24th April 2008 Archive

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Code

• Random people to monkey with Yahoo! search engine Mail and Mobile next

Code: Scripting

• Microsoft's Ruby lead sounds Balkanization alarm Wanted: a Guy Steele Jr, for Ruby

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Ubuntu launchpad for Affero? Google test case

Comms: Mobile

• Motorola losses grow over flabby Q1 Devices drag figures down
• Vodafone and China Mobile team to build mobile Web 2.0 All your widget are belong to us

Comms: Networks

• Lib Dem mayor candidate jumps aboard muni Wi-Fi failboat Targeting the key tight-fisted cappuccino-drinker vote

Hardware: Servers

• Sun buys low-power x86 disaster Montalvo Exclusive Asymmetrical chip assets
• Sun chum Oracle pushes database buyers to IBM Comment T2+ blunder spells Rock disaster in waiting

Hardware: Storage

• Blade dishes loss-less Ethernet wonder Making the FCoE dream happen
• IBM's SVC unit will get thin provisioning Capacity diet planned but not specified
• LaCie's rugged rubber drive hits 500GB Rubber baby hard drive bumper

Information: Databases

• Spread your database connections with PHP PDO Less is more

Management: Financial News

• Amazon spits out healthy Q1 results Bats gloomy recession ball into the stands
• Autonomy shares drop despite solid results Punished for missed targets
• Unlocked iPhones help drive Apple Q2 Don't cry for me AT&T...

Music and Media

• Anti-Scientology crusader vaporized from YouTube 'Help me, Stephen Colbert. You're my only hope'
• Clash vet pens 'Don't tase me bro!' ditty 'It's gonna go like this - dun-dun-dun... Aaaargh!'
• Why has Sony bought Gracenote? Oiling the machine

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD introduces bug-fix three-core Phenoms Less than a month after the previous versions

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Honda android to conduct symphony orchestra Foo Bah-Bah-Bah-Baaah!

News: Handhelds

• Sony and Sky plan summer release for video download scheme Watch satellite telly on a PSP

News: MP3 players

• Samsung rolls out Pebble player Rock and roll

News: PS3

• Plate armour to protect PS3 Not bullet-proof
• Sony to bring GTA IV PS3 bundle to Blighty Five days to go...

News: Phones

• LG spills Secret beans Pssst
• Motorola debuts 3G Z8 kicker Stylish moves
• Slang splurge forces voice-recognition revision One is not amused

News: Storage

• Iomega pitches paperback-sized media playback HDD Pages of storage

News: TV

• Pioneer picks Panasonic as plasma telly partner Firms to combine R&D efforts

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Canadian man in Taser trouser inferno shocker Plods claim victim had combustibles stashed in pants
• Coming soon: The Church of Googlology? WHOIS trawl reveals plans for burrito-worship sex cult

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7? Scripts in development, says broadcaster

Public Sector: Government

• Border Agency plans Olympic identity card Access card to be 'inclusive and far reaching'
• Eye-o-Sauron™ border beam barrier tech too crap to keep Migrant scan towers to be rebuilt from ground up
• Home Office defends 'dangerously misleading' Phorm thumbs-up Updated 'Protecting the public'

Public Sector: Law

• UK net registry battles coup d'etat Updated The power struggle at the heart of Nominet
• US court says IP addresses are private Want a subpoena? Take it to the grand jury

Public Sector: Policing

• Central e-crime unit waits for Home Office approval Amber light
• Sydney skies menaced by deadly raygun disco-ball Avant-garde public artwork almost downs traffic chopper
• The terror dam of doom that looms over Boise, Idaho America's terror vulnerability capital - no, really
• The web rip-offs nobody cares about Column Online, no one can hear you cry
• Unmasking the Neighborhood Network Watch Is it art or a plot to spy on America's Wi-Fi networks?

Reviews: MP3 players

• Sony Bluetooth Walkman NWZ-A826K Review Better late than never?

Science: Environment

• Brown gov will make 'big commitment' to carbon capture Big as in small

Science: Space

• Colliding galaxies mark Hubble anniversary New set of galactic pile-up snaps released

Security

• YouTube has a little local difficulty in Arabia Cache from chaos

Security: Enterprise Security

• Web infection attacks more than 100,000 pages UK Civil Service, UN and EPA among the plagued

Software

• 'We could wake up smarter' - Ballmer hints at Win XP reprieve Vista-shy customers raise your hands
• OLPC sweet talks Microsoft Sprinkles Sugar on top of Windows

Software: Applications

• Microsoft could go it alone without Yahoo! Ballmer won't up bid
• Murdoch's chief hacker testifies in California But what colour was his hat?

Software: Operating Systems

• FreeBSD developer Kip Macy charged with tenant terror Landlord rage