13th August 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• iPhone thumb trim hoax gets online media buy-in Satirical commentary taken as fact
• Microsoft sent FCC defective wireless prototype Wants a do-over
• Sprint helps fuel parental panic Search local sex offenders from the palm of your hand
• US punters gobbling up mobile data And it's not all SMS
• Vodafone turns to eBay for handset supplies Largest phone network reduced to searching largest flea market

Comms: Networks

• BT rubbishes BBC bandwidth throttling reports Swift denial 'We're not part of the iPlayer gang'
• ISPs hijack BBC in tiered services push How much would you pay your ISP for iPlayer?

Comms: Wireless

• Smart radios still too dumb TV white space defies boffins

Hardware: Data Networking

• Silent bandwidth battles at BT Column You will not unplug that ISDN

Hardware: Servers

• Citrix set to snatch XenSource Hypervisor grab
• First two AMD 'Barcelonas' due 10 September? A third coming the following month, apparently
• Intel guns one four-core Xeon, cools another AMD talks to OEMs
• SCO 'disappointed' as shares plunge 70 per cent Sue it forward
• SteelEye gets pat on the back for virtual clustering When VMware alone won't do

Information: Knowledge

• Next generation business intelligence From power user to user power

Management: Financial News

• Virgin Media to mount French invasion Channel hopping

Management: Government

• US Customs gets kill-droids for Caribbean Booze cruise bloodbath likely as excise feds tool up

Management: IT Director

• Boots, House of Fraser not renewing IT director posts Comment Short-sighted or smart move?
• Future looks bright for video ads Runt of the advertising litter to grow up fast

Management: Law

• Telstra sex romp woman back on the job Wins bath rumpy-pumpy unfair dismissal case
• Tories aim to ditch data protection laws And scrap Ofcom

Management: Public Sector

• Council employs automatic PC shutdown Will save £50,000 a year

Market News

• VAT fraudsters 'laughing all the way to their offshore tax haven' Explosion in carousel fraud

Metal: Interface

• AMD posts Catalyst 7.8 Driver pack tweaked

Music and Media

• Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web Wrinkle-funk bonanza foretold
• Veoh files pre-emptive copyright lawsuit Don't hit us, we're Web 2.0

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Fujitsu creates readable, writeable 'nanohole' hard drive Step toward 1TB per square inch data density
• Intel cans last Pentium 4s, Ds Farewell, pre-Core past
• Nvidia MCP73 'to debut 25 September' Entry-level parts to pave way for DirectX 10 version?

News: Consoles

• Build up to UK Xbox 360 Elite launch...

News: Desktops

• Blu-ray meets tiny PC HD from another weeny box

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Trevor Baylis cranks multimedia up a notch No we're not winding you up

News: Handhelds

• Fujitsu Siemens to drop PDA, GPS gadgets Laptop focus

News: Hi-Def

• Blu-ray 300 outsells HD DVD version 2:1 Clash of empires

News: Laptops

• Samsung powers ahead with fuel cell tech Will it set the world on fire?

News: PS3

• PlayStation 3 a-plenty...

News: Phones

• Moto Razr² debuts in US... almost Carriers taking delivery

News: Useless... but Cool

• Brando sniffs out USB new agers Smells pretty sweet

News: Wii

• All you wanted to know about Wii
• Total world Wii sales close in on Xbox 360 tally Next-gen console winner

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Chav-hunting toffs cop some flack Public school chaps in YouTube vid wheeze
• Cops taser crap-smeared Oz clubber Nasty shock for dirty protestor
• Drunken German joyrider totals 300 chickens Poultry pandemonium
• Peterborough bloke warned over 'offensive' t-shirt 'Don't piss me off', declares pissed-off perp

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Halo 3 hits one million pre-orders Smashes all records

Reseller

• Game shares bounce as competition probe launches Regulator says deal unfairly squeezes market

Science

• Boffins simulate plasma-eating dusty 'life-forms' Dust to dust, etc
• Gull triphibiandroid sold to Welsh gov Part plane, part boat - all robot
• Welch on renewables deal, UK government told Where did I put that get-out clause?

Science: Space

• NASA examining Shuttle's dings, extending mission All go up on the space station
• NASA inks deal for Shuttle replacements Timing nothing to do with Endeavour dent

Security

• Facebook quells fears over code leak snafu More of interest to lawyers than hackers
• Firefox leak could divulge sensitive info How to remotely share your settings with people you've never met
• Germany enacts 'anti-hacker' law Will the last security expert to leave Germany turn off the lights

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hacktivists attack UN.org All we are saying is give hacking a chance
• IT bosses: directors don't take security seriously Their fault for not talking the board's language?

Security: ID

• Net bride Aussie kidnapped in Mali Lovestruck farmer's fiancée actually armed gang

Security: Spam

• Spammers debut FDF spam Rising tide as stock markets fall