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IBM's cat-brain sim a 'scam,' says Swiss boffin
Neuroscientist hairs on end Responding to its nation's sovereign call to develop electronics with the intelligence of a cat , IBM last week announced a major step in feline gray matter simulation. But professional rivalries clearly run deep inside ...
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IE bug leaks 50 million private PDF files
Black hat recon courtesy of Microsoft A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said.… ...
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Rogue iPhone dev unmoved by App Store spin
Jobsian VP defends trademark police Apple marketing veep Phil Schiller has put another smiley face on company's capricious iPhone App Store approval process - but at least one developer who spent months battling the App Store police isn't buying ...
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Bing search bribery a retailer magnet
Microsoft's Black Friday redemption Bing has boosted Microsoft's retailer revenues by nearly 50 per cent, according to a new search-ad study.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware
Tamper tantrum Rogue anti-virus scammers have tainted search results for Chromium OS - the open source version of Google's Chrome OS - in a bid to expose surfers hunting the web operating system to a fake anti-virus scan scam instead.… ...
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Cisco pumps out iPhone security app
World of IT threats in your pants Cisco has pushed out a new iPhone app that helps IT managers respond to newly-detected security threats by the seat (pocket) of their pants.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Weather balloons no longer a crazy idea for rural coverage
Base jumping As the US gets serious about opening up mobile broadband to its entire population, it is hunting for new spectrum options to support that.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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PC sales bounce up (and down)
Netbooks drag year-end uptick The box counters at Gartner have revised their PC shipment estimates for 2009, saying that PC makers did better than expected pumping out machines in the third quarter. But because average selling prices are falling - ...
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Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker
Plaintext passwords revealed A Symantec-run website was vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection problems that reportedly exposes a wealth of potentially sensitive information.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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New analysis points to ancient Martian ocean, river valleys
Just a matter of finding sea-monster skeletons, now NASA-funded boffins say they have found convincing evidence that much of Mars was once covered by an ocean of liquid water, and that rain fell on the red planet long ago.… Case Study: WhatsUp ...
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Wind turbines to power phone masts
Cold Green calling? Forget mobile phone covers made of recycled plastic bottles or handsets powered by sunlight. If you really want to make a green phone call then move to California, where some phone masts will soon run on wind energy.… ...
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T-Orange won't share the airwaves
Get your own damn spectrum, mooch T-Mobile and Orange won't be handing over any radio spectrum when they merge, despite the fact that T-Orange will own almost half the available airways.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Exascale computing: How do we get there from here?
IBM guru Dave Turek tells us what's what Exascale supercomputers, the computing industry’s next frontier, will run 1,000 times quicker than the fastest computers of today – and the world’s scientific researchers are sure to drum up plenty of ...
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Moller Skycar to finally crash and burn?
Desperate last-gasp spin: 'Virtual flight tests' start (In)famous flying-car firm Moller International - whose four-decade quest to produce an Everyman aerial ride has seen no aircraft delivered and a 2003 fine from the SEC for selling "fraudulent ...
Spotify embraces Symbian
Appy talking Music-streaming service Spotify is now available on Symbian handsets too, for paying subscribers at least.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Savage roo mauls Oz man
What's that Skippy? You're trying to drown my dog? An Oz man has taken a serious pasting at the hands of a "savage" kangaroo which was attempting to drown his dog, the Herald Sun reports.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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AOL taps strategy boutique ahead of Time Warner spin-off
Dotty logo revamp strikes bum note AOL has revamped its logo and plans to launch the new look after its parent company Time Warner dumps the struggling web outfit early next month.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Erotica 09: Bit limp, but crowds still up for it
Erotica 2009 - I'll have what she's having NSFW In a week when scientists trumpeted the discovery of a new drug to boost flagging female libido , Erotica 2009 - the UK’s premiere female-friendly erotic event - was looking decidedly limp.… ...
Drobo restrings boxes to double-up product range
New storage boxes are bigger on the inside Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro. It now claims to provide the simplest and best value iSCSI SAN in the world.… What is your ...
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iPhone worm highjacks ING customers
No messing this time The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
We're going for optimised workload delivery...
Are we nearly there yet? Workshop Who wouldn’t want IT to be delivered in a more dynamic, flexible, agile, [insert your least detested buzzword here] way? Optimal configurations for server and desktop workload delivery have been discussed, and ...
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Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
Worth the wait? Windows 7 on a netbook Review Lenovo’s new IdeaPad S10-2 is an update of the S10e. The hardware is conventional netbook fare with a dual core Atom processor and a 10.1in screen all dressed up in a smart chassis that makes it look ...
Credit crunch? It won't be over by Christmas
Cheap credit is over and its not coming back, says CBI The impact of the recession on British businesses may well be permanent, and will certainly last until well into the next decade, the UK's union for bosses has declared.… The power of ...
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Google to anoint Android, Chrome OS love (eventually)
When two become one Google has confessed that its Chrome OS and Android projects are likely to come together at some stage down the line as the firm continues to tinker with its operating system vision of the future.… Web threats: Why ...
