31st October 2007 Archive

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Code

• Aspect-oriented programming and security Comment Working together

Distribution

• Midwich eyes consumer electronics Scoops up Invision

Hardware

• Alcatel-Lucent cuts off 4,000 workers Jobs go as losses grow
• Samsung spins out world's fastest dual-layer DVD writer The 16X DVD+R dual-layer drive
• WD 'first to ship' 320GB laptop hard drive Out before Toshiba?

Market News

• Cisco offers $10m prize in small biz bingo Entrepreneurs and inventors required
• Darling swings on capital gains Not exactly a U-turn, but almost
• Uncooking the books costs Dell 'only' $92m Let the buybacks begin

News

• Blu-ray BD+ crypto tech to be cracked by year's end? Method discovered, claims software developer
• Newegg serves up Asus Eee PC to US buyers $400 a pop, in stock now, apparently
• World to face laptop famine this Xmas? Plenty of demand, not enough parts

Security

• Macs seized by porn Trojan When nudity attacks
• Software cracking tools open the door to malware One in six PCs harbour dodgy utilities
• Trick or trojan - watch out for Halloween malware Don't download the dancing skeleton
• Virtual! stripper! game! targets! Yahoo! Captcha-busting Trojan warning

Servers/Storage

• How to escape the clutches of world+dog's VMware fetish Interview Also, Diane Greene considers the meaning of life
• Intel saddles HP with new Itanium Why Montvale? Why?
• Is storage becoming IT's Hummer? VMware blamed as storage nears top of leccy guzzle pile
• Olympic ticketing system crashes under demand Fosbury flop

Software

• ANPR bags alleged uninsured pirate godfathers Discs, Daewoo, toner seized
• Glasgow is UK's runner-up in software piracy stakes Taking the low road
• Google corrals web 2.0 turkeys for Facebook fightback Everybody's API nowadays
• Judge extends Microsoft oversight till January As states look for five year extension
• Saga shuffles into social networking Hip replacement (for actually leaving the house)