24th September 2007 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Red Hat plots re-org to deal with JBoss woes Bad Java aftertaste

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Premature exit for GPL test case? Boomshakalaka

Comms: Mobile

• Apple turns to Orange in France Mobile operator wins iPhone deal
• Firms lust after mobile access But spurn the advances of social computing

Comms: Networks

• BT prepares for superfast broadband investment chinwag Bland on the run

Comms: Workshop

• Is your mobile tech creaking at the joints? Mobile Workshop Time to replace those legacy solutions

Hardware: Servers

• Lockheed gives FBI a hand on fingerprint database Extra grunt for G-men's server farm

Hardware: Storage

• EMC jettisons $76m into web 2.0 storage cloud Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells
• Hitachi adds power-down to mid-range storage gear Dr. Chandra? Will I dream?

Management: Law

• Blogosphere shouts 'I'm Spartacus' in Usmanov-Murray case Uzbek billionaire prompts Blog solidarity
• Judge parks 172mph Porsche driver for 10 weeks Boy racer also gets three year ban
• Pirate Bay sues media giants for 'sabotage' Counterstrike follows Media Defender email leak
• US patent programme must be compulsory to work, says project leader Opt-in won't work for Peer to Patent project

Music and Media

• Creative Commons sued for deception Hey! What's wrong with our Sharecropping licence?

News: Accessories

• Energizer powers-up iPod pack And the beat goes on...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Toshiba readies Cell-based graphics engine Watch out, Nvidia, here comes... er... SpursEngine

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• A new spin on portable DVD players Not very handy though

News: Laptops

• OLPC to offer consumers $400 two-laptop bundle One for you, one for them

News: MP3 players

• Virgin unplugs music download service Apple 1, Branson 0

News: PCs

• Crysis demo delayed

News: Phones

• Samsung, Armani launch designer vibro phone Suits you, sir

News: Useless... but Cool

• LEGO-like Halo 3 figures land in UK Pack includes 'invisible' Master Chief

News: iPod

• Starbucks to give away 50m iTunes songs I'll have a latte, danish and slice of Bob Dylan please

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Chuck Norris to do battle in El Reg Arena of Death And his opponent?
• Czech Olympic Committee annihilates English language 'Previous two advances arrange games are over always inglorious'

Reviews: Handhelds

• Apple iPhone Personal view The web in the palm of your hand

Science

• US Army dalek assassins to pack mini-missiles? Terminator 3 Pringles-tube ordnance in the offing
• US teacher fired for non-literal bible reading Of course there was a talking snake, stupid
• World leaders meet to tackle global warming But dear old Dubya has other plans

Science: Space

• Caves spotted on Mars But where are the cave-Martians?
• Martian south pole: water, not dry ice Bad news for aliens in charge of special effects
• NASA gives Beagle 2 another shot at glory Green lights lunar mission study
• Second Galileo satellite delayed 'til 2008 Spectrum placeholder held up by Russian rocketry

Security

• Unholy trinity of flaws put Google users at risk Doomwatchers count the ways

Security: Enterprise Security

• VMware updates take aim at bug swarm Flaw filler

Services

• GSS and Peapod come over all mushy Security integration love-in

Software

• Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows 'No natural monopoly'