10th May 2007 Archive

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Code

• Grappling with eels - first wriggle Column The Slippery World of Agile Planning

Code: Java/J2EE

• Sun looks to outsiders to script Java's future JavaOne Step lively

Comms: Mobile

• Gaming, music and TV to drive mobile market Mobile TV alone to generate €4.7bn by 2010
• Google gives UK mobile maps the green light Service hits first gear
• iPods 'mess with pacemakers' Granny loves her iPod, bless her - OH MY GOD!!
• Latent problems with people, not networks Column Could I have a hot air detector with that, please

Comms: Networks

• Give people back more time and they will buy your IPTV - Microsoft IPTV Times
• Joost gets $45m to play with Inflatable board rooms a go-go

Hardware

• HDS gets new UK channel salesman Indirect ambitions

Hardware: Servers

• Big Blue puts power-guzzling data centres on a diet $1bn a year push to double capacity by 2010 using no more juice
• HP Neoview comes out to play Long-term competitor for Teradata and IBM
• Intel swallows Itanic Java pill JavaOne All roads lead to Sun
• Microsoft misses performance and scale goals with Viridian – Microsoft One month trip from gloating to tears

Hardware: Storage

• NEC storage line plays its scales Online upgrades with modular design

Information

• Migration tool builder eyes up broader market Celona plans to move beyond telco roots

Information: Databases

• Red Hat and Sybase needle Oracle with appliance Summit Bundlerrific

Information: Knowledge

• Microsoft opens kimono for 'Katmai' SQL Server Marks datebook at BI Conference

Management: Financial News

• Amnesty backs Google shareholders Pressure group applauds pressure
• Data centre firm in €50m expansion Interxion eyes up Europe

Management: Government

• DTI poses perennial sci/tech problem After ten years of Blair, the song remains the same
• UK ID card costs climb £600m in six months £5.5bn and counting
• UK threatens TV premium rate ban Get your house in order, or else
• Watchdog slams tax credit system 'Flood of money' still being wasted

Management: IT Director

• From information overload to communication overload Who needs nine ways to be put on hold?

Management: Law

• Banks put customers in Swift Catch-22 'Please treat my data with disrespect'
• Online ads rouse 33% hike in complaints Watchdog calls for better web regulation
• Patent damages not refunded if EPO cancels patent 'Bad business sense,' court rules

Management: Public Sector

• Computer saves shredded Stasi files 600 million pieces of totalitarian history

Market News

• Jajah taps Intel for $15m Capital news

Music and Media

• Coalition forces offer Iraq action footage If you can't beat 'em, join 'em - on YouTube
• Spike Lee, Babelgum do the Right Thing Babelgum shunts user generated crap

News: Consoles

• It's no lemon: MS shows yellow Simpsons Xbox 360 Always leave 'em Groening for more

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• E Ink reprints electronic paper for all handheld gadgets It's not just for ebooks, you know
• Electro-optic film set to foil DVD shoplifters Discs unplayable until purchased
• Evesham makes compact LCD TV, builds in DVD
• Mio motors latest satnav kit to UK Four new product launches

News: Phones

• Motorola greenlights movie phone

News: iPod

• MS fixes Vista iPod corruption glitch Ejection protection

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• George Lucas bitch slaps Spider-Man 3 Spews venom

PC Builder

• Acer sues suppliers over HP patent lawsuit You want to fight me, buddy? There's me buddy. Go fight him
• Lenovo pays Microsoft $1.3bn for software The more the merrier

Reseller

• Horizon sees sunny skies ahead in 2007 Buoyant UK and Ireland markets

Reviews: TVs

• Xoro HSD 7510 DVD player-equipped LCD TV Review Practical and portable?

Science

• Terminator-style flying-HK killbots join US, UK forces 'Reaper' droids prepare to harvest fleeing humans
• Spitzer stargazers find hot, windy planets NASA does exo-weather

Science: Biology

• Oral sex could be more dangerous than cigars Looks bad for Clinton either way

Science: Space

• NASA releases movie-style trailer NASA was created by man. There were many missions. And they have a plan.

Security

• Don't let Windows Indexing Service know too much Privacy workshop Keeping index files under control

Security: Crime

• Credit card fraud fears cloud Operation Ore Double jeopardy for fraud victims?

Services

• Fujitsu Siemens hits the road Beating the drum with Primergy

Software: Applications

• Google Earth to get sound enhancement Hear the planet spinning

Software: Enterprise

• Ballmer: Submit and OBA-y Software 2007 Ignore Duet's sad song
• Red Hat RHXes out to open source partners Summit Let's get rich together

Software: Operating Systems

• Red Hat sees GOD Summit Turns out it's a web service