28th June 2007 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Microsoft's Silverlight gets Linux treatment Genuine cross platform - not by us

Comms: Mobile

• GPS becomes more than a back-seat driver Telmap shares locations, while Vodafone dodges traffic
• Nokia restructuring from strength for mobile internet Will recombine handset activities
• Sony Ericsson leaves smartphone sufferers spitting No more bugfixes for you
• Vodafone looking to Reach excluded youth Foundation offering £5m to charities

Comms: Networks

• FCC wants public comment on XM-Sirius merger What do you think, folks at home?
• FTC sides against Net Neutrality Let God sort 'em out
• Top BT exec wholesales himself to New Zealand Reynolds out, 21CN in

Distribution

• Microsoft UK changes mind on distie beauty parade Lady's prerogative

Hardware

• HP steals agenda setting crown from IBM Comment Playing with its big stick
• Mobile industry group leaps into VoIP debate Industry body calls for customer awareness
• Red Hat tight lipped on Microsoft talks Analysis But middleware will make it chatty
• Windows Server 2008 CTP packs IIS punch Fat lady goes back to trailer

Hardware: Data Networking

• Body that spawned the internet wants to rebuild it Broke or not, DARPA's fixin' to fix it

Hardware: Storage

• Data Domain's stock rocks, Netezza seeks $80m Storage appliance IPO a-go-go
• Dell: 'We'll clobber pricey NetApp with new iSCSI kit' 'We didn't say that'

Information: Knowledge

• Could open source BI close out incumbents? A threat to traditional markets?

Management: Financial News

• YouTube uber-Daddy of online vid sites US traffic growing strongly

Management: Government

• E-voting vendor succumbs to California source code demands Worried about 'personal agendas'
• UK boffins form nanotech taskforce Says government has failed to act
• UK could get privileged access to American kill-tech Slippery Brits promise no reselling

Management: Law

• American trademark attorneys to consume own young ICANN San Juan 2007 New breed raised in intellectual cages and fed raw meat
• International effort on privacy protection is launched OECD countries to cooperate on data protection
• MPAA unleashes legal eagles on YouTV and Peekvid Won't somebody think of the copyright?

Management: Small Biz

• Brown splits DTI, creates ministers for biz & boffinry Royal Society: we'd like to see the word 'science' somewhere ...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel releases updated quad-core CPUs Cooler stepping

News: Consoles

• Nintendo readies Wii game-making tool for all Amateur coders to create the next Mario?

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Underwater MP3 players surfaces

News: PCs

• Alienware beams down dual-core, dual-GPU laptop Monster

News: Smartphones

• Apple limits buyers to two iPhones Only one per buyer at AT&T stores

News: Storage

• SanDisk promises 8GB Micro SDHC card... sometime

News: iPod

• Pedal to the metal: bike-friendly iPod dock launched

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Paris Hilton says jail term has changed her 'Mystery meat' was hard to swallow, though

Reseller

• Morse will dash for AIM under new CEO Reshuffle after demerger

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card Review AMD's HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT debut

Science

• Ghostly plastic bathtoy flotilla nears Cornish coast Greed-crazed salvage junk bonanza mob frenzy brewing

Science: Biology

• How furry is it? Silicon Valley subculture of stuffed animals is the largest in the world

Science: Physics

• Synchrotron boffins sign collaboration deal with Brazilians Order and progress in Oxfordshire

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Robot brains? Can't make 'em, can't sell 'em Why dopes still beat boffins

Security

• Bush and Cheney subpoenaed for wiretapping Snooping inquiry gets legal
• Home Office, civilians all fingers and thumbs on biometrics UK finds old habits hard to break
• Press code bans snooping in wake of royal eavesdrop case Voluntary code strengthened

Security: Anti-Virus

• Don't touch that Microsoft Security Bulletin email Trojan hides under patch update

Security: Enterprise Security

• Core 2 Duo: Intel's insecurity blanket Is OpenBSD founder prophet or scaremonger?
• Serious security hole plugged in RealPlayer and HelixPlayer Shhh, don't tell anyone

Security: ID

• Qualys: When rules finally meet technology Automating credit card compliance

Software

• GPLv3 set for formal launch Let the countdown begin

Software: Applications

• Blockbuster and Netflix stop suing each other Will secret 'sweetheart' deal stifle the competition?
• Celebrating the iPhone's Newtonian past Devices share more than a gravitational connection
• Dr Google will see you soon Vegetarian giant to eat more data, weigh less
• Google Desktop finds Linux at last Search app goes open source