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| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:52:33 GMT UK.gov tells domain industry to get its house in order Oh no! Here comes the government...A day after Nominet decided to sue one of its own directors, a senior civil servant warned that the domain industry must be better behaved to avoid government intervention.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:59 GMT T-Mobile leaves 300,000 disconnected Database corruption blamed300,000 UK T-Mobile customers had a quiet morning as they were unable to make or receive calls thanks to a database snafu that forced the operator to restore from backups - a process which is still in progress.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:38:50 GMT How to destroy the music business This will only take a secondAnalysis Put yourself in these hypothetical shoes for a moment. My goal is to make as much money as possible by doing as little work as possible. I have no creative talent except for generating and recycling marketing buzzwords. I have no technical knowledge or ability - but I can get my head around a Twitter feed. It doesn't sound promising, but you'll want in, I promise.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:11:33 GMT US, UK deploy manned unmanned aircraft to save bandwidth Backseaters still tolerating pilots for nowBandwidth-starved military spyplane chiefs are resorting to the use of humans as airborne data-processing nodes, according to reports. Difficulties in deployment of unmanned robot surveillance craft have led to the purchase of basic civilian planes for use in intelligence work above Iraq and Afghanistan.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:41:22 GMT US Army bans USB devices to contain worm Unfriendly fireThe US Army has reportedly suspended the use of USB and removable media devices after a worm began spreading across its network.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:33:44 GMT BNP list hunters bring down Wikileaks 70 hits a secondThe Wikileaks website struggled to stay online yesterday because of thousands of people looking for the leaked BNP membership list.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:13:24 GMT How are you future proofing your IT? Avoiding legacy statusMini Poll Following on from the discussion of legacy systems and platforms occurring as part of our platform optimisation workshop here, we're trying to work out the best way to avoid having your expensive IT systems degrading to legacy status. So, if you have a couple of spare minutes, let's have your views on this in our mini-poll below:… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:07:20 GMT Ofcom claims UK leads on digital communications Irish are the talkiest and Yanks watch most TVOfcom has published the third of their annual reports comparing the UK digital communications industry to those found in nearby countries, and concludes that we're the most advanced - though the Irish make more mobile calls and the Americans watch more TV.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:02:03 GMT Logitech Squeezebox Boom wireless music player Small box, very big soundReview Logitech's Squeezebox Duet network music player doesn't really have any faults but if you absolutely had to come up with an Achilles' Heel it would be the need for an amplified stereo system for it to play through. Not an issue if you only want music in one room, but more of a problem if you want tunes all around the house.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:58:57 GMT MPs declare their ignorance on the web If they're not ranting, they're bumblingComment The times, they may be changing on the internet, but if our Parliament has anything to do with it, that change is unlikely to be for the better. The problem is that far too many MP’s not only don’t get it when it comes to the net, they actively bask in their ignorance of new technology.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:46:05 GMT Formula One kinetic energy recovery rigs debut Off-the-shelf sets prepped for use next seasonFormula One Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) are becoming like London buses – nothing for weeks then two come along together.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:45:26 GMT Capita takeover faces monopoly investigation Office of Fair Trading not convincedCapita's £78m takeover of IBS Opensystems Software has been referred to the Competition Commission.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:42:07 GMT The Pope predicted economic Armageddon back in 1985 Italian pol says sub prime collapse all in the
