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- HP uncloaks wristwatch 'aggregation point'
- Ex-UK spy boss says WikiLeaks sparked Egyptian revolution
- Patent attack on Google open codec faces 'antitrust probe'
- Microsoft rallies IE6 death squads
- NASA's Glory climate-data sat crashes into Pacific on launch
- Sony readies official PS Move support for PCs
- Credit card squeeze looms for pirate music sites
- Street View Terminator warps into Dublin
- Turkey bans Google Blogger over pirated football feeds
- Microsoft blows Windows Phone update, again
- South Korea blitzed by DDoSers
- Samsung admits iPad 2 will be tough to beat
- O2 tries to explain its new prudish nature
- Commission clears Hollywood studios after U-turn
- Courtney Love coughs up $430k in Twitter rant settlement
- <em>Phantom Menace</em> to be released in 3D next Feb
- Nexenta: The fastest-growing storage start-up ever?
- iDect iHome Android phone
- Virgin says unlimited music downloads 'outdated'
- Parliament's expenses body spent £2.2m on IT
- THQ brings the uDraw GameTablet to Blighty
- Locked iPhones still got their ears on
- Microsoft tablet OS to see light of day in 'autumn 2012'
- British biz roasts Hargreaves' 'Google Review'
- Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow
- Kentucky man denies drunk driving, blames blow job
- German railways merge NFC networks
- Half a million Germans rally in support of 'Baron von Googleberg'
- Microsoft's new 'Bing deals' fails to support Windows Phone 7
- March Patch Tuesday leaves IE unpatched for Pwn2Own hackers
- Intel re-invents its mainstream SSD
- China plays follow the phone
- Sage Pay, down and out yet again
- Olympus PEN E-PL2 Micro Four-Thirds camera
- From messiah to pariah: The death of open source on mobile
- Google ends Chrome hardware acceleration on 'old drivers'
- Oz bloggers get shield protection
- AFP terrifies MPs with ‘net pr0n tales
- Android malware attacks show perils of Google openness
- Apple, Google, RIM in smartphone dead heat
- Microsoft and Google tag-team GeoTag patent
- 'Linux kernel for the cloud' gets new government
| HP uncloaks wristwatch 'aggregation point' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 12:55 PM PST Leather strapped connectivity. We thinkIn possibly the vaguest demo in recorded history, HP has revealed a futuristic connectivity device designed to be the centerpiece of your personal connectivity.… |
| Ex-UK spy boss says WikiLeaks sparked Egyptian revolution Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:21 AM PST Dearlove gets schooled on radical transparencyThe former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has credited WikiLeaks and other secret-spilling sites with sparking the revolutions sweeping the Middle East.… |
| Patent attack on Google open codec faces 'antitrust probe' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:08 AM PST DoJ investigates Apple, Microsoft, and friendsThe US Department of Justice is investigating MPEG-LA – the patent pool organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, and others – over the organization's effort to undermine the royalty-free V8 codec Google introduced last year, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.… |
| Microsoft rallies IE6 death squads Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:07 AM PST Voyeur site enlists netizensMicrosoft has launched a fresh campaign to eradicate Internet Explorer 6 from the web.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| NASA's Glory climate-data sat crashes into Pacific on launch Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PST Second case of climate sat atop Taurus booster doing thatA NASA satellite intended to bring some hard facts to the climate-change debate has crashed into the sea after lifting off from California and failing to separate from its booster rocket.… |
| Sony readies official PS Move support for PCs Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:17 AM PST Call to cull Kinect development?Sony has paved the way for developers to use its PlayStation Move technology as an input device, with the launch of an official SDK.… |
| Credit card squeeze looms for pirate music sites Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:15 AM PST Unverified by VisaIt isn't just Wikileaks that's being squeezed by credit card companies - pirate music sites are also feeling the pinch.… |
| Street View Terminator warps into Dublin Posted: 04 Mar 2011 07:36 AM PST Future Google develops time travel algorithmWe all know that Google's Street View has transdimensional capabilities, as well as the power to create space/time feedback loops, so it should come as no surprise that the Great Satan of Mountain View will in the future give staff at its all-seeing eye Terminator-style time travel abilities.… |
| Turkey bans Google Blogger over pirated football feeds Posted: 04 Mar 2011 07:35 AM PST Blogging site caught offsideA court has banned Google's Blogger service in Turkey over a row about pirated football feeds.… |
| Microsoft blows Windows Phone update, again Posted: 04 Mar 2011 07:09 AM PST Don't touch that ZuneSamsung users who held off updating after hearing about the problems last time are being told to hold off again as the fixed fix isn't really fixed at all.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| South Korea blitzed by DDoSers Posted: 04 Mar 2011 06:21 AM PST Up to 40 government websites targetedMultiple South Korean government websites have come under fire from a concerted denial of service attack.… |
