Saturday, 1 July 2006

Science

• Send in the clowns robots RoboBiz Rising from the swamp of futility

Friday, 30 June 2006

Enterprise

• Sun installs new storage equipment In brief Appoints new storage VP
• Symantec squares up to the IRS over $1bn tax demand Bit of bother
• Wyse targets TVs, PCs and phones with 'thin client-on-a-chip' Thin client hype extends to new markets

Internet and Law

• .xxx probes US government interference Files another Freedom of Information request.
• China targets blogs Wants to 'purify' the net
• German experts want search engines to be monitored Google too powerful?
• Highs, lows and sickos ICANN Marrakech The unspoken side of the Morroccan meeting
• Scambaiter persuades 419er to carve Commodore 64 keyboard No, really
• The New Paranoid style in American politics Analysis After Net Neutrality
• Tragic death sparks new internet foundation Liz Dengate-Thrush remembered.
• Zut! France drops iTunes bombshell Knotty DRM problem just got knottier

Management

• Apple, CA investigate share option grants Back pedalling over backdating
• ATI sales dip during 'challenging' quarter But stay way above last year's numbers
• Blair backs NPfIT Keeping the faith
• CSA: The most broken system of all? They were told, but did they listen?
• Microsoft confirms another slip for Office As evangelist reaches for Gospel according to Google
• NHS IT looks distinctly parrot-like as MS gets in a flap To subscribe to The Register's new weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here
• Palm posts 'record' full-year figures Not entirely due to kit sales, though

Mobile

• Nokia backs away from CDMA Comment And steps up battle of wills with Qualcomm

Odds and Sods

• Telewest says sorry for World Cup blackout Geek TV Compensation on the cards for disgrunted England fans
• Wazzocks?!? WTF is a wazzock? Letters All is revealed and much, much more

Science

• Can a corpse burp? Excuse me?
• Can you get Tetanus from a rusty nail? A look at lockjaw
• Why do babies blink less often than adults? Bright eyes

Security

• Laptop with veterans data recovered intact ID theft fears ease for ex-servicemen
• MS releases third beta for IE7 Compatibility and security tweaks
• Shadowcrew mastermind caged Carding supremo jailed for 32 months

Software

• Judge guts SCO claims Put up or shut up
• Leadership vacuum for Microsoft biz apps What follows Orlando?
• Microsoft hides under duvet As WGA blows up in its face
• MySQL gets cosy with Microsoft Joins VSIP

Telecoms

• AOL UK chalks up 100k LLU lines Kit installed in 200 exchanges
• Thus pips BT to £70m Scottish broadband project 'Preferred bidder'

Thursday, 29 June 2006

Enterprise

• Dell adds 'Captain Kirk' tool to premium support package Put a 'plus' on your platinum
• EMC buys three more letters for $2.1bn We'll take R-S-A, Pat
• HP taps Brocade for new SAN gear Filling the backend
• Intel readies 'Kaylo' uni-processor server platform Core 2 Duo CPU plus 3000-series chipset
• Intergraph revives patent cash cow Clipper taken to Fujitsu, NEC and Toshiba
• Plextor readies Blu-ray recorder Autumn introduction
• RSA in three-way mating dance EMC moves out of the shadows
• Solaris dials domain zero with Xen VMware who?

Internet and Law

• Guardian blushes red in tech quiz challenge MPs make daily eat its words
• Arguments and gunfire ICANN Marrakech It's dangerous in here
• Chat sites must take care of their kids Interview LunarStorm of opinion
• MySpace mugging: not just kids at risk Wild web gets wilder
• Net neut now needs a miracle Or a filibuster
• Penis pump judge faces stiff sentence Used device 'while sitting in judgment of others', court hears
• Scots battle English on Andy Murray blog Net carnage follows 'anyone but England' slur
• Spain adds levy to blank discs Taxes goods 'likely to be used to copy'
• Spanish revolt against blank media levy ¡No!
• Supremes axe Gitmo kangaroo courts Fair trials prove stubbornly popular
• Virgin France cops €600k piracy fine Illegal download outrage
• Yahoo! settles click fraud Cash back!

