3rd October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Data: It's gotta have meaning, man Opinion A context for everything and everything in its context
• SAP licenses NetWeaver to developers Consulting play

Comms

• Data retention law makes little difference to telcos, says trade body Move along. Nothing to see here
• Hollywood mobile TV chip is alive (just) in Texas Interview TI predicts market surge
• Microsoft and LogicaCMG open Factory 2.0 doors But where are the Campbell soup prints?

Comms: Mobile

• Email still king on wireless handhelds Reg Technology Panel One size fits very few
• Hackers hit back at iPhone update 'Bricked' phones get some functions restored

Hardware: Data Networking

• 3Com - a company built on ether Master of technologies that vanished
• Cisco WiMAX acquisition rumors resurface Cisco licking its chops?

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Sony buddies up with Qimonda Creates DRAM team

Hardware: Servers

• Levanta freshens up Linux server cure-all Like soap for your penguins

Information: Databases

• MySQL loses joint custody of SAP database Gains visiting rights for Netweaver

Management

• Sky's ITV stake anti-competitive, says regulator Competition Commission could force sale of shares

Management: Financial News

• AT&T to deliver IBM services for $1bn a year Mutual back scratch fest
• EC takes aim at Qualcomm Chip off the anti-trust block

Management: Government

• Gov Gateway upgrade allows for growth Room for more traffic and online services

Management: Law

• Texas patent holder sues Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft And (yawn) AOL

Music and Media

• Braindead obituarists hoaxed by Wikipedia Only fools and journos
• First RIAA file-sharing trial begins Accused mom gets jury of her peer-to-peers

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• ARM to bash 'non-issue' Intel with multi-core chip Cortex-A9 joins the collective

News: Hardware Widow

• Sony sells pink kit to benefit Breast Cancer research

News: Hi-Def

• Panasonic strengthens Blu-ray recorder range More worry for HD-DVD supporters

News: Media players

• Microsoft revamps Zune with Flash Steve Jobs' nighttime uninterrupted?

News: PS3

• Italian website names 40GB PS3 price Dollar-Euro exchange rate rewritten
• Sony's 40GB PS3 due 28 October? Evidence mounts for cut-price console

News: Smartphones

• Apple to dial x86 for iPhone? Claimed shift to Intel could explain downer on third-party apps

News: TV

• Toshiba pledges 30in OLED TV will ship in 2009 Rather bigger than Sony's latest

News: Wii

• Nintendo to dish out free Wiimote 'condoms'

News: Xbox

• Halo 3 misses 'UK's fastest selling game' slot Guns, police chases and 'hot coffee' still favourite

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Terror police lock down Soho to smoke out 9lbs of chillis Cooking ring bust wide open

Reviews: iPod

• DLO TuneStik with Remote FM iPod transmitter Review Driver-friendly iPod controller

Science

• Blokey atmos drives women away from sci/tech Too much test-tube waving

Science: Biology

• Boy beats Reaper at 20,000 feet How not to board a Boeing 737
• Kiwi boffins prove that booze makes you clever Two or three a day for a healthy brain, like it or not
• US men wrangle over three-year-old amputated leg America, Halloween, and the mighty dollar
• Utah gives up new dino species Duck billed, and a danger to all plants

Science: Space

• UK, Germans, Dutch slam EC Galileo plan Those who pay the piper want to call the tune

Security

• eBay: Botnets are Linux-happy Security chief goes to the bank

Security: Crime

• Alleged CastleCops DDoS botmaster busted Resident weevil
• UK police can now force you to reveal decryption keys Refuseniks face jail time

Security: Enterprise Security

• Check Point plays down FireWall-1 bug reports Privilege escalation
• Message storm turns DHS email list into social networking utility 'May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits'

Security: ID

• Fraud abroad drives up card losses As phishermen pull in a meagre haul

Software

• Palm admits new OS 18 months away Another day, another delay
• Vista Business sales soar like leaping dachshund Say XP, XP won't you die for me
• What do you call a convention of European ISVs? To pose the question is to know the answer

Software: Applications

• Microsoft chiefs at odds on Google-DoubleClick International boss puts faith in Antitrust regulators

Software: Enterprise

• Google Apps digests Postini, doubles enterprise email inboxes How you like me now?
• Jan Baan slices through the 'bullsh*t' Interview Passionate, crazy old guy takes on BPM

Software: Operating Systems

• Novell punts world's most expensive Linux distro You could get 18.4 copies of Vista Home Premium for that