21st June 2007 Archive

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Code

• NetSuite pitches at being easy Everyone's a 'developer' now

Comms: Mobile

• Ofcom responds to threatened luvvies But still wants free market to decide on wireless specs
• Teenagers prefer mobiles to sex But what if there wasn't a vibrate function?

Hardware

• Sun loses UK head Surprise departure

Hardware: Data Networking

• Police deploy thin Bluetooth line Lock your doors and windows, criminals are everywhere

Hardware: Servers

• Nvidia GPGPU line sparks into life with Tesla GeForce 8800 to power engineering apps
• SiCortex sticks to Summer supercomputer ship USENIX Ready to wow

Hardware: Storage

• Trusted storage specs near completion New HDD security guidelines drafted

Lifecycle: Execute

• A Mariner from Serena Developments in Portfolio Management

Management: Government

• Congress chops economy-class nuke programme Cheap, reliable atom bombs strangely unpopular
• Israeli futurologist predicts terror horror Run for the hills

Management: IT Director

• United grounded by computer failure Unfriendly skies

Management: Law

• American gamble or bluff: WTO members bet on Antigua Analysis EU, Japan, and India join sanctions call against US
• Companies failing to exploit value of IP, says PwC While tech execs think lawsuits are harassment techniques

Management: Public Sector

• Councils need performance management buy-in Report recommends private sector input

Management: Small Biz

• Google goes global with new-fangled ad engine You pay only for results

Market News

• AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses' Calls for end to illegal monopolies
• Dell's vertical line issues lengthen More notebooks | affected
• One in four web merchants do not know web shopping laws Most e-shoppers unaware of right to cancel

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel to chop 1066MHz FSB CPUs earlier than expected? Big push for 1333MHz FSB chips

News: Consoles

• Manhunt 2 rated 18+ in US Slasher game maker wanted 17+

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Creative rocks on with Zen Stone... Plus
• Wind-powered phone-charger coming to market? Designer gauging interest

News: Mac

• Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.10 First palindromic version number?

News: PCs

• Dell's vertical line issues lengthen
• Toshiba 'world's lightest' laptop wafts down
• Toshiba laptop line to go totally HD DVD in 2008 Counter to PS3?

News: Phones

• Levi's announces mobile phone But is it pre-shrunk?
• LG locates Google phone in Europe Vodafone gets first shout

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Blogosphere is the net spawn of Satan: official Only 'folksonomy' inspires more fear and loathing
• NZ couple fight to name kid '4Real' Are you for real?

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Citizen Kane declared greatest US movie Godfather pipped into second spot
• Harry Potter and the Pedant of CIX Column Psychic spoilers
• Yahoo! buys! Rivals! No, not the Jilly Cooper tome

On the Job: Recruitment

• CSC to slash hundreds of jobs Blue Monday

PC Builder

• Ebuyer in hard-drive warranty debacle Sells Seagate OEM drives to end users

Reseller

• Computerland racks up profits product margin dip
• Torex takeover angers shareholders Banks win, we get nothing

Reviews: Media players

• Sony NAS-50HDE Gigajuke audio system Review If stereos were Stetsons, this would be a ten gallon hat

Science

• Chileans mislay large lake Last seen in March, current whereabouts unknown

Science: Biology

• Alaskan man guilty of flogging seal penises Illegally handled aphrodisiac 'oosiks'
• Bush kills stem cell research bill Debate will now be political
• Czech authorities report bird 'flu at turkey farm Samples sent to Surrey for confirmation

Science: Space

• Atlantis ready to come home Dodging thunderstorms en route
• Eta Carinae brightens Chandra's day New pics of an old explosion
• Registration open for reality TV style Mars mission trial ESA offers £29k pay for 17-month Big Brother simulator ordeal

Security

• Iraq collapse may pose new WMD threat, say UN monitors Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals...
• No BlackBerries for Sarkozy cabinet, say French spooks Nous crachons sur la baie noire - tool of Anglo spies

Security: Crime

• US car thieves floored by manual gearbox Stick shift dummies

Security: Enterprise Security

• About those 844 security breaches... 'fess up, Congress tells DHS Once more unto the security breach, DHS
• Austrian domain registrar 'aids' phishers Spamhaus gives black mark to Nic.at
• Hacking WoW and the pursuit of knowledge USENIX The Warden vs. The Governor

Services

• VoIP firm launches headset smashathon Jajah deploys leggy SWAT team

Software

• UK firm pays biggest ever fine over 'pirate' software Keel-hauled