30th October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Buzzword bingo for Microsoft's Oslo Pick a date, any date

Comms: Networks

• Hundreds for chop as Tiscali launches Pipex jobs purge Hoff offed
• Modest reform efforts mask tough issues in gTLD reform ICANN 2007 Los Angeles ICANN serves up waffles at workshop
• Obama pledges Net Neutrality, Ewok safety Comment Your virtual candidate calling
• US tech industry backs Buffalo in Wi-Fi patent spat I raise you my eBay loophole and call your injunction
• Whois database targeted for destruction Sunset strip

Hardware

• DARPA looking to verify imported military chips Unscrewing the inscrutable
• OLPC wants $200 for its $100 laptop, please And sells 100,000 units to Uruguay
• Toshiba spits out tasty H1 profit Despite 'sluggish' HDD and mobile phone sales

Hardware: Data Networking

• EMC satisfies management fetish with Voyence Beware IBM, HP, Dell and Sun
• Vyatta does open source networking with a mean streak Tell Cisco what you really think

Hardware: Servers

• BT banks on windmills to throw greens off its scent SNW UK's biggest leccy guzzler's crusty nightmare

Hardware: Virtualization

• DMTF accepts new format for portable VMs Hopes to simplify interoperability

Lifecycle

• Male pattern boldness New software design patterns to play with

Management: Financial News

• Google jumps ahead of ITV1 on Q3 ad revenue Web blows raspberry at the telly

Management: Government

• Lords debate airline liquids ban Exploding Marmite threat revealed

Management: Law

• Europe delays accidental ban on MRI scans Rethinking electromagnetic exposure limits
• Rhys Jones 'killer' named on YouTube Silence broken

Management: Public Sector

• Guardian blogborg takes aim at global warming Saves planet one lightbulb at a time
• Bin charging back on as Brown gets dizzy Chip'n'bin misery for celebrity muckrakers foretold
• Brussels politicos: More cash for Galileo, pronto 'Indispensable strategic tool'
• Scottish decision threatens PFI contract secrecy NHS Lothian and Consort ordered to disclose deal details

Market News

• Morse signals stability in current year Trading in line with expectations

Music and Media

• Prince's anti-YouTube crusade halted by American mommy Let's all go crazy
• Second Life mounts assault on reality Aided, abetted and bedded

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• IBM rubs its junk for solar industry Refurbishes wafers for the silicon-starved

News: Consoles

• Sony paints PS2 white... for a while Old console, new colour, karaoke bundle
• Sony: we'll have sold 132m PS2s by 31 March 08 Console still a contender?

News: Mac

• Data recovery firm sounds Mac hard drive damage alert Updated 'Critical' flaw with China-made HDDs?

News: TV

• Samsung roadmaps 42in OLED TVs for 2010 Plasma successor ramping rapidly

News: Wii

• Nintendo to fire Wii Zapper into Europe for Xmas Take aim...
• Wii broke my ribs, Zelda finished me off Reader Comment Wii Tennis elbowed?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Battle of Britain pilots actually crap shots Kill/loss ratio 'unimpressive', historian claims
• Becks shows Scientology some rispek But Tom doesn't proselytise, insists Goldenballs
• Cops coax half-naked Czech wolfman from Cardiff tree Top that headline and win a Mini Metro
• Dogs blast hunter with shotgun Trigger-happy mutts do a Dick Cheney
• Sick Brit yobs graffiti dog Complete collapse of law and order imminent

Q&A

• Leopard on a PC? Q&A

R&R

• How ASP.NET began in Java And the truth about Project Cool

Reviews: Cameras

• Pentax Optio Z10 digital camera Review Perfect Pentax - or Optio gone awry?

Science

• Reaper aerial killbot harvests its first fleshies Hapless meatsacks slaughtered by flying mechanoid
• US airforce checked out for synthi-fuel by 2011 What will you do after the war, skipper?

Security

• FTC demands bigger spyware penalties Raising the fine line
• McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe Goes mad for certifying
• UK.gov lambasted for ignoring peers' cybercrime report Either stupid or ignorant, fumes security researcher

Security: Crime

• Bank and mortgage scam nets ID crooks thousands Why settle for just emptying an online bank account?
• Woman admits fleecing shopping network of more than $412,000 Website glitch allowed her to receive items gratis
• Woman murdered after answering Craigslist ad 24-year-old sought babysitting job

Security: Enterprise Security

• When antivirus products (and Internet Explorer) fail you Null hypothesis

Software

• Apple's Leopard leaps into action Two million copies and counting

Software: Applications

• Googlite explains PageRank tweak 'Down with link sellers'