| Samsung admits iPad 2 will be tough to beat Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:57 AM PST Price a problem in particularA Samsung executive has admitted that beating the iPad 2's skinniness will be a challenge.… |
| O2 tries to explain its new prudish nature Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:51 AM PST Bigger boys are doing it tooO2 has been busy explaining to customers why it's come over all prudish, and why they shouldn't worry about spending a little money to prove their age.… |
| Commission clears Hollywood studios after U-turn Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:49 AM PST Good news for indiesThe European Commission has ended an investigation into the major Hollywood studios after they changed contract provisions on installing digital kit at cinemas.… |
| Courtney Love coughs up $430k in Twitter rant settlement Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:47 AM PST Go on, take everything, take everythingHole singer Courtney Love has settled a lawsuit with fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir in Los Angeles.… |
| <em>Phantom Menace</em> to be released in 3D next Feb Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:14 AM PST You'll feel like Jar Jar's spittle is hitting your faceReviled Star Wars prequel Episode I: The Phantom Menace, reproduced in 3D for some reason, now has an official release date.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Nexenta: The fastest-growing storage start-up ever? Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:11 AM PST NetApp is a bully-boy, says new storage kidCeBIT: Nexenta is the fastest-growing storage start-up ever, based on customer growth, according to its sales and marketing veep, Jon Ash – faster even than NetApp in its early days.… |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PST The household handset meets the 21st centuryReview As well as smartphones and tablets Google's Android operating system has started cropping up in media players, ski goggles, car stereos and even headphones, so it's perhaps not too surprising that it's now turned up in the humble landline home phone.… |
| Virgin says unlimited music downloads 'outdated' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:57 AM PST Hang on, it never actually launched ...Anyone remember Virgin's great unlimited MP3 music service? You can be forgiven for looking stumped. The day before the Carter Report was published in the Summer of 2009 – the report that became the basis of the Digital Economy Act – Virgin and Universal announced they'd be offering unlimited DRM-free MP3 downloads for the price of "a couple of albums per month".… |
| Parliament's expenses body spent £2.2m on IT Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:55 AM PST That'll teach 'emThe newly minted Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has spent £2.2m on IT to get itself up and running, a commons answer revealed yesterday.… |
| THQ brings the uDraw GameTablet to Blighty Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:18 AM PST Who said videogames couldn't be art?Hands On Today sees the UK launch of THQ's uDraw GameTablet, a fresh way for kids and families to interact with their Nintendo Wii console.… |
| Locked iPhones still got their ears on Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:14 AM PST It's a feature, not a bugThe iPhone passcode has never been particularly secure, but now it seems that a locked handset will respond to a good talking-to, unless the user remembers to opt out.… |
| Microsoft tablet OS to see light of day in 'autumn 2012' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:52 AM PST Ballmer does the three-toed sloth danceMicrosoft boss Steve Ballmer was given a gentle kick up the backside late last year by the company's board, after he failed to move quickly enough against Apple's iPad and lost market share in the mobile phone and tablet biz.… |
| British biz roasts Hargreaves' 'Google Review' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:47 AM PST CBI weighs in on counterfeiting, IP theft, and freetardsThe Google Review – or to give its official title, The Intellectual Property Office's Independent Review of IP and Growth – has come under a sustained fire. It is the last day of submissions before Hargreaves and his team of five experts go away and ponder. The initiative was created as part of Cameron's "Shoreditch Roundabout" speech in November, where he described the gap-year Nathan Barleys who do "something in social media" as the future of the British economy.… |
| Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:45 AM PST All hail the pioneer of UK home computingTomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81.… |
| Kentucky man denies drunk driving, blames blow job Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:08 AM PST Finger lickin' good oral testimonyA Kentucky man who was arrested for DUI has said his erratic driving was less to do with alcohol and more to do with the oral sex he was receiving from his passenger at the time.… |
