30th April 2008 Archive

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Code

• SpringSource claims first 'proper' application server Test and maintenance relief

Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• KVM funder takes a swing at desktop virtualization Qumranet wants you hooked on SolidICE

Comms: Mobile

• MP launches ten minute rule bill on in-UK roaming How much per minute?!?
• Police nick 460 a day for using mobiles while driving 'Hi honey, I'm wrapped round a tree'
• Sony Ericsson puts a Flash into Java Why have only one development platform?

Comms: Networks

• BBC iPlayer continues platform sluttiness with Virgin Media launch Satellite of love resentment

Hardware: Data Networking

• Blue Coat vows to fund the heck out of PacketShaper Interop 2008 Jewel of WAN acceleration firm's $268m purchase
• Mao to run 3Com from China Can new boss deliver great leap forward?

Hardware: Servers

• Stanford grabs $6m to shape the future of software Virtual worlds, robots and huge databases covered

Hardware: Storage

• Dubya archives White House email by hand When a system is not a system

Lifecycle

• Hafta Man and the threat to agile design Pragmatism, not grand plans

Management: Financial News

• Microhoo! what's! going! on? Possible announcement likely maybe today
• Telco spending will flatline in 2008 Alcatel-Lucent dials down forecast

Management: IT Director

• Citrix boss wants data center 'dinosaurs' to evolve Interop 2008 Service-oriented mammalians to survive IT recession

Music and Media

• Radiohead diss freetards No repetition of In Rainbows 'honesty' experiment
• Time Warner to amputate cable tentacle 'Anyone want AOL too?'
• US beak pecks at RIAA's 'making available' filesharing attack Rrreeeeewiiiiiiind!
• Watchdog demands MSN Music mea culpa Run some Google ads, Steve
• Why have Radiohead broken freetards' hearts? Analysis One or two things you didn't know about In Rainbows...

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Graphics biz shows first Q1 growth for six years Market share shuffle continues

News: Consoles

• Grand Theft Auto 4 queue man stabbed in head Revenge assault attempted
• Game rating to confound censor, trade body chief claims ELSPA and BBFC tough it out

News: Phones

• Samsung digital TV phone en route to Blighty Turn on, tune in, slob out
• Toffs' phone maker goes loco over Rococo A monetary masterpiece?

News: Smartphones

• AT&T to slash 3G iPhone price to beat unlockers? Making it cheaper to stick with the official network

News: TV

• LG telly launch gulls Tinseltown stars New TV series - or a new series of TVs?

News: Useless... but Cool

• Brits vote for useless gadgets Manufacturers run scared

News: Wireless

• Wristwatch packs Wi-Fi sniffer, also tells time No wind-up

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Lesbians turn on lesbians in battle of Lesbos We want our name back, demand irate islanders
• Slashdot website down Updated: Suffering from the self-Slashdot effect?

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Ian McKellen to reprise Gandalf Back for The Hobbit

Public Sector: Government

• How scanners and PCs will choose London's mayor Can e-counting technology get it right this time?
• UK physics chief next for the chop in funding bloodbath? Select committee evidence 'inaccurate, unconvincing and unacceptable'

Public Sector: Law

• Welsh blogger fined over 'menacing' plod blog Said he was just letting off steam

Public Sector: Policing

• School crossing guards join CCTV panlollycon Lollicams for all

Q&A

• Is there a router I can connect a USB 3G modem to? Q&A

Reviews: Storage

• LG GGW-H20L Blu-ray HD DVD combo drive Review Ready to run any HD disc on your PC

Science: Biology

• Discoverer of LSD dead at 102 Albert Hofmann takes his final trip
• Vultures crash out of the Indian skyscape Could be extinct in a decade

Security: Anti-Virus

• Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse Comment 'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'

Security: Crime

• MS supplies cops with DIY forensics tool Cybercrims? They'll never get their hands on one...
• Nigerian duped gullible NASA employee Looking for love in all the wrong places

Security: Enterprise Security

• Anti-Israel hackers deface central bank site Security doesn't roll on Shabbat
• Plasma TV components applied to password cracking Bluetooth crypto blown in eight seconds

Software

• SAP reports profits drop, delays ByDesign rollout Software-as-a-service-eventually

Software: Enterprise

• MS pulls plugs on XP SP3 mass launch 'Compatibility issues' delay Windows update