Friday, 5 September 2008

Comms

• How Chrome puts the skids under Nokia Analysis What does Gears mean for the mobile web?
• How to stop worrying and enjoy paying for incoming calls Learning to love termination fees

Hardware

• Carbonite muscles alongside Mozy in Lenovo Cloud backup for IdeaPad notebooks
• Enough is enough! Plasmon board recommends sale $25 million private equity bid approach supported
• HDS revving AMS Monterey mid-range storage refresh coming

Management

• 88% of IT admins would steal data if fired So the survey says
• Samsung set to buy SanDisk? Checking out 'various opportunities'

Market News

• Dell plots worldwide factory sell-off Outsource to compete

Odds and Sods

• BOFH: Lock and reload Episode 29 Cheap at four times the price
• Facebook - The Movie! Exclusive storyboard peek White-knuckle rollercoaster of a movie in prospect
• Columbia set to resurrect Ghostbusters Egon, your mucus - again
• My name really is Ivan O'Toole, admits Ivan O'Toole Parents, eh?
• Those old timer sign results in full And the winners are...

Public Sector

• 7-year-old faces M&S Inquisition Not just data protection, this is M&S data protection
• Employee has no privacy on company computers, US court rules What's yours is ours
• Government told: Release secret Iraq documents Additions to sexed-up weapons docs

Science

• Bosch strategy boutique fails greenwash test Saving the planet, one space shuttle launch at a time
• Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe No 'strangelet soup' for you

Security

• North Korean Mata Hari in alleged cyber-spy plot Tales of sex, spying and spyware
• Report: IRS networks riddled with vulns, rogue servers Taxpayer beware

Thursday, 4 September 2008

Comms

• 3 punts mobile email for £2.50 a month Some bits are more equal the others
• Comcast files FCC impotence suit 'We will comply without complying'
• Holiday text messages to cost less than 9p Text and data caps detailed
• Kids may benefit from mobiles in class Smartphones bring smarts
• Phorm: Our business is fine, honest UK.gov promises legal explanation for secret trials this month
• US noses past Western Europe in 3G stakes No, really

Hardware

• History shaped Google's Trojan Horse Analysis Unravelling the Chrome masterplan... with Windows 2.03
• Red Hat buys Qumranet, sidesteps Microsoft Deep down and virty
• Rooster Cogballmer Microsoft virtualization splash on Monday?

Management

• Oracle's Ellison spanked for withholding evidence in shareholder suit The missing Softwar tapes

Market News

• eBay sues business partners over alleged cookie stuffing Stuff this

News: Laptops

• Vodafone grabs carrier exclusive on HSDPA Dell Minis Carrier wins exclusive sales rights

Public Sector

• 3,400 votes vanish from Florida election Son of Hanging Chad
• Anonymous fights Scientology in schools We don't need no...
• Google restores Chrome's shine Polishes up its EULA
• Hi-tech cops lose their website Forget to re-register did we?
• Lockheed demos AI-based roboforce command tech 'Intelligent agents' control droid legions: flee now

Science

• EU parliament says yes to hydrogen cars They will go like a bomb
• Ice in fuel caused Heathrow 777 crash Nasty chill provoked reduced fuel flow
• Scottish beavers (and Cali cacti) get their chips The fluffier face of tracking
• UK's top boffin: Renewables targets were 'a mistake' EU premiers were in the dark: now we all will be

Security

• Mythbusters busted over RFID gagging Host backtracks on corporate pressure claims
• Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream Script kiddies, the DR will see you now
• Phone phishers hop on filesharing legal threats bandwagon Didn't see that coming... oh
• Scammers skirt spam shields with help from Adobe Flash The Viagra two step
• Secure Computing snaps up user control firm Securify Pimp My Firewall

Software

• Amazon opens (American) video streaming shop Down with downloads
• Applet accelerating Java update M.I.A. Last minute glitch kills welcoming party
• Chrome: A new force for web applications? Review Promise through the froth
• MS doesn't set world alight with Office Live Workspace Move along please, nothing to see here
• Ubuntu documentation in shreds No smart suit for you

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Comms

• Big demand for pay by phone tech, claims Nokia The sole manufacturer of NFC handsets
• eMusic rattles ISPs over legal downloads Pakman eats dots, avoids ghosts

Hardware

• Clever, clever Adaptec A RAID controller can do power management as well
• Grid computer recreates ancient Greek lute Geeks go Greek
• HP launches virtualization armada Server, storage, desktops, research, ho!
• Lenovo offers online backup deal Save it to the cloud...
• Sun splits DARPA photon-linkage cake with Kotura Chip-to-chip fatness sought

Management

• NebuAd CEO quits Captain declines to go down with ship

News: Smartphones

• Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to land next month Firm's first Windows Mobile phone release announced

News: Storage

• Buffalo touts 'first' external SSD Not cheap

Odds and Sods

• Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare Chrome recruits Maximilian von Hapsburg

PC Builder

• Emails allege ATI-Nvidia price fixing conspiracy 'A jury would like to see this'

Public Sector

• Burned by Chrome - Fire put out Your copyright does not now go up in smoke
• Government kids database under fire, again It'll be over by Christmas
• Homeland Security backs deportation with Wikipedia Immigration Judge approves
• Reding tells Euro MPs to back telecoms reforms Lady's not for turning
• Thailand clamps down on rude websites You'd think they have bigger problems

