Monday, 12 May 2008

Code

• Hippies reclaim summer of code Overthrow the soft-o-crats!

Management

• Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies Advocacy groups and rural voters

News: Smartphones

• RIM pitches 'power user' tri-band HDSPA BlackBerry Bold sneaks in ahead of 3G iPhone

Odds and Sods

• Burma 'Gone with the Wind', suggests Telegraph Cyclone orphans - the musical
• ITV challenges Beeb for cheap innuendo crown 'Butt seized by terror police'
• Mounties taser bed-ridden octagenarian Knife-wielding old-timer in hospital shocker

Science

• Shuttle astronauts: Aliens are definitely out there Haven't personally seen any - it's more of a feeling

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Public Sector

• UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans 'Not a universally desirable outcome' - no, really?

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Code: Java/J2EE

• Sick of JavaOne? - You will be Suspected Norovirus stalks halls

Management

• Web fan-owned football club heads to Wembley final A grand day out for the minnows

Odds and Sods

• Extreme porn, hard drives and election strain Comments Phwoar, pass us some lethal skunk
• Shareholder sees golf as AMD cure all Better than a kick in the tail

Public Sector

• Texas realizes Amazon is in Texas Online Tax Squabble Part Deux

Friday, 9 May 2008

Comms

• WiMAX gets EU harmonisation at 2.6GHz Intel buys up Swedish airwaves

Hardware

• Dell squeezes cloud into a shipping container Exclusive Also: Meet an 8 chip, 2U, 12 drive search darling
• Part II: How a pair of American spies created the Soviet Silicon Valley Radio Reg Affairs, social security checks and the mini-fab

Management

• Barclays Capital slashes contractor rates by 10% IT workers get credit crunched

Market News

• Microsoft appeals record European Commission fine Once more unto the bench

Music and Media

• When flash mobs go bad Facebook water fight soaks up thousands of pounds of damage

News: Smartphones

• MWg specs up 2008 handset roadmap Windows Mobile 7 device en-route

News: Useless... but Cool

• Fujitsu develops world's first hi-def train simulator Going loco - virtually

Odds and Sods

• 'Great tits cope well with warming' BBC secures Headline of the Week
• BOFH: Shiny new computer room Episode 17 What's the catch?
• Gordon Brown claims a Brit invented the iPod Grosse Pointe, Surrey?
• NZ bank robber stashes loot where the sun don't shine 'Bottom area' rustling gives game away
• Texas graverobbers 'used skull to smoke dope' Three cuffed over morbid tale

Public Sector

• Compulsory lobby register moves closer EU Parliament calls for Book of Fat Lunch
• DWP still sending out passwords and discs together Government data not secure? Shurely some mistake?
• FBI probe discovers counterfeit kit in US military networks Operation Cisco Raider gets arrests
• Irish data protection chief in leaked report 'hack' Updated Man bites watchdog
• MPs say shared service sums 'don't add up' Cabinet Office's claim 'flimsy'
• Regulator gets power to fine for data breaches Who will be first to pony up?
• Retailers risk libel nightmare over 'no-work' database A nation of suspicious shopkeepers
• Rowling ruling bolsters privacy chief's view of data protection Auto-breach
• US: BAE 'could have' pirated our secret Stealth 3.0 tech sauce Arms globocorp enters grey zone?
• Wanted: Americans to join Al Qaeda Net is recruiting sergeant, senators warn

Reseller

• Circuit City runs up the white flag Of course you can look at our books, Mr. Corporate Raider, sir

Science

• EDF circles British nuclear powerplant sites Buys farmland to secure juice futures
• Swiss ponder the 'dignity of plants' Biotech guidelines tackle thorny issue

Security

• Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey Better off with a Win 2000 box

Software

• Office 2007 SP1 goes automatic for the people 'Huddled masses yearning to breathe free'
• Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot That Groundhog Day feeling, again

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Comms

• Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network Insert fibre/ Wii/ pipe/ download / backdoor/ flush/ log pun here
• ITV fined millions for phone fraud Unprecedented Ofcom smackdown

