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New charges filed in US
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has blasted Sweden's investigation into allegations against him for sexual misconduct after prosecutors reopened a probe into charges he raped a woman last month.…
2010-09-02T18:28:42Z - Wikileaks founder blasts reopening of rape probe
Taunts estranged son
VMworld Microsoft's assault on VMware knows no bounds.…
2010-09-02T17:11:51Z - Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room
MosKeyto flies in
Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie's new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it's connected to.…
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2010-09-02T16:06:29Z - LaCie catches ultra-small USB Flash drive bug
Safe SOX for your virtual box
VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware's new vCloud Director.…
2010-09-02T15:54:31Z - HyTrust takes auditing, monitoring to the clouds
HP pumps fist
Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.…
2010-09-02T15:35:12Z - Dell throws in 3PAR towel
Quaint system to be replaced in 2011
HM Revenue and Customs has warned employers who use its Employer CD-rom to update it immediately to avoid miscalculations.…
2010-09-02T15:17:35Z - HMRC issues CD-rom alert to employers
'Failio' spec?
Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio.…
2010-09-02T15:07:04Z - Toshiba touts £329 Folio Android tablet
Never a flyer, but finally grounded for good
An audacious plan to provide free wireless internet access across the US has finally been killed off by the FCC, much to the delight of the cellular industry.…
2010-09-02T14:44:06Z - US loses last chance for free wireless
Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much)
AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.…
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2010-09-02T14:19:14Z - AOL goes soul-searching with Google in 5-year deal
Ping-pong
The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.…
2010-09-02T14:16:46Z - iTunes update plugs WebKit flaw
Systems not robust enough
Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.…
2010-09-02T14:07:46Z - Boris bikes for tourists delayed till year end
Dell's new offer given drubbing
HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…
2010-09-02T13:48:33Z - HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR
You pay this, we take that, George Osborne gets the other, Eurocrats get the rest
Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.…
2010-09-02T13:04:17Z - Apple states tax take on UK iPod pricing
Who's got the bigger count?
Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.…
2010-09-02T12:41:36Z - Jobs takes swing at Google over Android activations
Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff
Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.…
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2010-09-02T12:29:44Z - Apple inks Ping trademark deal with golf gear maker
Fixed grins at cheeks-aflame 'leccycar firm
As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.…
2010-09-02T12:11:17Z - General Motors bitchslaps Tesla with Range Anxiety™
Coming clean on capacity
Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.…
2010-09-02T12:01:02Z - Verbatim InSight 500GB external hard drive
Kiwi plods say Google's done no crime
Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.…
2010-09-02T11:28:19Z - StreetView dataslurping legal for Hobbits
0.08 cents per tag
The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.…
2010-09-02T11:25:19Z - RFID patent pool prices up wireless
Thanks for that Sherlock
It will come as no surprise to regular readers that 90 per cent of UK consumers are confused by broadband advertising - we'd have to assume the missing ten per cent are marketing bods for ISPs.…
2010-09-02T10:53:36Z - Punters still puzzled by broadband ads
Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma
Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.…
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2010-09-02T10:45:38Z - My Exchange conversion
Space 'lofts' to feature two-ply 'bummer shielding'
NASA says it has selected finalists in an engineering competition to design an "inflatable loft", reminiscent of the extending roofs often fitted to camper vans, but in this case intended to deploy from the roof of a "hard-shell prototype habitat" for use by astronauts on the Moon or Mars.…
2010-09-02T10:32:52Z - NASA seeks inflatable popup roof for camper vans on Mars
Latest Android handsets shot in the wild
Video Tom Satchwell, Director of Marketing, Motorola Europe demonstrates the company's latest Android offerings, the Milestone 2 and the Defy.…
2010-09-02T10:18:37Z - Hands on with Motorola's Milestone 2 and Defy
HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids
Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.…
2010-09-02T10:06:52Z - If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP?
Vodafone to sell it
Samsung has posted the spec for its upcoming Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. And Vodafone has announced pricing.…
2010-09-02T10:04:01Z - Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet
Get off our cloud
Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped.…
2010-09-02T09:52:55Z - Nokia blows Ovi Files out of the sky
Now thass geekster
Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…
2010-09-02T09:24:53Z - Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest
Turns to IT suppliers, says 'Er, what do you think?'
Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification.…
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2010-09-02T09:14:22Z - UK.gov fishes for ID ideas
HPC eases the strain
Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.…
2010-09-02T09:01:04Z - How much aircraft fatigue is too much?
Get their Belvoirs mixed up
Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…
2010-09-02T08:08:30Z - Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic
iPads and World Cup should've been a bigger boost
DSGi shares fell very slightly this morning after the company said trading had held steady in the three months ended 24 July.…
2010-09-02T07:55:56Z - Dixons sales ain't all that
Roberto Carlos and his amazing exponential spiral
Scientists have agreeably concluded that Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France - a seemingly impossible blast into the back of the net from 115ft - was not the fluke some have claimed.…
2010-09-02T07:50:41Z - Boffins explain greatest ever free kick
Feel the need for it though
Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.…
2010-09-02T07:01:02Z - Large companies ignore data centre advice - survey
Network your mains cabling
Review I use a couple of Devolo dLAN AVplus powerline Ethernet adaptors at home, to hook up my wired-only Sony Bravia connected telly to my router. They're great adaptors, but with a pass-through three-pin power socket, they're bulky. D-Link's latest adaptor, the DHP-306AV, offers a more compact alternative.…
2010-09-02T07:01:02Z - D-Link DHP-306AV powerline Ethernet adaptor
Somewhere between VMware and Citrix
Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.…
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2010-09-02T06:00:02Z - MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor
Apple admits error shock
Apple has revamped three quarters of its iPod line. Or, more accurately, it upgraded one quarter, redesigned another, took a step back in time with a third, and left the final, not-even-mentioned quarter alone.…
2010-09-02T00:37:39Z - New iPod crew: 'Phoney, futuristic, retro, doomed
10 million hours of test
Windows Phone 7 is finally finished.…
2010-09-01T23:57:42Z - Microsoft locks down Windows Phone 7 code
More than 10,000 accounts spoofed
Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.…
2010-09-01T23:51:53Z - Feds crack phone clone scam that cost Sprint $15m
Middleware union
Red Hat is in talks to buy a JBoss cloud provisioning startup called Makara, according to a source familiar with the matter.…
2010-09-01T22:39:47Z - Red Hat in talks to buy JBoss cloud fluffer Makara
Straddles vSphere in search of cash
VMworld Strange bedfellows VMware and Novell have officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, a version of Novell's open source OS that piggybacks on every copy of VMware's vSphere hypervisor.…
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2010-09-01T21:58:42Z - SUSE Linux hitches ride on enemy hypervisor