12th April 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Ofcom consults on unlicensed radio Free spectrum for all

Comms: Mobile

• EU poised for vote on roaming cap Could reduce charges by 70 per cent

Hardware

• Finisar unwraps cure for SAN fabric blindness I can see! I can see!
• HP claims latest printer a record-breaker Faster than a speeding jet
• LeftHand takes iSCSI to 10Gig Slapping SAN and the LAN together

Hardware: Servers

• Microsoft begins virtualization software delays Don't! Panic!
• Red Hat fattens pork pie Feds go open source

Management: Financial News

• Sage buys Swiss biz management firm And trading on track

Management: Law

• EFF takes up arms against Euro copyright move Brandishes web petition
• EU data protection chief slams police data sharing treaty Questions 'democratic legitimacy'
• Loose mouth and loose change - $5 tip leads to terror finance rap Small scale danger to fleet indicted
• Trading Standards officers become copyright enforcers Search and seize

Management: Public Sector

• NHS patient site set for summer launch Free choice
• US border patrol tests 98-foot networked radar towers Yearning to breathe free? Push off

Market News

• Woman claims Geek Squader tried to film her in the shower Not part of service plan

Music and Media

• Phew! Tila Tequila isn't the future of music Top of the Flops
• Technorati stung by ad-friendly vibe Media deal

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Big Blue boffins build 3D chip stack tech Look, ma, no wires
• Intel Core 2 Celerons benchmarked As-yet-unannounced CPUs take on AMD Athlon 64

News: Consoles

• Nintendo upgrades Wii web browser
• Sony US yanks 20GB PlayStation 3 Demand for 'budget' console too small

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Enormo remote ends lost-under-sofa misery
• Update opens 'hidden' GPS on HTC P3600

News: Mac

• Apple delays Leopard for your own good iPhone's magic to blame

News: PCs

• Shuttle debuts firey hued, liquid cooled gaming PC Dual-core CPU, twin GPUs

News: Phones

• Samsung 10.9mm skinny phone slips into Europe

News: Smartphones

• Orange unpeels Samsung BlackBerry-esque i600 Coming this month?
• T-Mobile 'all white' with blanched BlackBerry Pearl iPod-esque smart phone offered in UK

News: Storage

• Peak perfects retractable USB Flash drive

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Amazon pushes sex toys to random punters Dildo email sent out willy-nilly
• ATM blagger cuffed after artificial leg falls off California ne'er-do-well caught on the hop

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84 So it goes
• Naomi Campbell MTV 'Minion' show canned Search for armour-plated assistant called off
• Thai king pardons spray-painting Swiss man Ten years' jail commuted to deportation

R&R: Opinion

• Overlooking tradeoffs could kill your project Tradeoffs are good

Reseller

• Ebuyer caught pinching content again Once is a misfortune but twice looks like carelessness

Reviews: Media players

• Sony Walkman NW-A800 media player Review The Walkman enters the digital video arena...

Science

• India tests intermediate-range missile Looking to boost global status with nuclear muscle?
• NASA plans mission to sweep away cloud mysteries Climate change indicators?

Science: Space

• Kepler telescope primed to search for earth-like planets Wake me up when you find the space dames

Security: Enterprise Security

• Demo neuters antiphishing measure You can be sure that we're unsure
• How much do security breaches cost anyway? TJX case sheds light on 'inexact' science

Security: ID

• Government predicts one third of people will resist ID checks But Home Office says 'pah, the figures are out of date'

Services

• Hitachi Consulting acquires Impact Plus Plans for growth in European market

Software: Applications

• Opera brings 'speed dial' to browsers Brief An easy ride for surfers

Software: Operating Systems

• Wanna copy of Windows XP next year? Forget it Microsoft still in withdrawal