15th April 2008 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• O2: We didn't know we were capping 3G data speeds It was just a PRovisioning error
• Patent holders take 4G pledge of allegiance Long Term Evolution love-in

Comms: Networks

• CPW broadband targets feel the crunch It's the economy, silly
• Fasthosts' dedicated servers go titsup Updated 'We are working speedily'
• Virgin Media mops up CEO's 'boll*cks' outburst The BBC knows net neutrality is a bust already, it seems

Hardware: Semi-Coherent Computing

• How a pair of American spies created the Soviet Silicon Valley Radio Reg Espionage, affairs and PCs: Ahh, Zelenograd

Hardware: Servers

• IBM and chums offer wafer-thin 32nm detail 'Prototyping shuttle' to land in Q3 2008?
• Sun abuses IPTV with Xeons, Opterons, switch and small dog Nothing left to flog

Hardware: Virtualization

• Citrix goes storage light with XenDesktop Bundle pumping
• Pano Logic gives VMware case of VDS 2.0 Please hit the virtual desktop button now

Information: Databases

• Sun promises agenda-free MySQL development agenda MySQL User Conference Version 5.1 yearns to be bigger

Lifecycle

• Is SOA getting boring? Politics takes over from technology

Management: Financial News

• Chipzilla counters Wall Street doomsayers Updated Holding steady
• IT depts under threat as City braces for 20,000 job cuts Worse than dotcom losses

Management: IT Director

• American Apparel's tags start tracking your pants But not with you in them - yet

Music and Media

• Penguin goes electronic But without the orange covers?
• Tesco piles into MP3 But are there enough 'Paytards'?

News: Accessories

• Canon punts portable printer portfolio Take a hike, PIXMA iP90v

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Panasonic touts 'world's most efficient' domestic fuel cell Every home should have one?

News: Phones

• Nokia waves in near-field phone Touch'n'transfer

News: Smartphones

• Guitar Hero III goes mobile Rockin' all over the world
• Acer's E-Ten shows latest smartphones
• O2 to slash 8GB iPhone pricing tomorrow? £100 off
• Official: O2 and Carphone Warehouse to slash 8GB iPhone price £100 off

News: Storage

• Seagate lawsuit targets solid-state drive maker CEO says, 'I told you so.'

News: TV

• Hitachi updates Wooo TV line with removable storage tech HDD and iVDR

News: UMPCs

• Germany to get Eee PC 900-like laptop Datacask launches sub-notebok
• Japanese geeks offered smaller-than-Eee little laptop Twee tablet, anyone?

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Monroe BJ film - world exclusive still NSFW Happy birthday, Mr President?
• Monroe BJ film goes for $1.5m JFK on the receiving end? We may never know...

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Brown fingerprints wanted as Phorm bungles again Comments Read on, dear techie nerds...

Public Sector: Government

• Downing Street removes Labour Party link Link removed, no explanation offered
• Information watchdog raps Government over access to data Health dept under staffed and under performing
• London borough lost children's data three times Twice in pubs

Public Sector: Law

• Regulator warns of increasing data demands Delete those emails

Reseller

• Computacenter snubs Dell in SME hunt Stays in bed with HP

Reviews: Smartphones

• HTC S730 Windows Mobile smartphone Review Does what it says on the tin

Science

• Tesla Motors in dirty-tricks suit against Valley electrocar rival Elon Musk to pit style skills against upstart startup

Science: Environment

• The BBC, the UN, and climate bullying Andrew's Mailbag Grab an umbrella: it's global wetting, now...

Security

• DNS lords expose netizens to 'poisoning' 'A dumbfounding mystery'
• Pro-Tibet rootkit Trojan poses as cartoon Virus writing becomes a new sport for the Beijing games

Security: Crime

• Google offers tools to find victims of child abuse Organising the unspeakable

Security: Enterprise Security

• Google's cookie crumbles under scripting attack Taking the biscuit
• Regulatory compliance 'irrelevant' to security PCI DSS credit card 12 commandments standard flawed

Software

• Schmidt and Benioff try to rain on Microsoft parade Clouds close in on Redmond