10th August 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Nokia N800 gets WiMAX Gears up for big Sprint
• Orange lands Lampard TV coup Reality-mobile

Comms: VoIP

• Vonage works around Verizon patents But customers stay away

Devices: Platforms

• Punch out your own code on a Greenphone We get keyed up about Trolltech's Qtopia

Hardware

• Fibre Channel gets an 8Gig kicker But it won't stop people defecting to iSCSI

Hardware: PCs & Chips

• Nokia revises chipset strategy Will outsource chip development

Hardware: Semi-Coherent Computing

• Dissecting penguins for fun and profit Meat Cast LinuxWorld - From Dell to beer and BarCamp

Hardware: Servers

• Taking the trade out of tradeshows - start-ups set for failure LinuxWorld The perils of the NDA booth

Hardware: Storage

• Google starts charging for storage As Microsoft offers on-line folders for free
• SNIA offers green advice Storage group uses carbon bandwagon to spread its wings

Management: Financial News

• Watchdog pokes Sky's Amstrad deal Set-top boxing match

Management: Government

• Ex-MI5 agent Shayler claims to be chav messiah Eccentric ex-spook checks in from fruitcakeville
• New MoD push to silence internal dissent There's my foot, sergeant! Pass me the gun, quick!
• OGCbs drops transformation framework Halts tender process
• Pirate Party invades Utah Down with the RIAA!

Management: Law

• UK gambling ad ban hits overseas operators Except those in Alderney and the Isle of Man

Management: Reg Weekly

• Novell tells LinuxWorld to face the future as Rollins rolls in dosh To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Music and Media

• AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush sing-along Analysis Home of the bland
• Universal tests DRM-free future Flogs MP3s without copy protection for trial period only

News: MP3 players

• 'Portable' CD player puts MP3 into a spin Listen carefully

News: PCs

• Another 1,400 Sony batteries sent for slaughter Flaming pyres, panic in the shires..

News: Phones

• HTC rumours hot up New handsets afoot?

News: TV

• Panasonic showcases future TV line-up You'll need to live in Japan though

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: Damsels in distress Episode 28 Why yes, I can help

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• eBay seller nabs $1500 for Jesus-like garage stain American icon

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Doctor Who signs up thinking man's crumpet Beeb butters up viewers with Good stuff

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Competition: Correct history with Google's News Comments Summer Fun Write retrospective PR - win a T-shirt

PC Builder

• Evesham boss changes tune on tax break scheme 2006: 'Not...dependent on HCI'. 2007: 'Blame HCI'

R&R: Opinion

• So you wanna program games? Editors' Blog Get thee to Los Angeles

Science

• Earth will feel the heat from 2009: climate boffins Predicting brisk trade for bikini makers
• Securo-prof claims to invent new, much deadlier dirty bomb Probably best dealt with by a cold shower
• US Navy seeks hydrogen-powered forklifts Won't set the world on fire. Maybe the warehouse

Science: Space

• China to map 'every inch' of the moon There's Helium-3 in them thar hills
• NASA: astronauts do not fly drunk Investigation draws a blank

Security

• 'Wild West' internet needs a sheriff Peers call for legal liability for security bugs
• Harry Potter and the Virus of Doom Spoiler Alert A wizardly rival to BOFH?

Security: Enterprise Security

• Web designer-turned-hacker avoids jail Tales of mystery and intrigue from the world of motorcycling

Security: Spam

• Outlook grim as Cloudmark update crashes email clients Stormy weather

Software: Enterprise

• EnterpriseDB chases Oracle and MySQL on Web 2.0 LinuxWorld Once again, with feeling
• Linux vendors and Microsoft follow the money LinuxWorld Immovable rock, meet unstoppable force

Software: Operating Systems

• ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel Purple Pill leaves bitter taste