29th March 2007 Archive

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Code

• Making Progress in a pragmatic way Building and testing SOA organically
• PeakStream puts apps development on Windows HPC on a PC

Comms

• European Commission beats telco open access drum BT: a model free market?

Comms: Mobile

• China bans mucky text messages No more handheld filth
• Vodafone.net's connection woes continue Voice network playing up too

Comms: Networks

• US gov kicks out Sprint, doles out $20bn to rivals Notice to quit

Comms: VoIP

• VoIP providers reined in by regulator 999 rules loom

Hardware

• Dell pricks up its ears Pre-installed Linux soon coming to a desktop near you

Hardware: Data Networking

• Enterasys aims for the core But what comes after gold, platinum and diamond - adamantium?

Hardware: Servers

• Supermicro's IPO not so super Fat cats saddened

Hardware: Storage

• Florida data center loses its cool Faulty chiller knocked nerve center offline
• HP ProCurve dangles free Gigabit switch chassis ...If you buy the port modules to go in it

Lifecycle: Execute

• Naming some identity standards Politics could be the biggest identity issue

Management

• Business Intelligence - live on El Reg Reg Reader Workshop Reader feedback via video

Management: Financial News

• Evidence of accounting chicanery at Dell Restatements possible
• Intel frees up $275m after settling with the tax man Audit saga continues
• Red Hat deflates Wall St expectations Fails to show us the money

Management: Government

• MPs pay themselves £10,000 website allowance Short debate that one
• Singapore invests in TIA snake oil Comment Poindexter's dream comes true
• Spotting tomorrow's criminals in today's pushchairs Analysis We can predict outcomes and change them, says Blair crime review

Management: Law

• Conspiracy theorists: Feds, web hosts conspire against us And the Illuminati are in on it too
• EC broke rules over passenger data, Parliament told As data sharing deal nears renewal
• ICANN fires back with stern threat of legal action...again Lisbon 2007 ICANN still shooting blanks?
• New York online gambling racket goes postal House of Cards Squawking like canaries on crack
• Walmart puts out for online gaming House of Cards Virtual benefits abound

Management: Small Biz

• Indiana man jailed for selling counterfeit software on eBay Why are we not surprised?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD launches laptop-friendly 690 chipset Variants offer HDMI, Display Cache tech
• SiS flags down Intel 1333MHz bus Core 2 Quad chipsets coming

News: Hardware Widow

• Nokia gushes over colourful phone threesome An 'artful balance between technology and nature'. Apparently

News: Mac

• Apple Windows-on-Mac tool now works with Vista So much for the Leopard delay claims

News: Useless... but Cool

• Retailer offers DAP-disclosing Easter Eggy

News: iPod

• Apple TV-to-SD TV adaptor price cut 40% Only viable option?
• iTunes tempts single-buyers with album-purchase carrot No more paying for singles twice

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Amazon: is this the best deal ever? Astounding discount offer
• Teens get way harsh on MySpace Airing dirty laundry in public

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• US to issue Star Wars stamps The Force is strong in this one

R&R: Books

• Use case driven object modelling with UML: Theory and practice Making software from use cases

Reseller

• Dimension Data integrates MS end-to-end service Hopes for 'technology maturity'

Reviews: Phones

• Motorola Motofone F3 e-ink handset Review Can a phone this basic, this cheap be any good? Yes it can

Science

• BAE offers super-intelligent underwater robot Claims revolutionary breakthrough, but then calms down
• Family converts dead dad into diamond Fitting memorial for 'diamond geezer'
• Ten jobs that robots are eyeing up Sadly, not the England football manager...
• US loses top tech spot As Denmark climbs to number one
• Why can't a computer be more like a brain? Or even better?

Science: Space

• Falling debris was no space plane, says NASA Go about your business

Security

• Developers' secure-coding skill put to the test Flaw reduction push gets industry backing

Security: Crime

• ICANN urged to cut phishing trawl with banking domain .Safe harbour

Security: Enterprise Security

• Cisco wraps up against VoIP DoS bugs You've been served
• TJX lost up to 45.6m card numbers King of breaches

Software

• Critics swarm new GPL draft How free is free under GPLv3?
• Tower of Google uses stats for translation Number crunching our way to understanding