1st October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Adobe claims RIA completeness Hot AIR
• Boffins: Dark times for application development Ex-Microsoft man holds flashlight
• Build business-ready XML Schema with JDeveloper Communicate clearly
• LiPS synchs with OMA on mobile Linux Pucker move
• Open source development goes Mac-tastic IBM gets onboard

Comms

• Sky confirms Picnic pick 'n' mix Broadband and pay TV for all

Comms: Mobile

• Nokia pays $8bn for Navteq Show me the way to Finland
• Orange marches out of Netherlands Leaves flatlanders to T-Mobile
• Telefonica goes Yahoo! around world OneSearch to find them all

Comms: Networks

• Google proposes 'crumbled cookies' in privacy pledge Willing to break up harvested user information

Comms: VoIP

• Skype founder quits As eBay makes tacit admission it overpaid

Hardware: Data Networking

• IPTV over wireless? Why not? Interview Ruckus' Selina Lo talks home improvement and Wi-Fi futures
• Network yellow pages wrapped into an appliance Auto-provisioning

Hardware: Storage

• Sun slots slumping storage unit into server group Fowl man necked by albatross

Management: Financial News

• Alphyra merges with Cardpoint Payzone is born
• Cambridge firm gets $26m for tiny-projector tech Smutty vid-clips leap from the phone to the wall
• Palm posts loss for Q1 The Palm not quicker than the i?

Management: Government

• Dutch pull the plug on e-voting Back to red pens - for now

Management: IT Director

• Bigwigs haven't a clue on IT asset values Global firms missing a trick, study says
• CERN BOFH needs a bigger storage array Networking the secrets of the universe
• Microsoft punts web-based apps to the masses Browser-based Word and Excel? Er, not exactly

Management: Law

• Almost all CCTV systems are illegal, says expert 95% of cameras contravene Data Protection Act
• Dead woman's medical records case could undermine FOI law Privacy boffin weighs in on legal grey area
• Facebook wins Manx battle for face-book.com Not famous in Germany
• Supreme Court examines LG over 'duplicative' licensing claims Patent liability in the product chain
• Would-be politician fails in Yahoo! and Ask.com lawsuit Court rules no obligation to uphold free speech

Management: Public Sector

• Stats office signs up for Flex framework Teams up with Fujitsu

Market News

• Ballmer jabs at Larry Ellison's wallet Break out the measuring tape

Music and Media

• Radiohead lets fans price new CD Rich popstars bless trickle-down economics

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia ready to roll 'tri SLI' Three-card trick

News: Handhelds

• HTC names Windows Vista handheld release date Get a Shift on
• Koreans promise WiMax gaming handheld for Xmas Coming soon to a basestation near you?

News: Phones

• Sony Ericsson, Vodafone to offer Havanas for Xmas One new phone and two re-sprays
• Vertu motors in with £12,600 mobile phone Limited supply

News: Smartphones

• BenQ touts 3G-less Window Mobile 6 smartphone Not the smartest smartphone
• HTC adds real, virtual keypads to second-gen Touch 3G Touch Dual launched

News: TV

• Sony talks up 'world's first' OLED TV Small screen, very big price tag

News: Useless... but Cool

• Epsionage gadgets spied online Keep it under your hat

News: Xbox

• MS makes, sells 65nm 'Falcon' Xbox 360s Cure for the Red Ring of Death?

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Official: James Blunt is a w*nker Now, that is blunt

Q&A

• Which NAS box is best?

R&R: Opinion

• Reg Developer goes West Spec-tacular four-eyed future

Reseller

• BT buys into Lynx effect Bangs IT solutions for SME drum
• RM climbs aboard SpaceKraft Educational resources R US

Reviews: Phones

• LG KG271 and KG275 budget phones Review Two not-half-bad cut-price handsets. But when will the UK see them?

Science

• Pentagon claims missile-defence success Son of Star Wars repels treacherous Alaskan attack
• Tidal power plans pit greens against greens Energy vs conservation

Science: Biology

• Brain-sucking parasitic killer menaces warming lake waters Death on the installment plan never sounded so good

Science: Space

• Opportunity goes panoramic on Victoria Interplanetary paparazzi
• Science and religion collide for galactic conference Vatican turns eyes to heavens

Security

• Brute force attack yields keys to Google's kingdom Spammers eye the Holy Grail

Security: Spam

• FTC fines three men $330,000 for pushing spyware Slap on the wrist shows that cyber crime pays

Software

• Adobe buys into web word processing Flash, bling, wallop
• Farewell, Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell dies at 80

Software: Applications

• Israelis offer 'British' pukka-lingo ware to Blighty 'Rarely is thought given to business writing'