14th March 2008 Archive

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Code: Java/J2EE

• Next Eclipse platform could slip IBM's grip Blood letting is good
• Other languages key to Java's future QCon 2008 Platform play nice with others
• Time for genuine 'write-once, run-anywhere' Java Oracle and BEA: a new hope?

Code: Scripting

• Zend stacks PHP for work and play SLAs for your fave Paris Hilton clip

Comms

• Ofcom maps out next spectrum auction Where the rest of the world puts its DAB

Comms: Mobile

• Indian gov says no plan to squeeze out BlackBerrys 'At this point'
• O2 signs up with Napster iTunes is not our only option
• Three questions for the Jesus SDK eComm What? No IM?

Hardware: Servers

• Telehouse plans £80m London data centre expansion Bigging it up

Hardware: Storage

• EMC upgrades Centera software In brief Disks hold more objects and stuff...

Lifecycle

• XP daddy: go incremental on design QCon 2008 Safe steps for hectic times

Management: Financial News

• Yahoo! leaves! London! But talks to Microsoft!

Management: Reg Weekly

• Google-Doubleclick clicks as Phorm loses form To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here

Management: Small Biz

• Small biz groups give Darling Budget a wary sniff Chancellor takes 'credible first step'

Music and Media

• BBC's download iPlayer goes titsup Updated Kontiki FAIL
• Korea's P2P pirate goes legal, targets Europe Free bundled P2P: The shape of things to come?

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Intel's first quad-core mobile aimed at gamers Core 2 Extreme QX9300 due Q3

News: Consoles

• Manhunt 2 gets green light for UK release Axes controllers at the ready
• Gibson and Activision duel over Guitar Hero Wah-wah

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Japanese boffin designs glasses for the absent minded Find forgotten items

News: Hi-Def

• Toshiba lost $1bn ditching HD DVD, paper claims Would have lost $500m on it otherwise

News: Laptops

• Acer unwraps 'hologram'-clad Blu-ray laptops Aspire rational

News: Xbox

• Microsoft denies Xbox 360 is Blu-ray bound We're not talking to Sony

Odds and Sods: BOFH

• BOFH: On the brink Episode 9 Every time a bell rings an SCO disk gets its wings

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Times pledges allegiance to Web 2.0 Virtual fridge magnet exercise in democracy
• Al-Qaeda seeks geek fanatics for Jihoo! Ricin mashup 2.0 in a cyberjihad stylee
• MPs get £2k home cinema on taxpayers All back to Prezza's

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Lonely Paris Hilton seeks new best friend Web trawl dredges up candidates for MTV reality show
• Richard Gere not obscene, rules Indian court Shilpa Shetty kiss outrage case shown the door

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'Freetard ? more like advert programmed PAYTARDS!' FoTW F***tard of the Week opens fire

Odds and Sods: Site News

• Beauty is in the eye of the CGI-holder Site offer A portrait of high quality digital art

Public Sector: Government

• Eurosecurocrat plans EU-wide stop'n'scan plodnet Analysis Frattini: 'Compliance will come with time'
• Gates calls on Feds to plug tech investment gap With more H-1Bs if neccessary
• MPs and Lords turn on government over data protection 'Insufficient respect'
• N3 dominates NHS IT savings Broadband network contributes £192m of £208m cost cuts
• Syria orders cybercafe owners to ID customers 'Iron censorship' extended
• UK gov unveils 'Innovation Nation' plans Innovationation™? Innov(ation)²™?
• US Army funds $10m bat-droid Make it up you could not
• Watchdog gets new powers for public sector data mining Fraud 'fishing expeditions'

Public Sector: Policing

• House of Reps passes FISA bill sans telecom immunity provision Take that, Bushie

Reviews: Cameras

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33 Review Not a camera for control-freaks?

Science: Environment

• Bag tax recycled into eco-PR slush Your taxes at work

Science: Space

• Astronauts in seven-hour ISS construction session Canadian robot grappled by spacegoing veterinarian
• Cassini survives 'in your face' Enceladus flypast Returns pics from close encounter
• Google Sky brings the heavens to a browser near you Unshackled from Google Earthly bounds

Security

• Convicted cybercrook stands for election in the Ukraine At last a politician you can trust
• LSDigital drops federal botnet confession Hacker admits to hosing Rubbermaid
• Security firms split over Phorm classification Pushing onto the borderline

Security: Spam

• Russian serfs paid $3 a day to break CAPTCHAs Semi-automated attack or chain-mail gang

Software: Applications

• French Googleslayer gets the green light No longer Chirac's pet project

Software: Open Season

• Microsoft can pound sand with its IP - my grandma runs Ubuntu Radio Reg Go on. Get your Coté