11th July 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Sky hails broadband explosion Flocking to the Murdoch bosom
• Tiscali: breaking DNS for fun and profit Ghosts of typo hijacking past

Comms: Mobile

• JP Morgan's iPhone Nano report is rubbish So says JP Morgan
• Moto says hello to disappointment with Q2 warning End of Zandr line cheers gloomy investors
• MS Exchange comes to the iPhone Synchronica offers mail without pushing
• Nokia swallows Skype on tablet deal N800 model coughs up wireless calls
• Sick to death of the bloody iPhone? Click here Will it blend?
• Sprint boots 1,000 phone customers for talking too much So long, annoying people

Hardware

• Bletchley Park opens computing museum Blighty's cultural computing heritage safe at last
• Rufus quits Gadspot Battling tech support thanks El Reg

Hardware: Data Networking

• Voltaire ponders $100m IPO The IB switch guys. Enlightenment reformist doesn't need the cash

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• ST Micro pulls plug on three chip plants Six inches just ain't enough these days

Hardware: Servers

• Microsoft promises VMware beater despite reversals WPC Blames media, not own, confusion

Hardware: Storage

• HP turns green on data storage Wants to hang out with the cool kids

Information: Databases

• Oracle aims for g spot with Database 11 Will developers be happy as Larry?

Management: Law

• Deal struck on the phone is binding, rules High Court Your word is your bond
• ICO names Orange, retail banks amongst data bandits 'Frankly horrifying'

Management: Small Biz

• 'My very first SAN'. Brought to you by Fujitsu Siemens Storage is for little people, too

Market News

• Former ATI chief quits AMD Leaves a mixed bag of chips

Music and Media

• Music radio: saved from premature burial Hang the DJ marketing agency

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Albatron reinvents graphics card as Blu-ray booster Nvidia GPU handles the HD lifting

News: Consoles

• Microsoft rings the changes with Halo 3 Xbox
• Xbox 360 Elite to raid Europe next month At last...

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Carbon emissions - this time it's personal
• Casio cosies up to YouTube

News: Hi-Def

• Samsung to launch '€400' Blu-ray/HD DVD player next month Watch out, Toshiba

News: Mac

• Alleged Apple ultra-thin MacBook rumour restoked

News: PCs

• Evesham fires up Zieo NX600-HD gaming notebook
• NEC boffins develop 3D paint, spray it on laptops For once, worth watching it dry?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Reg hack hypnotised by bouncing boob samba NSFW Strangely fascinating mobile phone animation
• Gardener offers mouthwatering 'mow and blow' deal A full service from Jose's Landscaping
• US man flies 193 miles in deckchair Hits 11,000ft in helium balloon stunt

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sebastian Faulks pens Bond novel Devil May Care to mark Fleming centenary

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Books for the beach – 10 titles for techies Get your holiday reading material here

On the Job

• Microsoft and Cisco play top trumps with exam providers Prometric and Pearson Vue divvy up the goods

Reviews: GPS

• Harman Kardon Guide+Play GPS-500 Review Providing directions, or just leading you on?

Science

• Chinese unleash Caspian Sea Monster 'Wing In Ground' aircraft is go
• Deadline looms for science and tech student awards Clever? Get your name in the hat
• Sun's activity not to blame for climate change All quiet on the solar front, research shows

Science: Space

• Scientists need you to organize galaxies 1m star clusters form consternation in night sky

Security

• Facebook found pimping crudware Serves up ads for deceptive security software
• Fast flux foils botnet takedown Many-headed foe hard to combat
• Three critical flaws mark July Patch Tuesday .NET, Active Directory and Excel flaws patched up

Security: Enterprise Security

• A serious browser vulnerability, but whose? Security researchers can't decide whether it's in IE or Firefox
• Greek mobile wiretap scandal unpicked Olympics-gate dissected

Software: Applications

• MySpace succumbs to The Buttock C'est un éditeur!

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft re-assures partners on Vista compatibility WPC Better all the time