23rd October 2007 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Considering Microsoft’s 'rift with the web' But .Net is not where the problem lies, says Tim Anderson
• Microsoft sharpens Visual Studio with functions Academic respectability from a version of a CAML?

Comms: Mobile

• AT&T asks king's ransom for Napster tunes Targets 'price insensitive' kiddies
• Gosling ready to kill-off lame duck J2ME One Java to rule them all
• Microsoft to reach out and take control ...of Windows Mobile devices, at least

Comms: Networks

• BT tells staff to shape up in anti-cancer push Fewer pies = fewer dies
• Dot, squiggle, plop Column Unencoding the web

Hardware

• Hitachi presses shut-down on PC line So how many companies are still making PCs?

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco borgs Navini Networks All-devouring switch firm makes its WiMAX move

Hardware: Servers

• Sun introduces first Intel workstation in two decades Ultra 24 line enters Intel box fray

Hardware: Storage

• IBM goes crazy with storage system updates DS8000, DS4000, DS3000, TS2240, TS7520 please come to the red courtesy phone

Hardware: Virtualization

• Dell to embed Xen hypervisor in PowerEdge servers HP has moment of Xen as well

Information: Databases

• Hands on with MDX Dimension and measures (yes, but can it handle cubic furlongs?)

Management: Financial News

• iSales prop up Apple results Fruity one nears a billion in fiscal Q4
• Technology is root of all evil, says IMF Proposals for tax on engineers, compulsory arts degrees

Management: Government

• Europe considers blue card for immigrants Like a green card but it's...you get the idea

Management: Law

• Cops crash invite-only BitTorrent network A win for Media Defender?
• Gang attempted to pass £500,000 notes, court told Do not collect £28bn, do not pass go
• Jailed terror student 'hid' files in the wrong Windows folder And 'provided terror instructions' via web links
• Pentagon hacker wins right to UK appeal Law Lords agrees to hear his appeal
• Proposed blogging law outrages Italian netizens Gov backpedals after brouhaha prompts comparisons with Burma
• TV-Links man was arrested under trademark laws Curiouser and curiouser

Management: Public Sector

• 2012 Olympics to be 'car-free' Except for Olympic officials

Management: Small Biz

• Darling won't move over gains tax Small biz is heard, but ignored

Music and Media

• Vinyl lives! And why the net isn't (entirely) killing music In The City And the tyranny of Radio 2

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sharp to show world's skinniest phone display

News: Hi-Def

• Transformers sets hi-def format sales record But 300 still ahead on first-week sales

News: MP3 players

• Amazon leaks US Zune launch date Microsoft forced to confirm

News: Mac

• Greenpeace: iPhone crit makes for more headlines And the bromine business fights back

News: Media players

• Sonos brings wireless to multi-room music rigs

News: PCs

• Acme unveils 'ideal' mobile gaming PC

News: Smartphones

• Apple: 1.4m iPhones sold, 250,000 unlocked Big demand for untethered handsets

News: Xbox

• Microsoft opens Xbox 360 Arcade Core dumped

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Drunken Indian elephants take on electricity pole Result? Fried pachyderm
• Paris Hilton heads for the cryogenic freezer 'It's so cool,' enthuses immortal heiress

On the Job

• El Reg goes virtual with e-Symposium on virtualization Site News VMware impressed

On the Job: Salary and Employment

• CSC announces another round of UK job cuts Government unit targeted

Reviews: Phones

• Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot K850i camera phone Review So cutting edge you could shave with it

Science

• Government plots escape from renewable energy targets As CO₂ build-up accelerates
• US Border Patrol laughs off spyplane prang wristslap Burgeoning drone flotilla to meet huddled-mass threat

Science: Biology

• UK gov advisor proposes 'licence to smoke' Obligatory £200 addict permit

Science: Space

• NASA lights blue touchpaper on Discovery And China eyes the moon
• Space shuttle Discovery launched New International Space Station module in tow

Security

• Facebook bug dishes out notes designated private Company reps keep the flaw secret
• Real Media attacks real people via RealPlayer Hackers twist ad network into Trojan network

Security: Crime

• Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan Silly idea gains steam

Security: Enterprise Security

• Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS Really fighting fire with fire

Services

• EDS beagles blast 'absurd' BSkyB Murdoch and the wizard's sleeve
• KPN completes Getronics takeover Purge rationalisations and synergies expected

Software

• IT majors forge SAFECode alliance QA group exits quiet phase

Software: Applications

• Google takes Docs on the road Look, but don't touch, on a mobile phone
• ODF calls time on da Vinci coding Still seeking OASIS approval

Software: Open Season

• Open Season exposes the real price paid for Radiohead's new album Radio Reg While Steve Ballmer threatens to buy O'Reilly's leftovers