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Microsoft's IE 9, Silverlight 4 and the whiff of lock-in
Shoulda bought Yahoo! Amazon Radio Reg Basking in the afterglow of the recently released Windows 7, Microsoft has rallied the faithful to share the love at its annual Professional Developers' Conference in Los Angeles, California.… Case ...
GPS alarm seems alarmingly useless
You're safe with me. Unless stuff crashes The Freedom Personal Safety is a GPS device that's supposed to alert loved ones that you're in trouble, but actually seems about as trustworthy as the only other man in the train carriage who appears to ...
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MIT boffins invent robot clam-grapnel
Tech has important mole-cruiser implications, too MIT boffins are pleased to annouce that they have at last perfected a long-sought-after technology - that of the robot clam. It seems that metal shellfish able to dig themselves into the seabed will ...
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Coprocessors ride again
Hybrid-core computing The idea that hybrid computing is becoming a mainstream technology was one of the major threads running through SC09 last week. Convey Computer , founded in 2006, has a different take on how to best implement hybrid ...
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Palm Pre update inbound
From WebOS 1.1.3 to 1.3.1 The Pre smartphone will be refreshed with an updated webOS “within the next few days”, manufacturer Palm has promised.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Microsoft stands tall over Xbox Live lawsuit threat
'We're well within our rights,' claims software giant The possibility of class-action lawsuit arising from the ban of roughly 1m gamers from Xbox Live doesn’t worry Microsoft, because the firm believes it is in the right.… Case Study: WhatsUp ...
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Fusion-io whips out fast gov-grade ioDrive
Cramming eight on a card Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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New hacker peril for older IE versions
New species of unpatched bug bites IE6 and 7 Internet Explorer users are at risk from a newly discovered and unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's browser.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Looking back at packaged application rigidity and lock-in
Have we progressed that much in 25 years? Workshop When packaged applications first appeared on the scene a quarter of a century ago, it was normal for them to be very proprietary in nature.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Dell details smartphone spec
Mini 3i internals revealed Dell has come clean on the full specifications of its Mini 3i smartphone, and it doesn't impress.…
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O/S bloat: What's the cure?
Code belly's gonna get you Comment It is becoming increasingly obvious that a virtual server wastes great chunks of its memory occupied by the operating system wrappers around the applications in the virtual machines (VM) running in the physical ...
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eBay blames success for failure
Saturday search fail eBay suffered an embarrassing failure on Saturday as no one was able to search on the site - not a good thing at the start of Christmas shopping season.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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E-book readers to stay pricey next year
Won't hit $100 for ages, says screen supplier Holding out for a £100 e-book reader before snapping up one of these gadgets for yourself? You may get lucky this year, but don't expect prices to fall any further.… Web threats: Why conventional ...
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DVLA doubles annual IT spend
IBM can buy itself a Bentley The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is to more than double what it spends annually on its IT deal with IBM.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
Virtualisation in the smaller business
Are things really any different to the big boys? Lab Many of your comments on some of the virtualisation articles we have written to date have suggested that smaller organisations have different challenges and priorities when it comes to ...
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New sensitive space gloves: NASA spends wad freely
Glovely cash for astro haberdashers NASA handed out $350,000 in prize money to astronautical haberdashers vying for glory in the space agency's Astronaut Glove Challenge this weekend.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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eBay stamps on Mussolini's brain
Pulls Il Duce body bits auction Customers of online tat bazaar eBay were on Friday denied the chance to bid for bits of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, when the site swiftly pulled a listing for samples of his blood and brain.… ...
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Murdoch puffs Microsoft over Google
Smoke meet mirrors Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft over his plans to delist his newspaper websites from Google.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
Chrysler dumps e-car plans
Gone, but not forgotten? Leccy Tech Chrysler's e-car strategy has vanished down the plughole, taking with it any chance of us getting intimate with the Lotus Europa-based Dodge Circuit.…
Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
USB 2.0 wireless Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Freeview HD - your questions answered
All you need to know With the first Freeview HD transmissions scheduled to start on the 2 December in the London, Liverpool and Manchester areas, Register Hardware answers all your questions about the new telly technology.…
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EU ministers agree e-government aims
Get smart European ministers have signed a declaration outlining policies to deliver 'smarter' online public services by 2015.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Atlantis astronaut out of this world over baby's birth
Houston, we have a daddy NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik ventured out on his first spacewalk on Saturday, just hours before his daughter was born 220 miles below.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild
Jailbreakers under assault A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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eBooks: What to read on which reader
Your pre-Christmas guide to what's on eBook readers will be everywhere this Christmas, in the shops if not under the trees, but even publishers don't seem to know what books one can read on the things.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland ...
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Is data overload killing off human initiative?
Time to add a delete button to the internet Book Review Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age is one of those high premise pseudo-techy works that appeals to the chattering classes – not least because it beguiles them with a false ...
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