16th October 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Spanish regulators in mobile price fix probe What Spanish practices?

Hardware: Servers

• Dodgy wet wiring caused ISS computer crash Russian-American astro-bickering should cease forthwith
• SiCortex superflopper found at DOE lab Weird and paid for
• Ubuntu goes 3-D IMAX theaters needed

Hardware: Storage

• Storage sector needs to think greener SNW Before they're in the red

Information: Databases

• BEA and Oracle - doing the math Comment 0.5 + 0.7 = 0.8?

Management: Financial News

• HP's Mercury settles over options scandal Hefty $117.5m to resolve case

Management: Government

• Plan for 20mph urban speed-cam zones touted Live slow, die old, leave a wrinkly corpse
• Top USAF buyer found dead Accused of accepting money from contractor

Management: IT Director

• Kill the CIO! Bad budget news for the big boys

Management: Law

• Google's proposed global privacy standard slammed Too vague and weak: privacy expert
• Met used 'dum-dum' ammo on de Menezes Which would have been fine, if he was a bomber
• World's Dumbest File Sharer demands retrial 'Snot fair

Management: Public Sector

• MoD to centralise software procurement As it looks to increase its ICT spend

Management: Small Biz

• Schwarzenegger terminates data breach bill Let the foxes guard the hen house

Market News

• Intel's bottom line turns greener than green in Q3 How chipper (ouch)

Music and Media

• AC/DC become masters of their domain Now featuring more Angus and less anus
• Napster spins music for the web Linux, OS X spoken here
• The Pirate Bay absconds with domain name of its nemesis Anti-piracy watchdog raided

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel confirms 'Skulltrail' Quad SLI support Nvidia gives D5400XS mobo the thumbs-up?
• Intel to up 45nm Core 2 Extreme prices by 50% next year Updated Pricier Penryns coming down the 'pike

News: Laptops

• Asus launches tiny PC Micro computer

News: Mac

• Apple to roll out Mac OS X 10.5 next week Def' Leopard

News: Phones

• Greenpeace admits iPhone 'compliant' with Euro chemicals rules And... er... Apple's own targets
• Nokia flings frill-free phone at families Ring and txt

News: TV

• Digital Switchover: town to lose BBC 2 tomorrow Other analogue channels going next month

News: Xbox

• HMV to launch in-store Xbox 360 multi-player centre Gaming Zone to open in Edinburgh

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Alien attack? Yes, we're ready for anything After being mayor of New York, aliens do not scare Giuliani
• Chinese master crims leg it with 60kg in coins 100 cops pursue small change marathon men
• Swearing at work 'good for business' Thank f**k for that
• Unimpressed Sheilas mock boy racers' todgers Oz road safety ad cuts speed merchants down to size

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Citizen Kane Oscar goes under the hammer Up to $1.2m estimated for Welles' only statuette
• BBC spreads free Wi-Fi Cloud over iPlayer delay Cobbles together Flash streams for Mac and Linux
• WTC collapse voted 'most memorable TV moment' Ah yes, I remember it well

Reviews: Smartphones

• Nokia N76 mobile phone Review Not a poster child for Nokia's sense of originality

Science: Biology

• Cane toads pay dearly for stretching their legs Arthritis affects amphibian advance
• Dino-boffins unearth another new gigantic species Pre-Christmas marketing from board of palaeontology?

Science: Physics

• Quantum scientist wins Euro computing prize Plans to build bigger computer, do harder sums

Science: Space

• Mars rovers can keep on rovin' NASA okays another mission extension
• Pentagon in orbital solar power plan for world peace Military techno-hippies: make 'leccy not war, man

Security

• Be customers still exposed by router snafu ISP playing cat and mouse on security

Security: Enterprise Security

• Researcher releases unofficial IE fix for URI bug Whose (malformed) line is it anyway?

Security: InfoSec

• NJ hospital suspends 27 over Clooney record snoop Paging Dr Ross

Services

• BSkyB sues EDS for £709m Gunning for damages over 'woeful' performance

Software

• Microsoft drops South Korea anti-trust appeal Shuts up and pays up
• Microsoft patents brain-computer link Finding out how much you really like using Office
• Nortel pays $35m to end fraud probe Fund for shareholders

Software: Applications

• Google launches YouTube video-blocking contraption Calls it something else