19th April 2007 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Sun injects NetBeans into Ubuntu Spreading the word

Comms: Mobile

• Hi hon, I'm on d plane n flyt fons cum 1 step closer
• Samsung adds picture-in-picture to DMB phone Postage stamp 'o vision
• Vodafone explains N95 crippling It's for your own good, apparently

Comms: Networks

• Breathe coughs to email upgrade bodge Nobody mention PlusNet
• Sky recruiting to fill Sky+ customisation gap New product due in 2008

Hardware

• Apple plugs 25 security holes Patch despatch
• PC shipments are buoyant, says analyst Troubled waters for Dell, though

Hardware: Storage

• Survey: Storage users seek interoperability Want products more interoperablebleblerer

Management

• The politics of email in the workplace Mixing business with pleasure
• Worker sacked on day before age law took effect is reinstated But deadline has passed for similar cases

Management: Financial News

• Ads surge secures Google earnings CEO 'ecstatic'
• AMD swings to $611m loss 800-pound gorilla Intel provides the vine
• Imation buys TDK's recording media biz And they can prove it: they've got the whole thing on tape
• Unions propose global action Merger eyes up multinationals

Management: Government

• MP plans Bob Mugabe body-blow Motion to strip tyrant of honorary degree
• Tag dementia sufferers, says minister 'Freedom to roam'

Management: Law

• Copyright protection warning for Web 2.0 start ups Web 2.0 Expo Stand by your lawyer
• Microsoft to fork out $180m to Iowa Anti-trust settlement
• Operation Ore: evidence of massive credit card fraud Innocent until accused of paedophilia
• Yahoo! China! sued! in! US! Human rights case

Music and Media

• Beeb extends download trial to Macs Apple DRM not helping

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Quad-core won't make it big until 2009 - reseacher IDF Intel agrees

News: UMPCs

• Haier raises UMPC to new heights IDF

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Cigarette break saves US woman's life Warning: Trees falling on your house can kill

PC Builder

• Lenovo sheds jobs to increase profit Do these 1,400 employees make me look fat?

R&R: Opinion

• A postcard from Intel in Lisbon Intel says 'parallel or perish'

Reseller

• US backs whistleblower suits against HP, Sun and Accenture Kickback Rodeo

Science

• US 'Land Warrior' wearable-computing headed to Iraq Despite programme cancellation, poor user reviews

Science: Biology

• Canadian seal hunters trapped in ice 100-boat ice jam delays cull
• Musteline menace tests Sheffield steel Badger orgy of destruction threatens city

Science: Space

• Boffins to test Star Trek space shield Set deflectors to maximum
• Did Herschel discover the rings around Uranus? 1797 vs 1977
• Robot spacecraft in zero-gee pumping shocker DARPA, Boeing claim 'autonomous servicing' now a reality

Security

• European e-crime portal scheme floated Lending Voice to cybercrime victims
• Phishing attack evades bank's two-factor authentication Man in the middle
• Scumbag malware authors exploit Virginia Tech tragedy Camera phone footage ruse leads to Trojan depository

Security: Enterprise Security

• Counter Strike firm in credit card hack claim Hacker, customers accuse Valve of coverup
• Data theft replaces malware as top security concern Reality check
• Embedded devices a cinch to pwn CanSecWest The weak link in the chain
• US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack An accident waiting to happen

Security: ID

• Student loan companies illegally use US database Education department shuts down access

Services

• FSA lumps £81m appendage on Fujitsu 52 staff outsourced

Software

• Ubuntu launch marred by website woes Open then shut

Software: Applications

• Google bugles death of Froogle Do no punning
• Oracle scoops up AppForge assets Mobile apps go west
• Thunderbird 2 is go Scrubbed up version takes flight
• Which games console is most web 2.0-friendly? Surf's up for the Wii and the PS3

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft debuts Windows for the Poor $3 suite for students in developing countries