15th November 2007 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Red Hat haunts Ellison's Linux dream OpenWorld Must try harder

Comms: Mobile

• Experts cast runes on Google phone security Paranoid Android
• Punters call for laptops with built-in mobiles GSM/Microsoft ask 'how can we improve your notebooks'?
• Vodafone responds to iPhone rip-off Can we charge more than that? Oh, yes we can

Comms: Networks

• Ariane 5 is go: Skynet 5B military chat-sat on the way Launch 'reflects Arianespace strategic role'
• Californian sues Comcast over BitTorrent throttling I demand to have my mind blown
• Ofcom stings ISP £30k for silent treatment Broadband switching investigation stonewalled

Hardware: Servers

• Canada wins the great co-ed cluster challenge SC07 Nice box, ey? Give me a beer
• IBM offers cloudy blue datacentre vision Look, that one's shaped just like a rack server
• Red Hat and Hyperic have meeting of the mimes Sorry, minds
• Start-up aims nanotube memory at iPods, phones and servers SC07 NRAM to rise in '08
• Sun sends Netra blades through 10GE wringer For the protocol-pinching telecom
• Yahoo! Ratchets! Open! Source! Grid! Platform! Stuffed elephant rising

Information

• Fusion confusion, and anger, for Ellison OpenWorld Audience smack down

Information: Databases

• Databases still open to basic attack Firewall free

Management: Government

• MoD announces new defence tech wishlist X marks the spot on pork treasure map
• MySpace makes kids fat, claims minister Sure it's not the bubblewrap?
• No2ID calls in pledge cash to 'probe' ID Act's enabling laws Legal fund prepares for actions...
• UK tightens borders with single agency and screening system But union concerned at 'flawed' pilots
• US unleashes six bloggers in assault on Islamist propaganda And if that doesn't work, Second Life may also be enlisted

Management: Small Biz

• Microsoft stuffs Sage with free accounts software Trying to get into SMBs' good books
• OFT hammers auction sites on consumer info DSReputable practices
• Silicon Fen fails to soak up web 2.0 cash Cambridge loses out to London
• Veterans form VC fund for small biz Seeding, funding and mentoring

Music and Media

• MPs reject Ofcom's Nathan Barley quango The New Media Gravy Train stops here?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD announces next-gen CrossFire... sort of Two-, three- and four-GPU tech debuts on firm's website
• Hynix touts 'world's first' 1Gb GDDR 5 chip Thanks for the memory
• Nvidia to launch 'G98' GPU next month Die-shrink speed boost
• PowerColor punts overclocked ATI 3850 cards

News: Laptops

• Asus: 'no plans' for 10in Eee PC Upcoming 8GB model will have 7in screen

News: PCs

• AMD rolls out DirectX 10.1 Radeon HD 3800 GPUs Top-of-the-range peformance at mid-range price

News: PS3

• US PS3 sales rocket after 40GB console debut 80GB model's price cut a cause too?

News: Wii

• Best Buy sells 'last Wii' twice Nintendo Economics 101
• Retailer pitches £1000 £10,000 Nintendo Wii Updated Grand gesture

News: Xbox

• Xbox girl-on-girl game upsets Singapore Mass Effect banned

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Bike bonk bloke cops three years' probation Pedalphile warned not to remount
• Canadian Taser death caught on camera Vancouver Airport amateur footage shocker
• Sierra Leone launches 'Operation Wash Lunatics' Freetown scoured for grubby nutters
• Vietnamese cops jailed for death row pregnancy ruse Allowed drug smuggler to get up the duff

Reviews: Phones

• Nokia 7500 Prism mobile phone Review If it's good enough for the Sugababes

Science

• Honda hits reverse on £50k fuel cell cars for '08 SoCal beta-testers to lease FCX Clarity
• Mayor Ken buys hydrogen buses for London Possible break with Chavez?
• Raytheon to deliver 'paging system' for submarines Seagoing lone wolves finally get BlackBerry treatment

Science: Biology

• Neuroboffins develop mind-reading computers Please think clearly after the tone
• Will bird flu stuff our Happy Christmas? Oh no, the turkeys are on fire...

Science: Space

• Global warming not to blame for warmer North Pole? Boffins blame ocean currents instead
• Watching the Earthrise over the moon Video: And set again

Security

• Colossus faces off against PCs in code-breaking challenge Valves vs transistors grudge match
• eBay Trojan morphs to snare motor victims As eBay security czar discusses new measures
• VeriSign slims, cuts jobs to focus on security Digital certificate firm looks to offload communications biz
• With one bound, Apple is free of 54 security bugs Mighty patches
• World of Warcraft spykit gets encrypted Increases effective stealth level by 5

Security: Enterprise Security

• Half of computer users are Wi-Fi thieves Wardriving criminals
• Tor embassy 'hacker' raided by Swedish Feds Don't want no more of the spyin' game

Security: ID

• Public shows new data protection nous We know our rights, man

Services

• Atos Origin reports mellow and fruitful Q3 UK not singled out this time

Software

• Russian piracy crackdown targets the opposition 'Selective enforcement'