Management

• Committee criticises DCA minister 'Disappointed' in FoI oversight
• Red Hat shows strong first quarter Hit with patent claim

Mobile

• 3! inks! deal! with! Yahoo! Web access on the go
• Cellcos ally to keep their hands on beach front spectrum for 4G Comment Lobbying regulators to avoid paying huge license fees
• Korean carrier readies 'lipstick' phone World's most compact slider phone?

Odds and Sods

• Indonesians cuff Playboy model Indecency rap for Playmate

Science

• Canadians go ultrasonic for tooth regrowth implant Shane MacGowan on the first plane to Alberta
• Top engineer quits NASA ahead of shuttle launch Storm clouds of all kinds gathering
• Venus Express reveals double-eyed storm at planet's pole First results looking good
• Vicious cat-fight breaks out at NASA over space race Two ladies spar over journey to the Moon

Security

• IE blighted by flaw duo Brace for impact

Software

• Google payments service arrives at last Check out Checkout
• MS and Cisco back resistance to controversial patent law Obviousness, obviously

Telecoms

• AOL bidding continues Comment As telcos muscle in on European ISP market

Wednesday, 28 June 2006

Enterprise

• AMD to back FB-DIMM when it's as cheap as DDR 2? Just in time for 2008's next-gen architecture, apparently
• IBM and HP monopolize Top 397 supercomputers list Filler makes a showing

Internet and Law

• Bad music and full mouths ICANN Marrakech Muddling through in Morocco
• Child porn control goes too far, says privacy chief Seize card, not whole account
• EC's big stick getting bigger Microsoft sweating
• Germany registers 10 millionth .de domain Linden transport cases hit milestone
• Governments to decide future of net ICANN Marrakech Major shift in power in ICANN
• Internet firms to crack down on child porn Create $1m image database
• MySpace case opens security can of worms Opinion It's time to face reality
• State officials join net neutrality scrum Back net giants ahead of Senate vote

Management

• Exposed: techniques to silence Microsoft 'haters' Trout takes lead in grouse shoot
• Intel gives up on world's biggest chip market. Why? Comment Curtains for the 'tele-phone'
• IT's so hard, say SMEs Can't live with it, can't live without it
• NHS IT charade re-played But does not stand up to PAC scrutiny
• NHS mobile data security is pants Safe in their hands?
• Palm pays $22.5m to end Xerox patent fight Clearing the decks for a RIM takeover?

Mobile

• Nokia sues Chinese 'copycats' Manufacturers, disties named in suit

Odds and Sods

• Clowns attack US nuke missile silo Krusty versus Minuteman III
• What's happened to the wireless running bra? Let's hope the project hasn't gone titsup

Science

• Beer better for you than wine: official 'Zut alors!'
• Beta Pictoris accused of harbouring planets Dusty ring is a giveaway
• Killer asteroid hunter takes first snaps Near-Earth objects beware
• Spitzer spies jets of matter around neutron star Relatavistic, baby
• UV breakthrough promises cheaper chips Sunbeds for silicon

Security

• Man cuffed in Bangalore call centre scam probe HSBC customers robbed
• Medical Excess loses records on 1m customers EMC among the afflicted
• MS fixes phone-home nagware WGA patch issued
• White House calls for improved laptop security In Brief Just friendly advice

Software

• Apple patches Tiger Mac OS X 10.4.7 posted
• Ellison withdraws $100m Harvard gift Namesake's resignation blamed
• MS re-spins WinFS We (still) have the vision

Telecoms

• eBay.ie introduces 'Skype Me' function Haggle via VoIP
• EC proposes massive telco shake-up Incumbents face 'structural separation' showdown

Tuesday, 27 June 2006

Enterprise

• Cisco doubles up on Infiniband gear Ethernet management marriage too
• Cisco invests in NeoPath Comment Corporate dance
• HP gives new blades a clustered makeover Software layered on an Infiniband foundation
• IBM and HP the most loved x86 server vendors of all - study Sun ho-hummed, Dell scorned
• IBM takes a stab at SMBs Comment Announces sharp new server offerings
• NetApp aims at SMBs Opens the Vault
• Nortel to axe 1,100 jobs Cost-cutting
• Server vendors prepare for 120W 'Clovertown' Xeon 5100-oriented systems designed for successor chip
• Symantec turns off on security appliances 80 jobs scrapped

