8th April 2008 Archive

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Code: Unix/Linux/Open Source

• Fresh blood - the new fight for open source Send in the committers

Comms: Mobile

• Dongles power 3's data surge Mobile broadband's magic stick masterplan
• Icahn wins seat on Motorola board Motorola gives it up

Comms: Networks

• BT hands top job to Retail chief Chairman praises journey from troubled to troubling
• Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article Updated Send in the clowns

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco to buy Nuova and sell its FCoE switch Get rich quick spin-in comes home

Hardware: Servers

• IBM offers 4,000 frequent flyer miles per core to abandon HP Dump a Superdome. Go to the Bahamas
• IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast Then pours water on them
• Montalvo's x86 chip struggling to be an x86 chip Running out of things to go wrong

Hardware: Storage

• EMC whisks Iomega away from Chinese suitor Sprouts consumer brand
• Google opens private cloud to coders Revs App Engine
• Seagate ships first 1TB HDD of the SAS persuasion Server quality auto encryption disks coming too
• Verari spins ultra-dense networked storage blade Unified NAS/iSCSI appliance with 24TB

Information

• Oracle scans BEA code for GPL and LGPL 'Business-friendly' OK

Management

• Jimmy Wales to chair World Economic Forum on the Middle East Alongside the Duke of York

Management: Financial News

• Surrey Satellite to be bought by EADS Astrium UK space spinoff joins Eurofighter/Airbus combine

Management: IT Director

• HP sells cloud vision amidst economic downpour Will customers get soaked on transformation journeys?

Music and Media

• DAB: The View From the Bubbling Mudbath In defence of British digital radio
• London Olympics drives dash for terrestrial HDTV Digital telly group sounds warning against rush job
• Scientology threatens Wikileaks with injunction You say 'Bible.' We say 'Advanced Technology'

News: Bits 'n' Chips

• Toshiba samples Cell-based HD GPU PS3-sourced video-oriented chipage

News: Laptops

• Asus avoids Atom to get next Eee PC out early? HP has same scheme
• HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival Updated VIA powered

News: Phones

• Japanese carrier to test smell-o-vision phone kit The handset that gets up your nose
• Tag Heuer handset pictures leaked on web About time

News: Smartphones

• Nokia confirms 'iPhone killer' handset in pipeline Codename 'Tube'

News: Useless... but Cool

• Boffin builds sex-selecting email analysis software Is it really from Glenda? Or Glen?
• Loudspeaker T-shirt joke turns true April Fool no more

News: Wii

• Doctors confirm 'Wii-itus' is a real condition Warning: prolonged gaming may damage your health

News: Xbox

• Xbox 360 'Wii Remote' in development? Microsoft keeping mum

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Liverpudlians decapitate Ringo Starr Pays the price for dissing home town
• Naomi Campbell banned from BA flights WSA Grounded following T5 rumpus
• US cops taser groom, cuff drunken bride A wedding night to remember

Public Sector: Government

• E-passport security flaw allows remote ID of nationality Hi-tech Fagin flaw

Public Sector: Law

• EU demands Google slashes cookie retention times Six months is more than enough
• Plans to jail data thieves shelved But threat remains

Public Sector: Policing

• Is Europe's war on Islamist terror running out of terrorists? UK can still find plenty, but the rest seem to be losing interest

R&R: Books

• Content management titles at Register Books Site offer Get cosy with Joomla

Reviews: PCs

• Alienware Area 51 ALX CrossFireX gaming PC Review How much does it cost..?!

Science

• Apprentice contestant to offer Zeppelin trips above London Insert 'you're fired' joke here

Science: Biology

• Biologists flush out bad breath bug Solobacterium moorei - a real stinker
• Defra moves to protect UK honeybees Consultation first step to concrete strategy

Science: Environment

• Blog bully crows over BBC climate victory Emergent Truthiness

Science: Space

• Korea's first astronaut heads for ISS Historic 10-day gig

Security

• Compromised legit sites power hack attacks Trust no one
• HSBC e-payments system goes titsup (again) Calls for compensation from bungling bank

Security: ID

• Online spousal spying widespread in the UK Who did you text last night?

Security: Making It

• Microsoft preaches togetherness for online security RSA Let's touch people together
• The trinity of RIA security explained Of servers, data and policies

Software

• Adobe stitches units together, circulates fresh blood Shake the bottle, wake the drink
• Loopy Vista pre-SP1 update fixed with pre-pre-SP1 update Known unknowns squared
• Microsoft discloses 14,000 pages of coding secrets Tech documentation for all