18th September 2007 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Mozilla creates start-up to recruit email developers Thunderbird is go
• Sun to virtualize boxes, storage and NICs with 'Project Virginia' Wait till you see Baked Alaska

Comms: Mobile

• Google punts ads on the move All your ads are now mobile
• Orange kneecaps Nokia And good luck with the portal, guys...
• Orange speaks out with new voice Tha's wanting a top up, lass?
• Staying connected? Reg Technology Panel Introducing the always-on generation
• T-Mobile penetrates Virgin Islands US cellco yields to the mighty Euro

Comms: Networks

• ICANN celebrates ninth anniversary as master of your domain Here’s to you, internet overlords
• Like Mars, 3 needs women Blokey stores in need of feminine touch

Comms: Workshop

• Ditch the desk phone? Yes please Reader Poll But is this representative?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco tries to save kids from careers in the arts Partners with Institution of Engineering and Technology

Hardware: Storage

• NEC ships HydraStor grid storage platform Consolidated backup and archiving not a Herculean effort
• Samsung, Toshiba join SanDisk in US antitrust probe NAND flash market goes under the scope

Hardware: Virtualization

• Hitachi injects hypervisor into Xeon blade IDF Virtual Virtage

Information

• Embarcadero brings discipline to XML schema ER/Studio upgrade to standardise SOA data

Management: Financial News

• Adobe reports record revenue in Q3 Prints money with Creative Suite 3
• Yahoo! hopes Mash will be a monster 360! take! two!

Management: IT Director

• Kazaa tech chief joins BBC future technology team Heads up next generation iPlayer
• Security to drop out of CIO spending top ten Gartner performs Security 3.0 conjuring trick
• uSwitch cans IT workers 'You gotta switch!'

Management: Law

• Europe claims UK botched one third of Data Protection Directive Act 'doesn't implement European law properly'
• Florida uni cops taser shouty student John Kerry forum degenerates into farce

Management: Public Sector

• NHS looks to prevent Mtas repeat Starts consultation on not screwing up
• US mercenary outfit shoots 11 Iraqis - and self in foot Is outsourcing military force the wave of the future?

Music and Media

• Warner punts Blunt on MySpace Annoys Teases US fans with ex-soldier's new album
• World of Warcraft smites den of orc and elf sexual delinquency Is that a vorpal sword in your pocket or...?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD to try to take on Intel Core 2 with tri-core Phenom IDF It's the multi-blade shaver war all over again
• Big-name vendors lined up to offer WiMAX laptops IDF But not the biggest
• Intel 'Nehalem' design completed, boots Mac OS X IDF Windows XP too
• Intel CEO dishes discrete graphics return IDF Whoops
• Intel Developer Forum: complete coverage
• Intel names 'Penryn' launch date IDF Desktop chips roadmapped
• Next-gen Centrino to ship 'May 2008' IDF CEO lets slip launch window

News: Handhelds

• iPhone unlocking for pleasure and profit Cutting class at IDF

News: Phones

• Jobs hits London to announce O2 iPhone deal Steve claims 3G is a battery drain

News: Xbox

• Halo 3 Legendary Edition stocks blown away Microsoft confirms pre-order rush

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Chinese bloke games himself to death Three-day marathon man joins his ancestors

Science

• Beethoven's barnet fused into diamond 10 strands of hair become $1m charity gem
• Fossett search 'downgraded' Some aerial missions suspended

Science: Biology

• Top US boffin plans jizz-based LEDs US forces to benefit from spunktronic performance

Science: Physics

• Boffins challenge shape of neutron neutrality Pick a team, dammit
• Subterranean mole-bot under development No plan to seek out underground civilisations, though

Science: Space

• Feeling the heat at Neptune's south pole Long, hot, summer at -190°C
• Galileo scepticism rife even in Brussels Only satellite builders truly enthusiastic
• NASA names the day for Dawn raid on asteroid belt Launch date pencilled in
• New bird takes to the skies for Digital Globe Better images for Google Earth
• Peruvian 'meteorite' strike provokes noxious gas attack 600 ill as authorities probe mystery buried object
• Space watchers spot pulsar eating a star Skeleton star gets gobbled

Security

• Barracuda snaps up firewall firm Deep packet inspection
• International media firm pays $3.5m over pirate software Keel-hauled outfit suffers biggest-ever settlement
• Uber-hacker Max Vision misses the killswitch Cohorts unravel secret life
• Zombies flood broadband networks Resident Evil

Security: Enterprise Security

• BitTorrent-busters busted by BitTorrent Email leak exposes stealth P2P honeypot
• California returns once more unto the breaches Breach and tell to include credit card info

Software

• Facebook's marketing goldmine may be crock of shite Just add the Disappointment Widget
• Google's PowerPoint beater beta is go Google run by druids shocker
• What does Microsoft's European defeat mean? Lawyers speak