6th September 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Orange promises rethink on deleted email accounts Updated Annoyed punters may force U-turn

Comms: Mobile

• Apple lobs $100 credit at iPhone buyers El Reg demands an apology
• Apple slashes iPhone prices Slaps 1 million idiots
• Mobiles can upset hospital equipment, after all Lifeline for Patientline
• Vodafone takes one on the chin for billing problems Not our fault, but we'll take the blame anyway

Hardware: Servers

• Microsoft readies Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Availability, licensing and promises revealed

Hardware: Storage

• Seagate targets sensitive customers with encrypted HDDs Standing in the way of control

Management: Financial News

• Facebook was my idea, says yet another ex-Harvard student No legal action yet

Management: Government

• ADVISE data-mining program cut by Homeland Security We advise skepticism
• PRC forces also ravaging UK gov nets, insist Brits Analysis Flimsy bandwagon collapses as dunces crowd aboard

Management: Law

• Google leaps on patent reform bandwagon If reform is the right word
• Slave kids working UK cannabis farms Vietnamese criminal gangs cash in on child labour
• UK and US team-tag to speed patent prosecution process Dupe, dupe, de-dupe

Management: Public Sector

• MPs slam Defra over rural payments system 'A master class in bad decision making'

Market News

• Horizon's Irish revenue falls Down nearly nine per cent
• Michael Dell 'not involved' in accounting fraud Buck, what buck? Must have passed it along...

Music and Media

• Rick Rubin: Right idea, Wrong Price? Subs can save us
• TV's iPod moment? Column Watching the Defectives

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Asus backs Blu-ray DVD burner/Blu-ray reader launched
• Intel schedules quad-core mobile CPUs for H2 '08 Specially designed laptops required?
• Toshiba boffins ready next-gen iPod hard drive 120GB per 1.8in platter

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sony adds HD to TV-via-net box HD streaming for the masses
• Sony adds HDMI port to Alpha snapper

News: PCs

• Acer joins HD DVD spin team
• HP turns to Voodoo to conjure up gaming PC Blackbird

News: Smartphones

• HP revives iPaq range Five new devices arrive all at once

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Church hall bans 'unchristian' yoga for nippers Young minds saved from spiritual perversion
• Cursing senior plod samples electric justice Video 'Aagh - bloody hell': top cop zap vid shocker

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Aussie bin Laden penetrates APEC security Police decry TV comedy stunt

Reviews: Media players

• Archos 605 Wi-Fi personal media player Review The acme of PMPs?

Science: Biology

• Government warns parents of food-colouring danger Chemicals: bad for kids

Science: Physics

• Boffins develop quantum-computer building block No faster-than-light kit on offer, sadly

Science: Space

• Cassini closes in on Iapetus Fly-by of an odd-ball moon
• Dino-killing asteroid traced back 160m years T-Rex was history before he was even born

Security: Crime

• Master crim leaves vital clue at scene of burglary 'Peter Addison was here!'

Security: ID

• Large databases are not safe enough, says stats boffin 'Identity reconstruction' still possible

Software: Applications

• Mac, Linux BBC iPlayers in the offing, says PM Not that I control the Beeb or anything

Software: Enterprise

• IBM and Novell push out new SLED A viable Vista alternative?