1st May 2007 Archive

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Code: Scripting

• Microsoft polishes the Silverlight MIX07 Still to prove itself against Flash
• Microsoft puts some iron into Ruby MIX07 Scripts .NET open source support

Comms: Mobile

• Orange becomes more like bank: launches overdraft facility Pay £1 to get £2.50 into debt

Comms: Networks

• Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too No warning, little recourse
• Joost on brink of adding commercial breaks Beta testers dole out invites as official launch nears
• Scots stump up £3.5m for Highland broadband Can you connect the unconnected?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Study: Idiots may cause data-center apocalypse Ill-conceived moves to blade servers cause outage 'crisis'

Management: Financial News

• BEA issues profit warning BEAten up in licensing market
• China's largest ecommerce site set to float Record breaker
• Institutional investors push Google on China Vote to be held at AGM

Management: Government

• 'Rally my inflated ego', declares Nicolas Sarkozy Sack for TV subtitle prankster
• MPs criticise combat ID systems Troops can't tell who's friend or foe
• Vote for sale on eBay No ginger politicians need apply

Management: IT Director

• IT firms band together to shrink carbon footprint How green is your bandwagon?

Management: Law

• Home Office promises proactive powers for info commissioner Surveillance to police the surveillance society
• Owners of E-Gold indicted for money laundering Updated Service allegedly popular among child pornographers and other low-lifes

Management: Public Sector

• Observers forced to 'negotiate' for evote access Electrical electoral injustice

Management: Small Biz

• MoD encourages SMEs Easier bidding for defence contracts

Music and Media

• Why Last.fm isn't sweating the RIAA's royalty hike The day the music survived

News: Cameras

• Brits pitch 'extreme conditions' video cam Go shoot it on the mountain

News: Consoles

• Kutaragi to pilot PlayStation development? Vision too vague to be sure
• Sony eyes add-on camera for PSP Picture perfect?

News: Mac

• Sling throws in Mac-friendly SlingPlayer Apple TV... not on your TV
• Sonnet add-in to tune UK MacBook Pros into to eSATA

News: PCs

• Velocity Micro buys Overdrive PC Overclocking in the USA

News: Useless... but Cool

• Corsair deploys Bond-friendly Flash drive

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ann Summers love egg fails to crack Cyprus Island deprived of 'serious clitoral lovin'
• DoubleClick redefines the rainbow paradigm LogoWatch Invents new colour for 'exciting' rebrand
• eBayer unleashes defecating dog to punt kayak Crap selling technique?
• Fifa's 'wranking cock' shown red card Suspect file name trips net filters
• RFID-tracking Segways unleashed on hoi polloi 'Mobility platforms' to menace mankind
• Second Life: the campaign for real life Comment Sense and Sadville don't mix

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Orange doles out an IOU to Christian pareidolians Letters While monitored by EU police

PC Builder

• Gateway ships quad-core desktop into US stores Retail proposition

Reviews: Smartphones

• Nokia N95 multimedia slider phone Review Yes, it does everything - but is it any good?

Science: Biology

• Living optical fibres found in the eye Moving light past all those synapses

Science: Space

• Malaysian astronauts told: Space is no bar to prayers Guidelines issued

Security: Enterprise Security

• Bug brace menaces Adobe Photoshop Unpatched graphics flaws menace mankind
• Estonian/Russian statue riots spill online Uncivil unrest hits govt websites

Security: ID

• VeriSign will ship two-factor authentication for debit cards What took so long?

Security: Spam

• Disappointed Glastonbury fans spammed by rival festival Muddy feet all round

Software

• Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe Comment Pretty sure that we might be ready
• Silverlight glow dimmed by cross-platform concerns MIX07 Bad for web health

Software: Applications

• 'IE8 compatible' - the cure for web standards headache? MIX07 A problem shared is ... a problem shared
• BlackBerry finds Outlook 2007 an upgrade too many But RIM denies any problem
• Reuters snaps up search company Findable financial info

Software: Enterprise

• 'It'll be ugly when half the software industry goes away' - pundit Analysis If by 'ugly,' you mean great

Software: Operating Systems

• Dell Linux is go Ubuntu named as distro for desktops and laptops