Hardware

• AMD boss keeps schtum on manufacturing restructure Meeting doglegs to pointlessness
• Hitachi slips past Fujitsu with speedy 320GB laptop drive 7,200rpm, 2.5-inch drive out-firsts 'world's first'
• Inventor of first practical transistor dead at 91 Bell Labs tolls for thee
• iPlayer to tart up Freesat Beeb and ITV square up to Sky
• Surprise, surprise: F5 is doing something A storage de-dupe and network acceleration box

Management

• Murdoch sees MySpace miss targets Something about chickens and roosting

Music and Media

• MEPs deny sports 'intellectual property' landgrab Updated Own(ing) goals
• MySpace revs profile transfer engine Down with the walled garden

News: Smartphones

• Apple out to recruit 3G-savvy iPhone field testers Engineering posts offered in Oz, UK, Germany
• Philips hops on 'iPhone killer' bandwagon A sexy little number

News: iPod

• Orb opens iPhone for TV, video Uncrippling the iPod

Odds and Sods

• I want a baby, coos broody Paris Hilton Bless
• Isabella Rossellini romps with praying mantis NSFW Bizarre 'Green Porno' trailers hit YouTube
• Lithuanians whip out their WILI-S Cheap innuendo heads for Wireless '08
• Why Microhoo! is like, so, totally dead Blog 0.2 !!!!! and then, like, !!!!!!

On the Job: Salary and Employment

• Oracle sharpens axe for BEA layoffs Four portals, two application servers, no future

Public Sector

• Extreme porn bill gets final reading Brace for dirty book burnings, smut amnesties
• Home Secretary goes crazy on drugs... policy Comment Cannabis abuse prompts irrational legislating
• India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks Join the ranks
• Lancashire plodcopters in laser dazzle outrage outbreak Blind justice meted out to presentational-aid yob trio
• Ofcom lays out wireless roadmap Planes, trains and automobiles
• Washington cops may be compelled to use gun-cams GunTube shoot uploads to 'improve community relations'

Science

• Blighty to become old-time Inundation Nation Floods are the new terrorism, says expert

Security

• Facebook agrees to child-safety measures Reining in Web 2.0 predators
• Firefox language pack provides adware back-door Ho Chi Hack trail
• HSBC in further data loss Stolen Hong Kong server contained data on 159K
• I Was A Teenage Bot Master Exclusive The Confessions of SoBe Owns
• Interpol appeal unmasks US actor as child abuse suspect Operation IDent-ification
• Rare SCADA bug poses power plant risk Wonderware scare
• Renault F1 comp site spills entrants' details You will never break the chain

Software

• Britannica opens kimono, reveals widgets Free access for bloggers
• OpenOffice.org 3 beta lands Flex your fingers
• Salesforce boss Benioff pushes cloud Pours scorn on Microsoft, bear hugs Sir Stelios

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Code

• Embarcadero snaps up Borland's CodeGear for $23m Resources for courses

Comms

• BT Fusion rises again This time it's about data
• Chipzilla funds Sprint-Clearwire snog One WiMAX to rule who knows how many
• Comcast mulls overage fees for bandwidth lovers 250GB monthly cap
• Mobile roaming in Europe: Have your say Don't tell us, tell the EU
• Ofcom plays precog on tomorrow's wireless world Nuke war, meteorite hit could disrupt your signal

Hardware

• AMD plans 12-core server chip for 2010 First 6-core offering due next year
• Cisco hits lowered targets Pessimism pays off
• Citrix's XenDesktop can fly you to the moon If you have a space shuttle
• Dell issues virtualization wonder box despite AMD Veso happy to see the light of day
• NASA confirms manned mission to 10 Petaflops 'Our Xeon binge is named Pleiades'
• Ruckus kicks off over directional Wi-Fi Netgear slapped with patent suit

Management

• QXL.co.uk shuts up shop All bids are off
• Yahoo! banks on the power of ! Must! Love! The! Reg!
• Yahoo? We don't need no stinkin' Yahoo! Gates says Microsoft can go it alone

Music and Media

• Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy Once beaten, twice fined
• Sky plays the victim over Ofcom pay TV rights probe Clinging on to Premiership and movies

