12th September 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Vodafone certifies corporate snooping software Big brother is listening

Comms: Networks

• Orange leaves UK reseller in the red Debt forces administration and layoffs

Comms: Workshop

• Is wireless security just a pipe dream? Reader Poll Let us know

Hardware: Servers

• Azul puts itself on the block Exclusive Vega, what has become of you?
• HP shrinks BladeSystem for mid-market 'Shorty' kicks blades out of the data center and onto the floor
• Java darling Azul Systems is fluxed Life support or pushing the R&D horizon?

Hardware: Storage

• Forget R&D, Sun buys its Lustre now NetApp still on notice

Management: Financial News

• HP gets Mickey Mouse marketing man The HP-iest job on Earth

Management: Law

• Political blogs escape federal scrutiny Free to blather on without restrictions
• Porn-star cop's job not saved by First Amendment Smut site had pubic - but not public - concern
• Sony loses privacy complaint over Unfit Kids Documentary was not unfair
• The mole people surface in Macau Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD takes world CPU share from Intel x86 platform ousting others

News: Consoles

• Sony slides out PSP software update

News: Handhelds

• Palm, Vodafone launch slinky Treo 500v Full details

News: Laptops

• Dell, Alienware price up Samsung solid-state drive options Ow, that hurts

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson ponders PlayStation phone Even as PSP gets more like a handset

News: Smartphones

• iPhone software-unlocked, easy-to-use tool to follow SIM city

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ad agency pays Paddington to ditch marmalade for Marmite Sounds like a bad vit-B movie

Q&A

• Is there a good HTPC remote control out there? Q&A
• Suggestions for a home IT strategy, please Q&A

R&R: Books

• Getting Google’s Web Toolkit going If Google can, you can too

Reseller

• BT says ooh la la to INS Acquires Belgian IT services outfit

Reviews: Phones

• Aztech V500DS-S1 Skype DECT phone Review VoIP moves out of the 'PC peripheral' era

Science: Physics

• Canada develops motorised parachute delivery bot DSEi Forget food and bullets, we need batteries, damn it!
• Strap-on stealth jetplane for special forces DSEi Gets you in really deep but with no way to back out
• Zoom up ropes on silent electric drive DSEi James Bond underwater assault gear goes public

Science: Space

• Astronomers detect red giant survivor planet 10 billion years old

Security

• France blames China for hack attacks Updated Chinese whispers
• Security maven: QuickTime flaw threatens PCs, Macs Year-old bug pulls a fast on Firefox
• Tumbleweed blows across channel Email security firm wants to 'go deeper and wider'

Security: ID

• Matching genes for criminal injustice Innocent until uploaded to the DNA database
• Max Vision hit with hacking charges (again) Facing 40 years for mass identity theft

Servers/Storage

• Sun turns Microsoft Windows server OEM In for the big win

Software

• Facebook application hawks your personal opinions for cash Updated Insecure and antisocial networking
• Firefox hits 400m download milestone Open source browser juggernaut rolls on

Software: Applications

• Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground? Comment AdBlock tryst threatens web browser wedlock
• Software developer sues to muzzle website users Comments responsible for 'severe downturn in sales'

Software: Enterprise

• Sage takes lion's share of XRT Acquisition-happy firm gobbles up 70%