18th April 2008 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Cheapo textable landline numbers for all Executive Brainstorm declares thumb war
• Motorola remodels mobile division Blame pulled from operational flowchart
• Ofcom lifts the lid on L-band bidders Who wants a piece of spectrum pie?
• You'll learn to love mobile TV Comment Or the kitten dies

Comms: Networks

• AT&T waves goodbye to 4,600 staffers Home phone? Go home

Hardware

• Commodore goes titsup (again) Creditors bankrupt the company

Hardware: Servers

• Windows Server 2008 is better than Vista, but why? Juice your desktop with Server

Hardware: Storage

• IBM continues storage land grab with Diligent acquisition Gets EMC's old R&D hands
• Nimbus-led alliance hopes to big up 10Gb Ethernet Switch and adapt

Management: Financial News

• AMD's Q1 loss comes in as planned Puts faith in quad-core Opterons
• eBay ponders Skype bail out Implementing buy high, sell low strategy
• Google earnings soar despite paid click dip Take that, Doubting Thomases
• Microsoft buys travel search site Pays real money
• Samsung chairman faces tax dodging charges Escapes jail to protect economy

Market News

• Avnet sees blue skies with Horizon buy Irish reseller falls into line

Music and Media

• Blockbuster gets legal poke for Facebook Tupperware campaign Beacon Borking
• F1 chief seeks French ban on orgy video Bonne chance mon brave
• Freetards fill their boots - music survey P2P for free, for me
• Pirate Bay-probing cop on Warner Brothers payroll 'Talk about a conflict of interests'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Nvidia preps rival for AMD's Radeon HD 3830 GeForce 9600 GSO, anyone?

News: Consoles

• Japan: Wii Mario Kart more popular than PSP erotica Only My Fruit comes second
• Price cut fails to push Xbox 360 past PS3 in UK Exclusive And Wii still well ahead of both

News: Storage

• Mystery HDD maker orders kit to build monster-capacity drives Patterned-media mass-production equipment ordered

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Licensing model Episode 14 I'd strongly recommend an upgrade to Platinum support

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• 'Rowdy' rectal extraction op vid hits YouTube Filipino docs may regret 'Baby out!' spray canister merriment
• El Reg celebrates 10th birthday Our snapper captures London bacchanalian excess
• Malodorous Europe gasses UK Met Office probes offensive 'Euro-whiff'
• Pissed Russian sleeps off knifing Missus finally spots 6-inch hangover

Public Sector: Government

• Choose and Book mixes up patient appointments Neither chosen nor booked
• Cow turds fuel Blighty's hydrogen filling station embrace Birmingham Uni fills up on brown gas
• DARPA in search for five-year-mission solar wingship 'Vulture' Enterprise-style stratocruiser compo is go
• FCC chief claims power over network management Left Coast Comcast Hearing Vows rescue of coders and consumers
• UK consumers lose £6.6bn a year to unfair treatment Telecoms and banking firms - the biggest culprits
• US gov may forbid BAE Eurofighter sale to Saudis Brit kit contains significant US tech. Whoops

Public Sector: Law

• Warning sounded on Microsoft and Google's health records landgrab Dr Ballmer will market you now

R&R: Books

• Coupling and the power of accidental relationships Book extract, part three Emergent Design: break point

Reviews: Phones

• Sony Ericsson K660i internet phone Review Designed for surfing

Security: Crime

• MySpace profile hack provides early warning to predators Unplugged 'system error'
• Notorious eBay hacker arrested in Romania Vladuz impaled

Software

• eBay software faker jailed for ten months A++ sentence! Would use judge again!

Software: Applications

• Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play Mozilla still peeved

Software: Operating Systems

• Ballmer bitch slaps Vista Confesses to Vista's bloat and imperfections