23rd May 2007 Archive

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Code

• Grappling with eels - second wriggle Planning: (mostly) harmless

Comms

• Half of Wi-Fi hotspot money is wasted Wireless Event Rip-off Britain goes wireless
• Ireland gets wireless broadband Well Belfast anyway...
• Premium-rate scams prompt licensing proposal ICSTIS moves to clean up industry

Comms: Mobile

• Brit makes world's highest mobile call I'm on Everest...no Everest!
• Deutsche Telekom eyes Orange Netherlands Merger with T-Mobile on the cards?
• EU approves roaming tariffs Just in time for summer hols
• Symbian signing is no protection from spyware One man's Trojan is another's legitimate app
• Why we hate the modern mobile phone Letters Phone fury (and carrier cringes)

Comms: Networks

• Another ISP throttles bandwidth Updated Nildram applies the brakes
• Ofcom fills Local Loop Unbundling loophole One regulator to rule us all

Comms: Wireless

• Siemens to resell Wi-Fi locator tech WLANs can track laptops, PDAs...

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco and RSA work on recipe for SAN encryption Security heaven without all the seams
• Microsoft and Juniper pledge to simplify NAC Network Access Control made easier

Hardware: Servers

• IBM, HP dominate server market Sales lull has ended

Hardware: Storage

• NetApp profits up, forecast down Punished by March and investors

Information

• NetSuite goes pocket-sized PDAs could have a real use after all

Lifecycle: Execute

• Microsoft's Somasegar shares his vision for Visual Studio Beyond Orcas

Management: Government

• Apple's Jobs urges Gore to run for President US in ladder building crisis
• Europe votes to restrict police data sharing Data protection reinstated
• Minister goes mad for Web 2.0 Comment Miliband drinks the Kool Aid
• Police database delayed indefinitely Response to Soham murders canned

Management: IT Director

• Google's search dominance continues to grow Clocks up 3.8 billion searches in April

Management: Law

• Antigua calls for pirates to return to Caribbean House of Cards If US ignores our laws can we ignore theirs?
• Home Office moots 'Precrime' agency for future serial killers Analysis But wacko ideas don't fix dud IT systems

Management: Public Sector

• NHS completes London roll out of Pacs A tonic for sickly NPfIT

Market News

• IBM builds alliance to tackle 32nm design Impacted with Chartered and Samsung

Music and Media

• Internet radio stations rebuff pigopolists' 'compromise' The future of online radio in jeopardy
• Madchester 2.0 But will Tony Wilson reform a virtual New Order?

News: Consoles

• BT, Sony to turn PSP into a phone Ringing the changes

News: PCs

• Dell deploys overclocked, liquid-cooled gaming PC Superior firepower?
• Evesham eyes Vaio with Zieo monster laptop
• Frag Fatal1ty and win big, kit makers pledge

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson beams in 'iTrip-equipped' Walkman phone

News: Useless... but Cool

• USB Mini Fridge drink chiller battles booze?

Odds and Sods

• Apple moans over sex toy ad iGasm gets lawyer's knickers in a twist

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Belgian bj politico reneges on election pledge NSFW Sends Japanese assistant to pleasure voters
• German cops will track G8 crusties by their smell Public stink over 'scent profiling'

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sin City director to remake Barbarella Hollywood finally run out of ideas?

Reviews: Media players

• iLuv 9200 iPod-friendly four-disc CD player Review Sonic stunner

Science: Biology

• Aquarium chips fish Finding Nemo via RFID

Science: Physics

• Greenland zinc mine warms to retreating ice The economic benefits of global warming
• US Army funds Prius-style hybrid battlewagon 'Aggressor' could ease US forces' thirst for fuel

Security

• House taunts Senate with anti-spyware bill Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Security: Anti-Virus

• Torrent overflows Opera Browser maker lances file download bug

Security: Crime

• Drive-by Wi-Fi 'thief' heavily fined Michigan man busted for failing to buy coffee

Security: Enterprise Security

• Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down Money marooned
• Network security vulns keep sysadmins busy Can't parse that