Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs
Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing
In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company announced last night.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Freesat BBC iPlayer beta gets red button access
Code-only entry ended
Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers' Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Saviour likely for titsup training firm
Advent students still waiting for a saviour
Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.… |
Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding'
£1m spent on advertising, no public relations
The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building
Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines
Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years
Online banking losses up though
A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox
SDK lands with a bump
Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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SpringSource adds springiness to Tomcat server
Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware
Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy
Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player
Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Y2.01K hits Garmin sat-nav
Routing like it's 1949
Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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UK is safer from al-Qaeda 'bastards', says security minister
Well done chaps, no damage to society at all
The minister responsible for counter-terrorism has said that despite "some very nasty bastards out there who aim to do us harm", government security initiatives have made the UK safer from attacks in recent years.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Young people are lazy, think world owes them a living - prof
Trick-cyclist blasts Googleplex massage parlour
It's official. Proper actual science* has confirmed that the young Westerners of Generation Y (people now in their 20s) are idle, workshy loafers by comparison to their elders. They are also think that the world owes them a handsome living, having higher expectations of salary and status than their predecessors.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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BT boss urges fines for filesharing customers
Corporate crusaders for free speech unite
Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award
Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'
A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades
Sector inspector
Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Palm pops out plug-in dev kit
WebOs goes native
Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Sharp preps Freeview HD set-top kit
Connect-your-own-storage DVR too
Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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NY chef offers mam cheese canapes
Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed
A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Brown promises Budget in a fortnight
Warns of more bumps ahead
Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Google goes cycling
Turn left here and jump that red light
Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Google Nexus One Android smartphone
Hard to resist
Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Android handsets so far.… |
Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch
Dual-node MS2 cluster
Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple
The non-iPad iPad clone
The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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UK pol touts canine chip implants
Doggies digitized for your protection
Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Google opens Google Apps app store
One stop Google bolt-on shop
The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks
Is it real? Or is it Skytap?
Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads
Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Pillar juices flash drive box
Reliability boost roadmap
Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Apple's draconian developer docs revealed
The first rule of iPhone Club is...
In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here
How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Google tests TV set-top search, says report
Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine
Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild
IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Dell intros restyled biz laptops
Vostro 3000 line debuts
Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".… |
FA launches security probe after England team bugged
Lancaster Gate-gate
Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate
Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too
If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim
Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint
The fall of Nav4All
A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out
SCR ain't ready for primetime
The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Open source boss quits Sun Oracle
Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town
Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?
Is this the wrong question?
Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what’s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It’s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being spent, merely to attract "very, very small" audiences.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest
Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres?
Comment The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an average of as little as 14.5 per working day.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?
It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad
What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Critical bug does a Custer on Apache for Windows
Old warrior clobbered
Older versions of the Windows flavour of Apache's web server software are vulnerable to a critical code injection flaw as well as a pair of lesser security bugs.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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UK still lousy on electronic nosiness
Report shows state of international surveillance heavyweights
A new report highlights a depressingly consistent drift towards ever greater control of the population using new technologies.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'
Stock jumps as rumors fly
Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Kentucky woman breastfeeds sheriff's deputy
Third degree assault rap for 'biohazard' mam squirt
A Kentucky woman cuffed for public intoxication added a third degree assault charge to her rap sheet after allegedly squirting breast milk into a sheriff's deputy's face.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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