account pretexters plague Xbox Live Account thieves numerous and brazen
• All hail the Java-based x86 emulator Secure and flexible

Security: Crime

• Canadian killed by poison pills bought on the net Anti-anxiety drugs laced with Uranium

Security: Enterprise Security

• East Midland's crook tagging shambles exposed Dodgy kit allows offenders to go walkabout
• US company offers Wi-Fi-proof paint Tinfoil-hat brigade rejoices
• Vista feature helps VXers trick surfers Insecure by design

Security: ID

• Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World Book review Are you scared yet?

Security: Spam

• Spamhaus nemesis e360 Insight sued over junk mail Twist of fate

Services

• Geek Squad rides into town Sultans of computing?

Software: Operating Systems

• Mac OS X 10.5 delayed to ensure Vista compatibility? Analysis No good reason for Apple to do so