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Civil servants throw cash at Google and friends

The Department for Work and Pensions has spent more than £1.1m on search engine biasing over the last four years.…

Users left moaning by bouncy Google experience

Google's latest animated logo on its search homepage has caused a kerfuffle among many surfers whose CPU has been besieged by the ballsy doodle.…

NSFW in NSW

Another day, another God-fearing Australian politician is accused of surfing hardcore adult websites.…

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Is that a light at the end of...

Veteran distributor Northamber allowed itself a glimmer of optimism today as it unveiled its preliminary full year results.…

Software upgrade available... if you know where to look

Panasonic has quietly rolled out a software update for its 2009 series of internet-connectable HD TVs. The patch usefully adds BBC iPlayer and - perhaps less so - a Twitter client.…

Public sector down, private sector not really up

The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing.…

Blocks homebrew hack?

Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42. The update incorporates a "patch... added to address security vulnerability in the system software".…

New results 'deviate sharply' from established wisdom

The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, according to new research.…

Gotta wait until 3 Oct, though

Google announced that it tweaked its privacy policy last Friday, just hours after a satirical video ad appeared on a huge screen in New York's Times Square that poked fun at the firm's boss.…

Oh, God

TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…

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Android fluffs it again

Dell's Streak might now be running Android 2.1, but those who've upgraded are finding the newer OS takes away more than it adds to the tablet/phone crossbreed.…

Optimus line primed

LG is to power a series of smartphones with Nvidia's tablet-oriented dual-core Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip.…

Big Chill founder launches a members' social network

Sick of creepy, unaccountable social networks that are little more than hoarders and traders of personal information? Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival is too, and will today unveil his plans a member-supported service.…

telomerewhythere writes "Michael Strano and his team at MIT have made a self-assembling and indefinitely repairable photovoltaic cell based on the principle found in chloroplasts inside plant cells. 'The system Strano's team produced is made up of seven different compounds, including the carbon nanotubes, the phospholipids, and the proteins that make up the reaction centers, which under the right conditions spontaneously assemble themselves into a light-harvesting structure that produces an electric current. Strano says he believes this sets a record for the complexity of a self-assembling system. When a surfactant is added to the mix, the seven components all come apart and form a soupy solution. Then, when the researchers removed the surfactant, the compounds spontaneously assembled once again into a perfectly formed, rejuvenated photocell.'"

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Outlook and Office-aware

Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It's Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads, and it provides user self-service restores, which Druva says Avamar cannot.…

Big savings from little projects

The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…

Ouch

Samsung's upcoming 7in Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is beginning to be priced up by retailers ahead of its anticipated arrival next month. Alas, it looks like it'll be a pricey offering.…

You had your chance, Labour

I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in government, they could have done a great deal to protect individual privacy by making such hacking a custodial offence.…

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Shaky second quarter

The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC's worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.…

Optimum income for joie de vivre

US researchers have found that happiness can be yours for an income of $75k a year (or £48,814.44 as of this morning), although trousering more than that won't necessarily increase your joie de vivre.…