News: Smartphones

• AT&T halts holidays during 3G iPhone launch window 'Exciting summer promotional launch', promises leaked memo
• Palm's 'Skywriter' smartphone spied on web? Slab-like

Odds and Sods

• Air France pilot in white-knuckle near miss Showing off to boy, shaken passengers claim
• Boris Johnson bans boozing on London transport Sobriety to reign from 1 June
• Dope-crazed Canadians sledgehammer iPhone Reefer madness

Public Sector

• DARPA wants Matrix style virtual world for cybergeddon To feature human 'replicants', time-machine mode
• Jacqui Smith un-downgrades cannabis And wants to ban pipes, bongs... Hendrix albums
• Private sector saviours wanted for desperate ID scheme Home Office chucks in the cards?
• What did happen to all those London mayoral votes? We observe the election count
• White House admits non-existent email backups 'We can restore without backup'
• Wikipedia goes to court to defend defamation immunity It needs a win

Science

• Scientists create Chewbotca robot muncher Om nom nom nom 2.0
• US boffins puff off 'living nose on a chip' tech Stink feared over Smelltard digi-nostril bootlegs

Security

• FBI withdraws secret Internet Archive probe Abuse of power alleged
• MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site Misconfigured marketing offshoot pulled
• Peter Gabriel's website is back Womad is safe...
• Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks Worst viral outbreak in three years

Software

• Opera Dragonfly emerges from pupa Debug tool aims to metamorphise web development
• SAP don't want to get SaaSy afterall We never said we would...
• Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft David and Goliath

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Code: Java/J2EE

• Sun juggles love of code with need for cash CommunityOne Don't attack us... attack them!
• Sun's JavaFX to hoover-up user data JavaOne Spirit of McNealy lives

Comms

• Canadian toddler dies after VOIP 911 call Ambulance dispatched to wrong city
• Google questions Verizon 'open network' A closed door is not open
• ISP reporting network to pierce bandwidth smokescreens Your broadband needs you
• Motorola board faces down a hostile crowd Pledges to be flexible and focused - at the same time
• SplashPower splashes down in Fulton Innovation Consolidating the drips for induction charging
• Vodafone sews up iPhone distribution Ten-country deal feeds Apple's world-domination plan

Hardware

• Ex-Navy SEAL and nanny 'Otter' does bird over Broadcom Kindergarten cop, shmindergarten shmop
• HP strokes web 2.0 with immense NAS 'Extreme' appliance for multi-petabytes
• Intel wants to own the weather prediction business Interview EVP Maloney in charge of 'Operation Kill Groundhog'
• NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant 20,480 cores on the Moon
• Rackspace flies storage on CloudFS Tap into our data ether

Management

• Yahoo! shareholders thump Yang in the fiduciaries Detroit gets nasty

News: Smartphones

• HTC’s Diamond iPhone rival unwrapped But does it shine?

News: TV

• Freesat launches in UK Many channels, more coming, but not much HD yet

Odds and Sods

• Independent dubs El Reg lesbian Biting the jub that feeds IT
• Franco robbed Sir Cliff of Eurovision win Spanish dictator's 1968 vote-rigging outrage
• Winehouse cans Bond theme project 'Not ready to record any music'

Public Sector

• 'Mad Scientist' developing powered suits for US military Will dominate everywhere within reach of a power socket
• Cops demand more time in marathon OiNK investigation BitTorrent admin probe continues
• DHS grilled over uber secret cybersecurity plans Too much confusion, senators say
• Interpol publishes pic of another suspected child abuser Operation IDent
• Top cop brands CCTV a 'fiasco' No deterrent, no good as evidence

Science

• Defra steps up probe into honeybee wipeout UK hives hit hard
• NASA invites you to travel to the Moon Well, your name at least

Security

• Cybercrims dump swag on open botnet server Health data found on hacker data dump
• Google launches security group for open source oCERT to make the world safe for GPL
• Yahoo! greenlights search security warnings Beta tests McAfee SiteAdvisor

Software

• Hyundai and Kia's latest pitch to US drivers - Windows Microsoft's exclusive with Ford finishes soon
• Windows XP SP3 leaps into the tubes Second verse, same as the first