30th November 2007 Archive

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• Dell hammered over record Q3

  Vendor eyes sales as turnaround key

  Some candy ass $63bn companies out there might find nine per cent revenue growth satisfactory. But not Dell.

  Financial News 30 00:07

• Trade Commission probes HP-Acer patent spat again

  This time the other way around

  A US commission,
  heeding Acer's petition,
  will investigate cries of foul play

  The Channel 30 00:24

• Google fitted with (temporary) Digg implant

  Stops making sense

  Google wants to know what it feels like to be Digg.

  Media 30 00:56

• Electrical supe charged with damaging California canal system

  Facing 10 years

  A former employee for a federally-owned canal system in California was charged with installing software that damaged a computer used to divert water out of a local river.

  Security 30 01:10

• You've got OpenSolaris in my System z

  No, you've got System z in my...

  Bitter adversaries IBM and Sun Microsystems have been adding a little sugar to their parley. Their corporate fisticuffs have even recently given way to hand-holding.

  Servers 30 02:05

• Dell moves 40,000 Ubuntu PCs

  Frugal faithful

  Dell agreed to ship PCs and laptops with the Ubuntu operating system after more than 130,000 people promoted the notion on the company's IdeaStorm web site. It would seem, however, that only a fraction of these zealots were willing to back their votes with cash.

  The Channel 30 02:11

• Going green is good, but is it secure?

  Zero carbon doesn't have to mean vulnerable

  The environmental impact of IT is an issue under much scrutiny recently, but not much thought seems to have been given to the security consequences of "going green".

  The Channel 30 07:02

• HP sets sights on more - and bigger - buys

  Hungry eyes

  HP might have bought a bunch of software firms in the last year, but it's got no intention of stopping.

  Applications 30 09:47

• DHS building handheld lobster spy-beam scanners

  'A crustacean with an amazingly minuscule brain'

  The world-famous US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working on astounding handheld lobster technology which could let operatives "see through walls, wood, concrete, earth, and steel". Just like lobsters can. (Hold on ...)

  Science 30 09:50

• Samsung secures 2007 most inappropriate ad title

  Need an exploding mobe? Click here

  A round of applause this morning for Samsung and CNN for jointly securing the web's most inappropriate ad title of 2007:

  Bootnotes 30 09:52

• Mobile phone cleared in S Korean quarry death

  'Accidental vehicular homicide'

  The 33-year-old South Korean quarry worker believed to have succumbed to a fatal mobile phone battery blast was actually crushed to death in an "accidental vehicular homicide", Reuters reports.

  Mobile 30 09:52

• Ofcom sets new deadline for mobile number porting

  From five days to two hours

  Mobile phone networks must allow consumers moving to a rival network to take their mobile number with them and consumers must be able to receive calls on that number within two hours of moving to the new network, under new rules coming into force in 2009.

  Mobile 30 09:58

• Watchdog criticises UK gov websites

  Directgov more a case of 'Not Me Gov'

  The Directgov supersite has been labelled "Not Me Gov" at a hearing of the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

  Government 30 10:07

• NZ police cuff teenage botnet mastermind suspect

  Bot Roast bust

  New Zealand police have arrested an 18-year-old suspected of masterminding the compromise of a huge network of one million compromised PCs.

  Security 30 10:14

• New Ebola strain kills 16 Ugandans

  'Unusually mild', say health officials

  Scientists have confirmed that a new strain of Ebola is responsible for killing 16 Ugandans close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Reuters reports.

  Science 30 10:16

• EU tunes in to DVB-H

  Europe gets a single mobile TV standard

  Mobile TV has moved one step nearer to widespread roll-out as the European Commission officially selects DVB-H as the standard for Europe.

  Networks 30 10:21

• PS3 demand booms in Japan

  Sales surpass Wii's monthly tally

  Sony sold more PlayStation 3s in the last four weeks in its home territory of Japan than rival Nintendo sold Wiis, local games publisher Enterbrain said today. But another market watcher revealed Wii won out in the week to 25 November.

  Games 30 10:22

• 'Beer Hunter' lifts 40,000 pints of Guinness

  Audacious brewery raid

  Guinness's St James's Gate brewery in Dublin has been hit by an audacious raid in which an evidently thirsty man dubbed "the Beer Hunter" made off with 40,000 pints of the famous stout.

  Bootnotes 30 10:30

• Nvidia GeForce 9s due Feb '08?

  And AMD prunes prices

  It's no surprise to learn that Nvidia's working on its GeForce 9 family of graphics chips, but until today we didn't know when the first of them will appear.

  Hardware 30 10:38

• Mother of God seen on USB Flash drive

  Pray you don't lose your data

  If you lose a file from this USB drive then you’d better pick your expletives carefully or you’ll have the Good Lord, vengeful wrath and all, snapping at your heels.

  Hardware 30 10:51

• Sidcup massive threatens Reg hack

  'My sisters got boxing tattoos'

  Veteran Reg readers may recall a couple of websites called sheppeyscum.com and Chatham Girls - both now defunct but in their day providing essential guides to the UK's fight capital and bow-legged Medway chavettes, respectively.

  Bootnotes 30 11:06

• Fasthosts customers blindsided by emergency password reset

  Webhost confirms hackers have raided servers

  Fasthosts has announced that "a number" of its customers'* FTP spaces were raided as a result of the major hack that triggered a police investigation last month. It has applied a system-wide reset of thousands of passwords as a result.

  Broadband 30 11:08

• Boffins in live-monkey-brain robot weblink arms race

  Mainly useful for banana-related tasks thus far

  Battling scientists around the world are racing to be first to develop practical robots remotely controlled by harvested monkey brains over the internet.

