29th October 2007 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Designing software for testability You know it makes sense

Comms: Networks

• 3's Skype phone is go Hello? I'm calling via the interweb! Nah, it's rubbish
• Putin tightens his grip on Russia's internet ICANN 2007 Los Angeles Will political forces split the internet root?
• TV-Links man: 'I'm no master criminal' Website was 'just a hobby'
• Vint Cerf set to part ways with ICANN ICANN 2007 Los Angeles Vaya con dios, internet
• VoIP is Dead. It's just another feature, now Analysis How Hutch called Skype's bluff

Comms: Wireless

• Verizon bags slow-tracked wireless battle Google chuffed

Devices: Platforms

• One day my mobile apps prince will come Mobile Business Expo Soon, soon, soon

Hardware

• Acer boss predicts blow-out Q4 numbers Despite hefty pay-out for Gateway

Hardware: Servers

• Hyperic charges after disgruntled Ubuntu upgraders Comment When will Bill Gates fix my Vista box?

Hardware: Storage

• Sun sues NetApp, California style Six patents topped with a slice of avocado

Hardware: Virtualization

• Charmed by own tune, Egenera sells PAN to rivals More virtualization, less cloven hooves
• Is desktop virtualization important? What do you think?
• Join us for The Register's eSymposium on virtualization Site news Online debates, heavyweight speakers, Ashlee Vance and so much more

Management: Financial News

• Icahn blasts BEA board as Oracle walks away 'This will hurt you more than it hurts me'

Management: Government

• DHS holds terror talks with UK Minister, then detains him Interested in terror, check, politics, check, step over here sir...

Management: IT Director

• Gatwick reduced to anarchy by 'computer glitch' Airport clocks failed to go back on schedule

Management: Small Biz

• Sage gets upclose to personnel with KCS buy Spends £20m to increase SME market share
• UK small biz pleads with gov for more support SME SOS

Market News

• Seagate to close Northern Ireland plant 927 employees laid off

Music and Media

• BBC readies global web and TV expansion US iPlayer in the works
• NBC, Fox target YouTube with Hulu dance Big media bites back

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD confirms 19 November RV670 launch - analyst Spider too?
• Nvidia challenges Intel as PC GPU shipments boom Record breaking Q3, says analyst
• Nvidia introduces 'G92' Mainstream gaming targeted

News: Hi-Def

• Samsung confirms Blu-ray Disc player range reduced Company dumps BD-P2400 model

News: Phones

• T-Mobile slides Shadow IM phone out of the shadows 'Official' phone of fun, apparently
• Tool opens iPhone, iPod Touch via web Look, ma, no PC/Mac

News: TV

• Sharp shows 'world's first' 1080p 22in LCD TV

News: UMPCs

• Asus prices up Eee PC sub-sub-notebook for US Cheap as chips

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Oz 'Family First' candidate sacked for todger-flash email Humiliation for 'Australia's smallest loser'

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Shocked Shatner shunted from Star Trek XI No Kirk cameo for septuagenarian thesp

R&R

• The secret to Web 2.0 success Fat fees

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel 'Penryn' Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review The world's first 45nm gaming CPU

Science

• Honda offers FCX for '08, bitchslaps Google Fukui on plug-in: 'Technically speaking it’s nonsense'
• MPs call for climate change minister Central figure needed to coordinate policy
• US Army xBot programme halted by IP fracas 'He stole our robot'

Science: Biology

• Boffins dredge up oldest living animal 405 years, unmolested by science
• Europe grows more (and more) GM crops As study shows organic health benefits

Science: Physics

• Barracuda skydroid to make comeback? Piscine killbot may not be sunk after all

Science: Rise of the Machines

• Aliens responsible for Italian machine uprising RoTM Canneto di Caronia report fingers Lizard Alliance

Science: Space

• Astronauts complete spacewalk two Discover dodgy metal shavings, too
• Carmack's X-Prize rocket explodes on pad Aspirations doomed for another year

Security: Crime

• NATO ministers get to grips with cyber defence 'Hmm, I wonder what's for lunch...?'
• Online scammers exploit California wildfire disaster No smoke without liars
• Print beats net for fraud Scammers still prefer old-world means, FTC study shows
• World's most gullible supermarket chain falls victim to online scam Trying to get back $10m wired to bogus accounts

Security: Enterprise Security

• Consumer revenge site returns after DDoS attack Updated Follow the money
• UK mobile security still useless Clueless workers roam free

Security: ID

• Snooping on users Facebook 'staff perk' - claim See who's interested in whom, says Valleywag

Servers/Storage

• Brazil keeps Cisco execs in big house Blame it on a reseller
• NetApp vends $3k iSCSI storage array Ditches Fibre for price point

Software

• Italian court rules against HP on pre-installed Windows Orders computer giant to cough up refund

Software: Operating Systems

• Apple's Leopard rejects latest version of Java Forum overlords delete developer gripes