25th June 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Euro Roaming Tariff into law by the weekend? Ruled not to be uncompetitive

Comms: Networks

• Patientline results prompt share meltdown Debt restructure ahead
• PlusNet does Pole dance for migrants Wygięcie nad w tył
• Social networkers lack loyalty: report Many court other sites on the side

Comms: VoIP

• Appeal judge moots 'middle ground' in Vonage patent flap Asks if provisions for 'workaround' are appropriate

Comms: Workshop

• Mobile device mayhem, or... Who decides?

Hardware

• UK Ltd not bovvered by green blether All mouth, no organic hemp trousers

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• IBM looks for nano solutions with BASF Teaming up to go down to 32nm

Hardware: Servers

• Google abstains from blades, VMware and the rest of the hype Analysis Should you?
• IBM gives Cluster 1350 an Opteron nudge 3.0GHz hot box
• IBM waves green magic wand Meanwhile, Dell plants some trees...
• Sun appoints new UK and Ireland boss Veteran Kim Jones gets the nod
• Sweaty spooks feel the heat as NSA runs short of juice Sweeping powers yes, electrical power no

Hardware: Storage

• Seagate joins 1TB HDD battlefield Right click —> save-as this story. You've got the room

Information: Knowledge

• TIBCO buys Spotfire: why? Does it really need interactive visualisation?

Lifecycle: Execute

• Mugwort buys the furniture - Fytte 6... Why make developers comfortable? We pay them enough for them to put up with anything.

Management: Financial News

• eBay resumes Google advertising But AdWords ain't all that, tat house snipes
• Yahoo! loses! sales! head! Oh! Noes!

Management: Government

• Jisc sees road to data curation Report sets out data management recommendations
• Jock Stirrup: Eco apocalypse will mean more wars Luckily, most vulnerable countries already aflame
• Senate Frankensteins bid to revive dead wearable-tech gear Land Warrior axed by Pentagon but may live again
• UK Gov boots intelligent design back into 'religious' margins Not science, not likely to be science
• US dial-a-warrant spy judge: don't trust President, feds But you can trust me

Management: Law

• Google gestures German pullout on privacy principles Anonymity ist verboten
• ICANN goes to the Caribbean ICANN Puerto Rico 2007 Over 1 billion served

Market News

• New EU member states enjoy IT boom IT markets set to continue to grow
• Social networking: Now it's CDW's turn Publish and be damned

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD to roll out 45nm Phenoms, Semprons H2 '08? Single-core Athlons for the chop sooner, it's claimed
• Samsung punches out 64GB SDDs

News: Consoles

• Videogaming not addictive... for now, doctors say Five years' research needed to be sure

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Pure digital radios to get music download tech Cliq coming
• Underwater MP3 player washes ashore

News: Mac

• Strong laptop demand drives Apple US retail share to 13% Shift from PowerPC to Intel paying off?

News: Media players

• DVD ripping to be rendered impossible? DVD Copy Control Association ponders further restrictions

News: Useless... but Cool

• Bluetooth bikini sews up iPod apparel market

News: Wireless

• Bluetooth speaker set slices all wires

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Do you have a licence for that sporran, sir? EU to demand Highlander's credentials

PC Builder

• Dell cleans up crapware No I don't want to register any E-Monkey Assistants DAMN IT!

R&R: Opinion

• Don’t play whack the gopher Requirements management exciting - shock

Reseller

• Jury spanks Lexmark in toner refill case The stink about ink
• MEPs give rejected bidders on public contracts new rights In national law in three years

Reviews: Laptops

• Acer TravelMate ProFile 6292 business laptop Review Acer's... um... ace up its sleeve?

Science

• Two year old's IQ on a par with Hawking Just short of Vorderman though

Science: Physics

• CERN plans LHC switch-on for May next year Warm up tests are for wimps

Security: Anti-Virus

• Spanish police arrest moby virus writer No one expects the moby-virus police
• Symantec showers free software on bug-afflicted Chinese Con-pensation

Security: Enterprise Security

• Don't be evil Third party data dangers

Services

• Comet goes head-to-head with Geek Squad Push-up support

Software

• Terracotta cracks Oracle pricing An antidote to through-the-roof pricing

Software: Applications

• Blinkx raises the stakes in online video Video search AdHocracy
• Lotus leaps into social networking But will it do Web 2.0 without Notes?
• Plaxo looks to social networking market Reinvents self to be more competitive