The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITOperation Sprogwatch: Keeping tabs on the kids- July 22, 2008 No snoop for you, buddi It's every parent's dream - reliable and easy-accessed information on what your offspring are up to. Electronics systems such as Spyphone II 8210 actually allow you to dial into your child's mobile, and eavesdrop on their conversations. And now, there's the "buddi", which will track wherever the brats go, showing a GPS path every 30 seconds.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/buddi_snooping_kids/ Brocade buys Foundry Networks for $3bn- July 22, 2008 Playing with the big boys now Brocade is to acquire Foundry Networks for $3bn in cash and stock. The storage networking vendor has secured a $1.5bn debt facility from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to grease the purchase.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/brocade_foundry_networks_a... Even without 3-Jesus Phone, Apple busts revenue records- July 22, 2008 And Wall Street is peeved During its last fiscal quarter, Apple shipped a record 2.49 million Macs, and even if you ignore a decent chunk of its Jesus Phone sales, it nabbed a record $7.46bn in revenues. But in typically coy fashion, the company says it has low expectations for the quarter to come.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/apple_q2_earnings/ Registrars turn blind eye to sites selling illegal steroids- July 21, 2008 Is anyone in charge around here Next time you see websites brazenly pushing anabolic steroids, thank GoDaddy, Dynadot and a half-dozen other US-based registrars, which allow them to operate even though they're illegal, claims a new report.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/registrars_cater_to_steroi... Scientists ponder future Moon mission activities- July 21, 2008 One of these days, Alice... A clever fellow once observed that the Moon is a harsh mistress. Humanity's subsequent jaunts up to the place indicated it was a pretty solid hypothesis. The Ritz-Carlton it is not.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/lunar_science_conference_0... US court sides with Janet Jackson's breast- July 21, 2008 No fine for 'Nipplegate' America's puritanical streak goes only so far. Today, a US appeals court vaporized the $550,000 fine the FCC famously slapped on CBS for showing the country a majority of Janet Jackson's right breast.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/court_bags_wardrobe_malfun... Linux on mobiles will put the squeeze on MS, says Zemlin- July 21, 2008 Manifest destiny again OSCON Once it was the desktop, now mobile phones and embedded devices represent the future of Linux, according to open source fans.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/zemlin/ Researcher's hypothesis may expose uber-secret DNS flaw- July 21, 2008 Responsible disclosure debate rages on Two weeks ago, when security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced a devastating flaw in the internet's address lookup system, he took the unusual step of admonishing his peers not to publicly speculate on the specifics. The concern, he said, was that online discussions about how the vulnerability worked could teach black hat hackers how to exploit it before overlords of the domain name system had a chance to fix it.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/dns_flaw_speculation/ Intel slashes Xeon, Core 2 Duo prices- July 21, 2008 Not to mention a Core 2 Quad A week after trumpeting a healthy second quarter profit leap, Intel has slashed the prices of several server and desktop processors.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/intel_summer_price_slashin... CherryPal launches $249 mini PC into ad-backed cloud- July 21, 2008 Buzzword chimera the size of a paperback Start-up CherryPal is taking pre-orders today for its partly cloudy "desktop" that mashes web-hosted computing, going green, open source, and social networking into a 10 ounce box.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/cherrypal_launches_cherryp... |