14th September 2007 Archive

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Code

• Salesforce.com uses Force to disappear Not the interface you're looking for

Comms: Mobile

• O2 takes it to the EDGE We don't need no stinkin' 3G for our iPhone

Comms: Networks

• Judge OKs Sprint's $30m overcharging settlement Pre-paid

Comms: Workshop

• The trusting, the diligent and the downright paranoid Mobile Workshop The notebook security poll numbers are in

Hardware

• Brazilian physicists boycott Dell 'Don't ask, don't Dell' policy
• Root-locked Linux for the masses The future: managed desktops?

Hardware: Servers

• SWsoft prepares for psychotic server episode We'll go both ways

Hardware: Storage

• Flash memory makers propose common card Or maybe the market's 20th card format...

Information: Knowledge

• BEA to tempt developers with Essex server WebLogic weight loss

Management: Law

• Care home workers in web campaign victory Small mercies
• Google touts Asian privacy model What? Protecting personal data, Beijing style?

Management: Reg Weekly

• It's virtually all about virtualisation, EDS job cuts and EMC court cases To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Market News

• SanDisk subpoenaed in US antitrust probe Canada, US courts want a piece too

Music and Media

• Philips looks to build 'huge' video database for video ID service Aims to fingerprint all video
• Revolutionary label to focus on streaming as downloads falter 'How much do you want to pay for music?'
• Universal charges into legal P2P Then charges back out again

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD Phenom CPUs to support DDR 3?
• Intel readies successor to unlaunched gaming chipset X38 to launch next week, X48 by year's end

News: Hi-Def

• Sony dumps DVD for Blu-ray Disc

News: PCs

• Sony pitches Blu-ray deskops, laptops Countering Toshiba

News: Smartphones

• Samsung iPhone rival to hit UK in November Vodafone gets the gig

News: TV

• Retail giants to crack whip over digital dawdlers Dropping analogue kit early

News: Useless... but Cool

• Take pot luck with the USB Greenhouse

News: iPod

• Want a free iPod Shuffle? Ask Tesco Rent DVDs, get a Shuffle

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Building changes Episode 31 Gotta watch those professionals...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• AMD gives itself Web 2.0rhea Micro-bogged news feeds
• Great British fry-up under threat Getting eggspensive

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Kung fu monks battle Colombian karate assassins Reader poll Who is the hardest of them all?
• McLaren fined $100m for spying Kicked out of constructors' championship

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Tech gets steamier with mp3 vibrators and strap-on kit Comments And idiots break themselves against martial artists

PC Builder

• PC shipments set to jump Notebooks and laptops show biggest growth

Q&A

• Self-powered Wi-Fi adaptor? Q&A
• Webcam conundrum Q&A

Reviews: iPod

• TwinMos Boom 1 2.1-channel iPod audio system Review This could be the walrus

Science

• Czech falls off motorbike, wakes up with British accent Bohemian rhapsodises in cut-glass English
• Pentagon to hold event prior to battery tech prize Million-buck battery-bomb bonanza beano
• Senate to call Boeing's 2009 raygun nuke-zap bluff? We'll see your $0.5bn, and raise you a laser jumbo

Science: Biology

• Be kind to your stomach: eat chilies A curry a day keeps the doctor away?

Science: Space

• Japan, Google head for the moon Probing X-Prizes
• NASA gives jet-setting Googlers the presidential treatment Larry Ellison fumes
• Opportunity rolls into Victoria Checking out the rocks

Security

• Storm Worm linked to spam surge Russian teens fingered as likely suspects

Security: Enterprise Security

• Attacking multicore CPUs Get exploited on time
• Quantum computing spectre looms over ecommerce Factor 15 protection

Security: ID

• Germany nets ten phishing suspects Trojan spam scam nipped in the bud

Software

• Microsoft awaits European Court decision Split decision possible
• SCO files for US bankruptcy protection Lawyers got theirs

Software: Applications

• Facebook gags verbal dissent group 'Quit it! You're mean!'
• Next generation BBC iPlayer gets MS man on board Billingsgate

Software: Open Season

• Open source prima donnas to crush IBM, BEA and MS in 2008 Meat Cast And David Beckham's issues with FLOSS

Software: Operating Systems

• Microsoft dispels rumors of stealth Windows updates It's all about updating the updater