10th September 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Apple 'loses' iPod calendar A Touch too much
• MusicStation arrives, but will we pay for digital music? Vodafone thinks so
• Ratings volunteers to be spied on by mobiles Blowers to rat out guineapigs 24-7

Comms: Networks

• Brussels muscles in on BT universal service rules Bill and Ted's Bogus Green Paper

Comms: Wireless

• Apple ponders $9bn bid for wall-busting wireless iNetwork Eyes Google's 'beachfront' property
• Bluetooth comes to set-top boxes Time to rename the zapper?
• German Government works itself up into Wi-Fi panic Updated We must cleanse ourselves of this electrosmog
• US municipal Wi-Fi loses its shine Business models followed technology too closely

Hardware: Data Networking

• Procurve goes for the core Network switch first with lifetime warranty

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Wyse strips down thin client computers Thinks PCs are a fatty, fatty 2x4

Hardware: Semi-Coherent Computing

• High protein diet good for boxen gurus and open sourcerers Site News Eat your Meat Casts

Hardware: Servers

• AMD finally goes native with Barcelona Preps pair of Octals
• Sun launches Eco Innovation Initiative Extends Eco Responsibility Initiative
• VMware unveils 32MB version of ESX Server Hypervisor flash

Hardware: Storage

• Dell unveils Big Mike for iSCSI storage box party We told you so
• LeftHand flings SAN at cash-stricken virtual servers Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX
• NetApp cooks up meatier low-end NAS appliance FAS200 line goes down low

Management: Financial News

• Intel hopeful for third quarter Earnings up...

Management: IT Director

• IT shouldn't cop all the blame for wrecking environment Quocirca's changing channels Green IT use by businesses matters too

Management: Law

• 'All-in' DNA database plan hinges on human rights case Updated ECHR could make DNA retention without conviction illegal
• 10,000 .eu names suspended amid cybersquatter allegation Owner files retaliatory suit
• Secretive FBI 'National Security Letters' to ISPs, Telcos halted 'Legislative equivalent of breaking and entering'

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Who said the internet was getting boring? Reg Technology Panel For business or pleasure?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD readies DirectX 10.1, DisplayPort GPU updates Radeon 2400, 2600 ranges targeted
• Intel cans first-gen Core chips Duo, Solo for the chop
• Intel to drop bottom-of-the-range gaming CPU

News: Hardware Widow

• Women say no to pink tech toys Hardware firms getting it so wrong, survey reveals

News: MP3 players

• Sony rolls out roll-along music player

News: Media players

• SanDisk guns for iPod Nano with slim video viewer Long player

News: Phones

• Europe's largest phone recycling centre to open in Wales
• Orange to turn pink at Xmas to favour young women Miss Understanding

News: Smartphones

• Wednesday's Palm launch not Centro, firm claims Same design though?

News: UMPCs

• OQO cuts UMPC prices, adds solid-state drive option

News: iPod

• New iPods need new add-ons for TV playback?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Get a passport, enjoy casual sex with foreigners Home Office yoof campaign shocks Middle England
• US outfit whips out mp3 vibrator NSFW 64 megabytes of Ram - phwoooar!

R&R: Books

• Service Strategy Is this the missing manual for SOA?

Reviews: Wireless

• Icron WiRanger Wi-Fi connected USB hub Review USB-over-Wi-Fi, anyone?

Science

• Fossett 'may never be found' Search continues for missing adventurer
• Google Earth mobilised in search for Fossett Amazon's Mechanical Turk scours latest sat images
• Solar spyplane stays up for two nights Needs no fuel, only money
• Viking ship resurfaces under Merseyside boozer Plans to raise unique surviving wooden hull

Science: Biology

• Expedition to hunt Amazon 'yeti' Heart of barkingness
• RFID chip implants linked to cancer in animals Not fit for dogs?

Science: Space

• Mars rovers dust-free and on the move Opportunity peers into crater
• Pinwheel galaxy boasts edgy star formation Most unusual
• Team XMM-Newton on data-sharing mission X-ray source catalogue released

Security

• The Times: PLA war-hackers can switch off US navy Yellow Peril causes wet knickers among excited scribes
• ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals?
• Trojan-fuelled botnet menaces UK eBay users Updated Auction giant guards against attack

Security: Anti-Virus

• AOL restricts free security software to friends and members Updated All change

Security: Enterprise Security

• Tor at heart of embassy passwords leak Popular privacy program (mis)used to spill state secrets

Security: ID

• Man charged over P2P ID theft scam $oulseek

Software: Applications

• Cap Gemini twins with Google to punt online apps Surprise pairing