Industry News & Chat
'Get back to work, c**kbite'
Fail and You Earlier this month, Apple lifted the heavy-handed nondisclosure agreement it imposes on developers. This NDA regulated what tips and tricks developers may share with each other (hint: none), which made it a real pain in the ass to publish a book about iPhone programming. Developers got really buttsore over this and did what developers do best: They blogged about it. Book publishers pissed and moaned, all the while under the impression that people still buy programming books. After this wave of anal pain circulated through the internet, Apple finally lifted the NDA.…
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Vista SP2 beta could land within next four weeks
Strictly private viewing
Updated Microsoft is readying Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) and will hand it over to beta testers within the next month.…
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Intel signs up Ericsson for internet tablet HSDPA kit
Hopes pact will last longer than its Nokia partnership
Intel and Nokia may have drifted apart before the Finnish phone giant could create HSDPA 3G modules for Centrino laptops, but the chip giant is hoping to have better luck with its 'Moorestown' Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform.…
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Home Office mulls fighting hacking with corporate ASBOs
Consultation on serious crime prevention orders planned
The Home Office is consulting on the possibility of applying serious crime prevention orders (AKA corporate ASBOs) to computer hacking laws.…
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Crazy Frog won’t croak again
New future for Jamba
News Corp is killing Crazy Frog, along with the brands Jamba and Jamster. The German company today announced a reorganisation of its business to "extend its global leadership in the mobile content industry".…
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Touchscreen-equipped BlackBerry Bold en route?
Pluto phone rumours
Research in Motion (RIM) is secretly developing a BlackBerry handset that’s set to be out of this world, leaked info about the phone suggests.…
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French police probe Sarkozy bank fraud
Zut alors!
French police are on the hunt for fraudsters who siphoned off money from the personal bank account of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.…
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Toshiba eyes co-owned SanDisk Japanese Flash factories
Get your mitts off, Samsung
Toshiba wants to buy SanDisk's share of the two firms' jointly owned Japanese manufacturing facilities, it has been claimed.…
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The IBM DS5000: Best in a field of one
IBM array comes top in IBM commissioned tests
IBM's DS5300 storage array is in a class of one when serving virtual machines in a pair of VMware servers.…
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Symantec gives 3PAR helping hand
Giant pushes fat-to-thin process
It turns out 3PAR needed a bit of help to get its fat-to-thin process working properly.…
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