21st August 2007 Archive

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Comms

• Slide towards IP gathers pace But fixed line telephony not dead yet

Comms: Mobile

• Garmin tops mobile navigation market Sales up 116%

Comms: Wireless

• Real time location systems are the new buzz in RFID Look after your assets

Hardware

• Evesham releases first product since administration Embattled computer maker turns on the telly

Hardware: Servers

• Sun data center goes less power-crazy Company eats its own greens
• Sun slots transactional memory into Rock Hot Chips Prays for code revolution

Hardware: Storage

• Dell's iSCSI assault revealed Exclusive Virtual attack on SMB market

Management

• Virgin Media boss in shock exit Burch falls

Management: Financial News

• UK ecommerce breaks £4bn a month Report shows 80% more sales

Management: Law

• Doctor faces High Court battle with GMC over weblink Exclusive Investigation into 'confidential' PDF

Management: Public Sector

• Info office to monitor blogs Will brief UK.gov on major online debates

Music and Media

• High street music retailer ChoicesUK goes titsup And then there were two

News: Cameras

• Canon bulks out compact cam range Point, shoot, zoom, etc

News: Desktops

• Shuttle launches Glamour range of PCs Performance meets bling

News: Hi-Def

• Paramount, Dreamworks go all out for HD DVD Spielberg movies excepted

News: Mac

• QuickTek Base Station upgrade promises 802.11n range boost

News: Media players

• Ion drives USB deck to digitise cassettes

News: Phones

• Samsung plugs tiny Bluetooth earpiece Ohhhhh, love to lobe you baby
• Time marches on to Nokia's latest handset The big hand is on the 6555

News: Smartphones

• Apple puts refurbished iPhones on sale $100 off

News: Storage

• Toshiba crams 320GB onto 2.5in HDD Capacity up, size down

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• El Reg protests North Korean internet domain Nuts to KP
• Cadbury bows to 'bring back Wispa' net campaign Victory for choc bar fanatics
• Naomi Campbell piles into Vogue WSA 'Black models sidelined', claims battling Streatham clotheshorse
• Robber held up bookies with vibrator Jail for Rampant Rabbit blagger

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Amazon punts grot flicks to hardcore Natalie Portman fans Knows her audience
• Doctor Who to meet self in Children in Need special Peter Davison to guest, insider claims

Reviews: Laptops

• Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop Review A laptop to replace your desktop

Science: Biology

• Dolphins abandon Bay of Biscay Marine boffins very concerned
• Girls prefer pink: official While boys get the blues

Science: Physics

• Climate change: looking for a haystack, not a needle Column Micro versus macro
• Northrop enters US Army monster raygun lorry race If it flies, it fries ... maybe
• US boffins demo steampunk artificial arm Only a slight chance of explosion or toxic armpit cloud

Science: Space

• Little bear harbouring isolated neutron star Weirdo stellar remnant spotted
• Solar waves make Earth ring like a bell Ding-dong

Security

• Researcher crosses swords with Google over XSS 'flaw' Bug or feature?
• The difficulty of validating systems and users How to do it accurately?

Security: Anti-Virus

• Storm Worm of a thousand faces Mutating malware hits cat lovers, music freaks

Security: Enterprise Security

• Monster Trojan monsters job seekers' records Mommy, there's a horse under my bed

Security: ID

• Paper calls for local ID cards 'More practical' than national ones

Software

• Adobe improves Flash video More quality, less bandwidth

Software: Applications

• Adobe exec updates open source group think Innovation has its limits
• BEA avoids NASDAQ drop - again So much for SOA
• Google pinches fewer pennies in video shutdown Takes the sting out of stingy

Software: Enterprise

• Microsoft vs. Google – the open source shame Comment Does anyone care when hippies get cancer?