21st September 2007 Archive

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Code

• Making the move to the Mac Part Two

Comms

• Google schtum on UK wireless spectrum bid report 900MHz of static

Comms: Mobile

• One plug to rule them all Mobiles to adopt single connection standard, eventually, possibly

Comms: Networks

• Google readies Pacific-spanning, Verizon-battling underwater comm cable Can you help?

Comms: Wireless

• Next generation Wi-Fi mired in patent fears Exclusive 802.11n standard 'at serious risk'
• WANs go faster Down Under Exinda joins the application acceleration party.

Comms: Workshop

• Fed up with disjointed telephony? Workshop roundup Bridging the gap

Hardware

• Acer calls for profit levelling Fair shares for all
• Allot intros big bandwidth shaper Killing off the application-independent internet
• Next-gen Intel vPro platform to get hardware encryption IDF Desperate Danbury
• Oracle Q1 profit up a quarter Slams SAP's 'downmarket' strategy

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Plucky picoChip pulls in $27m Samsung ready for multi-core WiMax

Hardware: Semi-Coherent Computing

• Chip pioneer David Ditzel talks Transmeta, Sun and Bell Labs Audio What's next for the man and the industry?

Hardware: Servers

• ClearSpeed plots 1 TeraFlop floating point pizza box IDF 1U rocket ship

Hardware: Storage

• Hitachi admits hybrid drives aren't all that, bag of chips Current capacity falls short of expectations

Management

• Girlie website's user data blunder 'Now where did we put that? Oh yeah, it's in my Handbag'
• Welsh council workers turfed out over eBay addiction Going, going, gone

Management: Financial News

• No more buys from Acer Digesting Gateway and Packard-Bell
• SCO faces financial crunch after Unix defeat Lodges filing with SEC

Management: Government

• BAE slimed from all directions Teflon deathware colossus unable to escape own smell
• Balls: Schools should police the net Government stomps on technobullies (again)
• UK e-services ranked fifth in EU Movin' on up

Management: Law

• Man sues God Seeks injunction to stop Him making terrorist threats
• MIT student walks into airport wearing circuit board and wires What's the worst that can happen?
• Retailer sets legal attack dogs on protest website Unhappy customer didn't get permission to register 'Lowe's-Sucks' site
• Thailand menaces YouTube - again 'Offensive' video saga part 24

Management: Public Sector

• Government outsourcing shifts to front line Local services for local people

Management: Reg Weekly

• From EC rules on Microsoft to a load of old bollocks To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here.

Music and Media

• Ramones sticksman sues Apple and Wal-Mart Copyright infringement suit

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD RX780 chipset wins PCI Express approval Release imminent?

News: Desktops

• Lenovo pitches solar-powered PC Solar-powered computing

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Portable mixing set for DJs Scratch, slide and fade wherever you are

News: PS3

• Eye spied on blog Eye can see you, get it?
• Sony delays launch of PS3 virtual community Far from Home

News: TV

• Home cinema kit goes 3D The future is here, and it has a visor
• The sarcastic TV Harassment while you watch

News: iPod

• TwinMos MiniBoom for iPods everywhere Dock, listen, sleep and wake

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: In search of the lazy atom Episode 32 It's more scientific than car key gnomes

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 419er needs $2k to buy portrait of Queen Lad from Lagos in a right royal state
• ElReg40™ seeks the world's worst web 2.0 ideas Competition How hard can you blow?
• FBI redefines length of century 2007 whisked off in black helicopter
• Oz burglar had sex with Hoover DNA evidence fingers sticky perp
• Scots tell ET to eff off Further giant profanity merriment

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Spunky salmon return to life to gas us all Comments As the BOFH battles the architects

Q&A

• Is eSATA really better than USB 2.0 and Firewire? Q&A
• Will the Nokia N95's GPS work with other satnav apps? Q&A

Reseller

• Channel to Dell - you've lost Direct vs indirect war is over

Science

• Dismantling gas giants with nanotech Anything seems possible in Arizona
• Welcome indeed to the billionaire toyshop Expensive toys for very rich boys

Science: Biology

• Human or Hobbit: it is all in the wrist Were there little people on Flores?

Security

• Comodo punts buffer overflow protection Updated BO test smells your pits
• Copyright nagware accord reaches 30 Diamond jubilee
• Crooks try to besmirch CastleCops with fraudulent donations Take that
• Google malware watchdogs bite mom-and-pop shops But not MySpace
• Malware spectre haunts Adobe Reader PDF peril

Security: Enterprise Security

• ABN Amro customer deets tip up on BearShare P2P user hygiene found lacking

Software: Applications

• Salesforce shuns Google Docs route (for now) Benioff resists Office 2.0 distraction

Software: Operating Systems

• Why Microsoft vs Mankind still matters Comment The Penguin is missing, while Apple's gone to Hollywood