10th May 2008 Archive

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Sick of JavaOne? - You will be

Suspected Norovirus stalks halls

With Sun Microsystems banging on about Web 2.0 and mashups for days, anyone would be excused for feeling ready to hurl by day-three of its annual JavaOne conference. Come Friday, though, 70 people were genuinely ill having contracted what officials believed to he the highly contagious norovirus. Norovirus is contracted simply …

Bootnotes 10 May 00:19
Texas realizes Amazon is in Texas

Online Tax Squabble Part Deux

Texas may soon follow in the footsteps of those clever New Yorkers, asking Amazon for some serious sales tax dollars. Or maybe not. Currently, Amazon does not collect sales tax on goods shipped to the Lone Star State. But as reported by The Dallas Morning News, the Texas comptroller is considering whether this situation needs …

Law 10 May 00:25
Shareholder sees golf as AMD cure all

Better than a kick in the tail

Cash-strapped AMD didn't bother to tell investors how it plans to reorganize manufacturing operations and return to profitability during its annual shareholder meeting yesterday — but apparently nobody was concerned. Far greater queries were afoot. The chip maker faced only a single shareholder question during the Q&A segment …

Bootnotes 10 May 01:10
Web fan-owned football club heads to Wembley final

Updated A grand day out for the minnows

Ebbsfleet United, the English semi-professional team owned by fans who bought their shares on the Net, is off to Wembley today for the FA Trophy Final. The Conference side is taking on Torquay United in the final of a competition organised for teams in the five tiers below the English Football League. Saturday marks Ebbsfleet' …

Small Biz 10 May 07:02
Extreme porn, hard drives and election strain

Comments Phwoar, pass us some lethal skunk

Windows XP Service Pack 3 dropped this week, later than expected but finally here. This triggered an unending litany of cynicism and doubt from you. Keep up the good work. Very well tested by those redmond jerks then. I just downloaded the iso and the faq.htm linked in by the installer says: More information about installing …

Letters 10 May 11:02