9th October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Concern over gas guzzling software Code green
• Microsoft and Zend juice PHP for Windows Zend PHP 07 Apache challenge?
• Zend predicts Java and PHP oneness Zend PHP 07 Big Eclipse unity

Comms: Networks

• 3UK still haemorrhaging money Though loss slowing thanks to interest-free loans
• BT launches Home Hub backdoor investigation Two million exposed?
• Google acquires Twitter rival Appeals to your vanity
• T-Mobile data service collapses Feeling left out by robust network
• Vodafone gets fixed in Spain and Italy Buys up broadband-supplier Tele2

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage pays Sprint $80m to square patent dispute One down...

Distribution

• Avnet now proud owner of Magirus enterprise biz If it's Tuesday, it must be Dubai
• C2000 shakes up management team Goes after better salesman patter

Hardware

• Supremes wave through HP class action 1.7 million individuals ready to queue up

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Please ignore the start-up stealing the OS from Microsoft DeviceVM's splash with Splashtop

Hardware: Servers

• Dell's new blade server takes M1000e moniker The 'e' is for lequed cooling
• Sun ships Niagara II servers High-throughput chip launched in two racks and a blade
• Teradata does the grand refresh No plans to operationalize HP

Management: IT Director

• MPs slam employment agency IT Systems at Jobcentre Plus 'slow and problematic'
• UK.gov to cut corporation tax, plug private equity Brown Darling hunts loopholes

Management: Law

• Online gambling law regs revealed Unfinished business for late law
• Supreme Court denies cert in el-Masri rendition case Mistaken identity case tossed on mistaken case law
• US study says Taser cattleprod guns are safe Do tase me, bro, if you are so inclined

Market News

• Dell cuts 250 tech support jobs in Nashville On the road to 8,000
• LogicaCMG finds itself a CEO at BT Shares jump

Music and Media

• Princess Fiorina goes on the box with Fox When Carly met Rupee
• Zep promoter piles into eBay 'Biggest rip-off merchants in the world', thunders Harvey Goldsmith

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD adjusts Athlon prices Some up, some down

News: Consoles

• Manhunt 2 banned by UK censor - again Heads won't roll

News: Laptops

• RM readies Linux sub-laptop... for £169 Updated Asus eePC reborn as MiniBook

News: PS3

• Sony to cut Japanese PS3 prices Unveils 40GB model there too

News: Phones

• Samsung shows SIM-squared mobile One handset, two SIM cards

News: Storage

• Seagate admits Flash-fitted HDDs fall short of promised benefits BIOS, driver code to blame, apparently

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Amazon punts anal beads to UK kiddies NSFW Spiderman watch search outrage
• Bloke buys supercar 'without proper consent from the wife' Failed to correctly interpret other half's opinion
• Florida man faces trial for feeding homeless Defies Orlando ban on nosh for dossers
• Pilot sacked for footie star on flightdeck shocker Airline savages Gulf war vet

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Rise of the f*cking machines: Arse Elektronika bumps uglies with Web 2.0 NSFW Teledildonics to fill emptiness of modern geek-based life forms?

PC Builder

• Gateway and Packard Bell is done deal Subject to regulators, workers etc.

R&R: Books

• Buckle up. The Developer Highway Code's at the start line Purchase a Microsoft Developer title and sit back for the ride

R&R: Stob

• An unsatisfactory meal in County Antrim Stob Relishing the luxuries of business executive travel

Reviews: Cameras

• Samsung S85 eight-megapixel digital camera Review The Peoples' Choice?

Science: Biology

• Cambodian cops cuff killer cow Bovine traffic menace coralled
• Vulture goes awol from Scottish rescue centre Search on for African white-backed escapee

Science: Physics

• Australia to get 1,000 megawatt wind farm Power for 400,000 homes
• Hard disk innovators get physics Nobel Giant Magnetoresistance - real world nanotech
• Nissan builds twirly-cab sideways electric pod-car Includes Teletubbian dashboard boncebot for added road rage capacity
• US nanotech boffins track evanescent light By following the Poynting vector, of course

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Qinetiq touts 'Transformer-like' mobility-scooter killbot Robots in disguise... as slightly different robots

Science: Space

• Astronomers witness birth of a mini-Earth Distant rocky planets emerging from the dust
• Sun to blame for yin-yang Moon's dark side Paging Pink Floyd

Security

• BT home router wide open to hijackers Updated Authentication bypass exposes many customers
• Currency launched to cover the cosmos In space, everyone can hear you spend
• McAfee ties up SafeBoot buy for $350m Encryption plus anti-malware to counter data loss worries
• Nanny agency hacking suspect cuffed Cor Blimey, Mary Poppins

Security: Enterprise Security

• Content delivery firm trials novel authentication method Getting in with Phil's mom?
• Indian police academy hosts phishing site Keystone khaki cops

Security: InfoSec

• Online casinos hit by bot armies Don't bet against money laundering robots

Security: Spam

• Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap 'Only 10 recipients at a time, please'

Services

• Capgemini wins five year LSC deal Takes over from Fujitsu and Xansa

Software

• Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows 'And Google reads your email'

Software: Applications

• Facebookers abandon online privacy for virtual doo-doo When the s**t hits the social network
• Google cranks 'relevant' video-placing contraption YouTube ads for all

Software: Enterprise

• .Asia domains are go And after the gold rush?