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30th December 2005 Archive

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  • 'Intel Inside' sent to the place where brands go to die

    Time to 'Leap Ahead'

    It's time to retire your "Intel Inside" jokes and start coming up with some "Leap Ahead" humor. Intel is changing its branding campaign after 14 years. Intel leaked word of the new brand to the Wall Street Journal, disclosing that it will adopt the "Leap Ahead" theme at next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. …

    PCs 30 Dec 2005, 00:19

  • 'You're nothing but a payroll'

    FoTW Die, pseudo hack

    We've been accused of a lot of things over the years. This week's flame, however, sets a new low. Andy in Virginia has charged us with being the payroll for Rocker Partners - a firm that Overstock.com's CEO Patrick Byrne has sued. It's unclear what part of our recent Overstock story inspired such a claim. We can assure you …

    Letters 30 Dec 2005, 01:29

  • Shining a light on patents

    2005 in review We're all pinko now

    This will be known as the year in which the killjoys were startled by whoopee cushions every time they tried to park their fat wallets on some feeble creative freedom. Whether big business was trying to suppress software development, exploit our cultural heritage, monopolise our genes, or take control of the food chain, it …

    Media 30 Dec 2005, 08:03

  • Hangovers: drunken readers offer hope

    Letters How to get hammered and live

    Welcome to the last Reg letters of 2005 - an unsuprisingly swift trawl through what was left in the bottom of the mailbag after the Xmas hangover wore off. More on hangovers in a minute. Try this for openers, regarding ETL - whatever the hell that is: Since I don't have a clue what ETL (or even Extract, Transform and Load) …

    Letters 30 Dec 2005, 11:39

  • Google AdSense Trojan prowls cyberspace

    Dirty tricks done dirt cheap

    Hackers have developed a Trojan horse program that produces fake Google ads posing as the real thing. The as-yet unnamed Trojan replaces legitimate ads served via Google AdSense with promos for penis pills, porn sites and the like. The ads are, of course, not contextualised and infection would be relatively easy to detect. …

    Security 30 Dec 2005, 12:29

  • Dial MMS for Marijuana

    US police bust dope-dealing network

    A teenage drug-dealing network that promoted its wares using MMS messages has been busted after a mother found incriminating messages on her child's mobile. Massachusetts police arrested six local teenagers last week following a tip-off for a parent of one of the gang's intended marijuana customers, according to local reports. …

    Mobile 30 Dec 2005, 12:32

  • Ex-envoy unleashes blog-based attack on UK's torture denials

    Web rings to cries of 'I'm Spartacus'...

    Former ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has harnessed the Internet in his long-running feud with the UK Government. A forthcoming book covering his time as ambassador is currently being blocked by the Foreign Office, which has demanded he remove references to two documents from the book and his web site. Murray has …

    Media 30 Dec 2005, 13:28

  • London estate broadband offers 'spot the ASBO suspect' TV channel

    The logical conclusion - we use CCTV to watch ourselves

    When it comes to surveillance, the UK is a world-beater, and way out in front of the rest of the country in terms of CCTV cameras per square mile is London where, as Andy Warhol might have said, everybody can be famous every 15 metres. But who can we get to watch all of those screens? Well, what about the entire population of " …

    Media 30 Dec 2005, 17:19

  • Sshhh... One-chip, real-time smartphones are here

    2006 Preview A quantum leap vendors don't want to talk about

    By this time next year the bar for mobile technology will have been raised rather higher than it is today, in what promises to be the most significant hardware advance for several years. But in a surprising contrast to most technology introductions, which either trumpet arcane features (eg, "32 bitiness"), or are noisily hype …

    Mobile 30 Dec 2005, 18:17

  • Readers revolted and joyous that Jimmy Wales lives

    Stern response Stroke it, genius

    The globules tried hard to find inaccuracies in my obituary for Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Despite the "rigor" of the citizen journalists' investigations, they failed to discover a single error in the piece. This goes to show that a trained professional will always outclass amateurs. The only part of the obituary that may …

    Letters 30 Dec 2005, 19:25