18th July 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• EU officially endorses DVB-H But who asked for their opinion?
• Moving mobile numbers should be instant Ofcom calls for mass debate on central database
• Non-SMS revenues top £10bn While SMS traffic increases too
• Survey lays bare people's phone habits 25% of Brits will answer the phone while on the toilet

Hardware

• AMD goes after AppleTV iTV Con Calls for Canadian curling channel
• Cyborg-style 'iLimb' hand a big hit with Iraq veterans 'Soldiers love the robotic look'

Hardware: Data Networking

• BT to drag T-Mobile onto 21st Century Network that is
• Juniper Networks gets its Q2 profit back Shrubs off last year's loss
• North Wales Police gets unified IP comms Gives a whole new meaning to 'copper networking'

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• German hurls computer from apartment block 'Who hasn't felt like doing that?' admit police

Hardware: Servers

• Dell buys SilverBack on road to recovery Managing managed services
• How green is my V-word? Does virtualisation = energy savings?
• Software team codes IBM higher in Q2 Expenses surge

Information

• Oracle buys fraud detection software firm Identity management
• Oracle signs Symantec to ULN Big trio
• Web 2.0 shows its data muscle Building mashups gets faster

Information: Databases

• An embedded XML Database: Oracle Berkeley DB XML Tutorial There is more to life than RDBMS

Management: Financial News

• iPhones grease eBay's quarter That's two days of iPhone sales
• Whole Foods CEO sorry for message board trolling SEC investigates grocery store fanboy

Management: Law

• Derbyshire cops get into deep water Van + flood = YouTube smash
• Pirate pitches DVDs to Trading Standards Porn flick cock-up
• Second Life gets its first copyright law suit Sex bed tussle leads to court
• Terror-cops get realtime Congestion Charge database link Updated Home Office gives dunce-bombers a victory after all
• US cons attempt copyright-based prison break FBI thwarts audacious criminal masterplan

Management: Public Sector

• PAC slams exclusive DoH deal Where was the tender process?

Music and Media

• Warner Music Group waves goodbye to EMI Terra Firma deal in the bag?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• 'World's most capacious' mobile HDDs come to UK
• Blu-ray drive maker slashes burner price by €100 Blue-laser diode famine over

News: Consoles

• Leaked 'PSP Slim' manual reveals fresh tweaks PSP-2000 details emerge

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Tomato ripens dinky digital device

News: MP3 players

• Ion mixes it up with second-gen USB turntables

News: Mac

• Burned by a MacBook First Person In more ways than one

News: PCs

• Intel roadmaps laptop-friendly 45nm CPUs LV, ULV versions coming too

News: PS3

• PS3 outsold Xbox 360 2:1 in Japan And Wii sales micturate on both

News: Smartphones

• Official: BlackBerry gets Wi-Fi, VoIP 32GB memory card support too

News: TV

• Wave goodbye to your TV... literally Out goes the remote, in comes gesturing tech

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• eBayer mails UK lad £44k Got more than the PS2 he was expecting
• Indians slip on tobacco-flavoured condom Fancy a chew on my betel nuts?
• UK planespotters to battle al-Qaeda Anoraks man front line in WOT

Reseller

• Logica reports revenue slump Looking for new CEO
• PC World, Orange, and Pipex sneeze out broadband offers Hardly Christmas come early, though...

Reviews: MP3 players

• LG Touch Me FM37 MP3 player Review ...sounds like a one-hit wonder from the 80s

Science

• User panel says US should scrap GPS off switch Sat nav industry reckons degrading sat nav is bad

Science: Biology

• Sharks in the soup, says conservation group Extinction looms as consumption booms

Security

• Google's Lemon squeezes out web app bugs Hot Fuzz

Security: Enterprise Security

• Firefox lances IE bug Pass the parcel bug binned
• iPass layers on security for laptops Online security service adapts as you roam
• Oracle drops litter of summer patches Forty-five fixes out. One missing in action

Software: Applications

• Microsoft rigs Live Search traffic The power of Dingbats
• Microsoft Windows patent will spy for advertisers The computer is impersonal again
• Yahoo! buys Indian ad firm Yes, there's still money to spend

Software: Enterprise

• Expand gives Oracle a boost Claims big speed-up for apps over WANs