3rd December 2007 Archive

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Code

• XBRL could learn from XML's success - Bray Controlled approach stalling

Code: Java/J2EE

• CodeGear bets on Application Factories to transform JBuilder Optimus primed

Comms: Mobile

• New mobile app to track carbon footprints Walk this way

Comms: Wireless

• Beeb coughs to Panorama WiFi-scare travesty Wrists red raw with self-administered slappings

Hardware

• Dell marries WPP in big ads push Bachelor days are over
• IT departments poised to fly past airlines on CO₂ emissions How green is your love?

Hardware: Servers

• LogLogic eyes new CEO Sueltz as IPO propeller Data dominatrix
• Remembering the CDC 6600 This Old Box The Craying Game

Information

• No Fusion illumination for Oracle users Information company confounds

Management: Financial News

• Activision and Vivendi Games merge into Activision Blizzard $18.9bn union to out earn EA

Management: Government

• Galileo funding finally agreed Farm-money snatch OK'd in pork carve up
• Home Sec: Tasers could become standard police kit Whistle? Check. Truncheon? Check. Cattleprod gun ..?
• MS Word edit history snares Scottish Labour on donations Curse of Clippy fires funding scandal
• Public says no to ID cards, No2ID says 'starve the beast!' Time to cut off IPS' air supply...

Management: Law

• Bluetooth marketing window could be shut Privacy regulations under scrutiny
• Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline Poked by his own petard... bitch
• What’s in a name, asks Bodog founder Calvin Ayre Is a seized domain worth the paper it’s written on?

Management: Public Sector

• UK justice ministry investigates non-updating of PNC Warrant withdrawals and a resulting mess

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Welcome to the El Reg bumper demographic survey Just who are you and what do you want, exactly?

Management: Small Biz

• Capita targets SMEs after public sector losses Predicts strong performance in 2008

Market News

• Google officially quashes PageRank passing Sell at your peril

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Samsung readies 'fastest' graphics memory

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Gibson plugs in self-tuning roboguitar Tuning fork industry beware

News: Hi-Def

• Blu-ray widens US disc sales lead Big share of Thanksgiving viewing

News: Laptops

• Laptop power cranks up a gear Put the pedal to the... er... laptop
• Sellers price up 8GB Eee PC Black and white models coming Q1 2008

News: Phones

• Apple iPhones offered up for hire Try it out for 30 quid a day

News: Smartphones

• Nokia N95 update speeds apps with virtual memory Sorry, 'on-demand paging'

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Bought some uranium ore? You'll need the anal douche, then NSFW Strange goings on at Amazon.com
• Dear customer: you owe us $211 trillion Wachovia Bank chases record-breaking overdraft
• Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children Updated MSN bot in festive fellatio outrage

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and X48 chipset Review Say hello to the 1600MHz desktop FSB

Science

• NASA pondering electro-hypersonic jet boosters Spinoffs? Mach-7 raygun fighter planes

Security

• TJX agrees to pay banks $41m to cover Visa losses Up to 100 million accounts stolen

Security: Crime

• MI5 warns over China hacking menace PLA implicated in targeted Trojan assault
• Pedophile gets 110 years in MySpace extortion scheme 'Tools of Terror'

Security: Enterprise Security

• Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked Tapping up

Security: ID

• ID sales sites start loss leader marketing programme Journalists find thousands of IDs online

Services

• Best Buy kicks out misbehaving Geek Squaders Video killed the downloading staff

Software

• Mozilla rubbishes IE Firefox security study The fix is in

Software: Applications

• LiveJournal flogged to Russians Blogging problem child sent to gulag