16th April 2007 Archive

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Code

• When Flex met Apex Adobe and Salesforce.com announce Flex tool for Apex platform

Comms

• Boltblue exits broadband for ringtone market Bolts come off ISP business
• Ofcom chief on phone rip-offs, Virgin, and Web 2.0 Interview Here's the evidence

Comms: Mobile

• Nokia seeks lost Marble widgets Comment Fiddling Finns need a wake-up call

Comms: Networks

• Broadband Britain risks life in slow lane - report 'Buck up, Ofcom'

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage admits it can't avoid Verizon patents US VoIP providers hold collective breath

Hardware: Servers

• Aperture brings back capacity planning Hard numbers to help IT plan for the future
• FastScale weans admins off golden images with speed Pops out little bundles
• Intel targets '09 for Geneseo IDF Acceleration: The long road
• Ravenous LogLogic ready to eat all your data 'Let us at it'
• Users fawn over Ubuntu's feisty Linux release VMware plugged

Management

• Is the relational database now a commodity? Reg Reader Workshop Your thoughts on the past and present

Management: Financial News

• CA mulls suing co-founder Wang over accounting fraud Biting the hand that nurtured it
• Microsoft unhappy with Google DoubleClick marriage Jilted lover labels deal anti-competitive

Management: Government

• Electronic voting under legal scrutiny in the US Lawsuits and judicial reviews ago-go
• Europe wants to civilise US terror war Brussels goes to Washington

Management: IT Director

• Grange Hill TV firm's website exposes CV details Flippin' 'eck Tucker!!!

Management: Law

• Nokia's Qualcomm patent licence expires Still to agree on replacement deal
• Officer jailed for leaking police records to violent criminal Sentence increased to nine months on appeal
• Oz teen copyright vigilante dupes YouTube ABC clips pulled following letter from 'employee'

Management: Public Sector

• Go green with a double-glazing mortgage, say Lib Dems Carbon cutting proposals unveiled
• Neuromancing the law Column Regulating the techno-regulators

Management: Small Biz

• Missing the PowerPoint of public speaking Column Sliding into submission

Music and Media

• EMI and Warner tout camera phone software But who got there first?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel confirms gaming Core 2 chip for notebooks IDF Clock not locked
• Intel expects rapid 'Santa Rosa' ramp IDF Next-gen Centrino to sell big, fast, chip maker forecasts
• Intel to evolve 'Bearlake' with 'Eaglelake' IDF Tweaks rather than radical changes
• Intel to take on Quad FX with 3GHz gaming CPU IDF Quick update for Core 2 Extreme line
• PNY pre-announces Nvidia GeForce 8600 Launch tomorrow, apparently

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Belkin 802.11n hub to link up USB add-ons remotely Sync your iPod, connect storage wirelessly
• Evesham plugs 26in LCD HDTV into Alqemi range

News: PCs

• Intel restyles laptop as wireless fashion accessory IDF Cable-less connectivity, charging
• Intel to build WiMAX into laptops in 2008 IDF 'Montevina' Centrino details revealed

News: Phones

• Five Samsung i600 phones to be won Register Hardware daily draw Last chance to win with Register Hardware

News: iPod

• iRiver slims second-gen Clix

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 500 dead in Hungarian motorway lapine bloodbath Thousands involved in high-speed accident
• Asbo-breach octogenarian facing jail Made neighbours' life 'absolute hell', court hears
• Self-combusting toilets menace Japan RoTM Lizard Alliance fires up electric bidet accessory
• Short measures cost UK boozers £481m The annual cost of the sub-pint pint
• UCD gears up for robot rugby Lego bots prepare for the scrum
• UK kids' table manners a national disgrace Shock decline in standards threatens society

PC Builder

• Savastore becomes, er, Saverstore Second coming...

Science: Biology

• Hormonally challenged teens refrain from abstinence Billion-dollar sex education a total waste of time
• Mobile phone threat to honeybees Radiation link to Colony Collapse Disorder?

Science: Space

• Human error to blame for demise of Mars orbiter So says NASA's report
• NASA appeals to science nuts, dancehall ravers Yuri's Night report

Security

• Notes on Vista forensics Part two: Digesting the differences
• Zombies infiltrate US military networks Behind the lines

Security: Anti-Virus

• Skype IM malware smut surfaces Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more

Servers/Storage

• Evesham plugs NetApp into storage gaps Claims cost savings

Software

• US teen jailed for school's daylight-saving cock-up 12 days' chokey for bomb threat log error

Software: Applications

• Adobe talks up next media player And Microsoft does the same
• From on-premises to on-demand Quocirca's changing channels Pinning down the impact of hosted apps