Reviews: Laptops

• Getac B300 rugged laptop Review No mucking about with this hard-boiled hardware

Science

• Chinese boffins crack invisible-shed window problem Unscrewing the inscrutable
• Northrop in electric blaster cannon milestone Weapons grade fry-ray to debut 'this year'

Security

• Mythbusters RFID episode axed after 'pressure' from credit card firms Bust this
• Anonymous domain registration nixed amid fraud complaints Directi strikes back
• Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome Shiny new vulnerabilities winkled out already
• ICANN cast as online scam enabler And now a word for our illegal online pharmacy sponsor
• McKinnon a 'scapegoat for Pentagon insecurity' US mil still wide open to attack, says reformed hacker
• UN email hacker jailed Blackmail backfire

Software

• Linux desktop freaks out Ubuntu man Shuttleworth speaks
• Mozilla claims mass Ubiquity mobilisation Retro geek hog heaven
• Opera boss: Imitation is flattering But Chrome code isn't worth a look
• Oracle buys ClearApp See-through acquisition
• Reg launches Chrome-o-drome Round-up It wasn't built in a day...

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Comms

• Ex-BT boss off to Alcatel-Lucent Turnaround kid
• Last days of Symbian - business ticking over Finland shores up freebie shortfall
• Microsoft eyes mobile app store Skymarket to challenge iTunes?
• Why the US faces broadband price hikes Comment Thanks, FCC

Hardware

• 3PAR thins storage arrays Revs its ASIC to slim down fat volumes
• Arrest made over data-stuffed eBay laptop hard drive Plods attempt to plug data leak
• IBM pitches 'network security' blade server Slimline P2P throttler
• Intel adds cheap dual-core, quad-core chips New life for the Celeron D
• Judge slaps Fasthosts for rubbish kit and support Damages and costs for all-round uselessness
• Mimosa adds files to archive cocktail Archive's dusty old barn is shaken to foundations

Management

• Google remodels top secret money machine 'Perfect ad' be damned

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Road warriors offered office in a suitcase Crazy case contains printer, laptop stand, power

News: Phones

• Nokia pitches 'free music with old phone' offer Comes With Music comes with old 5310

Odds and Sods

• Google cedes Belgium to Germany Chrome redraws the map of Europe
• Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say The truth behind the speech bubbles
• Women turn on to a throbbing Maserati 'Primeval physiological response' to luxury motors

Public Sector

• Aussie Customs in presentational-aid crackdown Prang peril pointers fingered
• Fujitsu wants NHS exit payment Wants NHS to pony up millions for unfinished job

Security

• Scotland's oldest newspaper exposes readers' smalls in public Updated URL manipulation snafu gives access to other users
• Skype ignores PayPal siphoning hijack scheme The phone company without a phone
• UK punters scowl at webmail ad targeting Hands off our inboxes
• Zombie network explosion Long shadow cast by SQL injection surge?

Software

• Boffins produce aerobatic copycat-copter pilotware Computer see, computer do
• Discover OS X's hidden artistic side Mac secrets Jobs' past revisited
• GNU turns 25 Happy birthday, software libre
• Google releases open source browser Not an April Fool this time
• The Google-isation of all the net's access points Chrome Sweet Chrome
• VMware R&D chief goes home again Back to Oracle after 9 months

Monday, 1 September 2008

Comms

• Intel buys up UK Linux lab A bird in the OpenedHand
• Thus passes to C&W Buyer reveals company already bought (mostly)
• Vodafone says termination rate clampdown would hit the poor Pull the other one

Hardware

• Being jitter free is important DataDirect discusses Apple's Final Cut, disses Isilon
• Virtualized PCIe switch NextIO revs products

Management

• Bet against the bubble - how to head off a subprime crisis More speculation, not less, is the key

News: Smartphones

• Apple, O2 to release PAYG iPhones this month Pre-pay details announced

News: Xbox

• Immersion shakes out $20m for MS legal win Will share its toys with Microsoft?

Odds and Sods

• Welder in DIY penis enhancement nut mishap Pre-engagement tumescence requires Singapore sling

Public Sector

• Government data protection standards are protected data We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you
• McKinnon supporters plan Home Office demo Last gasp plea
• US to give some rendition info at Gitmo trial UK courts may let Brit spies keep schtum

Science

• Ambulance-chasing Graun goes after Gustav Bringing Fuzziness to the Believers
• Concrete-jet 'printers' to build houses, Moonbases in hours Man, this refill cartridge weighs a ton
• Medical isotope scarcity as Dutch reactor goes titsup Terrorism fears lead to 'perfect storm'

Security

• Anti-Kremlin website owner shot dead in police custody Ingushetian intrigue
• Neo-Nazi forum hacked Blood & Honour, cloak and dagger
• VPN security - if you want it, come and get it Attention WiFi hotspotters: You want it

Software

• iGoogle personalises personal pages on other people's behalf Erm, doesn't that kind of defeat the iPoint?
• Shine on Silverlight and Windows with XAML Web bling tone Learn now, pays later

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Hardware

• Pillar rains on EMC's parade Pugnacious Pillar Data boss does workmanlike job on Chuck's wagon