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Tue, 01 May 2007 23:54:20 +0100

Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe (Tue, 01 May 2007 23:37:00 +0100)

Pretty sure that we might be ready

Comment Herb and pepper crusted Kobe steak medallions presented on a bed of arugula and baby spring greens tossed in a lemon fennel vinaigrette with baby red and yellow pear tomatoes; haricot verts; toasted sweet and spicy walnuts and crumbled Point Reyes blue cheese presented on the side; and a garnish of puff pastry triangles topped with a balsamic reduction. That's what we were eating when Craig Mundie told us that Microsoft would have tons of multi-threaded software ready for Intel and AMD's upcoming, multi-core chips.?

Microsoft polishes the Silverlight (Tue, 01 May 2007 23:04:44 +0100)

Still to prove itself against Flash

MIX07 Despite the early batch of criticism that Microsoft?s Silverlight has already generated, there is still much to interest applications developers in its arrival as a beta product, as well as issues for them to ponder, not least being whether Flash is still the better option for now.?

Microsoft puts some iron into Ruby (Tue, 01 May 2007 22:41:06 +0100)

Scripts .NET open source support

MIX07 Microsoft has released IronRuby, an implementation, an implementation of the fast-growing scripting language Ruby, on the .NET Framework. IronRuby follows Microsoft's implementation of Python, called IronPython, released last year on .NET.?

Disappointed Glastonbury fans spammed by rival festival (Tue, 01 May 2007 22:25:23 +0100)

Muddy feet all round

Glastonbury festival organisers have a substantial amount of egg on their faces today after El Reg learned of a data protection cock-up with the live music firm's registration system.?

VeriSign will ship two-factor authentication for debit cards (Tue, 01 May 2007 21:40:38 +0100)

What took so long?

VeriSign has announced plans to integrate two-factor authentication technology into ATM and credit cards, a move that would give customers significantly more protection against scammers without requiring them to go through the hassle or expense of using a stand-alone security token.?

'It'll be ugly when half the software industry goes away' - pundit (Tue, 01 May 2007 20:36:24 +0100)

If by 'ugly,' you mean great

Analysis An imploding software industry could be just what customers need. You're going to end up with cheap, specialized software and all kinds of wonderful services to support the code.?

Gateway ships quad-core desktop into US stores (Tue, 01 May 2007 20:00:12 +0100)

Retail proposition

Gateway let slip a quad core desktop into some major US retail outlets today. It's called the Gateway FX, it costs from $2099.99 and - as you will guess from the price tag, it is aimed at the PC enthusiast and "digital creation" markets.?

Velocity Micro buys Overdrive PC (Tue, 01 May 2007 19:20:03 +0100)

Overclocking in the USA

Velocity Micro, the US PC maker, has acquired Overdrive PC, a small Georgia-based rival which specialises in highly overclocked PCs for the gaming market. Terms are undisclosed.?

Joost on brink of adding commercial breaks (Tue, 01 May 2007 16:41:52 +0100)

Beta testers dole out invites as official launch nears

Joost, the telly-over-the-internet service set up by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is soon to launch commercially.?

BlackBerry finds Outlook 2007 an upgrade too many (Tue, 01 May 2007 16:35:11 +0100)

But RIM denies any problem

Some early adopters who've jumped to Outlook 2007 are finding that Research in Motion's (RIM) desktop software, for synchronisation with BlackBerry devices, won't support the latest version of Microsoft's PIM (Personal Information Manager).?

Malaysian astronauts told: Space is no bar to prayers (Tue, 01 May 2007 16:16:52 +0100)

Guidelines issued

As Malaysia prepares to send its first astronaut to space, the country's space agency planners find themselves facing an unusual problem: when your religious observances are dictated in large part by the sun, how can you keep the faith while orbiting the Earth??

RFID-tracking Segways unleashed on hoi polloi (Tue, 01 May 2007 16:11:50 +0100)

'Mobility platforms' to menace mankind

Come the Rise of The Machines, our mechanised overlords are going to need ways to track their subjected population, and what better way than using RFID-reader-equipped Segways to roam city streets logging the chips embedded in every slave human.?

BEA issues profit warning (Tue, 01 May 2007 15:59:40 +0100)

BEAten up in licensing market

Middleware developer BEA Systems revealed a Q1 misfire today, warning investors it would miss its targets because of falling license sales.?

China's largest ecommerce site set to float (Tue, 01 May 2007 15:55:50 +0100)

Record breaker

Alibaba.com, China's largest ecommerce site, is to float on the stock market in what is likely to be the largest ever initial public offering by a Chinese internet firm.?

