19th June 2007 Archive

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Code

• APS aims at 'Windows' of SaaS Giving SaaS providers some common ground

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Ubuntu chief mua muas Microsoft Dirty uncle not welcome

Comms

• AT&T not planning to buy Vodafone Or any of the other biggies, for that matter

Comms: Mobile

• Opera tries to out-do the iPhone All it takes is a decent browser
• Vyke moves VoIP battle to SMS Operators charging more than NASA for messaging

Comms: Networks

• FCC chairman says ‘broadband for all!’ Meaning everyone in America
• Goodbye ICSTIS, hello PhonePayPlus Rebrand to beat off premium rate rip-off merchants
• TalkTalk slams slamming charges Even if we did it wasn't deliberate

Comms: Wireless

• F-22 superjets could act as flying Wi-Fi hotspots Pricey stealth fighter finally useful?

Hardware: Servers

• Google cookie cuts $600m data center in Iowa Powered by ethanol, colored balls and love
• HP's Hurd can't dance, but he can preach BT Technology Forum That's Business Technology to you
• Start-up forced to admit that Sun invented Java Settling in with Azul

Management: Financial News

• Supremes back Wall Street on dot com era ladder deals Take it to the SEC

Management: Government

• Investigators find secret White House email accounts 88 senior officials implicated
• Minister: ID cards 'another Great British Institution' What like the Cones Hotline? Or the East India Company?
• MPs under fire for £3bn IT consultancy bill PAC decries government 'profligacy'

Management: Law

• Google launches self-protection blog Calls it a 'public policy dialogue'

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Too busy to read this? Reg Reader Studies IT management? We're listening

Management: Small Biz

• Business getting clever about IP? PwC report tells a tale of two economies

Market News

• ThirdForce acquisition gets green light Firm casts eyes over the Atlantic
• Video games, TV ruin Best Buy's profits Exercise would make it worse though

Music and Media

• YouTube acknowledges foreign countries Updated How very un-American

News: Consoles

• Manhunt 2 banned Censor acts to prevent game's sale

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Nokia turns on to Bluetooth cans

News: Mac

• 'Alu-mac' iMacs due next month? Next-gen boxes to be pitched at back-to-school buyers

News: PCs

• Toshiba laptop goes up in smoke Sony-made battery was covered by last year's recall
• Toshiba names new HD DVD laptops

News: Phones

• Samsung grows stick-phone line
• Samsung parades designer sliders

PC Builder

• Blade PC start-up manages to nail IBM, ClearCube and Verari Terawhatchi?
• Say goodbye to Office 2003, Microsoft tells PC builders Office 2007 or bust

Reviews: TVs

• TVonics DVR-250 Freeview Playback DVR Review Sky+ functionality... on Freeview

Science

• Google gets into green transport policy Prince Charles style move by ad colossus
• South Korean robot officiates at marriage Industry shift from spying and killing?
• US Army funds hydrogen-fuelled drone aircraft To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up

Science: Biology

• German teen unplugs pensioner's 'noisy' life support machine Can I have the machine that goes ZZZZ

Science: Space

• ESA greenlights Sentinel-1 deal, inks agreements with NASA Official pens seeing plenty of action

Security

• Text bug blights Trillian Rather Dented

Security: Crime

• Feds told they need warrants for webmail Fourth Protocol

Security: Enterprise Security

• HP buys web security firm SPI Crosses swords with IBM's Watchfire

Servers/Storage

• DATAllegro: an update on Version 3 What the Dell and EMC partnerships really mean

Software

• Microsoft 'tweaks Vista' for Google desktop search goodness All is fair in love and litigation

Software: Applications

• Apple GPS System rumoured to debut in Mercedes cars From Mac to tarmac