2nd May 2008 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Indian electronics firm has Moto device biz in its sights Videocon fancies a bit
• Vodafone bundles mobile data You can't give it away these days

Comms: Networks

• Nominet critic wins boardroom seat Executive fails on Special Resolution 6

Hardware

• Customers give Dell the finger over keyboard screw-up Does this machine look shifty to you?
• Intel sales chief promises Atom bombing Will satiate chip-starved OEMs

Hardware: Data Networking

• Broadcom shrinks Ethernet switching gear to 65nm Interop 2008 Smaller chips and green intentions

Hardware: Servers

• Green data center threat level: Not green IBM rolls out measuring tape, and researchers see red
• Mag-lev flywheel UPS firm says shipments speeding up Spins composite whirly-power as wave of future
• Sun stock goes degenerate dwarf Not a stellar showing

Information: Databases

• Frustration and joy - Microsoft's CTP in action Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Thank God for file streaming

Management: Financial News

• Amazon sues New York over Amazon Tax No respect for genius
• Microsoft and Yahoo! renew their marriage talks Microhoo Ballmer expands dowry

Management: IT Director

• DoJ beats up tech firm for H-1B only job ads Small fine, humiliation by press release

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• Stamping on the spam or wading through it? See what else is on the El Reg menu

Management: Small Biz

• Big Blue, Intel chat up little guys online I'm feeling bored today - wanna buy some software?

Music and Media

• Swiss start-up re-broadcasting UK TV channels 'We're not doing anything illegal'
• YouTube rolls out Scientology double standard XenuTV vs. Anonymous Hate Crimes

News: Desktops

• Dell revamps liquid-cooled gaming rig XPS 730 H2C debuts

News: MP3 players

• Creative settles MP3 player capacity clash When is a gigabyte not a gigabyte?
• Oz cops sound iPod road cross death warning 'I'm on a highway to hell...'

News: PCs

• Microsoft to punt pensioner-proof PC Slippers, pipe not included

News: Phones

• Motorola partners with Kodak on cameraphone Watch out, Cyber-shot

News: Smartphones

• Carphone Warehouse cleared out of 8GB iPhones 16GB version gone too

News: Storage

• Liven up poker games - with storage! This time the house won't win

News: Xbox

• Blu-ray-for-Xbox 360 rumours restoked Redmond keeping mum

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: The Boss gets Grandpa Simpson syndrome Episode 16 So he's an old computer buff, apparently

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Japanese council worker in 750k smut site pornathon 20 grumble pages per minute over nine months
• Phorm in phormulaic logo phorm storm LogoWatch Sheffield design company cries foul
• The battle of Lesbos: Exclusive combat pic Lesbians lick Lesbians in dramatic beach landing

Public Sector: Government

• FISA warrants on a roll - but who needs a warrant? Comment A toast to Dick
• Legal blow to secret government lobbying Government told 'show us the menus'

Public Sector: Policing

• No-fly list grounds US Air Marshals Bureaucrat's memo takes on blacklist madness

Reviews: Laptops

• Lenovo ThinkPad X300 sub-notebook Review Skinny, light and utterly desirable

Science

• Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler? Analysis A tale of two thermometers
• Robot aircraft 'sense and avoid' gear in flight tests Auto-safety kit good for droids - and flying cars

Security: Enterprise Security

• HSBC foils '£70m fraud' Police called in over 'improper' transfer

Services

• EDS sharpens axe for another 90 UK staff What have you done for me lately?

Software: Applications

• Apple update trick triples Safari share The fruits of subterfuge

Software: Open Season

• Open source software is murder Radio Reg Just ask Oracle, Sun and Microsoft