7th May 2007 Archive

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Yahoo! searches! abroad! for! online! gambling! riches!

House of Cards Money poker games hit Yahoo! UK

Yahoo! has officially joined the online gambling goldrush: its British version has begun offering poker games for cash. Just when American companies would make a move to tap the regulated European gaming market has been a topic of considerable speculation in the online gaming world for quite a while now, and in that respect …

Music and Media 7 May 2007, 01:36
Mashing up enterprise data

Zogix balances new wave with tradition

UK software start-up Zogix aims to bring the emerging technology of data "mash up" under enterprise control with its Zogix Webtop Framework (ZWF) platform. Launched this week as a beta test version at Internet World in London, the package covers all the fashionable new wave Web 2.0 applications such as collaboration, "social …

Developer 7 May 2007, 05:02
Nivio betas hosted Windows

A virtual PC plus apps for £8 a month

Nivio has started beta tests of a Windows XP hosted desktop service, which it claims can stream a desktop to any compatible browser so you can remotely access Windows apps on Linux, a Mac, or even a handheld device. The company hopes to follow the access-anywhere success of GoogleMail, Yahoo! and the like - but with access to …

Software 7 May 2007, 06:02
A community on Parallels lines

It's virtually an appliance

Communities seem to be one of the de rigueur marketing approaches these days, especially when vendors are targeting applications developers and systems architects. They are not just a good way for such people to share knowledge about the established technologies and products they work with, but also an increasingly important …

Developer 7 May 2007, 07:02
Mirapoint adds directory to email gateway

Local anti-spam checks mean less network load

Mirapoint has developed what it says is the first secure email gateway with a built-in directory and policy engine. According to the company, this increases security and lightens the load on the gateway because it no longer has to query the corporate directory server through the firewall for every incoming message. The …

Enterprise Security 7 May 2007, 16:37
Microsoft vs. Teradata

Column Data Warehousing – there really isn't just one answer

Microsoft and Teradata are both significant players in the BI market but they have wildly different approaches to the challenges of extracting information from data. The reason lies in the fact that the two companies elected to solve two very different, but equally intractable, computational problems in order to get their BI …

Developer 7 May 2007, 16:38
How do you carry your mobile phone?

Nokia surveys reveal habits of users around the world

Data on how people carry their mobile phones, gathered by Nokia over the last four years, is being presented at HCI International 2007 in Beijing. It reveals that women are missing more calls than men, and that belt-pouches are a sign of middle age. Nokia interviewed more than 1500 people around the world, in cities including …

Mobile 7 May 2007, 16:52
IBM offers annual support for free DB2

Contracts buy you clustering and replication too

IBM is offering "low cost" 24x7 support contracts to users of the free version of DB2, called DB2 Express-C. As well as tech support, coughing up the readies allows users to hook up a second server for high-availability clustering or remote database replication. The support contracts are available online at $2995 (around £ …

Developer 7 May 2007, 16:54
Papua New Guinea reaches for the online gambling ring

House of Cards Out of the rainforest and onto the internet

An island nation more famous for ritualized cannibalism than for internet commerce has tossed its ceremonial headgear into the online gambling ring, after its parliament approved a bill legalizing both "bricks and mortar" and internet-based casino offerings by a 61-0 vote last week. The legislation, titled the "Gaming Control …

Law 7 May 2007, 16:57
AmeriDebt founder jailed in internet gambling dustup

House of Cards 'No longer a game,' judge says

The case of one-time credit counseling giant AmeriDebt took a turn for the worse this week, as a federal court judge ordered its founder Andris Pukke to jail for contempt of court, the Associated Press reports. AmeriDebt reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in 2006 to pony up $35m in funds to repay customers …

Law 7 May 2007, 17:01
The Pirate Bay admits links with right-wing benefactor

'We needed the money'

A spokesman for the Swedish torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, has admitted on Swedish tv that their servers and broadband bandwidth were financed by Carl Lundström, one of the alleged sponsors of Swedish far-right political party Sweden Democrats. "We needed the money," spokesman Tobias Andersson told Bert Karlsson, a former …

Music and Media 7 May 2007, 17:47
Student detained following attacks on Estonian websites

Allegedly offered DDoS how-to

A 19-year-old university student has been detained on suspicion of participating in a wave of computer attacks protesting the Estonian government's removal of a Soviet-era memorial from the center of that country's capital. It was the first arrest in the attacks, which last week shut down many Estonian government websites. …

Enterprise Security 7 May 2007, 17:51
HP faces lawsuit by three News.com reporters

Demands for several million dollars per reporter denied

Three CNET News.com reporters who were spied on in Hewlett-Packard's methodical investigation to reveal the source of media leaks plan to sue the company for invasion of privacy. The decision by Dawn Kawamoto, Tom Krazit and Stephen Shankland comes after several months of negotiations with HP to discuss settling the sordid …

Law 7 May 2007, 21:13
Microsoft-Novell partnership hooks Dell

Open source and filed IP / live together in perfect har-mo-ny

Dell has become the first major player to show up to Microsoft and Novell's compatibility love-in. The PC vendor joins a landmark alliance between the patent-protected and open source OS developers inked last November. The agreement will address what all three companies say is customer demand for greater interoperability and …

Channel Register 7 May 2007, 21:19
Hotmail is dead! Long live Hotmail!

Microsoft's email client gets web 2.0 makeover

Microsoft's Hotmail has blossomed into a Web 2.0 service after going through an 11-year ugly duckling phase. The transformation has changed MSN Hotmail into Windows Live Hotmail. The company calls today's public relaunch of its free email service "the most significant upgrade" since its inception in 1996. The web-based client …

Telecoms 7 May 2007, 23:03
TSA: We're not saying our hard drive is gone but...

It's just not here anymore

The universe has an odd tendency to absorb certain objects into the oblivion of un-existence. Television remotes, single socks, car keys, lighters, external hard drives containing 100,000 employee records, pen caps; they all come and go like tiny dimensional travelers. And such is the order of things that missing socks and …

Security 7 May 2007, 23:58