30th October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Buzzword bingo for Microsoft's Oslo Pick a date, any date

Hardware

• EMC satisfies management fetish with Voyence Beware IBM, HP, Dell and Sun
• OLPC wants $200 for its $100 laptop, please And sells 100,000 units to Uruguay
• Toshiba spits out tasty H1 profit Despite 'sluggish' HDD and mobile phone sales
• US tech industry backs Buffalo in Wi-Fi patent spat I raise you my eBay loophole and call your injunction
• Vyatta does open source networking with a mean streak Tell Cisco what you really think

Market News

• Morse signals stability in current year Trading in line with expectations

News

• Data recovery firm sounds Mac hard drive damage alert Updated 'Critical' flaw with China-made HDDs?

Security

• Bank and mortgage scam nets ID crooks thousands Why settle for just emptying an online bank account?
• FTC demands bigger spyware penalties Raising the fine line
• McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe Goes mad for certifying
• UK.gov lambasted for ignoring peers' cybercrime report Either stupid or ignorant, fumes security researcher
• When antivirus products (and Internet Explorer) fail you Null hypothesis
• Woman admits fleecing shopping network of more than $412,000 Website glitch allowed her to receive items gratis

Servers/Storage

• BT banks on windmills to throw greens off its scent SNW UK's biggest leccy guzzler's crusty nightmare
• DARPA looking to verify imported military chips Unscrewing the inscrutable
• DMTF accepts new format for portable VMs Hopes to simplify interoperability

Services

• Scottish decision threatens PFI contract secrecy NHS Lothian and Consort ordered to disclose deal details

Software

• Apple's Leopard leaps into action Two million copies and counting
• Googlite explains PageRank tweak 'Down with link sellers'
• Reaper aerial killbot harvests its first fleshies Hapless meatsacks slaughtered by flying mechanoid