2nd May 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Mobile Spy ups mobile snooping powers Big Brother calling

Comms: Networks

• ISPA to members: play fair on fair use Savaged by a dead sheep
• ITV plays catch-up Last will be first
• Sky customers spending more than £400 a year Updated HD and Sky+ promote growth

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage wants retrial of Verizon patent case Supreme Court ruling to the rescue

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Intel slices chip workers in New Mexico As SIA confirms industry sales falling short

Management

• How a Rock started the venture capital biz in the Valley Money monopoly
• IBM cuts 1,300 jobs Pink slipping in the USA

Management: Law

• Defence firm loses domain case against cannabis site Lockheed Martin's appeal for ukskunkworks.co.uk fails
• Info chief voices doubts over surveillance tech Airs scepticism at Westminster hearing
• Judge in MP3 case to Microsoft: time to pay up $1.5bn, please
• The surveillance arms race Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Just what is excessive?

Management: Public Sector

• E-voting as secure as an insecure thing No hostages to fortune here
• Tessa Jowell stands up for blogging code of conduct Let's have a worthless debate

Management: Small Biz

• Boo.com back from the dead Web 2.0 lives

Market News

• Blockbuster says Game Over on Game Station UK Hopes sell-off will bust debt

Music and Media

• The Economist de-rails Microsoft media love in MIX07 Content or Diss content?
• Digg buried by users in piracy face-down The mob rules
• The Pirate Bay launches music sharing site Promises online musical treasure chest

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra card available in two weeks' time
• Nvidia whups Intel in Q1 desktop graphics But a poor quarter for the biz as a whole

News: Consoles

• Sony says public to test Home for PS3 this summer Console fans get Sad Life all of their own

News: Hardware Widow

• Moto gives thumbs-up to 'imperial purple' RAZR Those about to dial, salute you

News: PCs

• 60% of laptops to have Flash storage by 2010, claims researcher Notebook vendors cache in

News: Smartphones

• Ballmer: Apple's iPhone will be a niche player Analysis That's right, Steve - and it's a good thing too
• O2 re-embraces HTC with XDA Argon launch

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Jesus appears in Samsung Flash memory chip Electron microscopy reveals 4-gig Messiah
• Russians tell aliens to suck on a fat one хуй to you too, mate
• Woman serves hubby really crap curry Dog excrement stunt ends in court

PC Builder

• Dell's dance with Ubuntu: True love or farce? Here we go again

Reseller

• Fujitsu swoops on GFI Informatique But does GFI want to be bought?

Reviews: Gadgets

• ION USB turntable Review The vinyl countdown?

Science

• Electrode hats to exploit soldiers' subconscious powers Helmet mind-probe madness at DARPA
• Hot-air powered railway to harvest energy from cars 'Solve problems by building stuff,' says architect

Security

• Apple patches security hole in QuickTime QuickTime one of four popular apps currently at risk
• Poisoned MP4 files threaten Winamp users Play it again, hacker

Security: Anti-Virus

• VXers push small coc Trojan on unwilling world It's not the size that matters

Security: Enterprise Security

• Month of ActiveX bugs yields results On the up and up after all

Security: Spam

• DDoS attacks fall as crackers turn to spam Baron Samedi and chums redeploy zombie armies

Services

• Cambridge gives e-marking a tick RM plugs markers into hive mind

Software

• CA gets new UK channel boss Ex-Dell man takes on 'indirect route to market'

Software: Applications

• iGoogle launch fingered in user data loss furore Hiccup may have eaten your data

Software: Enterprise

• IBM markets up-beat service under legacy brand Comment Lotus - what's in a name?

Software: Operating Systems

• Survey: open source shows progress in public sector Firm foothold established