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- Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS
- Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun
- Hacking the NES With Lisp
- Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details
- Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax'
- Google 'Solve For X' Website Goes Live
- Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence
- New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller
- A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4)
- Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox
- Scientists Embed Electronic Components Into Optical Fibers
- Book Review: The Windup Girl
- Nascent Graphene Institute Makes Steps Toward Transistors
- NASA Pulling Out of ESA-led ExoMars Mission?
- Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack
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- Suppliers get a shot at Β£4bn worth of gov hardware deals
From tablets to servers and storage
The Government Procurement Service has advertised for suppliers to join a wide-ranging £4bn ICT framework.â¦
- Colorfly Pocket Hi-Fi C4
The audiophiles' PMP
Review The true audiophile is likely to have many questions concerning the Colorfly Pocket Hi-Fi, but chief among them is likely to be âHow f*%&ing much??!?â At £549 this Chinese-made high fidelity portable music player is nobodyâs idea of a bargain, but if youâre one of those brave souls who still cares about sound quality, who appreciates the convenience of digital but feels cheated by the compressed sound, Colorfly might just have something here.â¦
- Czechs, Slovaks stall on ACTA
Romania doesnât know why it didnât
The fragile European consensus over the ACTA treaty is fraying at the fringes: the Czech Republic and Slovakia have decided to suspend the ratification process, while Romaniaâs support for the treaty could stall on a change of government.â¦
- Adobe adds Flash sandboxing to Firefox
Hackers bypass it in 3, 2â¦
Adobe has released beta code for sandboxing its heavily hacked Flash code within Firefox, in a similar fashion to the Chrome security protections added to its Reader software and Googleâs Chrome browser.â¦
- Google limits Android support for CDMA phones
Android power users may face hobbled handsets
Google is dropping full support for CDMA handsets running Android, leaving millions of customers wondering if their phones and tablets will be able to cope.â¦
- Oracle wins round in Java patent lawsuit against Google
Appeals court allows incriminating Mountain View email
A three-judge US Court of Appeals panel has denied Google's request to toss out another judge's decision to allow an incriminating email from being used as evidence in Oracle's Java-patent lawsuit against Mountain View.â¦
- Chip sales definitely not down β but almost β in 2011
Semis take a December dive
The chip biz didn't do as badly as many had feared it might last summer, closing out 2011 with $299.5bn in worldwide sales, up four-tenths of a per cent from the record $298.3bn revenue level set in 2010.â¦
- βOldest animalsβ show up in Namibian dig
Ancient sponge the granddaddy of us all
For now, anyhow, the starting date for highly-organised life has gained a new record, with a dig in Namibia yielding up sponge fossils dated somewhere between 100 and 150 million years earlier than anything else yet found.â¦
- VMTurbo control freak spans more clouds
Allocating virty resources, free marketâstyle
There are a lot of different ways to allocate resources in a world that has a scarcity of just about everything except wise guys. You can do command and control from the top down, as many governments have tried and many systems management tools do as well. Or you can take the free-market approach by creating pools of resources and hordes of potential buyers, and letting them compete for resources.â¦
- The hole in the copy-proof fence
The Optus TV Now decision
The value of live sports sponsorships isnât going to collapse overnight, regardless of the dire predictions made in the wake of last weekâs decision in the Optus TV Now case.â¦
- NewSat scores $US180m in new contract win
Aus satellite gets popular
Australian satellite operator NewSat has secured another contract, this time worth $US180 million, for capacity on its yet-to-be-launched Jabiru -1 satellite.â¦
- Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthrough
Remotely kiss a cow, kiss a bunny, kiss your loneliness goodbye
A team of robot reseachers have developed a prototype of internet-based remote kissing devices that â for reasons unexplained â comes in two versions, one a cartoonish bunny, the other a cow.â¦
- Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth
Data glitch explanation wonât satisfy true believers
The latest update to Google Earth has resolved the software error that caused some to suspect the lost city of Atlantis had been found in the Atlantic Ocean.â¦
- Shrunken Intel process boosts SSD performance
The new 520 Series more than doubles 510's IOPS
Intel has announced a boosted follow-on to its 510 SSD: the 520 Series, with more than double the IOPS performance and a top-end model with almost twice the capacity.â¦
- Symantec: 'NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X'
Cuts 25-hour chore down to 15 minutes
Symantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news â well, as sexy as backup news can be â is that the latest release of NetBackup is said to be 100 times faster, theoretically shrinking a 25-hour backup window to 15 minutes.â¦
- Cisco recalls suicidal UCS blade servers
Goodness gracious, great MOSFETs afire
Cisco Systems warns that its high-end B440 blades for its "California" Unified Computing System have a potentially disastrous defect that could result in one or more board failures, and emit a flash of light that could perhaps give system administrators heart attacks.â¦
- Resellers smack down Microsoft's 'single-digit' price rise claim
Channel sources: Volume licensing lift will be closer to 20 per cent
Microsoft says that a planned overhaul of volume licensing pricing due in the summer will be capped at single digit percentage rises.â¦
- Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings
Hacked lawyers who defended Marine over Iraqi deaths
Anonymous has leaked a trove of emails relating to the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha after hacking into a law firm's systems.â¦
- Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
'I am sworn to carry your burdens'
Freebie anti-virus scanner Avast falsely identified an executable associated with the popular Steam gaming platform as a Trojan on Sunday.â¦
- iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware
Siri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with the I-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siri stories.â¦
- UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing
Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must stand
The UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.â¦
- Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz
Apple strong in upgrade arena
Punters picking their first smartphone are more likely to select an Android handset. When they come to upgrade, however, there's a good chance they'll defect to the opposition.â¦
- An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...
