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- Apple iPad 2 demo'd on camera
- Apple iPad 2
- Man Utd sues supporter over corporate client 'data theft'
- Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate
- HDS private cloud storage product is 'beautiful'
- Software bugs block O2 PlayStation phone release
- Sizing a server to support desktop virtualisation
- Chinese firm accused of mobile malware ruse
- Avanti's bird plumps up feathers
- A deluge of diagramming add-ons
- <i>Scarface</i> blows onto Blu-ray
- Fuel foolery, merger warnings and Budgetary boons
- UK.gov uses purple-panted-berk to get 'young men' to do census
- Gabrielle Giffords may wave Endeavour off
- Early demand knocks back UK iPad 2 delivery dates
- Yakuza 4
- Stardust comet hunter drifts off into space
- Libya fighting shows just how idiotic the Defence Review was
- The workload challenge
- Online world maps rub jubs against todgers
- Brand owners could stop reputation-benefitting keyword triggers
- Santander blames Firefox 4 for website fail
- Your census data will be kept secret - except from MI5, police, courts etc
- Spotify splattered with malware-tainted ads
- Plane or train? Tape or disk?
- PARIS pops up in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Android gets in-app billing
- Sales, meet Finance
- Chain Reaction finds and plugs security hole that led to fraud
- EU strengthens online shopper protection
- Marshall Islands prez 'legalises cocaine'
- Acer locates 'missing' tablet strategy
- Productivity: IT pros to the rescue
- Nintendo 3DS launch games
- Nintendo 3DS
- UK is a closed source 'stronghold'
- Newbie's virtual appliance stores up trouble for EMC
- Ubuntu board rejects slippery Flash installs
- Red Hat rolls up RHEL 6.1 beta
- RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps
- Steve Jobs vindicated: Google Android is not open
- Oracle cash grows on new licenses, hardware
- Oz gov kicks off censorship review
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 10:15 AM PDT Video Fondleslab stroked for your pleasure |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 10:01 AM PDT Tablet two-point-ohReview What can I say? Yes, the iPad 2 is better than the iPad one. Yes, it's superior to the current crop of competitors. Apple has ticked the empty boxes on the features list that, left unchecked, would have left its tablet in the lee of this year's other new models.… |
| Man Utd sues supporter over corporate client 'data theft' Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:51 AM PDT Prawn sandwich crowd suffer intimidationManchester United is suing a supporter who published a list of its corporate supporters on its website last year, a move the football club alleges led to incidents of harassment.… |
| Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:22 AM PDT Dead horse long ago flogged down to a mere red stainThe situation at the quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan was brought under control days ago. It remains the case as this is written that there have been no measurable radiological health consequences among workers at the plant or anybody else, and all indications are that this will remain the case. And yet media outlets around the world continue with desperate, increasingly hysterical and unscrupulous attempts to frame the situation as a crisis.… |
| HDS private cloud storage product is 'beautiful' Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:11 AM PDT KIller HCP+HDI productThe second day of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Bloggers event is finished and I'm writing this piece on the airplane flying back home to Italy.… |
| Software bugs block O2 PlayStation phone release Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:08 AM PDT Other networks seemingly glitch freeO2 has set back its PlayStation phone - aka the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play - release because it has failed to score sufficiently highly in the carrier's network tests.… |
| Sizing a server to support desktop virtualisation Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:00 AM PDT Savvy scripting and baseliningVirtualising the desktop can bring benefits at the endpoint. It makes desktops more manageable, can reduce power load throughout the building, and can make systems more secure.… |
| Chinese firm accused of mobile malware ruse Posted: 25 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PDT Users pay to remove unrequested appChinese security firm NetQin has been accused of conspiring to plant malicious software on users' handsets in order to drum up business for its mobile security software.… |
| Avanti's bird plumps up feathers Posted: 25 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PDT Just needs a few more customersHYLAS 1, the satellite launched in November to service Avanti's broadband internet offering, is fully operational and ready to go, though questions remain about who is going to be using it.… |
| A deluge of diagramming add-ons Posted: 25 Mar 2011 07:00 AM PDT The third menWorkshop Installing the software is just the start: you can also buy all manner of diagramming add-ons and alternative stencils, templates, shapes and icons either from your vendor or from third parties. The beauty of the third-party market is that it is huge, flexible and offers plenty of cheap, or even, free software.… |
