9th May 2007 Archive

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Code

• Mobilise those old applications Data2go's Rapport makes move to mobile easy

Code: Java/J2EE

• Oracle talks open source unto Java JavaOne All for one
• Sun plans 'consumer-friendly' Java SE JavaOne Shrink fit

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Red Hat close mouthed about open desktop service Summit The Vaguing Game

Comms

• Virgin faces customer exodus over Sky battle Round one

Comms: Mobile

• DRM pinches Motorola's stream Software 2007 And Apple dries it up
• Subbuteo comes to mobile phones Let your fingers do the kicking
• Verizon pulls sponsorship from dirty dancing singer Bad choice of dance partner
• Vodafone completes acquisition of Essar Indian government approval finally arrives

Comms: Networks

• NetServices sells out to 186K Never saw that coming
• Palm preps antenna-less 3G Palm OS Treo 750 / 680 = 755p

Distribution

• Dimension Data doubles profits But revenue growth will slow in second half

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco Q3 profits leap 35 per cent Cashes in on bandwidth demands

Hardware: Servers

• Red Hat CEO deaf to VMware's giant sucking sound Summit They make how much money?
• VMware follows paravirtualisation path Silly name, but a good idea

Management: Financial News

• eBay bids for recommendation site Might win StumbleUpon
• Icahn loses bid for seat on Moto's board But thinks he's made his point
• Microsoft takes stake in CareerBuilder Job Fare
• Sun makes Hynix DRAM cartel lawsuit deadline Back to court we go

Management: Government

• Government project reviews are not FOI exempt, says tribunal Backs ICO's order that reports be made public

Management: Law

• Death of a toasted sandwich salesman Quiznos takes on franchisee gripe site
• IBM brings Amazon to heel in patent spat Big Blue turns over Big Book
• India acts to unravel yoga patents 5,000 years of prior art
• Sun may never set on British Empire's pint UK metric-system selling to be indefinitely deferred
• US spy chief wants 'some control' over satellite imagery Government intervention isn't going away

Management: Public Sector

• Greens demand boycott of Lockheed Martin census trial Births, deaths and munitions

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD details 65nm laptop chip line-up
• BFG water-cools, overclocks Nvidia 8800 GTS card
• Nvidia takes GeForce 8M laptop GPUs on the road Drops the 'Go'
• Nvidia targets Turion with AMD-oriented IGPs

News: GPS

• Palm punts free satnav kit to tempt new Treo buyers

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Creative tunes up laptop-friendly X-Fi audio enhancer

News: PCs

• Intel 'Santa Rosa' blooms into Centrino Duo, Pro Next-gen notebook platform debuts
• Sony turns to Centrino revamp for Blu-ray, HDMI laptop

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson phones slim for spring

News: Smartphones

• Sony Ericsson revamps P series smart phone Back to basics

News: UMPCs

• Samsung sends usable UMPC to USA

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Wikipedia bot-swarm foretells snooker result Self-editing Borg collective takes control of hive mind
• Woman smuggles live budgie into Irish prison Going inside. Really inside

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Don't let Paris Hilton do bird At least not in the slammer, gov

PC Builder

• Supermicro grunts out solid Q3 Falling margins, rising profit

Science

• UN waffles furiously on biofuels Bureaucrats wedge themselves on well-oiled fence

Security

• Seven flaws lanced in MS patch batch All bugs are critical but some are more equal than other
• Souvenir coin sparked nano spy alert "We haven't seen anything like it before, Jim..."

Security: Crime

• Schoolboy scammer caught again Out on bail, but still scamming
• Six in California indicted for online bank fraud Criminal enterprise allegedly earned $383,000 in 8 months

Security: Enterprise Security

• Man faces 10 years for fudging computer credentials Faux trial expert cops to perjury

Security: ID

• Compost your shredded bank statements today A more manure approach to avoiding ID theft
• M&S in ID theft flap over stolen laptop Oops, it's happened again

Services

• Union members blink in Capgemini face-off Nerds shy away from confrontation

Software

• Sage profits slip in first half Buying spree over for time being
• Software 2007: Innovation is the new black Customer service? Who needs it!

Software: Applications

• Essex University offers online degrees Students can stay in bed forever

Software: Enterprise

• SAP snaps up OutlookSoft BI- bolt-on

Software: Operating Systems

• Downing Street rejects Vista petition Price controls aren't us
• Red Hat crafts new OS for the small and poor Summit It's Global in a non-global sense