4th October 2007 Archive

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• Microsoft's OS won't die while Palm's doesn't want to be born To subscribe to Channel Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of channel news in a single hit - click here.

Code

• Microsoft targets developers with 'open' license .NOT open source
• OpenSUSE 10.3 opens for business Chameleon adds more colours to its palette

Market News

• Intel shares drop on price war warning AMD's stock declines too
• Will Bungie jump from Microsoft? Halo and goodbye?

Security

• And now for something completely different: Good news on spam SEC beats up on pump-and-dump junk mail
• Apple patches Windows QuickTime bug Look before you link
• Israel suspected of 'hacking' Syrian air defences Did algorithms clear path for air raid?
• Police cuff 77 in fake cheque crackdown Spam scam scum slammed
• Portrait of an (alleged) cyber bully as a young man Accused CastleCops nemesis didn't get mad. He got bots.
• Schools chief pushes Big Brother out of dinner line Gov purees fingerprints for food policy
• UK start-up tackles PIN fraud with patterns Bye-bye shoulder surfing

Servers/Storage

• Gartner: no relief for data center costs 'Significant disruptions'
• IBM and HP objects of x86 server customer desire Sun and Dell get tepid marks and ire
• IBM attacks HP's dwarf blade with muffler Ship the box. Stop the violence
• Sun hypes new hypervisor and virtualization console Marketing now, shipping in '08

Services

• Mtas put on hold until 2009 First aid

Software

• eBay boots off Skype rival Wounded kitten bites spinning hook
• Oz watchdog sticks to its Google-attacking guns 'Down with sponsored links'
• Sage partners worry about falling into Line Hey, what happened to the MMS?