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| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:31:47 GMT Carbon Cult: Ban flushing toilets Pay per dump, and think of GaiaAustralians could face 'pay as you dump' charges as part of a Toilet Tax. It's all in the name of "sustainability" - and part of a growing eco-movement to replace flushing conveniences with smelly and unhealthy inconvenience.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:05:34 GMT Cybercrooks making easy money from virtual worlds EU agency launches campaignOnline gamers have become a soft target for cybercrime, with three in 10 users reporting the loss of items of virtual property through fraud.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:34:26 GMT GTA IV extra game download details emerge To be posted on 17 February 2009?Juicy snippets regarding the upcoming downloadable content (DLC) for Grand Theft Auto: IV have emerged online, including the add-on’s basic storyline, a profile of the central character and the title’s potential release date.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:31:09 GMT Lords debate Climate Bill, carbon racket 'We don't know what we're talking about'The government's climate minister in the House of Lords dropped a clanger on Monday evening, when he claimed that the polar ice caps were melting at a record rate.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:25:37 GMT Beeb reprieves Xmas Top of the Pops 'Oh I wish it could be Christmas..' etc, etcThe BBC has quite righty done a U-turn on its shock decision to can the Top of the Pops Xmas special, and viewers will now be able to enjoy Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates presenting the traditional count-down to the Yule number one.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:23:11 GMT MacBook buyers bite Apple over copy protection cock-up DisplayPort-only direction yields iTunes playback woesAnalysis Apple's decision to adopt the DisplayPort digital monitor connector is pissing off punters, all thanks to the technology's incorporation of a copyright protection mechanism.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:18:49 GMT Google torches own brand Sadville 'Lively' wasn'tCould it be there isn't a pot of gold at the end of the Sadville rainbow? Google doesn't think there is, and will shutter its "virtual world" Lively after less than six months.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:12:04 GMT Trademark owner loses domain name claim against unauthorised reseller Court rules against ITTDealers and resellers can use a manufacturer's trademark as a domain name even when their sales are not authorised by the manufacturer, an arbitration panel has ruled.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:41 GMT Scientists ponder mysterious source of cosmic rays Exotic object or dark matter?Scientists are pondering the possible source of an "unexpected surplus of cosmic ray electrons at very high energy", and suggest they're either pouring out of an exotic object relatively close to Earth or represent the fall-out from the annihilation of theoretical particles comprising dark matter.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:25:27 GMT Ballmer: We're so over Yahoo! We don't even want to talk about itSteve Ballmer has said again that Microsoft has got over its infatuation with Yahoo! and has moved on.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:02:14 GMT Nuke boffins plan Penguin petaflop cluster Linux A-bomb sim rig could go commercialAmerica's Lawrence Livermore nuclear bomb lab has teamed up with open-source computing heavyweights to build the next generation of Linux superclusters, ultimately scaling into the petaflop range. The project has been dubbed "Hyperion".… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:03 GMT Asus Eee PC S101 luxury netbook An Eee to truly challenge thin'n'light laptopsReview Asus pretty much started the whole Small, Cheap Computer ball rolling with its first Eee PC just over a year ago. But now there are hundreds of the darn things, from every manufacturer imaginable, so how does Asus ensure it stays at the forefront of the market?… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:02:05 GMT BlackBerry Javelin to spear RIM's Bold and Curve? The 'sharpest' BlackBerry yet?BlackBerry Bold and Curve owners had better watch out, because Research in Motion has thrown a sharp new rival into the mix.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:02:03 GMT The madness of 'king cores 80-core servers will add-up to nothing without hypervisorsOpinion Intel is pumping up its virility through proxies like Michael Dell reminding us of an 80-core chip future. It's impressive, but Intel is a company obsessed to distraction with Moore's Law. It's like watching a crack addict do anything to get the next hit, a doubling of processor performance every 18 months, whatever it takes, in Intel's case.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:44:46 GMT Firefox millions - only 12 per cent Google free Mozilla faces IRS audit over search sugar daddyIn 2007, the Mozilla Foundation received 88 per cent of its revenue from a certain Mountain View sugar daddy. And thanks to its longstanding Google dependence, the organization is facing an IRS audit and questions over its tax exempt status.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:26:19 GMT NASA readies remodeled ISS ENose Smells like Endeavour team spiritNASA astronauts aboard Endeavour's STS-126 mission will soon be testing the space agency's latest generation of "electronic nose," designed monitor the International Space Station's crew cabin for harmful chemicals.… |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:24:03 GMT Congratulations, Barack - Now fix your websites Change? Start with securityPresident elect Barack Obama's embrace of online video and social networking may have propelled him to victory, but unless he's careful, his administration could be brought down by the same sloppy security problems that have plagued MySpace, Facebook, and dozens of other Web 2.0 properties.… |
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