| German railways merge NFC networks Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:06 AM PST We get Chiltern Railways and barcodes ...Frankfurt's regional travel authority is to merge its NFC infrastructure with the national rail operator, creating an interoperable network for travelling across Germany with a tap of the phone.… |
| Half a million Germans rally in support of 'Baron von Googleberg' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:56 AM PST Big Facebook love for plagiarist aristocratA huge online campaign has rallied in support of former German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who resigned on Tuesday after being stripped of his PhD for plagiarising large sections of his thesis.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Microsoft's new 'Bing deals' fails to support Windows Phone 7 Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:44 AM PST Android: Check. iOS: Check. WP7: Hang up, callerMicrosoft launched a Groupon-like site dubbed 'Bing deals' that works on desktops, Apple's iPhone and Google's Android device but not on Redmond's own Windows Phone 7.… |
| March Patch Tuesday leaves IE unpatched for Pwn2Own hackers Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:15 AM PST Enterprise is running with shields down ... Lock phasers on target...Microsoft – unlike its browser rivals – will not be patching Internet Explorer before the upcoming Pwn2Own hacking contest next week.… |
| Intel re-invents its mainstream SSD Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:11 AM PST X25-M stays as 510 is announcedIntel has announced a 510 solid state drive (SSD) line that greatly increases the read/write bandwidth, but has lower IOPS numbers compared to its existing X25-M SSD products.… |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:06 AM PST An exercise in crowd |
| Sage Pay, down and out yet again Posted: 04 Mar 2011 12:25 AM PST Day 3 in the no-payment house...Online payment system Sage Pay is unavailable again today despite limping briefly back online yesterday.… |
| Olympus PEN E-PL2 Micro Four-Thirds camera Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:00 PM PST EVIL by designReview When the original Olympus PEN E-P1 came out in 2009 it arguably marked the start of a revolution. Its mirrorless design meant that it was far smaller than a DSLR, yet its relatively large sensor meant it took considerably better quality images than compact cameras; besides that, its retro Japanese styling also made it a far more tempting proposition for consumers everywhere.… |
| From messiah to pariah: The death of open source on mobile Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PST $0.99 beats free almost every timeOpen...and Shut Open source has gone from pariah to messiah in the past decade, but it has yet to find a place at the mobile table, and risks being rendered obsolete.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Google ends Chrome hardware acceleration on 'old drivers' Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PST Slackers lose interwebs 3DGoogle has disabled Chrome hardware acceleration for systems with certain "older" graphics drivers, after noticing that such systems caused an unusual number of crashes.… |
| Oz bloggers get shield protection Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:54 PM PST Indies, Greens extend whistleblower lawThe Australian Senate has passed legislation that would afford the same protection to bloggers, independent media and "citizen journalists" as is enjoyed by journalists.… |
| AFP terrifies MPs with ‘net pr0n tales Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:32 PM PST Plod is really plodding todayAccording to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Federal Police has warned a group of Australian parliamentarians that the country's planned National Broadband Network (NBN) will "make it harder" for them to "track people downloading and sharing child pornography".… |
| Android malware attacks show perils of Google openness Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PST Is there a vetter in the house?This week's discovery of malware that hijacked tens of thousands of Android cellphones shows the pitfalls of Google's decision to make the operating system the Wikipedia of mobile platforms that offers apps written by virtually anyone.… |
| Apple, Google, RIM in smartphone dead heat Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PST Android rising, Symbian flaccidAlthough Android-based smartphones now have a larger US market share that do handsets from Apple or RIM, the three-way battle remains a tight one.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Microsoft and Google tag-team GeoTag patent Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:16 PM PST Demand satisfaction on 300 Maps casesMicrosoft and Google have found a common cause. The two companies just joined forces to sue a tiny geo-location patent jihadist.… |
| 'Linux kernel for the cloud' gets new government Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:51 PM PST Rackspace rejiggers OpenStack boardRackspace has overhauled the governance of OpenStack – the eight-month-old open source effort to build Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds" – relinquishing some of the control it gained by acquiring one of the project's other major contributors.… |
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