12th December 2007 Archive

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Code

• Latest NetBeans thinks big for scripting Migrate and be damned

Comms

• Ofcom will probe UK mobile market - again The market's changing, so the regs will too

Comms: Mobile

• Orb opens up iPhone Exclusive Placeshifting comes home

Comms: Networks

• Tiscali sets 200,000 TV subscriber target Thinking big, starting small

Hardware: Data Networking

• City to Intel: Kick the rest of the tech industry into line What's the point of a (near) monopoly otherwise

Hardware: Storage

• Western Digital's 'crippleware': Some lessons from history The panic that wasn't

Hardware: Virtualization

• SWsoft to abandon itself and become Parallels One name, lots of products

Management: Government

• DHS accepts buggy Eye-o-Sauron™ border scan towers Chertoff to Boeing: 'You don't own this border'
• Six in ten UK punters fear what gov will do with private data The other four believe the moon is made of tasty cheese
• UK.gov data review calls for... data We'll hide all the blank disks, promise

Management: IT Director

• HSBC pins hopes on Borat and IPO-pimping ATMs For make benefit sub-prime crisis
• Rubbish UK management crushing creativity UK tops negative management league

Management: Law

• McKinnon extradition drama turned into radio play Haxploitation

Market News

• AMD braces for financial mayhem from ATI acquisition In search of life raft

Music and Media

• Recording industry puts stake in ground with Jammie Thomas case Copyrights and wrongs

News: Consoles

• PS3 sales to surpass Wii's... in four years' time An analyst writes...

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Tosh promises March '08 launch for super batteries Five minutes' charging yields 90 per cent capacity

News: PCs

• When Commodore ruled the world And programmers talked to rabbits

News: Phones

• Designer pitches PSP phone If Sony won't, someone else will

News: Smartphones

• Nokia 6500 Slide mobile phone Review Nothing slippery about this one...
• Orange unsure of own upcoming smartphone Too much Egg Nog?

News: TV

• HD TVs Top Five Read about watching
• Toshiba delays OLED TV development But not for mobile phones

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• w00t voted 'Word of the Year' In the US, we hasten to add

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Kylie wraps herself round Dalek 'Much bigger than I’d expected,' admits Oz popstress
• Lily Allen to judge Orange women's fiction award Royal Society of Literature unimpressed
• Paris Hilton cavorts naked in middle of desert NSFW Nothing but gold paint to protect her famous modesty
• Social networking and pron - together at last Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder

Reseller

• PC World parent awaits FTSE 100 relegation Vista to blame? 'Absolutely not'

Science

• Boeing confirms revised Dreamliner schedule First delivery late 2008
• Honda shows off space-dwarf robot butler capability Also plans droids to 'work on street corners'
• US gov silent robot white (?) helicopter prangs itself Groundbreaking technology

Science: Environment

• Shell in Hawaiian algae biofuel pilot Sees big future in green scum

Science: Space

• China pretty chuffed with lunar probe 'Another landmark achievement' declares prez
• NASA aims for 2 Jan Atlantis launch Further tests on pesky fuel tank sensors

Security: Crime

• Cybercrooks lurk in shadows of big-name websites Phishermen redirect via Google Maps, AOL et al

Security: Enterprise Security

• Hey, HP laptop owners: click here to get hijacked Pwnage made simple

Software

• Microsoft squeezes out early release of 2007 Office SP1 Don't mention the word open, ok
• Three critical fixes star in Patch Tuesday update Among the unmagnificent seven

Software: Applications

• Microsoft folds-in Multimap for '$50m' Redmond fights Google, one grid at a time