6th November 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Femtocells get a bit bigger Operators sign up to promotional forum

Comms: Mobile

• Apocalypse Postponed: Google's dog didn't bark The view from the LiMo window
• iPhone to solve UK unemployment Is there anything it can't do?
• UK iPhone customers to get fairer usage But some usage is more fair than others

Comms: Networks

• BT and Virgin Media to report broadband slowdown Analysis Investment or cuts? Whaddya reckon?
• Harold and Kumar go to Comcastle Comment Save the Internet contests Laws of Physics
• ICANN tweaks root DNS server Please update your machines. Or not
• Man wrongly detained for 50 days has ISP to thank I am not that number, I am not a free man

Comms: Wireless

• Symbian licences up 56 per cent Good revenues too...

Devices: Platforms

• Nope, it's not a Gphone Opinion Memories of Java

Hardware

• Microsoft hawks Home Server Buy now. Get it sometime soon.
• Phoenix hijacks Windows boot with instant-on Bios king introduces Hyperspace

Hardware: Servers

• Cray's Barcelona moment arrives with XT5 systems Processors for all seasons
• IBM fails to ship even the most meager four-core Opteron box Exclusive Do you know the way to Barcelona?
• IBM lines up blade, AIX updates AIX 6, Power 6, Uh-ho, now I'm scared...
• RapidMind takes multi-threaded magic to x86 realm It's hip profitable to be square
• SiCortex does desktop supercomputer Cluster Catapult
• Supermicro punts 'world's densest blade' X-Men's Wolverine may dispute claim

Hardware: Storage

• 3Par does logical partitioning Vulcan approved, 7824.7 to one
• Symantec gobbles up Vontu Joins the DLP jamboree

Information: Knowledge

• Microsoft Search Server 2008 takes on Google Mini, promotes SharePoint Have a taste, get hooked

Management: Financial News

• Alibaba.com soars on magic carpet IPOpen sesame

Management: Government

• Brown moots register for terrorists, DNA rights for MI5 Counter-terror Bill trailed...
• Brown reveals road pricing, emissions plans Queen: 'One will be charging to use one's Highways'
• EU unveils air passenger 'risk profiling' plan A terror-scoring machine just like George's...
• Freedom of speech 'safe' as Europe tackles the terror web Crackdown on 'virtual training camps'
• Government acts on Land Registry fears Downloads reduced on fraudster fears

Management: IT Director

• Batten down hatches, analyst tells IT bosses Two sets of books are better than one

Management: Law

• German court rules internet gambling ban an 'impossibility' Real politik ruling opens door for Bwin
• German law smites Warhammer fan flick Damnatus damned to eternal darkness
• Swedes look to join online gambling party Ruling party explores liberalized regime
• Yahoo! Bows! To! Mum! Of! Jailed! Chinese! Journalist! 'We know we were wrong. But we didn't know it then'

Management: Public Sector

• Croydon unleashes cyberwar on barking dogs Yelping mutts beware Web 0.2
• Northgate details election business manifesto Cast your votes

Management: Small Biz

• Companies still clueless about their software spend Boards missing software's hidden value
• Firm claims fake spy rock plane drop prize Smart minichutes also do 'passports, money, satphones'
• Ireland still good for foreign investment Emerald Isle a golden opportunity for multinationals
• RIM focuses on really small business Five can now go BlackBerry picking

Music and Media

• American Radiohead fans are 73% more irrational - survey And 99% of downloaders lie to pollsters?
• BBC tech chief: You Freetards don't matter And no one gives a toss about DRM. So there
• BBC.com begins commercial push Auntie pimped to foreigners

News: Consoles

• 'PlayStation-deprived' teen admits part in plot to pop parents Allegedly offered dad's truck in payment
• Sony sees red over PSP
• Sony unveils third-gen 'portable' PS2 Less baggage

News: PCs

• Biostar unwraps AMD 770 chipset mobo

News: Smartphones

• LG to take on iPhone with 'super 3G' tablet Prada lookalike

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Amazon Prime comes to Blighty All your deliveries for £50
• Florida cops issue shock 'Butthash' warning Fermented excrement, aka 'Jenkem', menaces schoolkids

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Hardcore Dalek builders plan galactic domination Project Dalek - be afraid
• Kylie Minogue launches social networking site KylieKonnect - for all your Oz songbird needs
• TV Controller says goodbye, and hello Signs off controversial blog, reveals who he is
• Writers' strike hits US talk shows hard You mean they actually script that crap?

Reviews: Cameras

• Canon Ixus 860 IS compact camera Review Another hit from Canon?

Science

• Seagoing Missile Defence tests this week US cruiser to stand off attack from Hawaii
• US doesn't need orbital battlefleet - pundit 1900s style space-dreadnought arms race would be Bad

Science: Biology

• Biologist 'discovers' scentless giant peccary Pecari maximus, or 'Caitetu Munde' to his mates
• Brain gene map: a route to Alzheimer's cure? All about the proteins
• Japanese cook up cancer-busting synthicurry Promising results from curcumin 'analogues'

Science: Space

• China goes lunar Brief Satellite arrives, all looking good

Security

• Macrovision update plugs zero-day DRM exploit The one that got away
• QuickTime update fixes code-execution holes Install it now

Security: Breaking It

• Google OpenSocial: after the hype, the holes Google API too sociable by half

Security: Crime

• Nicked DVLA documents used to sell stolen cars Don't buy white vans or Beemers in pub carparks
• P2P ID thief cops a plea From LimeWire to behind the wire
• Police dismantle global child porn network 92 people from 19 countries arrested

Security: Enterprise Security

• Pentagon: Our new robot army will be controlled by malware Open-source hax0r IP-deathware apocalypse imminent

Security: Spam

• Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters Spammers feel lucky

Software

• UK anti-piracy group gets new flag waver FAST Lovelock love-in

Software: Operating Systems

• Leopard data loss glitch uncovered Moved to tears
• Mac OS X firewall blocks Skype and online gamers You realise, of course, this means Warcraft