19th November 2007 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Microsoft lets slip Visual Studio 2008 Data play

Comms

• Powering the mobile experience Reg Technology Panel Our pollsters' assault on battery life

Comms: Mobile

• iPhone to get 3G in May 2008 Telefonica spills the beans
• Tories call for mobile phone ban in schools Respect my authority, kids
• Vodafone CEO sticks head in sand, goes 'La la la' 'No one can take our customers'

Comms: Networks

• 123-Reg takes weekend off Updated Domain name servers

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage to stump up $120m to Verizon Court refuses to reconsider ruling

Hardware: Servers

• Bumblebee boogie analysis in webserver boost Drone dancefloor plan is the proverbial insect limb joint
• Google builds very own Ethernet switches Could rattle networking biz
• IBM challenges HP to virtual I/O blade duel Open Fabric Manager enters arena

Hardware: Storage

• Sun's top brains salivate over storage kit and code SC07 Fishworks eyed as cure to disk stank

Information: Databases

• Tune your service oriented applications with SQL Bottleneck, meet database

Management: Financial News

• Everything still fine and dandy with HP in Q4 On the up and up and up
• Q3 revenues looking rosy at Salesforce 48% rise

Management: Government

• Local govt think tank slams road pricing plan It's 'a sledgehammer to crack a nut'

Management: Law

• Disability law can protect alcoholic workers For the symptoms, not the disease
• US man dies in Taser incident Maryland deputy on admin leave following fatal intervention

Management: Public Sector

• MoD defends £5bn IT system It's not an 'unmitigated disaster'

Music and Media

• Amazon's $399 folly book reader Just a lot of Kindling
• BBC HD channel gets green light Only on satellite and cable
• Now let us praise the humble, jetless Google founders Comment Eh?
• Prince and fan sites could unite When doves cry

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD preps DirectX 10.1 'Radeon HD 3600' GPU pair 'RV635' probably not branded XT and Pro

News: Consoles

• Wii regains US next-gen console arena leadership Xbox 360 sales plunged in October

News: Laptops

• Nvdia launches latest laptop graphics chip

News: Phones

• LG models twin-screen phones Voyager the product of a union twixt iPhone and Nokia Communicator?
• T-Mobile suspends Sidekick Slide sales Power cycle problem

News: Smartphones

• O2 to launch Stella/Stellar in December Carrier doesn't know Rs from elbows?

News: TV

• Pioneer creates iTunes, YouTube rival Web-based telly

News: Xbox

• Singapore allows sale of 'lesbian' video game Xbox 360 game gets go-ahead

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Frenchman spit-roasts 550kg camel Morocco hosts world's largest barbecue
• NZ bans Brit immigrant's overweight missus Fat people 'a significant drain on health resources'
• Spain goes mad for King versus Chávez 'Why don't you shut up?' - you've seen the YouTube vid, now buy the t-shirt
• UK charity acts on YouTube bullying Beatbullying

PC Builder

• AMD reveals 'Spider' platform For the wicked gamer in your house

Reviews: Phones

• Samsung SGH-F210 mobile phone Review Just too small

Science

• Brown blushes over green cuts Was that cut emissions, or cut the budget?
• UN mandates stability control in trucks - cars to follow 'I'm doing nearly 30'
• US Navy buys 'Metal Storm' grenade-gasm gun Robots to get krazy kannon tech, too

Science: Biology

• Dutch mull radical cash for kidneys plan Donate organ, get free health insurance
• Nano cancer-bombs and mini organs from MIT Honey, I shrunk my liver...
• Promote your local synthetic biologist Analysis Oh, hold on. You don't need to

Science: Physics

• Stuff string theory - try E8 to explain the universe Surfing boffin touts new Theory Of Everything

Science: Space

• Americans clueless on NASA budgets Space: Not as expensive as you think

Security: Crime

• 911 phone phreakers face jail SWAT chaos 'mastermind' pleads guilty

Security: Enterprise Security

• Thumb twiddling Mozilla promises fix for privacy-biting bug Your door is a jar

Services

• Capgemini CEO claims 'truly tremendous' October HMRC cuts not even a blip on the landscape

Software: Applications

• Mozilla hits back at Firefox 3 quality slur No rush job on 700 'blocker' bugs