MS mulls partying like it's 1996....
Sources close to Microsoft have confirmed the veracity of last week's Windows Phone leaks â but say no decision has been taken to base the mobile platform on the Windows 8 kernel.â¦
- Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt
'At no stage did any DPA suggest pause was necessary'
Google has rejected calls from the European Union's watchdog to delay imminent changes to the Chocolate Factory's privacy policy.â¦
- Printed jaw lets woman swallow again
Let's eat, Grandma
3D printing techniques have been taken to jaw-dropping heights after an 83-year-old woman was given a replacement mandible. She becomes the first patient ever to be fitted with a printed lower jaw.â¦
- Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes
Bans Qihoo apps from its store ...
Qihoo, maker of the most popular web browser in China, has had all of its products kicked out of iTunes, though it's far from clear which breach of the rules is responsible.â¦
- Apple tells authors: All your <strike>books</strike> iBook files are belong to us
But you can export them as PDFs if you want
In a legal rewrite pushed out Friday, Apple has made its iBooks publishing agreement sound slightly less evil by clarifying just what you can do with the content you create on its iBook Author software.â¦
- Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals
Just wait for that nice Brussels man to agree
Updated BT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.â¦
- Windows Phone 8 to get NFC, HD and Skype
Rumours confirmed, details emerge
Following a leaked video which showed Windows Phone top dog Joe Belfiore listing the features adorning the next version of Windows Phone, beta testers have come clean on what we should expect.â¦
- BTJunkie closes shooting gallery
'My life is officially ruined'
Popular torrent search engine BTJunkie â nothing to do with BT â is voluntarily closing, according to a notice posted on the site, without offering a reason. The site has indexed other torrent trackers since 2005, and was the fifth most popular Torrent site.â¦
- Schools IT supplier RM swings to full year loss after sales dive
We knew about gov budget cuts but we didn't really get it...
Ailing specialist education IT supplier RM has admitted it reacted too slowly to government budget cuts in schools after revealing massive losses in fiscal 2011 ended 30 November.â¦
- Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge
Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting
A job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.â¦
- Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites
Internet firms comply with court order
Facebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of "objectionable content".â¦
- Scientists weave battery into clothing
Uses jumper leads?
Scientists charged into the fashion industry this week, unveiling a flexible battery that can be woven into fabric and used to boost the juice of everyday gadgets.â¦
- Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 front
Format wars are a mixed blessing for consumers. Whether it's Betamax versus VHS or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the consumer ultimately wins because companies have to advance superior technologies. But problems arise if the format you backed loses the war - and your device becomes next year's expensive doorstop.â¦
- Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?
Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.â¦
- MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online
ISPs once again asked to police interwebs
Update Internet service providers must do better at removing violent material from websites, a group of MPs thundered today.â¦
- Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook
NOT a MacBook clone
Review Surely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but thatâs one less than five.â¦
- Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle
Etailer claims third Redmond scalp
Microsoft's man rallying developers and partners to buy into Windows Phone is reportedly jumping ship to help push Amazon's cross-platform Kindle push.â¦
- Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy
Spec leak - or fishing expedition?
US electronics retailer Best Buy has begun asking punters if they'd be interested coughing up $1499 for a 42in HD TV from Apple.â¦
- Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief
Mark Durcan will take over as CEO after death of Steve Appleton
Chip-maker Micron Technology has named a new CEO following the death of Steve Appleton on Friday in a plane crash.â¦
- iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android
Is it an upgrade problem, or a user problem?
Recent data has shown that iOS apps crash more often than apps running on the Android platform.â¦
- IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe
Rise in the East and Latin America
If you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going â and perhaps to get a pay raise â the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That's the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it's not that simple, so don't jump to conclusions.â¦
- EMC server flash rival slams VFCache
Fusion-io thinks Lightning misses target
EMC's VFCache server cache doesn't quite hit the mark. Although it validates server flash use, caching is not enough.â¦
- Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec
Service could be set for greater expansion in the region
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter is stepping up its efforts at international expansion and has pinched a senior Google executive in a clear sign the company could be looking to target Asia in the coming months.â¦
- PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network
SEN-sible name change?
The PlayStation Network is to undergo a major rebranding this week when it is integrated into an all-new Sony Entertainment Network.â¦
- Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs
Bone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.â¦
- Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact
Whoops
Motorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.â¦
- Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China
Social network would love to tap that
Not content with almost total domination in Western markets, social networking behemoth Facebook could be planning an assault on China if it can just do a deal with the authorities there, its latest regulatory filing has revealed.â¦
- New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not
Claimants who do not comply will be 'nudged' by 'back office' workers
Universal credit â the government's "new and improved" benefits system â will be the first major government service to be digital by default.â¦
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