27th November 2007 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Choice breeds complexity for Linux desktop New tricks for old dog

Comms: Mobile

• Intralot to offer Aussie punters lottery by cellphone Save the children, opponents cry
• Is that a watch in your pocket? TAG Heuer joins rush to brand phone handsets
• Nokia and O2 get on the tube Wireless payments come to London's tube
• Verizon agrees to personality transplant Sweet talks non-Verizon phones

Hardware

• Dell puckers up to Carrefour Retailer to sell PCs in Spain, Belgium, and France
• Toshiba and NEC reaffirm 32nm chip marriage Fujitsu gets wandering eyes

Hardware: Servers

• HP wallops server rivals in Q3 Mark of Pain
• Microsoft signs MOU with Siberia Training co-operation

Management

• Firms fear disgruntled staff: report Employees the biggest threat to security and finance

Management: Government

• Biometrics won't fix data loss problems Academics attack government untruths on ID
• Facebook and ABC News get political Barack Obama for the Stephen Colbert crowd
• MoD budget train crash behind Brown v forces rumpus Comment PM's choice: Outsource arms makers or squaddies
• New BAE destroyer launches today on the Clyde Comment Another eyewatering day for UK taxpayers
• UK gov superfast broadband summit decides... erm... nothing Don't hold your breath

Management: Law

• Cartels to face private lawsuits under OFT plans Extending the right to sue
• Dinosaurs derail desalination drive Down under An inconvenient fossil find
• European online gambling party continues push eastward Bulgaria: not just for airbags anymore
• Reiser's ex-wife portrayed as sadomasochist Sought 'male companionship' on Craigslist

Management: Public Sector

• Child protection site to show Scottish sex offenders 'Most wanted' to be pictured online

Market News

• Darling could backtrack on capital gains Tells CBI, UK.gov is 'open to suggestions'
• Second ex-Brocade exec goes on trial over options accounting Backdating 2: Electric Boogaloo

Music and Media

• 'Use me as a mouthpiece' - Guardian hack pleads How science journalism really works
• TV heavyweights build on-demand supersite BBC, ITV, and C4 ride Kangaroo
• Universal chief rues Apple's 'golden handcuffs' We'd love to leave, but the money's too good

News: GPS

• Mio re-routes its sat nav range Pre-Christmas update

News: Hardware Widow

• Sony pops cap on lippy-like music stick Hardware Widow But 'drip-proof response' feature absent, alas...

News: Hi-Def

• Alba readying cut-price Blu-ray Disc player for Europe? Chinese maker claims order taken
• Blu-ray discs outsell HD DVDs almost 3:1 in Europe 17 BD playback boxes bought for every one HD DVD unit

News: Mac

• Apple 'looking into' duff Chinese hard drive claims Responds to above-average drive failure rates

News: Phones

• FCC reveals Motorola Z6c handset Testing's complete
• Tag Heuer clocks onto mobile phone branding Watch out for this one... ahem

News: Xbox

• Xbox 360 gets friendly Make friends through gaming

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• US woman fingered for Porky Pig drugs outrage Background check shocker

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Rose Tyler beams back into Doctor Who Billie confirmed for three episodes of series four

Reseller

• OFT goes Christmas shopping to test website compliance Top 600 retail sites get festive health check

Reviews: Cameras

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200 compact camera Review Sounds like a camera the Terminator would use

Science

• Britain's home front must go green, study Living the green dream is 'crucial'
• Gov advisers pick six crucial techs for UK If you're not on the list, you're not coming...
• UK firm 'recalls' 575 knee implants Excess of iron provokes durability concerns
• US navy's robot carrier plane building fast Droid Top Gun to make deck landings in 2011

Science: Biology

• Top government boffin urges rethink on GM crop ban And nuclear power

Science: Physics

• Only bicarbonate of soda can save mankind! A new take on carbon sequestering

Science: Space

• Boffins ponder Galileo signals as ocean monitors It will be useful

Security

• Webroot taps UK-based email filtering firm Anti-spyware firm moves into security services

Security: Crime

• Hacker defaces temples to OS X Apple fanboys crawling with maggots

Security: Enterprise Security

• Daft users and insecure web apps dominate threat index Software vulns are so last year
• Firefox update puts lid on Jar bug Safe to surf

Security: Spam

• Al Gore climate change site hacked Penis pill outrage