6th October 2007 Archive
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SAP takes Eclipse to Sin City
Top down, not bottoms up approach
The first maintenance release of open source development platform Eclipse Europa hit this week, accompanied by a flurry of activity across the Eclipse community. Business applications giant SAP, more your business consultant than your average developer's company, tried to cash in at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, …
Software 6 Oct 01:49
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Sony's 40GB PS3 for Europe confirmed
SCEE closes its eyes and thinks of England
Confirming numerous reports of a cheaper Playstation 3 hitting UK shores, Sony announced on Friday it will sell a baseline 40GB version of its console in Europe beginning 19 October for €399. The reduced price, however, will come at the cost of a few features: the console will not include the multi-memory port and has two USB …
Reg Hardware 6 Oct 01:51
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Yahoo! Teams! With! eBay! And! PayPal! To! End! Phishing!
If you use Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal.
Yahoo! has teamed with eBay and PayPal to save you from phishing scams. If you use Yahoo! Mail. And the scams involve eBay or PayPal. Yesterday, the three companies announced that, over the next several weeks, Yahoo! Mail users worldwide "will begin receiving fewer fake e-mails claiming to be sent by eBay and PayPal." You see, …
Spam 6 Oct 01:58
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Sun grabs patent for magneto-hydrodynamic heatsink
Like a tiny X-Men villain on your CPU
Sun Microsystems has been issued an interesting patent for a "magneto-hydrodynamic" heatsink packed in a closed fluid system. The device, spotted by tgdaily, uses tiny magnetic fields to pump electrically conductive fluid towards and away from hot spots on a CPU. The electric current is dependent on a temperate sensor on the …
PCs & Chips 6 Oct 01:59
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Sprint Nextel and Verizon jury trials have Vonage on the brink
Patent defeat wounds Vonage further
Sprint has won a second jury trial over patent infringement against US VoIP service Vonage, in what is an echo of the defeat inflicted earlier by Verizon. The patent numbers used in the Sprint Nextel case versus Vonage could all be about the same patent, the process of mapping a narrowband message, for instance a PSTN network …
Networks 6 Oct 07:02
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