7th June 2007 Archive

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Code: C++

• Intel updates multi-core tools Embrace the future

Comms

• Video and web access to keep comms healthy Comment To the tune of £4 trillion, TIA review says

Comms: Mobile

• EU member states give Euro tariff the nod Cheap holiday calls - if you holiday in October
• PSP patent gets gadget geeks guessing Game console as mobile phone?
• South Africa mulls reining in roaming Your personal details, or else
• US bans import of Qualcomm 3G phones Comeuppance from Broadcom

Comms: VoIP

• Vodafone says VoIP is 'expensive' and 'unsafe' Shhh, don't tell the terrorists

Distribution

• Lawyer admits tampering in MSN, Best Buy case Falsified docs on his own. Honest

Hardware

• Low-energy server hosting goes underground Smartbunker digs deep for zero-carbon data centre
• Xerox: Web 2.0 coming to a grey box office soon Banging the solutions drum on a rain-soaked Lyon river

Hardware: Data Networking

• Fishermen Sea DOS Vietnam Oops, were you guys using that?
• Juniper sued over firewall patents IP defences tested

Hardware: Servers

• Brazilians go nuts for grid computing HP gives Latin lessons in building P2P grid software
• PA Semi finds a friend in Mercury Low-power kit for the military
• VMware slaps SWsoft with hosting play Rent-A-VM

Hardware: Storage

• Apple to use Sun's ZFS in Leopard A file system loved by all

Lifecycle: Manage

• Delivery is all, says Citrix Application delivery to define future IT

Lifecycle: Plan

• US patent system braced for a shake-up Still handing out daft patents, though

Management

• Employers should follow the Scots' lead on vehicle smoking ban Different laws could cause headaches

Management: Financial News

• Amazon to buy NetFlix? Money man spreads wild rumor
• Green technology is VC money magnet: report Investment skyrockets

Management: Government

• Amnesty's spy in the sky for Darfur Help stop genocide
• Directgov publishes online wish list Child truancy alerts and virtual uni tours demanded

Management: IT Director

• Google pleads with politicos for more foreign labour Goolag understaffed
• Project over-runs make US IT workers scared for their jobs Europeans are much more chilled
• UK companies floundering with no IT strategy Survey says firms working to 'loose informal plans'

Management: Law

• Google UK gags gambling ads No more bets please
• Toyota Prius is not so green, says ads watchdog Ad's CO₂ claims go up in smoke

Management: Public Sector

• OGC appoints new chief executive Transforming the transformation agenda

Music and Media

• eBay goes for broke with Radio ads Just like Google
• Friction.tv: a virtual soapbox for the online masses Coffee shop debate without the froth?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel discrete GPU due Q2 08?

News: Consoles

• Nintendo Wii widens sales gap with Sony PS3 5:1 sales ratio

News: PCs

• Dell to counter carbon with Euro tree-planting plan Greenhouse gases bagged

News: Phones

• Samsung celebrates 'emotional design' phone

News: Smartphones

• Atari's Portfolio: the world's first palmtop Forgotten Tech 18 years before Palm's Foleo...

News: Storage

• WD puts 250 gigs in pockets

News: iPod

• Apple TV made for the mass market, bits breakdown reveals

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Kids get early start in electronics Yep, your 7-year-old knows more than you
• Planning a drunken stag night? Avoid Slovakia Two months' jail for nude fountain stunt groom

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Big Brother housemate canned for racist slur N-word provokes summary eviction
• Elton John menaces Ukraine Orthodox church objects to muso's 'untraditional sexual orientation'
• Paris Hilton released for 'medical reasons' Remains under house arrest

Reseller

• DSG hires Tesco man as new chief exec Plans afoot to improve firm's online empire

Science: Biology

• Israeli boffins bring life to human neuron culture Plan to install bottled brains in 'cyborg machines'

Security

• Buggy ActiveX controls menace Yahoo! Messenger Webcam! library! peril!
• Hitachi ships Travelstar 7K200 encrypted hard drive Please, please, please say I didn't hit 'Quick Erase'...
• US House passes another anti-spyware bill The cure could be worse than the sickness

Security: Crime

• Hackers blamed for Illinois agency server hack ID theft fears blow through Chicago property market

Security: Enterprise Security

• Bank of Scotland blames human error in data screw-up Unencrypted disc lost in post
• CA in malformed archives malware risk Anti-virus protection turned against users
• Hackers load malware onto Mercury music award site Security nightmare for DreamHost
• Vista and IE 7 to receive 'critical' fixes on Patch Tuesday Six high priority updates, in all

Servers/Storage

• IBM and HP fight over EMC's scraps in Q1 Internal disk eats away at DAS

Services

• Fujitsu Services to create 400 NI jobs From London to Derry
• NHS IT boss tells iSoft and CSC to sort it out Granger rattles sabre

Software: Enterprise

• US Navy CIO tells purchasers to consider open source Pentagon picks up a Penguin