22nd June 2007 Archive

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Code

• How to counter premature optimisation Is optimisation the root of all evil - or, at least, many bugs

Comms: Mobile

• 3 looks to Brew up applications Qualcomm finally gets Brew apps into the UK?

Comms: Networks

• Bush official goes nuclear in Net Neut row Supernova 2007 Shouting match with delegates

Comms: Wireless

• ITC upholds Qualcomm phone ban Blockage remains blocked

Comms: Workshop

• BlackBerry squeezes MS on security, management, and control Poll results The benefits of maturity?

Hardware

• Japanese firm exhibits droid construction worker Features 'cantilevered crotch joint', potential for bot-crack in future
• Welcome to Xanadu-on-Thames O2's big wireless tent

Hardware: Servers

• IBM launches MySpace for mainframes Discuss your addiction to Big Iron here...
• Of the Sun Blade 6000 Switch blade

Management: Financial News

• Business.com: yours for $400m Party like it's 1999, multiplied by 53

Management: Government

• UK Gov seeks 'scientific' basis for nationality Didn't we hear that one somewhere before?

Management: IT Director

• Web users get a finger language class Say more with your fingers than just 'Up yours!'

Management: Law

• Cornish separatists torch abandoned brewery CNLA 'apologises for the inconvenience'
• Orange and Littlewoods breach Data Protection Act, says ICO Not keeping customer information secure

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Windows Vista aligned with good management practice No, really!!

Management: Reg Weekly

• Harry Potter, the NHS, e-voting and Amazon To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• Day-of-silence protest hits Net radio Stations battle royalty hike
• Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player Anti-competitive DRM accusations ramped up

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD's Phenom to arrive in time for Christmas? Schedule tweaked, moles claim
• Intel chip boffins in litho brainstorm Intel R&D Day Let's gets pixelated

News: Consoles

• Manhunt 2 shut out by Sony and Nintendo Refuse to release game unless it gets a lower rating
• Wii gets wee add-on screen What, no telly?

News: Smartphones

• Sling tosses in Windows Mobile 6 player app

News: iPod

• DLO mix'n'matches iPod FM transmitter and remote control
• Vibrating cube brings music to your ears

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Printer cartridge? What printer cartridge? Episode 22 Framed

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Internet users living secret lives online Irish users 'fess up to their web shame

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Britney's album: Hair Of The Dog or Revulva? Reader poll The people must decide

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'Shut your head and be pheasant' FoTW A friend of Rufus writes
• Rufus fights back Battling tech support hero's right to reply
• Unplugged life supports and padlocked manhoods abound Comments Rival wiki smackdown slated on World of Warcraft

Reseller

• Evesham poised for buyout as senior execs walk Exclusive: Boss says 'every man has his price'

Reviews

• Here comes the summer - holiday kit on test Round-up The gadgets you shouldn't leave home without

Science

• Making a splash in academia with open access Let them read journals
• Unmanned aircraft rubbish, says senior US pilot And don't waste my time with your roadside bombs
• US gov in Bill Gates inspired robot probe Is sex with robots legal if they aren't turned on?

Science: Biology

• Icebergs collect mini ecosystems, lock up carbon Nifty

Science: Rise of the Machines

• NASA to unleash 'mind meld' intelligent machines RoTM neoLuddite Resistance Army to Defcon 'Armageddon'

Science: Space

• Atlantis touches down in California Brief Safely back after two-week mission

Security

• Digital data can bite you in the ass, researcher warns Usenix Beware of those contributions on Flickr and Myspace
• Fake flash player site used to spread malware Shockwave horror
• Pump-and-dump scammers issue German prospectus PDF ruse attempts to smuggle junk past spam filters

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hacker breaks into Pentagon email system DoD shuts down 1,500 computers
• Ohio data leak was 'accident waiting to happen' Warning unheeded as thousands of records exposed

Security: ID

• For sale: Herman Munster's MasterCard number ID thieves duped by TV fan

Software

• Microsoft strips Office from charity PC scheme App-free Windows coming to a poor community near you...

Software: Applications

• EU privacy watchdogs extend search engine probe Equal treatment for all our big brothers