31st May 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Eircom to slash up to 400 jobs Cost-cutting move not unexpected

Comms: Mobile

• Jobs waves iPhone, talks applications June launch still go
• Motorola lays off another 4,000 RAZR phones fail to slice into new markets
• Vodafone data bundle pricing slips out 120MB a month for £7.50...ho hum

Comms: Networks

• Joost views ex-Cisco prodigy as CEO I want my Volpi TV

Hardware

• US Stingray style sub motherships test missiles But SEALs' ritzy mini-sub slated for defects, cost overruns

Hardware: Data Networking

• Brocade barges into HBA market Flashes Silverback at Emulex and QLogic

Hardware: Servers

• Fedora 7 suppresses Red Hat separation anxiety So communal it hurts
• OpenSolaris fans in a tizzy over 'Project Copy Linux' Distro dysfunction junction

Management

• eBay makes another baffling buy StumbleUpon snapped up

Management: Financial News

• Brocade and Mercury rain cash on SEC to settle charges Don't mention the stock
• Clarity lacks, er, clarity over CEO 'Should I stay or should I go now'
• Dell cheers Q1 with workforce decimation 2.0 - 8,000 = more money
• Freescale scales back staff Frees up thousands of pink slips
• Glory fades on Novell's Microsoft deal From black to red

Management: Government

• DHS calls in sci-fi writers as consultants You couldn't make it up - maybe they can
• EU on web-terror: Something must be done I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy ...
• Facial drones spot passport frauds UK.gov's own facebook
• Tories appoint former tabloid editor as chief spin doctor Untainted by Royal phone-tap resignation

Management: IT Director

• Another day, another UK newspaper website goes down Today's failure: The Independent

Management: Law

• Data protection watchdogs' letter to Google goes public Questions length of storage time before anonymisation
• Google ducks angry authors CISAC Misses opportunity to enlighten
• Larry Lessig in the lion's den CISAC Net guru takes on the authors: Love is just another lawsuit

Management: Public Sector

• EU OK's Welsh Assembly Wi-Fi Prague OK too, with modifications
• Westminster street lamp pay-back cut to 750 years Now just £15m to save £20k a year

Market News

• 'Brown should rethink EU proposal on VAT' Could be open season for fraudsters
• CD WOW! vows to take £35m High Court defeat to Europe 'We make tiny margins on our goods and it is the consumer who benefits'
• Dixons Store Group loses head Clare to retire in September

Music and Media

• iTunes Plus - plus user details that is DRM-free tracks can be traced to original owner

News: Mac

• Apple TV gets 160GB HDD Oh, and you can access YouTube on it too

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Hot babes cruise planet Google Viva Street View and Viva Las Vegas!

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Doctor Who faces extermination Time's up
• Sex.com: read it if you dare Book review A tale of evil from the early days of the internet

R&R: Books

• The Linux programmer's toolbox Book review Hope for those developers not raised on the Linux command line

Reseller

• Dell's channel shake-up ripples across to Europe 'Not an open system'

Reviews: TVs

• Sharp Aquos LC37XD1E 37in HD TV Review There's high-definition and then there's high-definition

Science

• DARPA to create brain-chipped cyborg moths Looking to bug al-Qaeda

Science: Space

• Finding missing galaxies: Spitzer triumphs again No word on how they were lost
• New theory for sun's ring of fire Sound, not Johnny Cash, responsible

Security

• PC Tools snags behaviour protection tech You know I'm no good
• Security analogies: the key to educating laymen Comment Explaining tech concepts to the masses
• Whale rescue hotline hacked 45-ton mother and calf 'put down', trolls falsely claim

Security: Crime

• Spam King arrested in Seattle Grand jury indictments

Software

• World fails to implode during Gates-Jobs gagfest We led as two kings

Software: Applications

• Google Gears up for offline web apps Steps on Microsoft's toes...again

Software: Enterprise

• MySQL warns Microsoft on open source credibilty Stick to the knitting