13th December 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Canadian runs up $85,000 mobe bill Unlimited browser plan? Not exactly...
• Nokia wins in Qualcomm case Another round in world's longest court battle
• O2 names UK boss CFO to CEO

Comms: Networks

• Canadian cable giant slips Yahoo! name onto Google home page Rogers and out
• Fasthosts primes another password reset Third time's the charm

Comms: Wireless

• Ofcom puts digital dividend on the auction block Will stage small beauty parade for luvvies

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco punts buzzword bingo 'OS' Tivo meets Nascar
• Dismantling a Religion: The EFF's Faith-Based Internet An Expert View

Hardware: Servers

• AMD to experts: Experts don't know jack Lobbing olive branch to Wall Street
• Code morpher Transitive dives into Red Hat Exchange Proprietary chums meet open sourcers

Management: Government

• Brown quizzed on gov IT failures 'We've got a long way to go...'

Management: Law

• eBay to appeal patent decision $30m patent claim
• MEPs slate EU's terror assault on our data rights As EU charter proclaims respect for data rights

Management: Public Sector

• IT errors continue to plague EU single payments scheme Farmers still short changed

Management: Small Biz

• New European Patent Convention kicks off Got there in the end... w00t

Music and Media

• Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's An embuggerance
• Wikipedia COO was convicted felon Exclusive Audit pending

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD's CrossFire X to enable integrated, discrete GPU co-operation Working together

News: Consoles

• Greenpeace slams next-gen consoles Gaming not green enough

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Test your liver... with your phone Dial-a-Doc

News: Hi-Def

• Budget HD DVD player to include even more free discs Not much stick, plenty of carrot

News: Phones

• Nokia to turn cameraphones into foreign food finders They'll help you shop too

News: Storage

• Toshiba tech paves way for 100Gb Flash chips Massive capacity iPods coming... but not for a few years yet

News: Xbox

• Retailers: Xbox 360 to win next-gen console war And they're pee'd off with the Wii

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Drink-drive chain gang obliged to bury dead alcoholics Don't mess with 'America's toughest sheriff'
• Knickerless celebutards: the secure data centre connection Discarded panties threaten national security
• NeoScale web man posts Better Off Dead invoice 'I want my $4,400'

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Jackass 2.5 to premiere online Straight-to-internet release bypasses cinemas

Reseller

• Dell parks itself in PC superstores across Europe Picks DSGi for retail love-in
• Laughing Squid squirts ink at Best Buy Chain backs down in T-shirt/First Amendment spat
• M&S ties up managed services deal with Computacenter Will also handle knicker giant's WEEE issues

Reviews: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD ATI Radeon HD 3850 graphics chip Review AMD back on top

Science: Space

• Geminids warm up for annual light show Conditions promising for meteor shower spectacular

Security

• Facebook takes the Captcha rap Stop the word verification madness

Security: ID

• Privacy storm descends on Dutch health care database Details about every citizen revealed

Services

• Northgate looks to private equity Possible buy-out in the pipeline?

Software

• Opera hits Microsoft with EC complaint Accuses Redmond of illegal bundling, breaking standards

Software: Applications

• Flash-based iPlayer is go Simmer down, zealots
• Ordnance Survey rescues rural towns from juggernauts Keeping local shops really local