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Mozilla open source license set for facelift

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:42:40 GMT

10-year-old shows her age

Mozilla is updating its open source license after more than 10 years of use.…

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Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:57 GMT

One quarter of C&C channels vanish

At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.…

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Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:32 GMT

Gamers watch and wait

Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.…

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Citrix tunes XenApp for Windows Server R2

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:44:32 GMT

App-V virtual embrace

Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.…

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Google boss says something will happen in China 'soon'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:08 GMT

Seven weeks and counting

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon."…

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Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:10 GMT

Phone vid traffic up '160%'

Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.…

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LG 3D TV line to debut in May

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:02 GMT

Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too

LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.…

Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:50 GMT

Accelerators speed up cluster work

InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.…

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Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:48 GMT

Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner

The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the 2012 London Olympics.…

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Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:10:18 GMT

Account still restricted

"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…

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Underground mole-satnavs to work off lightning strikes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:32 GMT

'Sferic' zap-sniff tech for future subterranean warriors

News has emerged of a secret US military programme intended to let troops navigate about inside huge underground enemy tunnel complexes by measuring energy pulses given off by lightning bolts.…

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Ex-Sun boss punts Apple-Microsoft-world 'tried to sue me' missive

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:00 GMT

My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire

Former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz has claimed that Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to sue the server and software maker in 2003.…

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Zero* welcome for 200 Welsh TV shows - in Wales

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:12:59 GMT

Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi'n dweud

Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.…

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MoJ halves consultancy spending

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:04:06 GMT

Don't need no good advice

The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets.…

Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:44 GMT

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.…

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Freesat BBC iPlayer beta gets red button access

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:28 GMT

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.…

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Saviour likely for titsup training firm

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:44:57 GMT

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'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:29:02 GMT

£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.…

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'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:00 GMT

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.…

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UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:31 GMT

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.…

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Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:20:49 GMT

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.…

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SpringSource adds springiness to Tomcat server

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:02 GMT

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.…

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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:46:30 GMT

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.…

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Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:16:30 GMT

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.…

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Y2.01K hits Garmin satnav

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:44 GMT

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.…

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UK is safer from al-Qaeda 'bastards', says security minister

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:53:16 GMT

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.…

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Young people are lazy, think world owes them a living - prof

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:16 GMT

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.…

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BT boss urges fines for filesharing customers

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:14 GMT

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.…

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Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:55 GMT

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.…

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WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:24:57 GMT

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.…

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Palm pops out plug-in dev kit

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:50:25 GMT

WebOs goes native

Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.…

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Sharp preps Freeview HD set-top kit

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:34:40 GMT

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.…

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NY chef offers mam cheese canapes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:11 GMT

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".…

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Brown promises Budget in a fortnight

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:29 GMT

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.…

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Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:29:44 GMT

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.…

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Google goes cycling

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:11:00 GMT

Turn left here and jump that red light

Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.…

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Google Nexus One Android smartphone

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:02:02 GMT

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

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT

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.…

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Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT

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.…

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Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:02:01 GMT

The non-iPad iPad clone

The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…

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UK pol touts canine chip implants

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:02:01 GMT

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.…

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Google opens Google Apps app store

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:57:06 GMT

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.…

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Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:38:21 GMT

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.…

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Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:17:58 GMT

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.…

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Pillar juices flash drive box

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:18:18 GMT

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.…

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Apple's draconian developer docs revealed

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:54:57 GMT

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."…

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It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:33:45 GMT

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.…

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Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:45:17 GMT

322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…

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Google tests TV set-top search, says report

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:24:59 GMT

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.…

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New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:33 GMT

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.…

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