16th November 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Monsters of the ID come to mobile Creators of Doom and Quake establish mobile division
• Truphone phones a friend Expansys to pre-install Truphone client on Nokia handsets

Comms: Wireless

• Google will definitely bid for US wireless spectrum In the loose sense of the word

Devices: Platforms

• Android: developer dream or Google cash machine? Strange metallic bedfellows

Distribution

• Northamber reports static Q1 revenue Weak at the knees cos of weak dollar

Hardware

• Consumer electronics fuel chip sales Insatiable apetite for gadgets drives demand

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Intel's 4004 microprocessor calc code brought back to life As the flowchart turns

Hardware: Servers

• Dell to pump out Ubuntu servers Nearly certified...
• Top IBM mainframe reseller threatens to exit biz 'Leading OEM' hampers QSGI

Hardware: Storage

• BitMicro pumps solid state drives to 1.6TB Altima 4Gb/s FC SSD not for storage toddlers

Management

• Asking for experience in job ads could land you in hot water Hiring policies need review to comply with age laws

Management: Financial News

• AMD sells 8.1 per cent stake to Abu Dhabi firm Mubadala chips in

Management: Government

• ISPs baffled by Gordo's 'plans' for web terror talks Invite's in the post is it?

Management: Law

• Boeing guards its right to tail employees Perfectly legal
• Consumer groups urge Supreme Court to curb patent power Selling second-hand patented goods should not be illegal
• UK patent rules put firms at disadvantage High Court will hear all about it, next week
• US downplays Gitmo manual leak Unclassified but embarrassing

Management: Public Sector

• ICANN speeds IDN ccTLDs No translation necessary

Management: Reg Weekly

• Strange industry movements as some get on their bikes To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• Gene Simmons blames college kids for ruining music biz To Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails: Get off my lawn!
• iTuneski for films challenges Hollywood DRM-free downloads at $2.99 a pop
• Macca says Beatles catalog to hit net next year 'When I'm 66'
• Warner Music supremo in Apple-fondling mea culpa 'Jobs was right. I was wrong.'

News: Consoles

• Nintendo completes DS Lite 'refresh' - analyst A lighter DS Lite

News: Desktops

• Dell prices up all-on-one XPS desktop Fiat Uno

News: Laptops

• Man buys Eee PC, erases Linux, installs Mac OS X Leopard 'Eee done what?

News: PCs

• Intel expands debut 45nm Core 2 Duo line-up Roadmaps extra CPUs in January, April
• Shuttle lands Linux SFF PCs in the UK One for business, a second for pleasure

News: PS3

• PS3 firmware update filters web content Yes but how much will it cost to use?
• PS3 joystick unveiled Joystick Vs Dual Shock
• PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan Weekly-sales winner announced

News: Smartphones

• Ambitious E-Ten updates Glofiish smartphones Will they hook you?

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Workplace accidents = 0 Episode 38 It's been 10 days since... uh oh...

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 419er fears unsolicited intergalactic email Better to 'discurse vivdly on phone'
• Aussie-Irish boozer ejects 'terrorist' drinker Judging a person by a book's cover
• Drunk US man asks drunk son to take the wheel 13-year-old duly obliges
• Oz Santas suffer no 'ho ho ho' blow Traditional phrase 'may be offensive to women'
• Question mark over Tony Blair web privacy policy 'You want to speak to ???????????????? ?'
• Russian: I killed Buster Crabb in 1956 underwater scrap Cut throat of MI6 frogman beneath Soviet cruiser, apparently
• Woman chews on chap's todger in fast food joint NSFW Swede declines oral sex, ends up on the menu
• Woman finds boyfriend dead in catflap Florida man firmly wedged in feline death portal

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Fox News: Filthier than the internet Too hot for Digg
• Jimmy Page donates Zep gig tickets to charity eBay auction to help Brazilian street kids
• Lindsay Lohan in 84-minute jail ordeal Fails to break Nicole Richie's short-stay record
• Tim Burton to shoot 3-D Alice in Wonderland Director hooks up with Disney for two-movie deal

Reviews: Laptops

• Asus Eee PC 4G sub-sub-notebook Review The ultimate laptop?

Science

• IPCC's final report on climate change due tomorrow Brace for impact

Science: Biology

• Beer-drinking ladyboy fish can live out of water Jungle boffin in metaphor mass-murder shocker
• Lifelike, sexy robot infiltrators influence Belgian mobs And so it begins
• Museum archive turns up new dinosaur family A hidden treasure in piles of dusty old bones

Science: Space

• Europe eyes six Martian landing sites Targeting oldest, wettest areas
• Rosetta spies nightlife on our sleeping planet Goodnight, Earth

Security

• Chinese cyber strikes will be 'like WMD' China very dangerous, say US gov China-danger watchers
• German amateur code breaker defeats Colossus Updated Reversal of fortune

Security: Enterprise Security

• Crypto guru warns over random number backdoor Spooky

Security: ID

• Reckless loss of laptop data? ICO calls for stiff fines Parking a laptop without due care and attention...

Services

• Dell goes after sweet Everdream More services pillow talk