Orange doles out an IOU to Christian pareidolians (Tue, 01 May 2007 15:53:31 +0100)

While monitored by EU police

Letters Iran, the US of A, and WMDs. If there are any subjects guaranteed to garner a response from you lot, they'd be up there. This time, it was the flame of the week that got you fired up:?

IT firms band together to shrink carbon footprint (Tue, 01 May 2007 15:27:58 +0100)

How green is your bandwagon?

A group of UK IT firms has banded together to form The Green Initiative, a forum dedicated to helping companies learn more about how they can reduce their environmental impact.?

Nokia N95 multimedia slider phone (Tue, 01 May 2007 15:08:28 +0100)

Yes, it does everything - but is it any good?

Review It's the Swiss Army Knife of mobile phones: a compact handset that does everything. Music, video, mobile and wireless broadand, photography, satnav, email, blogging, office work, web surfing, messaging - heck, it'll even help you talk to people over long distances. But is Nokia's top-of-the-range N95 trying too hard to be too many things??

Home Office promises proactive powers for info commissioner (Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:18 +0100)

Surveillance to police the surveillance society

The Home Office has promised to give the Information Commissioner powers to make spot inspections on people's databases to determine if they have complied with the Data Protection Act.?

Kutaragi to pilot PlayStation development? (Tue, 01 May 2007 13:44:48 +0100)

Vision too vague to be sure

Whether Ken 'Father of the PlayStation' Kutaragi will get to work on the PlayStation 4 remains to be seen, but he's certainly talking like he is. And the PS5. And the PS6.?

Estonian/Russian statue riots spill online (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:36:17 +0100)

Uncivil unrest hits govt websites

Civil unrest in Estonia over the removal of Soviet era memorials has been accompanied by attacks against the Baltic nation?s internet infrastructure.?

Institutional investors push Google on China (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:29:26 +0100)

Vote to be held at AGM

The man who advises five New York public pension funds is calling on Google to stop caving in to Chinese censorship demands.?

Sling throws in Mac-friendly SlingPlayer (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:13:07 +0100)

Apple TV... not on your TV

Sling Media has released the Mac version of its SlingPlayer viewing application. It's only nine months or so behind schedule, but better late than never we say. More to the point, the UK version is available from day one.?

Vote for sale on eBay (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:12:31 +0100)

No ginger politicians need apply

We can't imagine this will be up for long, but for anyone who is disenchanted with this thing we call democracy, point your browse over here for a giggle.?

Dell Linux is go (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:08:28 +0100)

Ubuntu named as distro for desktops and laptops

Dell has finally chosen a Linux distribution to offer on its desktop and laptop machines. Following news that Michael Dell was running Ubuntu on his personal laptop, the company has followed suit and from late May Dell machines will ship with Ubuntu 7.04 as an option.?

Fifa's 'wranking cock' shown red card (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:05:51 +0100)

Suspect file name trips net filters

We're very much obliged to Jonathan Horner for alerting us to some suspect file naming down at footie governing body Fifa's homepage, which "keeps tripping our internet filter alerts", as he puts it:?

Bug brace menaces Adobe Photoshop (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:02:56 +0100)

Unpatched graphics flaws menace mankind

Security researchers are warning of a brace of unpatched flaws in Adobe Photoshop that allow hackers to gain control of vulnerable PCs.?

Scots stump up �3.5m for Highland broadband (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:53:42 +0100)

Can you connect the unconnected?

The Scottish Executive is to meet with companies interested in providing connectivity to the last remaining spots of the Highlands, and has �3.5m burning a hole in its sporran to pay for it.?

Living optical fibres found in the eye (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:47:46 +0100)

Moving light past all those synapses

It is an old question: how does light make its way through all the retinal layers to finally strike the light sensitive cells at the back of the eye??

eBayer unleashes defecating dog to punt kayak (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:20:33 +0100)

Crap selling technique?

Regular readers will know that there are few holds barred down at eBay when it comes to attracting attention to some must-have item.?

Reuters snaps up search company (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:19:54 +0100)

Findable financial info

News provider Reuters is buying privately owned search company ClearForest to make its content more usable.?

'Rally my inflated ego', declares Nicolas Sarkozy (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:19:07 +0100)

Sack for TV subtitle prankster

A French TV subtitler has been given the boot for translating presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy's call to arms as an appeal to voters to "rally my inflated ego", news agencies report.?

Second Life: the campaign for real life (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:13:34 +0100)

Sense and Sadville don't mix

Comment I received an email yesterday from the IBM analyst relations which read:?

Sony eyes add-on camera for PSP (Tue, 01 May 2007 11:04:41 +0100)

Picture perfect?

