30th August 2007 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Red Hat unveils Developer Studio beta Could become corporate developers' best friend

Comms: Mobile

• Cells 'react' to GSM signals claims research Cellphone-cancer link generates headlines in under 10 minutes
• Challenging the mobile clichés Opinion An analyst rants

Comms: Networks

• Earthlink's city-wide Wi-Fi ambitions fade into thin air Oversold technology, under-priced fees
• Orange mounts sneaky Freeserve accounts purge Night of the long juicer

Hardware

• Dell profit improves amid accounting woes And ex-CEO grabbing bank
• US antitrust group urges Intel investigation Wants more vigorous FTC probing

Hardware: Servers

• AMD plots single thread boost with x86 extensions Bulldozer injection
• IBM bladesmiths forge slim Cell system, SDK Twice as many weapons in your rack, kensei
• Sun looks to huddled masses for growth BRIC nation

Lifecycle: Execute

• Managing Software Complexity with Virtual Chapters A Simple Tool for Mid-Sized Projects

Management: Financial News

• Linux helps dampen Novell's losses OS sales up 77 per cent year-over-year

Management: IT Director

• Trade unions demand right to Facebook It's like the Tolpuddle Martyrs all over again

Management: Law

• 'Screw the Long Tail'? Not us! Songwriters strike YouTube royalty deal
• Boy racer cuffed for 140mph YouTube jaunt 'Completely foolish' Ford Escort stunt

Music and Media

• Viacom slaps YouTuber for behaving like Viacom 'We'll mess with your copyrights. But don't mess with ours'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Foxconn launches Mars mission to wow overclockers IFA 07 Quantum Force brand unveiled

News: GPS

• TomTom roadmaps new satnav kit IFA 07

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Casio enhances top-of-the-line digicam IFA 07
• Daewoo demos 'Blu-ray Disc 2.0' player IFA 07 Online and interactive
• Philips shines light on Aurea LCD IFA 07
• Philips untangles power cable spaghetti IFA 07 Power, power everywhere

News: Hi-Def

• Samsung Blu-ray Disc player line blooms IFA 07 Dual-format machine launched

News: MP3 players

• Sony to unplug Connect digital music service IFA 07 Tacit admission of defeat

News: Phones

• Samsung quietly serenades 'super 3G' music phone IFA 07 F330 debuts

News: iPod

• Samsung eyes iPhone for music player UI IFA 07
• Sony strides onward with Walkman range IFA 07 Wider Walkman collection now includes 'A' and 'S' series

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 'Queen of Mean' leaves mutt $12m Two grandchildren, though, get sweet FA
• Genghis Khan didn't much like gays Homosexuality punishable by death
• Mr and Mrs Renault cannot name daughter Megane Belgian authorities apply sanity brakes

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• David Bowie to appear in Doctor Who? 'Evil alien abductor' in two-part special

Reseller

• Vista launch jamboree leaves PC World with indigestion Hardware promos undermine margins

Science

• HP boffin predicts preggers spy bog Stupid future Get ready to buy a lot of expensive ink in 2057

Science: Biology

• Plants will make greenhouse effect flooding worse Drowned by lazy daisies
• Viral epidemic strikes Spain's Mediterranean dolphins Better news for the Yangtze River 'baiji', however

Science: Space

• Astronauts are sober as judges, says NASA Official report is in
• Spitzer team spots stellar sauna Hot, steamy star

Security

• MSN Messenger flaw creates web cam peril Upgrade or be own3d

Security: Anti-Virus

• Pinch-bum malware creates titters Cheeky Trojan drifts onto the net

Security: Enterprise Security

• eBay hard drive spills out governor's campaign documents A bargain at $69

Services

• Holyrood strikes IT support deal LogicaCMG to take up the mantle

Software

• CA issues 'threat' to channel Asks partners to get certified
• MS lawyers take out AutoPatcher Redmond cracks down on Windows Update alternative
• Pentagon puts $44m into handheld translators Disperse at once or we fire <beep> Have a nice day

Software: Enterprise

• Meet Mark Radcliffe: The man who rules open source law 'The most inefficient conspirator in the world'
• Microsoft to buy chinwag platform Parlano Enterprise group hug, Web 2.0 stylie
• Tills ring at Torex Retail General Atlantic goes on shopping spree

Software: Operating Systems

• MS tweaks Vista with minor updates Incremental fixes
• Newest Ubuntu dubbed 'Hardy Heron' Receives long term support status