| <i>Scarface</i> blows onto Blu-ray Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:58 AM PDT Say hello to my little remastered friendFans of Brian de Palma's 1983 orgy of blood and cocaine Scarface will doubtless be queuing round the block when the digitally-remastered Blu-ray version of the film is released on 6 September.… |
| Fuel foolery, merger warnings and Budgetary boons Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:47 AM PDT New Budget makes some sensible changes...and some mad ones tooComment What a difference a new government makes, eh? Only parts of the budget are entirely lunatic rather than all of it.… |
| UK.gov uses purple-panted-berk to get 'young men' to do census Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:26 AM PDT XY gamers urged to fill in some lovely formsAttempts by officials at the 2011 census to increase participation by the young male population in this weekend's UK headcount exercise – aka the Census – appear to have reached desperation point over the last couple of weeks, with the launch of Census-Man, the online game.… |
| Gabrielle Giffords may wave Endeavour off Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:11 AM PDT 'Good chance' she'll see launch, says husband Mark KellyNASA astronaut Mark Kelly is optimistic that his wife Gabrielle Giffords will be at Kennedy Space Center on 19 April to see him blast off aboard space shuttle Endeavour.… |
| Early demand knocks back UK iPad 2 delivery dates Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PDT Lots to go round, say retailersApple's iPad 2 goes on sale in the UK at 5pm today, but folk ordering online may have a long wait for their fondleslabs.… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT Gangster wrapReview Yakuza 4 manages to pack so many disparate gaming elements into the one package that it's hard to know where to start. Part soap opera, part noire, undoubtedly a kung-fu fighter, but with fleeting resource management and a reasonable-sized city to explore, this is the JRPG, at its most offbeat.… |
| Stardust comet hunter drifts off into space Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:27 AM PDT Veteran spacecraft burns to depletion and shuts itself downThe last transmission from NASA's comet-hunting Stardust came last night at 23:33 GMT, as the venerable spacecraft ended its career with a "burn to depletion maneuver".… |
| Libya fighting shows just how idiotic the Defence Review was Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:12 AM PDT Vast fleet of RAF planes delivers just 3 crap missilesAnalysis Recent combat operations by British and allied forces in Libya are beginning to tell us a lot: not so much about the future of Libya, which remains up for grabs, but about the tools one actually needs for fighting real-world wars against real-world enemy armed forces.… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT Have mainframes still got a job?Broadcast The mainframe was there first, but is it the dinosaur that many people assume?… |
| Online world maps rub jubs against todgers Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:53 AM PDT Just how big, and how long?It's Friday, and since you're all sitting around on your backsides waiting to head off to the pub, here's a challenge to fill a couple of dreary hours: just what interesting scientific conclusions can we draw from a comparison of the two following maps of breast size and penis length worldwide?… |
| Brand owners could stop reputation-benefitting keyword triggers Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:45 AM PDT No vicarious benefits, suggests ECJ advisorOwners of trade marks with a reputation could stop other companies using their brands as triggers for Google adverts if the use is an attempt to benefit from the reputation of that brand, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.… |
| Santander blames Firefox 4 for website fail Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:40 AM PDT Downgrade yourselfCustomers unable to log-in to Santander's personal banking site this morning need to try another browser.… |
| Your census data will be kept secret - except from MI5, police, courts etc Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:38 AM PDT New Labour attitudes buried in the fine printLike you, I have received my 2011 census form from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The cover page prominently states, in bold, "Your personal information is protected by law. Census information is kept confidential for 100 years". Like you, perhaps, I have taken this statement at face value.… |
| Spotify splattered with malware-tainted ads Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:15 AM PDT Sounds dodgyUpdated Users of the ad-supported version of Spotify were hit by a malware-based attack on Thursday.… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT The dividing line is not easy to findYou the Expert Where is the dividing line, onside of which says take the train to Paris from London and the other says fly? Where is the dividing line, one side of which says store your saved data on disk and the other points you towards tape?… |
