19th May 2008 Archive

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Code: Microsoft/.Net

• Five misunderstood Vista features Microsoft's 'stupid, stupid, stupid' document goes missing

Comms: Mobile

• Motorola strategy chief is latest exec to go Woah... they had a strategy chief?
• Vodafone shells out big bucks in buying spree Milk, eggs, social networking site, German telephone company...

Comms: Networks

• How Free Press breaks the citizens' network Inside the mind of Ben Scott

Hardware: Servers

• Dell and Rackable's CFOs a-go-go As the revolving brass door turns...
• Microsoft slides out second HPC Windows 2008 beta Tweak tweak, hush hush

Hardware: Storage

• EMC builds up disk backup De- duplication, spin down, low-power drives and simpler software

Hardware: Virtualization

• HP confesses love for Citrix with mobile thin client 'Intends' to stream the heck out of graphics
• VMware pitches virtual office desktops 101 Love-taps Sun's thin clients

Management: Financial News

• BAE chief exec, director detained at US airports Subpoenas issued - laptop drives copied?
• Microsoft! offers! Yahoo! less! New deal on the table
• SEC charges eight ex-AOL TW execs with civil fraud Inflating ad revenues

Music and Media

• BBC's Today Programme shutters message board Flagship radio news organ enrages pants-wearing web commentariat
• BitTorrent tracker Mininova faces legal action Mostly warez?
• Google unveils Image Search image ads 'A seamless experience'
• Whatever happened to... Three Strikes? BPI hasn't started shooting. Yet.

News: Desktops

• AMD turns to exclamation mark to rally gamers to cause Game! launched!

News: Phones

• Mobile phones cause bad behaviour in kids - report Hyperactivity and emotional problems linked to phones

News: Smartphones

• Samsung Glyde touches down in US U940 finally annouced, debuts on Verizon
• Vendor pitches handheld phone-data extractor Snooping made easy

News: TV

• Samsung pitches 82in "ultra-definition" telly More pixels than you can shake a stick at
• Sony talks up blue OLED breakthrough Larger and less power hungry OLEDs en route?

News: UMPCs

• Asus throttles back Eee PC WiMax drive Upcoming Atom-based sub-notebook to get Bluetooth instead?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Ballmer eggs on Hungarian student Student retaliates
• Stungun shootout in Colorado leaves slowest man standing Tasers for two, coffee for one
• Yorkshire police head off pillow fight anarchy Coppers spit feathers over flashmob plan

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Aliens, astronauts and Pope partition PC World Comments Shareholders welcome their new overlords

Public Sector: Government

• Auditor gets diminishing returns from data matching 36% less fraud detected
• Brown goes YouTube There goes the neighbourhood
• MI5 spy wife was Formula One chief's Teutonic thrash tart Mosley suspects spook spank stitch-up

Public Sector: Law

• Google under fire again for handing user info to police This time in India

Reviews: UMPCs

• Vye mini-v S37B sub-notebook Review The people carrier of the sub-notebook world

Science

• Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing Laser-cannon plane set for inflight fryings 'this year'

Security

• 'Hacker Safe' leader defrauded investors, prosecutors say McAfee security researcher ordered to stand trial for fraud
• Zango dismisses Storm Worm conspiracy theory Ah did not have relations with that Trojan

Security: Crime

• Brits more fearful of ID fraud Ofcom aims to bridge knowledge gap

Security: Enterprise Security

• Spanish police cuff web defacement crew Five teens are net's 'most prolific hackers'

Software

• BSA dubs Manchester second worst for piracy 'So much to answer for...'

Software: Applications

• Can Microsoft 'do' open source by 2015? Consistency and commitment needed
• First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door It's tinkering time
• Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm Firefox - your friendly data snooper

Software: Open Season

• Open source zealots fill with venom Radio Reg While bumbling OLPC bumbles to Microsoft