10th October 2007 Archive

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Code

• History dictates future of virtualization A technology, not a market

Code: Scripting

• Curl mounts Silverlight and AIR challenge Open source RIA

Comms: Mobile

• Apple sued over i-Bricks 'Unlawful tying agreement'
• Google's 'Gphone' said to be mobile OS No 'iPhone killer' handset
• Orange puts plum back in mouth Customer tone to be less informal

Comms: Networks

• Carphone bets on iPhone peripherals and free laptops Numbers grow, but slower
• ISP bosses told to get real on broadband speeds Ofcom Consumer Panel wades in
• Only Sky can save digital TV Comment If you're a public broadcaster, every lunch is free

Hardware

• 3Com sues 3Com over 3Com buyout Cheapskateboard?
• Google nabs patent for Sun's Project Blackbox? 'I own mobile data centers'

Hardware: Data Networking

• 100Gbps Internet2 is ready ...for boring research. C'mon!

Hardware: Storage

• Panasas decides to redefine RAID And why not?
• Quantum sues Riverbed over de-dupe patent Trying to eliminate IP redundancy?

Hardware: Virtualization

• Dell boots disks and fires up streamed PCs Thin clients and blades are for the weak
• The truth about virtualization Reg Tech Panel Hot or Not?

Lifecycle: Manage

• Service Design - ITIL v3 Book review Integrating IT with the business

Management: Financial News

• Catholic dating sites exchange rings Do you take my assets? I do

Management: Government

• Beijing's Olympian censorship machine laid bare Hot favourite for gold in net oppression
• Jihadi-sniffers blame White House for leaking secrets Backdoor fingered in DC leaky brief rumpus

Management: IT Director

• New web accessibility guidelines will be ignored, says critic 'All the cool kids already know about it'

Management: Law

• Burmese cops in UN hard drive snatch kerfuffle UN: It never happened. And we don't know any monks either
• Email evidence jacks up litigation costs Head-scratching all round
• World's dumbest file-sharer mulls appeal Not so Jammie

Management: Public Sector

• MPs praise e-passport roll out But there are challenges ahead

Management: Small Biz

• BT Tradespace drags small biz kicking and screaming onto Web 2.0 eBay, Yellow Pages and Facebook walk into a bar...

Market News

• IT spending to top $3 trillion in 2007 But don't pop the champagne corks yet

Music and Media

• Blinkx targets money-hungry video sharers Embed video, insert ad, satisfy greed
• Has-beens jump on free downloads bandwagon Oasis: still going, apparently

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD updates Phenom timetable Gathering steam
• Foxconn readies its first Intel X38 mobo
• MSI lets slip AMD 790FX mobo RD790 real-world moniker revealed
• Nvidia brings forward G92 launch? The better to compete with AMD's latest, apparently

News: Storage

• Sony off-shoot unveils 'cheaper' Blu-ray drive for laptops Updated BD burner for desktops too

News: UMPCs

• Samsung specs up updated UMPC phone Big handset or small PC?

News: Wii

• Nintendo limbers up for Wii Fit The first weight-loss will be from your wallet

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Terminator will be back in 2009 Cameo role for Arnie in Terminator Salvation?

R&R: Comics

• Reg Dev plunges into Gapingvoid Micro comment

Reseller

• BT puckers up for Frenchie IT outfit Another tango in Paris

Science: Physics

• Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery It's a car. It can fly. That's it.

Science: Space

• Virgin Galactic: Flights 'still a few years away' Not going ballistic

Security

• Word vuln stars in Patch Tuesday litter Four out of six updates rated critical

Security: Anti-Virus

• Security researchers plot revamped anti-virus tests Behaviour-based testing

Security: Crime

• Hey car thief! Gonna shut you down GM heralds post-theft switch-off
• Plods-turned-gumshoes jailed for hacking operation Snoop ring cracked

Security: ID

• Ohio docks official one week's holiday for data breach Penalty time

Security: Spam

• This emergency alert has been cancelled by Hotmail More friendly fire in the war on spam

Software

• Apple prepares iPhone WebApp catalogue While secretly developing real applications
• Future of computing safe, thanks to Excel patch Bug gave wrong results when calculating frequently occuring number

Software: Operating Systems

• Mandriva Linux 2008 is out and about No longer not available