| PARIS pops up in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:57 AM PDT Space paper plane honoured with fetching cartoonWe're very much obliged to reader Mike Grant for letting us know that our magnificent Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) project was honoured earlier this week in Ripley's Believe It or Not!… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:54 AM PDT Insert coin to continueGoogle is set to launch in-application billing for Android next week, and is encouraging developers to upload their billing-event-enabled apps now.… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:30 AM PDT Building cross-functional teamsWorkshop Sales and finance are the two parts of business closest to the commercial coal face. One's about generating money and the other's about channelling and reporting funds. Both are occupied directly with customers: who they are, what they need, what they have bought, whether they have paid.… |
| Chain Reaction finds and plugs security hole that led to fraud Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:29 AM PDT Bike site gets back on trackPopular UK-based biking site ChainReactionCycles.com has confirmed that a security breach on its systems led to fraud against its customers.… |
| EU strengthens online shopper protection Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:03 AM PDT And time for a chat about online gamblingThe European Parliament has approved changes to a draft law aimed to strengthen protections for online shoppers who buy goods from other member states.… |
| Marshall Islands prez 'legalises cocaine' Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:02 AM PDT Government surprised by 'CBS' nose Ajax announcementThe government of the Marshall Islands has expressed its surprise that president Jurelang Zedkaia has issued an executive order legalising cocaine and introducing "a no-visa unrestricted entry programme for foreign nationals of any country".… |
| Acer locates 'missing' tablet strategy Posted: 25 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT Date, price set for Android 3.0 fondleslabsAcer has announced the launch date and pricing of its Iconia 10.1in tablets. The company has a two-OS strategy supporting both Windows 7 and Android 3.0 Honeycomb in its W500 and A500 models, respectively.… |
| Productivity: IT pros to the rescue Posted: 25 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT Proving groundDesktop There are tools and services that enable service desks to deliver all kinds of services to keep the desktop estate running smoothly, but how does it prove its impact on employee productivity and what steps can be taken to improve it?… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:08 AM PDT Review We rate the first batch |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:06 AM PDT Raise your glasses?Review "You have to see it for yourself." As the 3DS' unofficial marketing catchphrase, that's as good as it gets: an enticement at the most personal level. As the opening gambit to a product review, it's far less auspicious. But that's the reality of Nintendo's new wunderkind. Seeing is the only way of believing.… |
| UK is a closed source 'stronghold' Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT Proprietary software is the opiate of the peopleWorkshop The UK lags behind the rest of the world in deployments of open source software. Steve George, vice-president of business development at Canonical, believes this is a mistake that compromises not only our economy but also our global competitiveness.… |
| Newbie's virtual appliance stores up trouble for EMC Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT Tintri's dilemma: When (not if) to get boughtOpen...and Shut With $11bn at stake, you'd think that someone would have solved the virtualized storage problem by now. The problem, however, is that there's so much more money in the existing storage market.… |
| Ubuntu board rejects slippery Flash installs Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT YouTube sensations no justificationUbuntu won't be updated to quietly slip third-party apps like Flash Player onto your PC, regardless of the app's popularity.… |
| Red Hat rolls up RHEL 6.1 beta Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT Tweaks and tech previewsCommercial Linux distie and soon-to-be billion dollar baby Red Hat has rolled up the first update of its Enterprise Linux 6 operating system and kicked it out there for beta testing.… |
| RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:36 PM PDT Our love knows |
| Steve Jobs vindicated: Google Android is not open Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:26 PM PDT Android for fondlestabs closed shutIf you needed further proof that Android is not an "open platform", Google just supplied it. On Thursday, the company said that as its select partners release the first tablets based on Android "Honeycomb" – the latest version of its mobile operating system – it will not open source the Honeycomb code.… |
| Oracle cash grows on new licenses, hardware Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PDT Exadata 'selling itself'It looks like Larry Ellison's net worth is set to go up some more. And maybe yours too, if you own Oracle stock.… |
| Oz gov kicks off censorship review Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:42 PM PDT A lot has changed in 20 yearsFor the first time in 20 years, the Australian Federal Government looks intent on updating the National Classification Scheme.… |
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