19th October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Of opposable thumbs and software engineering Where will evolution take us

Comms

• BT blows £250m on wind power Dialling down the carbon footprint

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco denies Brazilian tax lambada Shhh! That's the forbidden fraud

Hardware: Semi-Coherent Computing

• Are PCs doomed to banality? Let's ask legend Dave Patterson Radio Reg Microsoft RAMPs up, while Google flies

Management: Financial News

• Analysts ecstatic over AMD's $226m loss in Q3 'Nice job, guys'
• Google back to wowing Wall Street Profits pumped 46 per cent
• Tech deals boost M&A activity £5bn spent in third quarter

Management: IT Director

• Bankers could get a kicking on Day of the MiFIDs Storage Expo Ambulance-chasers to target financial firms

Management: Law

• American football power nabs phone numbers for 13,000 StubHubers Spying on the field. Spying on the web
• Did MoD chopper buzz sunbathing au pair? Conservatory wrecked in alleged low-flying 'frolic'
• EU plans ban on bomb-making info on websites Part of imminent 'ambitious counter terrorism package'
• Judge orders football website to name 'libellous' posters Owls boss gets the hump over strikers and hookers dig

Management: Reg Weekly

• Beautiful faces, Trojans and Fasthosts To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• IP telephony: does it float your boat? Reader Poll Have your say

Market News

• IBM and Sun reseller goes into administration Exclusive: PCS hits the ropes

Music and Media

• Apple, Tesco 'most to blame' for music biz crisis The great unbundling

News: Accessories

• Audioengine shrinks audiophile speakers for desktops Made out of kevlar and silk
• Ixos unveils cubic speakers, not for squares They won't roll away

News: Consoles

• Xbox 360 wrests US sales lead from Wii Halo effect

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Record labels to ditch CD singles for USB Flash drives Majors plan singles-on-stick releases

News: PS3

• PS3 Eye digicam to arrive next week Keep an eye out for it
• Sony reaffirms IBM as 45nm Cell partner Cheaper chips for PS3

News: Phones

• Apple iPhone is AT&T's top-selling handset - analyst Kids and oldies love it

News: Useless... but Cool

• Ears turn to USB for virtual 7.1 sound source Who needs a sound card?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The bastard wants to know BOFH Poll Are you faking it?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Public tracks down Gordon Bennett Also sniffs out dog's bollocks
• The first rule of Reg Club is... Thou shalt not...
• Women's panties threaten Burmese Junta Ladies' smalls sap generals' vital energy

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Leprechaun steals Gandalf's trousers, is offered starring role in The Hobbit Comments While Microsoft invades your brain

Reviews: Media players

• Slingbox Pro networkable TV tuner Review Tuner sandwich

Science

• Watson suspended by research lab after race row DNA pioneer denies allegations of racism

Science: Biology

• Igor-style human, animal parts assembly on horizon Kit-form Lurch servants/monkey butlers for all
• Neanderthals had key speech gene, researchers say But did they have much to say?
• UK fast food peppered with salt Probe reveals 'shockingly high levels'

Science: Physics

• Ships pollute more than planes More CO₂ overall, not vessel for vessel

Science: Space

• Air chief: UK should have RAF astronaut Ballistic brylcreem boys for Blighty

Security

• 'Fiendish' Trojan pickpockets eBay users It's new and improved. And it just nabbed $8,600
• Bad hair day for alternative browser users Critical Opera and Firefox bugs menace IE-refuseniks
• Cannon runs amok, kills nine fleshies Software glitch to blame for berserker?

Security: Crime

• Banking data fears over Fasthosts intruder Customers in the dark
• Kiwi brewery offers lifetime's beer for stolen laptop But there's a catch
• Thai police nab manhunt suspect Unscrambled child abuse pic operation leads to arrest

Software

• Ballmer: I will buy 20 web companies a year Fat head, fatter wallet
• Becta reports Microsoft to OFT More interoperability woes for Redmond

Software: Applications

• Ask.com firm palms off Excite Europe Changes hands more often than Abu Hamza