21st December 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Ofcom, US senators turn on to cognitive radio You are entering the white space
• Third round of consultations on 2.6GHz auctions Get your spectrum here, lovely spectrum, we got all sorts

Comms: Wireless

• Wishing you an EMF-free Christmas Christmas gifts for the truly paranoid

Distribution

• Fayrewood waves au revoir to French periperals unit DCC snaps up firm for €12m

Hardware

• Chip overflow puts dent in 2008 forecast Talks of pesky recession ain't helping much either
• Click here to turn your HP laptop into a brick More bundled software madness

Hardware: Data Networking

• Chambers number 2 walks out of Cisco CEO wannabe Giancarlo not a team player

Hardware: Servers

• MIT in pedal-powered 'super' computer stunt 'Maybe a solution for alternative energy, or something'
• New Red Hat CEO checks open source claims Not my bag, baby
• Samba shakes hands with Microsoft No royalties to pay in interop deal?

Hardware: Storage

• Dell buys UK storage networking consultancy Methodist hymn
• IBM forges Solid acquisition Xmas shopping for in-memory database software
• Who's archiving IT's history? Column The mishandling of Babbage's baggage

Management: Financial News

• DCMS inks IT deal with Atos Origin Overcomes seven year itch to sign £14m contract

Management: Government

• Europe to save citizens from rubbish Web 2.0 media Media studies education for all, apparently
• Gov departments need better data systems, NAO says 8% 'not fit for purpose'

Management: Law

• US TKOs Antigua in bizarre WTO arbitration decision Dispute strangely reaches climax

Management: Reg Weekly

• Microsoft goes beta for Xmas as CSC leaves staff pie-eyed To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

News: Consoles

• Censor to challenge Manhunt 2 release in court Judge says it has a case
• Handhelds dominate Japanese pre-Xmas console sales DS rules the roost

News: Hi-Def

• Plunging player prices to reveal Blu-ray vs HD DVD winner? 'Format clarity' coming in 2008, says analyst

News: Phones

• N-Gage First Access debut date slips... again November December 2008?

News: TV

• Sharp, Toshiba to share LCD TV toys Plan to buy each others' kit

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The trivia quiz Episode 43 Test your skill. Place your bets!

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Indignant reader defends Idiot 2.0™ FoTW 'Bugger off out the office'

Reseller

• Compaq returns to Germany - as brand for bottom-feeders Faded glory
• Tesco to start flogging Dell computers Pile-high sell-cheap squared

Reviews: Phones

• Sony Ericsson Walkman W910i motion-controlled phone Review The shake of things to come

Science

• Russian railways in robot repairman revue Dwarf droid dancers in TV debut
• US air force, Boeing press on with alternative jet fuel tests Virgin scum-jumbo trial next year could rattle Saudis

Security

• Anti-virus protection gets worse What is this thing you call heuristics?
• One in five apps are insecure Survey exposes patching woes
• Russian Feds close in on Pinch Trojan authors Tales from the Underground

Security: Anti-Virus

• Ad hijacking Trojan targets Google Misdirection ruse

Security: Enterprise Security

• Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites No patch anytime soon

Security: ID

• Skipton in lost laptop security woes 14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breach

Servers/Storage

• Sun gets EMEA boss at last Early Christmas present

Services

• Private equity firm snaps up Northgate Shares surge, investors line pockets