26th July 2007 Archive

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Comms

• BT matches analysts' forecasts Gears up for 24Mb/sec ADSL launch in 2008
• Eircom warned over 'discriminatory' conduct Breaches own regulations
• Virgin pulls the plug on mobile video Updated: Screens to go dark in January

Comms: Mobile

• 2007 looking good for Carphone Warehouse More money from more customers
• Mobile developers target Nokia platform And N-Gage gets developer support

Comms: VoIP

• VoIP services must offer 999, says Ofcom Calls for regulatory framework

Hardware

• Sony results boosted by flagging Yen Games division still losing cash

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Google juices Turing Award $250,000 could be yours

Hardware: Servers

• 'Predator' Microsoft applies to give itself cancer OSCON Adds tumor.com to website
• AMD: We're not dead yet Says Barcelona outperforms Intel Xeon
• Does HP have $1bn worth of Bull? Buying the Itanium ecosystem one vendor at a time
• Sun preps 2048-thread monster Exclusive 256-thread minis in the meantime

Management

• Amnesia strikes at Symbain Symbian Can anyone remember what we're called?

Management: Financial News

• Ballmer: Microsoft to become ads and devices powerhouse 'Bold bets' on the way
• Microsoft in ads deal with Digg.com Goodbye Google ads
• QLogic Q1 profit slips Silicon banana peel
• Rackable's margins still in witness protection program Q2 turns red

Management: Government

• Brit spooks: Yanks are frightful cowboys But we should still be chums with them
• FBI asks Congress for phone record slush fund Gonzo savors new, zestier 4th Amendment

Management: Law

• EU files anti-trust charges against Intel Six-year probe bares litigation
• Judge questions theft claims of Facebook rival Put up or shut up
• US law firm cleared of robots.txt DMCA hacking charge Analysis Wayback Machine just screwed up, court says
• Web contract changes are just not cricket US appeals court silences Talk America

Management: Public Sector

• DWP loses £2.5bn to fraud and errors IT fails to alleviate loss

Management: Small Biz

• HMRC loses landmark tax ruling Taxman fails to keep up with the Joneses
• NAO recommends one stop regulation database Reducing the burden on SMEs

Music and Media

• French court slaps poor man's YouTube Dailymotion guilty of copyright infringement
• Microsoft challenges Google with uber search center Dreams the impossible dream

News: Consoles

• US price cut for Xbox 360 HD DVD player European gamers hard done by yet again

News: Laptops

• Cut-price laptops coming forth Updated Spare some change for a computer?

News: Phones

• Fans left guessing over Samsung 'designer' phone Come on Korea, give us a hint

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Oz convict ancestor database goes online Russell Crowe, Germaine Greer could be genetic lags

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• McLaren accelerates away from fines and expulsion But not in the clear yet

Science: Biology

• Cat senses impending death Biochemical explanation for nursing home bedside vigils?

Science: Space

• 'They threw my laptop into the atmosphere' And other wonderful lost property excuses from NASA
• A handy guide to growing your own spaceship Column Terran life-forms need not apply
• ESA seeks pricing for Mars rover Time for sums to be done on fag packets
• NASHA ashtronauts too fly to drunk What's the problem here? *hick*

Security

• Firm finds danger in dangling pointers New buffer overflow threat
• Newcastle council credit card file lifted Up to 54,000 people affected in bureaucratic bungle
• Symantec sales up, but profits drop Norton suite secures revenue

Security: Crime

• Masturbating lag cops 60 days' extra porridge 'Indecent exposure' rap for five-knuckle shuffle

Security: ID

• Data loss blights US military, Aussie bank, and Fox network Butterfingers all round
• EC cuts replacement deal with US on passenger data Data kept for 15 years

Software

• BMC throws open developer network OSCON Projects go BSD
• Gmail: a short, sharp rant First person Not evil, just arrogant
• GPL whiz Moglen nails Web 2.0 O'Reilly on 'frivolous' charges Comment Blow to OSCON propaganda

Software: Operating Systems

• Windows Vista unreadiness revealed Analysts laugh at surface computing