15th August 2007 Archive

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Code

• High-level tools offer key to HPC Programming the multiverse

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Red Hat integrates Exadel and JBoss And gets itself a new Studio

Comms: Mobile

• Carphone Warehouse salesman dies in car boot Xmas bash ends in suffocation tragedy
• Clarins' electromagnetic-blocking cream ad blocked ASA cites complete lack of evidence
• Down with secular ringtones Christian service offers enlightened irritants

Comms: Networks

• Bandwidth crunch to squeeze carriers All part of the service
• Google-funded startup to offer free Wi-Fi in San Francisco Could prove death knell for city-backed plan

Comms: Wireless

• AT&T's race car logo lawsuit crashes and burns Wanted - wireless brand to go fast for a change

Hardware

• Droid pilots beat humans at air-to-air refuelling Robots acquire another key human pilot skill
• Intel Core 2 Duo T7800 to debut 2 September Mobile CPU line-up shuffled

Hardware: Servers

• Citrix breaks the bank to get XenSource To battle VMware with Microsoft
• Ending a nightmare - Overstock's data center journey Saved by Teradata

Hardware: Storage

• NetApp Q1 profit down 37% Approves $1bn buy-back

Management: Law

• Judge doubles Qualcomm patent damages Must now pay Broadcom $39m
• NFL enlists Christian soldiers in anti-gambling fight God, football and the point spread
• RIAA: Pay as we say, not as we do Recording Ass. is sue-happy - not follow-through happy
• UK press body raps paper over online video Breached pupils' right to privacy

Management: Small Biz

• FTC: Web scam artists pilfered $24.7m from American businesses 'But we'll settle things up for $1.2m'

Market News

• GFI says 'non' to Fujitsu bid Hard to get

Metal: Architectures

• Intel speed-bumps mid-range desktop CPUs Core 2 Duo and Pentium Dual-Core lines targetted

Music and Media

• YouTube-Viacom trial turns comic Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert on witness list

News: Accessories

• Logitech brings Bluetooth to mice

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel's 'Penryn' to launch 11 November Seven 45nm Xeons on the cards

News: Hi-Def

• Blu-ray trumps HD-DVD in USA Fighting the disc war

News: Laptops

• Fujitsu spins out two convertible PCs Changing your POV...

News: MP3 players

• Samsung says Yepp to all-girl rollerskating troupe Gets rolling with latest multimedia player

News: Networking

• Newer offers low-cost Mac Mini-alike network storage box

News: PS3

• Sony threatens to evict naughty gamers from Home 'We know where you live'

News: Xbox

• MS cuts Xbox 360 prices Down Under AUD100 off

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• God appears in eggplant slice Woman lobs Him onto eBay
• Oz foetus becomes Facebook star 'Bubba Waring' joins the social networking revolution
• PETA slams 'sickening' Hamas cat-torture vid Comedy bee lays into Gaza zoo felines

Reviews: Accessories

• Wacom Bamboo tablet Review Nothing difficult to swallow about this

Science

• 'Hush drive' hand-launch spybot for US special ops Slot-in modules, mini bomb bay for extra droid fun
• Tesla electric supercar may be delayed 'Not yet fully within our grasp', says ex-CEO

Security

• Intel and Symantec team up on 'bare metal' security Virtualisation tech pushes security functions onto chips
• Shark 2 dumbs down Trojan creation Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the internet...
• Webmail-creating Trojan targets Gmail Captcha buster spreads

Security: Crime

• Russian cops cuff neo-Nazi murder film suspect Alleged distributor of net video nasty
• US phish feeder jailed for seven years ATM scam raked in $600K

Security: ID

• Forensic data stolen in server theft But phone evidence firm says 'all data restored'
• Land Registry denies ID fraud risk 'The system is designed to combat fraud'

Software

• Ex-CA boss Kumar checks in for 12 year sentence From cooking the books to cooking the grits
• Google denies Oz-blurring black op Sydney goes fuzzy ahead of APEC summit

Software: Applications

• Google and Sun tag team MS Office StarOffice joins free Google Pack
• Xandros celebrates Microsoft union with patents Exchanges emails