23rd April 2007 Archive

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Code

• Implementing platform independent data with SDO Hands on A practical example of using Service Data Objects

Hardware: Data Networking

• IP networks create pain CA World 2007: Our survey says...
• Teachers demand Wi-Fi health investigation Making us sick, students crazy
• The Cloud descends over City Free Wi-Fi for a month

Hardware: Servers

• AMD's CEO doesn't have Intel to kick around anymore Comment Wall Street measures Ruiz's head
• IBM Powerizes Linux on Intel apps The AVEs and the AVE nots
• If Google kills penguins, is it doing evil? Comment Earth Day disclosure
• Microsoft to EC: define 'unreasonable' Seeks numerical value of reason for royalties
• UK bank switches off to go green Auto-shut-down

Management

• Are vendors looking after the BI needs of small biz? Reg reader workshop When scale is not the issue

Management: Financial News

• AMD tells Wall Street: 'Will dance for cash' $2.2bn for the poor, please sir
• Cordys scores $80m for US roll-out 'If you don't grow fast you might as well go home'

Management: IT Director

• IT staff set for chop in Barclays-ABN Amro merger 'Synergies' mean job cuts in double dutch

Management: Law

• China arrests Betex executives House of Cards Shares, software in limbo
• Europe makes 'progress' on police data protection Regression, says human rights expert
• Ex-editor decries article suggesting he kept child porn 15,000 porn images found on Mac used by him and others
• Greece and William Hill get ready to rumble, as gambling arrests continue House of Cards Placanica to be put to the test
• Internet gambling crackdown hits Taiwan House of Cards Officers using protection

Management: Public Sector

• Liverpool uncages pigeon-busting 'robofalcons' Flying rats face expulsion from city centre

Management: Small Biz

• Gordon Ramsay mashes up small businesses for BT 'F*ck off 2.0'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Samsung adopts latest 3D chip stack tech Follows IBM, Intel

News: Consoles

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum: 25 today The rubber keyboard that saved Britain
• Sony shrinks UK PSP price Cheaper in Euro-zone too

News: PCs

• Commodore prices up games machines
• LG displays TV-PC monitor combo

News: Phones

• O2 offers incentives to end phone upgrade insanity Keep your old handset and gain call credits

News: Smartphones

• RIM rolls out 'virtual' BlackBerry for Windows Mobile 6 Carriers to choose which handsets get it

News: iPod

• iPod add-on draws out dock connector

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Captain Cyborg invades Second Life Appearing this afternoon in Sadville
• Google snubs St George - again By the Lord Harry...
• Milton Keynes: world centre of porn and sex Google Trends tells it like it is

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• BA edits Branson from Casino Royale Virgin boss excised from in-flight version

PC Builder

• AMD: very hush hush Reporter's notebook Where's Mr Skywalker when you need him?
• Dell: vertical lines, what vertical lines? Er, the dirty great big one on my Inspiron...
• HP pitches Acer another sueball HP v Acer 2: Electric Boogaloo

Reseller

• CA shakes up European channel CA World 2007: Partners face weeding out

Science: Biology

• Hunters bag one of last Amur leopards 'Cowardice or stupidity' does for female
• Wipe your arse less, suggests Sheryl Crow One sheet per sitting to save the planet

Science: Space

• NASA gunman: police blame work grudge Performance review triggered shooting
• Royal Society calls for UK space agency BNSC just not up to the challenge
• UK and US agree plan for joint space missions Collaboration

Security

• A Mac gets whacked, a second survives CanSecWest PWN to Own contest beaten

Security: Enterprise Security

• Program Names govern admin rights in Vista It's not what you do, it's what you say you do

Security: ID

• Barclays' chip and PIN readers will work for other banks PINsentry will read all APACS-standard cards
• Online impersonations: no validation required How do you know what's real and what's not?

Software

• CA boss says strategy on track CA World 2007: govern, manage, secure

Software: Enterprise

• CA bigs up service quality management CA World 2007: Wily’s working
• Corporate Web 2.0 limited by IT resources Death by dearth
• Salesforce.com opens back office door Decoupling for ERP