18th May 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Euro consumers don't trust IP for TV Scepticism is closing the window of opportunity
• Post Office to resell BT broadband Lost packet experts of the world unite

Comms: Mobile

• HTC takes a gamble with new brand and OS strategy Sidelines Microsoft
• Mobile blocking helicopter to trail Bush in Sydney Fighters, SAS on alert as 'Blue Luminary' goes Down Under

Comms: Networks

• DirectTV turns focus to power lines for broadband Change of heart a blow to WiMAX
• Virgin Media piles Cable and Wireless sandbags Huffy manoeuvres

Hardware

• AMD readies HyperFlash cache tech To be built into SB700 Southbridge
• HP garage becomes national landmark So you'll just have to park in the street

Hardware: Servers

• Project Hybrid: Dell's transformation begins Hunting the Butterfly Effect

Hardware: Storage

• Tandberg touts VXA to Euro channels Fighting over the tape drive crumbs?

Information: Knowledge

• Compuware absorbs a bit more Centauri Another day, another bit integrated

Lifecycle: Plan

• Indian dealers are squealers over Microsoft piracy raids Feel OS vendor has them by their Rupees

Management

• British fathers to be given six months' paid paternity leave DTI opens consultation

Management: Government

• FCO to probe visa security lapse Indian problem could be worldwide
• HMRC claims IT successes VAT fraudsters still as slippery as eels, though

Management: IT Director

• Blighty internet shopping goes ballistic As young women become dominant UK online group. Coincidence?
• ITU to focus on ICT opportunities for young people Think of the children

Management: Reg Weekly

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News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD 'Griffin' laptop CPU to integrate Turion cores Power consumption, not processing, targeted
• AMD M780 PCIe 2 chipset to offer on-the-fly GPU switching Yank the power plug, flip from discrete to integrated

News: Consoles

• MS stops hacked hardware accessing Xbox Live Tweaked DVD drive? No thanks
• Nintendo dominates April US console sales

News: Phones

• Nokia launches, doesn't show 'traditional' talk phone

News: UMPCs

• US company touts Windows Vista fridge magnet

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The revenge Episode 17 It's amazing what people will fall for

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Belgian politico to orally pleasure 40,000 NSFW Senate hopeful's election campaign really sucks
• Bible heads for Hong Kong's top shelf Updated Residents demand X-rating for 'indecent' tome
• India to deploy tethered blimp radars Worried about Tamil Tiger air force
• Paris and Lara share a cell with rude speeder Comments Bubba the Kid still at large
• Spanish politicos slug it out in Second Life Explosions and gunfire shake Sadville
• Train driver asks passengers to get out and push Not in Argentina, mercifully

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Elijah Wood to play Iggy Pop Reader poll Hobbit gets lust for life

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Naked doctors eat vultures in front of Freeview Letters Was that a Yeti?

Reviews

• Screen stars: Ten HDTVs on test Group Test Time for a new gogglebox?

Science: Biology

• Cane toad hitches lift to southern Australia Toadzilla menaces Melbourne

Science: Physics

• London dirty-bomb tests start this weekend Nobody panic
• Southern Ocean calls time on carbon sinking Just had enough, thanks

Science: Space

• Hatchling stars revealed in new Spitzer snap Check out the polycyclic aromatic compounds on that one...
• Satellites track freak waves to Reunion Working on an early warning system

Security

• Net censorship growing worldwide Control freaks

Security: ID

• Gatwick gets iris recognition Biometric border control

Security: Spyware

• Adware firm sues over adware classification Zango fights spyware software again

Software

• GPL to undermine Microsoft's Novell deal? Back at ya
• Microsoft squares up to Google with $6bn buy Bill's most expensive ever purchase

Software: Applications

• WPP, AOL buy into the race for online ad spend On your marks, get set...