Sony is to offer a clip-on camera for PlayStation Portable punters this month, allowing them to get snapping months ahead of PS3 owners, whose Eye cam, announced last week, doesn't debut until the summer.?

MPs criticise combat ID systems (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:46:27 +0100)

Troops can't tell who's friend or foe

MPs have said poor progress in developing combat identification technology is compromising the safety of military personnel.?

Silverlight glow dimmed by cross-platform concerns (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:35:21 +0100)

Bad for web health

MIX07 Microsoft has been taken to task for harming the web by going solo on technology and standards and not adopting a more open development approach.?

MoD encourages SMEs (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:28:18 +0100)

Easier bidding for defence contracts

Small IT suppliers could have a better chance of winning defence business under new advertising rules.?

Ann Summers love egg fails to crack Cyprus (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:08:19 +0100)

Island deprived of 'serious clitoral lovin'

Cypriot readers in search of some "serious clitoral lovin" in the form of a remote-controlled "deceptively powerful matt silver love egg" featuring "three speeds and four pulse settings", are advised not to bother looking for tablecloth-clenching ecstasy down at Ann Summers:?

Why Last.fm isn't sweating the RIAA's royalty hike (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:05:22 +0100)

The day the music survived

Last.fm, the popular custom radio and music network, will press on with expansion plans, despite the threat to internet radio from the record industry lobbyists in the US.?

DoubleClick redefines the rainbow paradigm (Tue, 01 May 2007 10:02:02 +0100)

Invents new colour for 'exciting' rebrand

LogoWatch Google's recently-acquired adserving tentacle DoubleClick has pulled off a bit of a rebranding coup in completely redefining the rainbow paradigm for its reworked logo.?

Orange becomes more like bank: launches overdraft facility (Tue, 01 May 2007 08:02:02 +0100)

Pay �1 to get �2.50 into debt

Mobile phone customers signing up to Orange's new Speakeasy pre-pay tariff can get themselves �2.50 worth of overdraft facility to keep them connected when their credit runs out, though they'll have to pay �1 to sign up for it.?

Observers forced to 'negotiate' for evote access (Tue, 01 May 2007 07:02:04 +0100)

Electrical electoral injustice

Independent observers are being blocked from properly observing the trials of electronic voting at the UK's forthcoming local elections.?

Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too (Tue, 01 May 2007 02:50:28 +0100)

No warning, little recourse

Hotmail users and email server admins, beware: you may be unknowingly caught in the crossfire of Microsoft's war on spam. Unintended casualties include legitimate emails from domains with well-established reputations, which are systematically blocked with absolutely no notice and little recourse.?

Owners of E-Gold indicted for money laundering (Tue, 01 May 2007 02:44:45 +0100)

Service allegedly popular among child pornographers and other low-lifes

Updated [This story was updated on May 1 to include comments from E-Gold strenuously denying the charges.]?

Study: Idiots may cause data-center apocalypse (Tue, 01 May 2007 01:23:09 +0100)

Ill-conceived moves to blade servers cause outage 'crisis'

A new study warns that ignorant data center managers switching to high-density devices are facing a "capacity crisis" that may increase the number of costly server outages.?

Rackable president ousted after two days (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:05:52 +0100)

Ejector Board seat

Tom Barton got to play king for a day ? or two days, as it were ? reigning over Rackable systems as CEO and President over the entire weekend before being offed completely.?

Microsoft flashes up Silverlight media challenge (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:28:31 +0100)

So many languages, so little time

MIX07 Microsoft is adding .NET Framework development for Silverlight, its wannabe challenger to Adobe Flash, which is released today as a beta.?

Child porn investigations keep FBI agents busy (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:09:59 +0100)

Guilty plea, charges in two unrelated cases

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography using peer-to-peer software provided by iMesh. David Leroy Knellinger Sr, 59, faces five to 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and supervised release for an indefinite term after being released from prison. Sentencing has been scheduled for Aug. 17, 2007.?

Supreme Court: Microsoft off the hook in AT&T case (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:27:44 +0100)

Decision could save companies billions in future patent battles

The Supreme Court has sided with Microsoft today, in a patent infringement case filed by AT&T over international copyright liability.?

MS to 'backport' Office 2007 security improvements (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:52:22 +0100)

Papering over the cracks

Microsoft plans to push security improvements made in Office 2007 down the food chain with the next major update for Office 2003.?

EVGA 680i LT SLI nForce-based motherboard (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:49:04 +0100)

Cut-down 680i - or shoved up 650i?

Review For some time, Nvidia's 600 family of chipsets has had a gaping chasm between the nForce 650i SLI, which typically sells for �90, and the nForce 680i SLI, which starts at �165. Enter the 680i LT SLI chipset, a budget version of the 680i SLI.?

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