28th September 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Disney immobilizes Disney Mobile Family Center = Bambi's mum
• O2 goes flat on data Unmetered access, capped at 200MB
• Orange and Apple still arguing iPhone details Deal not going so smoothie?

Comms: VoIP

• SkypeIn goes out Users unobtainable

Hardware

• Dell trips up over laptop components Delays aplenty

Hardware: Data Networking

• 3Com finally sells out to China Could've been a contender

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Chip dandy Tilera grabs new CEO Coring ahead

Hardware: Servers

• HP releases new quad-core Intel servers Xeon zip
• NEC and Sun team for US mid-market HPC services Very specific demographic gets power of two

Hardware: Virtualization

• VMware opens certification program to storage vendors Everyone into the shared pool

Management: Government

• IBM helps Chicago keep an eye on its citizens Big Blue software to monitor thousands of surveillance cams
• Junta downs Burma's only ISP Silencing campaign escalates
• South Korea cracks down on draft-dodger advice sites Robots can't do it all, say generals
• US Coastguard 'cutters' could offer network vuln Admiral insists his backdoor can't be sniffed

Management: IT Director

• Microsoft shouts 'Long Live XP' Extends XP sales as market snubs Vista
• UK users spending more time online Nearly all browse for six hours a week

Management: Law

• Jack Thompson might go down in gay porn shocker Anti-gaming crusader falls foul of Judge

Management: Reg Weekly

• Microsoft winks as Facebook hangs head in security shame To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Market News

• Former NetApp exec accused of embezzlement Johnny's tuition on company card

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Gadget leads faithful to prayer, music fans to good tunes Device offers A2DP and Muslim prayer times

News: Handhelds

• Apple posts iPhone update, bricks unlocked handsets Minor update?

News: Laptops

• Dell fires up physics-friendly gaming laptop

News: Smartphones

• Palm punts consumer-friendly Centro phone Cut down Treo
• Ted Baker Needle to sew up designer phone market?

News: Useless... but Cool

• iPod Shuffle keyring aids music fans, boozers Bring a bottle

News: Xbox

• Kerching! Halo 3 rakes in 'record' takings Master chief beats up on Spider-man, Harry Potter

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: You think you know a guy... Episode 33 But...he seemed so normal!

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• So, what's the first rule of Reg Club? Is this your first night? You have to fight

Q&A

• My new laptop is sooo vvvveeeerrrryyyy sssslllloooowwww Q&A
• That HP iPaq syncing feeling Q&A

R&R: Opinion

• Editors' Farewell So long and thanks for all the phish

Reviews: iPod

• Apple iPod Nano third-generation Review Is video a feature too far?

Science

• Fundy dunderheads make monkey of monkey man Richard Dawkins is not amused
• iRobot offers crawling Wi-Fi spy-n-chat housebot Now grandma can have a sticky-beak whenever she likes
• Oxygen pollution began earlier than we ever thought Climate change for the anaerobes

Science: Biology

• Mammoth wool gives up genetic secrets Are you taking a sample?
• Post-Bush US preparing stemcell brain drain Governator needs replacement flesh envelope

Science: Space

• Foundations laid for Galileo ground station Italian wine lake swapped for satellite nav
• Mystery radio bursts from the depths of the universe Black holes collide?

Security

• VXers exploit Burma protest to punt Trojan Dalai Lama backdoor

Security: Anti-Virus

• NSA writes more potent malware than hacker Spooky project plots zero day defences

Security: Enterprise Security

• Data for 800,000 job applicants stolen Mind the Gap

Software: Enterprise

• Google to save mankind through DoubleClick deal More blogs, more ads, more freedom