22nd August 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• T-Mobile, Orange and O2 land Europe iPhone deal As Apple feasts on 10% of revenue

Comms: Networks

• Comcast throttles BitTorrent users Spilling seed on barren ground
• Gunplay fingered for internet slowdown Fibre-optic cable shot to ribbons
• Las Vegas crooks go mad for copper Oops! There goes the cable

Comms: VoIP

• Skype apologises for network snafu Offers customers a free week as restitution
• VoIP glitch leaves users cut off Failure to communicate

Comms: Wireless

• Google flirts with bid to save the American Dream $4.6bn wireless move 'probable'

Distribution

• Tech Data posts healthy Q2 profit Beats Wall Street estimates

Hardware: Servers

• AMD's marketing chief bails ahead of Barcelona Update Search begins for bravado
• Sun fattens up Niagara for middleware play Hot Chips Four-sockets, 256 threads

Management

• ICSTIS rebrand scorned by premium rate industry New brand frontage paradigm doubts

Management: Financial News

• Google will carpet YouTube with 'overlay' ads Not for user generated content....yet

Management: Government

• ES&S accused of selling uncertified evoting machines Un-inspected ballot machines bore official approval sticker
• Lawyer questions Tories' plan to reform Data Protection Act Uses 'an inflated or out of date figure'
• US pokes intelligence agencies into Web 2.0 overhaul Facespook? Spyspace?

Management: Law

• Broadbandit nabbed in Wi-Fi bust Jack the Wardriver menaces west London
• Mattel gets litigious on chinabarbie.com Trademark lawsuit seeks unspecified damages
• No data protection exemption for YouTube baby battle video 'Domestic purposes' doesn't apply on internet
• Pentagon bins home-front threat database Nobody in it but boring pacifists

Music and Media

• CNET insists Google ads are good for you - and fun!!! Comment Oh wait
• Real and MTV in joint bid to be crushed by iTunes Microsoft left out in the cold

News: Accessories

• Hear the bullets zing with Logitech's gaming speakers Sounds good to us

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel shows off X7900 CPU More grunt for your money

News: Laptops

• Li-Ion battery design 'flawed' Careful now...

News: MP3 players

• Boblbee offers sunny side up music Solar powered Apples

News: Mac

• How to get TV on your Mac Feature Watch and learn

News: Phones

• T-Mobile, Orange and O₂ land Europe iPhone deal It'll all be over by Christmas

News: Wireless

• Belkin wrestles with wireless HDMI 1080p goes wireless

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Forensics expert sacked for DNA-testing husband's underpants Michigan cops unimpressed by CSYfronts caper
• Homer Simpson debuts in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations 'The lesson is never try'
• Livid woman torches ex-hubby's wedding tackle 'Monstrously painful', admits Moscow human candle
• Reed seeks project engineer at £2k per hour Only for a month, sadly
• Tycoon abandons £80k Maserati in London car pound 'Too busy' to collect towed supercar
• UN moves to preserve Bounty mutineers' lingo Norfolk Island patois under threat

R&R: Books

• The Apache Modules Book Review Is this the missing Apache manual?

Science: Physics

• iRobot unveils new Roomba auto-vacuums Never mind that - where's my bloody robot butler?

Science: Space

• Google invades Outer Space Welcome to Google Sky
• NASA ponders stressful stress-test device for astronauts I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that

Security

• China charges four over Panda worm Fujacks stole gamers' IDs

Security: Crime

• Serial eBay fraudster jailed for two years He's a bit thick, admits defence lawyer
• Ukrainian jet setter in world's largest cyber heist? Turkish nightclub bust could crack TJX case

Security: Enterprise Security

• Crash bug blights Cisco IP phones Firmware flaw

Security: ID

• Whitehall to boost identity spend by £5.2bn Major projects propel pork binge

Services

• CSC cans project leaders More compulsory redundancies
• Dutch telco outsources QA Testing times for Satyam

Software: Applications

• IBA boomerangs back into iSoft bidding war Germans gazumped
• Numbers man to captain Salesforce.com abroad Having your Cakebread and eating it