26th April 2007 Archive

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Code

• Alpha gets RAD for Web 2.0 The big IDEa
• Piloting Adobe Apollo An insider's look at the Apollo roadmap

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Adobe open sources Flex The Mozilla Public Licence is Adobe's Flexible friend

Comms: Mobile

• Blue Sky squeezes GPS onto a SIM Dawn of the next killer app?
• Orange boss walks out Replaced by half a CEO from HP

Hardware

• IBM mainframe ties the knot with video game chip Virtual 3D environments get souped up

Hardware: Data Networking

• Antarctica frozen out of internet revolution Who's got the most interweb superhighways?

Hardware: Servers

• HP clusters up blade boxes One rack: made to order

Hardware: Storage

• VMware goes public with $100m plea Costs and CEO salary way up

Management

• How did we all end up with Windows? Reg Reader Workshop The Microsoft 'default' phenomenon

Management: Financial News

• eBay, PayPal face court action Class action alleges unfair monopoly
• Microsoft feasts on Vista coupons for record quarter Profits up 65 per cent
• Sourcefire eyes acquisitions Nothing to Snort at

Management: IT Director

• Is the mainstream ready for SaaS? Comment Yes, but IT departments must recognise this

Management: Law

• Gowers considered cutting music copyright to less than 50 years But decided it was not 'politically prudent'
• IPRED2 passes, with tweaks to protect personal copying File sharers in the clear?

Management: Public Sector

• DoH's latest d'oh! Puts private doctor details on the web
• Peer calls for UK cyber-crime portal Is e-crime treated seriously by police?
• UK police can crime reporting website Build it and they won't come

Market News

• North Carolina residents still want their $280m back from Dell Challenge court's no-backsies ruling

Music and Media

• Amazon flows into digital music sales As it announces doubled Q1 profits
• Court sez music downloads aren't performances ASCAP sings the blues...
• Who star to make beautiful music with girlfriend's dog Barking all the way to the bank

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD Radeon HD 2900 XTX tested on web Little benefit over XT
• Hitachi says it did ship 1TB HDD in Q1 Just in case you missed it...

News: Consoles

• Sony spies Eye toy for PS3 Hip, hip, array

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony ships 'world's smallest' HD camcorder Another day, another superlative...

News: Hi-Def

• Wal-Mart orders 2m HD DVD players from China Big boost for Blu-ray rival?

News: PCs

• Acer recalls 27,000 Sony laptop batteries Caution not combustion behind the move

News: Phones

• Samsung 'world's thinnest' phone goes on sale

News: Smartphones

• T-Mobile calls up cut-price Sidekick iD And Hiptop 3 arrives down under

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Japanese actress caught in sheep 'poodle' scam Wondered why new pet didn't bark
• Police charge stripogram cop impersonator Boys in Blue unimpressed by student's uniform
• Website offers virtual substance abuse, P2P pressure No activity too mundane for doleful online saddos

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Arrest Richard Gere, orders Indian court Cuffs readied after Shilpa Shetty kiss outrage
• Spinal Tap resurface for Live Earth Dials to 11 to save the planet

Reseller

• Trend Micro overhauls EMEA channel programme Announces strong Q1 performance too

Reviews: Hi-Def

• Toshiba HD-XE1 HD DVD player Review Tosh brings in 1080p on a budget

Science

• Boffins develop DIY musical Wi-Fi robot kit Google/Microsoft alliance behind mooted droid-army fifth column
• Defective automatic trousers hurl pilot from plane Rogue expando-pants amok in Wallace & Gromit style devastation

Science: Biology

• American boffin touts sugar-fuelled mobile phones Gadgetry to run on spuds, Coke, even dead flies
• Taiwan mislays millions of honeybees 'Volatile weather' to blame for mysterious disappearance?

Science: Space

• Hawking is leaving gravity on a jet plane Back again in 20-40 seconds
• Super-Earth orbiting red dwarf No, not the TV series...
• Welsh boffins build 3D solar images Wales 1: NASA 0

Security

• 0wning Vista from the boot Interview The VBootkit authors speak out
• Hackers debut spam and virus sandwich Stock spam points to drive-by download

Security: Enterprise Security

• Pentagon 'hacker' questions US cost claims Infosec Gary McKinnon pops down to Infosec
• TJX finds self at bottom of 300-bank pig pile 'Negligent misrepresentation' in data handling has its costs
• Websense buys Surf Control Larded up with debt

Software

• A modern-day Gerstner is needed to cure all of Microsoft’s ills Analysis Time for Ballmer to move on...

Software: Applications

• Google glitch loses user data Updated Malfunctioning personalized homepage has users fuming