Internet and Law

• Child porn convictions to be reported to banks Data protection amendment
• Crap website? Try feng shui Or vaastu shastra, if you're desperate
• Publisher in £80,000 font raid Software audit finds 11,000 unlicensed typefaces
• Take Two subpoenaed for GTA clandestosmut 'What did directors know?', asks DA

Management

• Intel sells XScale business to Marvell for $600m Wants to push x86, not ARM, for handhelds
• Wiltshire eyes up flexible working £12m IT contract inked

Odds and Sods

• Bird flu triggers gameplaying apocalypse Letters EU/MS lawyers shall inherit the Earth
• German T-shirt hawker set to sue bear hunter Bruno's cottage industry blown away

Science

• Borneo's 'chameleon' snake shows its true colours New species of colour-changing serpent
• Flu-related flapping begins A new unit of terror
• Gravity wave detector is go All bets are off
• Plane pollution worse by 2050 Growth outstripping engine improvements
• Solar simulation right on the money Expect better space weather forecasts

Security

• Police hold three in spam Trojan bust 'MOOP' members cuffed in UK and Finland
• USB drives pose insider threat The latest 'Trojan horse'

Software

• Belgium adopts open office doc format Edging away from Microsoft
• Desktop Linux relies on the kindness of strangers Distos key to Portland Project
• EC polishing big stick for Microsoft Fines in the offing
• Jobs to unleash Leopard on Microsoft Doesn't change spots, or act
• Microsoft talks unified comms for Office 2007 Email and voice together, at last

Telecoms

• AT&T launches IPTV Pricey, but with cheap broadband attached
• BT wants more women engineers Oh, yes it does
• Kiwi Telecom to split retail and wholesale operations Wants to promote competition

Monday, 26 June 2006

Enterprise

• Intel gives the go ahead to buy its server chips again 'This platform has legs'
• Intel ships 'Woodcrest' Xeon CPUs Core-based server chips debut
• MS wants unity in communications Phones and email get cozy

Internet and Law

• 14 fired as porn goes viral at DVLA And more than 100 disciplined
• NY Times accused of treason Finally doing something right
• Crypto utopia Sealand ravaged by fire Autonomous zone now vacant
• France dilutes plans for iTunes law But concessions may not be enough
• French Google Earth rival crashes and burns Geoportail slams shut
• The internet's CEO signs up for three more years ICANN head Paul Twomey surprises all
• UK to trial music downloads via DAB Digital radio delivery

Management

• AMD to build $3.5bn fab in New York Start spreading the news...
• Buffett donates billions to Bill Gates' charity Rich man gives cash to richer man

Mobile

• Brits sent 3.3bn texts during May New Blighty SMS record
• Good to ship Domino push email tool next month Enterprise apps renamed, too
• Is that a PC in your pocket? Analysis Mobiles a model for future desktops?
• Mobile radiation excites the brain Cortextual analysis

Science

• 'Darwin's tortoise' dies, age 176 RIP Harriet
• Drug trial 'Elephant Man' to lose fingers and toes Blood supply problems
• Germans gun down rampaging bear Zero ursine tolerance in Bavaria
• Hubble going blind with old age NASA working on a fix
• Shuttle pilot: flight risks still a mystery You learn from failure, not success

Security

• Anti-virus market hits $4bn Botnets boost sales
• Free piracy protection tool 'links to porn' Panda vs Browsezilla
• Junk mail scumbags in harvesting attack One man went to mow...
• Say Hello to voice phishing Give it up after the tone

Software

• Microsoft's future file system dies, again WinFS cops it

Telecoms

• 'Malicious damage' causes Telewest World Cup blackout Police investigating
• BT hooks up with KDDI for Japanese JV Also linked to iSoft
• Fasthosts floored by Telewest cable cut Plans network upgrade
• Skytastic World Cup HD compo wows the crowd 'The ultimate way to watch the World Cup final'
• UK telcos challenge 'next generation networks' trademark Oi, no!

Sunday, 25 June 2006

Internet and Law

• Nice video shows policing of the future Computer surveillance with a human face