  Science 30 11:17

• HP delivers PC Q3 smackdown

  Acer makes tasty gain, Dell ambles along

  Hewlett-Packard remained leader of the pack in global PC sales for the third quarter while Dell continued to lag behind.

  The Channel 30 11:19

• Ford offers natter-interface car software in Europe

  Now Mondeo man can stay hands-on like the Hoff

  Ford will offer voice-operated controls on its European models, using software provided by Nuance, it was announced yesterday.

  Applications 30 11:50

• LG KU990 Viewty cameraphone

  Give a phone a touchscreen and suddenly everyone's interested

  Touchscreen mobiles are destined to be a hot ticket for the foreseeable future, but with the touch-controlled KU990 Viewty from LG there’s far more than screen-fingering novelty to tap your attention.

  Phones 30 12:00

• BOFH: Friday madness

  There's only one way to get you through the afternoon

  

  BOFH 30 12:02

• EU TV laws are coming

  Parliament says yes, oui, si, sim, tak

  The European Parliament yesterday passed the Audiovisual Directive, which aims to modernise and consolidate laws governing video content however it is transmitted.

  Media 30 12:20

• British teens score a C in international science poll

  Kids ask 'what's a C?'

  British kids have plummeted down an international league of science tests, research from the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) shows.

  Science 30 12:22

• New Zealander's Nokia explodes

  Battery detonation probe launched

  Nokia is investigating why a New Zealand man's phone blew up while it was being recharged.

  Phones 30 12:30

• Hackers re-poison Google search results

  Tainted results punt scareware

  Hackers have responded to a purge of malicious links within search results by Google with a fresh effort to subvert the search giant's page rank system.

  Security 30 12:43

• IBM sues seller over alleged fake ThinkPad batteries

  Power packs claimed to be a fire-risk too

  IBM has accused a New York-based spare computer parts company of trademark infringement in a bid to stop the firm selling what it alleges are dangerous fakes. It's demanding $1m for each claimed counterfeit use of its logos.

  Hardware 30 13:09

• Nintendo DS to get movie, TV download service

  But not over Wi-Fi

  Japanese gamers will soon be able to watch movies on a Nintendo DS, thanks to the creation of a movie download service for the handheld console.

  Games 30 13:18

• Virgin downs 1and1 and Germany

  Part of a lager problem?

  Virgin subscribers spent yesterday without access to German websites.

  Data Networking 30 13:45

• Seagoing satellite launch stymied by La Nina

  Pacific rocketeers swept away by chilly currents

  Seagoing space-rocket company Sea Launch has given up on attempts to boost a communications satellite into orbit from the mid-Pacific, blaming unusual ocean currents possibly related to the "La Nina" phenomenon.

  Science 30 13:49

• Net to be whupped by TV in attention battle

  Rumours of TV's demise may have been greatly exaggerated

  Growth in TV watching will outpace internet for years to come, according to figures released yesterday. It means the pot of gold lusted after by internet video disciples will remain out of reach, if it exists at all.

  Broadband 30 13:55

• Ofcom starts planning for the London Olympics

  Grab yourself a slice of free spectrum

  UK regulator Ofcom has published a discussion document outlining how it intends to manage spectrum allocations during the London Olympics and Para Olympics in 2012, and on most cases it's business as usual.

  Networks 30 15:06

• Random number bug blights FreeBSD

  The devil's in the detail

  The FreeBSD project pushed out a brace of updates on Thursday to guard against a pair of potentially serious security vulnerabilities.

  Security 30 15:07

• Nokia jumps on mobile ad-wagon

  But still 'experimenting'

  In its bid to bring the full internet experience to the mobile device, Nokia will need to formulate a clear strategy for mobile advertising, an important internet revenue driver, but also an area fraught with risks.

  Mobile 30 15:08

• 3 drags rivals into court over number porting

  As O2, Voda say latest Ofcom statement is overkill

  3 UK plans see its four UK rivals in court next week in the opener to what might turn into a £250m case, accusing them of making it difficult to customers to switch to the upstart network.

  Mobile 30 15:26

• Moto says hello goodbye to Zander

  Not RAZR sharp

  Motorola boss Ed Zander has been ousted as CEO by the firm's board of directors.

  Mobile 30 15:37

• HMRC still looking for those disks, UK.plc looking for scientists

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  Business 30 15:40

• Google will chase chunk of US spectrum

  Will they? Won't they? Yes they will

  Google has confirmed it's going to bid for a chunk of the US radio spectrum when the auction starts in January, making the announcement slightly ahead of Monday's deadline for all bidders to register their interest with the FCC (Federal Communication Commission).

  Broadband 30 16:20

• Zoho users logging into other accounts by accident

  See and be seen

  Zoho users beware. There appears to be a nasty bug whereby a user logs in with their own credentials, but finds themselves logged into another user's account.

  Applications 30 16:56

• Fayrewood in bid talks

  Shares jump

  IT distie Fayrewood PLC revealed today that it has been in secret talks with a third party company which could lead to an offer to buy all or part of the firm.

  The Channel 30 17:14

• Ugly view mars Windows Vista birthday

  Reality bites

  Like the queen, Windows Vista gets to celebrate two birthdays in close succession. November 30 marks the first, with the "business" launch a year ago at venues across the planet. Next January will mark the second birthday date.

  Operating Systems 30 19:53

• Code scavenging goes formal

  Careful what you consume

  Scott Hackett at SlickEdit has blogged its time to update the time-honored practice of code scavenging. According to Hackett, taking a more formal approach could help to improve developer productivity.

  Software 30 21:03

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