11th September 2007 Archive

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Code

• BEA: meet the new platform - same as the old platform BEAWorld Looks like a duck
• Serena banks on Microsoft workplace challenge Pay to play

Code: Java/J2EE

• Adobe and BEA team on RIAs BEAWorld Java package

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Open source suppliers offer SaaS challenge Talend joins SugarCRM, OpSource joins Boomi

Comms

• Premium rate Virgin Media cuts tech support jobs Exclusive 'Let's right-size our associate headcount!'

Comms: Mobile

• Apple restricts ringtone rights 'You'll pay twice. And you'll like it'
• Nokia Portal: A Force For Good, or Finnish Folly? Letters A mobile mailbag, no less

Comms: Networks

• Kingston: nobody else wants to provide broadband round here Fiefdom upon Hull?

Comms: Workshop

• Juggle those connections Mobile Workshop It’s a multi-protocol world

Hardware

• HP inks deal for micro-needle skin patch Now it's not just HP's prices that'll get under your skin

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• General Dynamics offers rugged UMPC Laughs off nerve gas and even coffee

Hardware: Servers

• AMD's tier one partners sing homage to Barcelona Analysis It's history, perched on a fence
• Dell's 'Veso' appliance runs on four-core Opterons and thin VMware VMworld Two minutes to ESX Server
• MS threatens to ship new hypervisor preview VMworld While it smooches Citrix
• VMware consumes Dunes VMworld Not a tool
• VMware's 'Calista Flockhart' hypervisor may or may not change the world VMworld Thin, bony and mean

Hardware: Storage

• Hitachi scales Universal Storage Platform for the midmarket HDS Virtual storage gets thin provisioning

Management: Government

• Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric Pints all round as EU crumples before imperial forces

Management: Law

• Patent law passed in US, but Presidential veto could follow House of Reps. approve smaller fines in copyright spats
• South Korea chucks antitrust charges at Intel Joins worldwide crusade

Management: Public Sector

• Oyster card evolves into OnePulse Teams up with Visa and Barclaycard

Music and Media

• Discovery of musician on YouTube triggers loss of faith in American Dream and interests You can't play in our gang, our gang, our gang
• Google-hating Aussie watchdog smacked by confused judge Sponsored-links attack 'incomprehensible'

News: GPS

• Nokia enhances free-to-download satnav app Software 'streamlined'
• TomTom tunes Toyota into integrated GPS car stereo

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Fujitsu unveils palm-reading security mouse Vein pattern scanned for authentication

News: Hi-Def

• DVD Forum gives three-layer, 51GB HD DVD the thumbs up Format's fans must buy new players?

News: Smartphones

• Retailer reveals new Palm is the Treo 500v Vodafone will launch it tomorrow

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Colombian armed robber targets karate school Not a very bright idea, as it turns out
• Fancy an invisible dog that dances on stilts? eBay can oblige, and then some
• London council to use lie detectors to finger benefit cheats Calling call centres is stressful already

Reseller

• Computacenter jumps on good interims Revenues and profits up - except in UK

Reviews: iPod

• DLO HomeDock Music Remote wireless iPod dock Review The answer to the iPod owner's hi-fi dreams?

Science

• At the Toyshop of Doom Pictures DSEi - toys for the homicidal boy
• Met Office plans next five years in climate science An aide to policy makers, no less
• Public rejoices at new 'green' nukes Time for that nuke ferry across the Mersey

Science: Biology

• Connoisseurs go mad for £1,000 ham Pure Iberian porker's leg at a price you can't afford

Security

• Home PC users at risk: CA Need to be wary of online threats
• Microsoft serves light fare on Patch Tuesday No critical patches for most Windows users
• Yahoo feeds Trojan-laced ads to MySpace and PhotoBucket users 'High risk creative' on out of control web

Security: Anti-Virus

• Skype worm blows bubbles at victims Lithuanians and Jacko's chimp top suspects
• Trojans besiege online gamers It's warcraft out there

Security: ID

• Typo-squatting grifter faces the slammer Bogus attorney pleads guilty to domain scam

Services

• NHS trust deploys target-meeting software Come in number 8, it's time to cut you up

Software: Applications

• IBM signs-in to OpenOffice.org Waves software sabre at Microsoft

Software: Operating Systems

• Sun Solaris upgrade snuggles with Linux Turns desktops into thin clients